Blog coverage: Toy Expo Philippines 2012 : the amazing toy kingdom of the Philippines

Toy Kingdom's first ever Toy Expo Philippines 2012 opens for the public today til Sunday, I was there at the VIP night and it gave us a glimpse of what Toy Expo can offer to us toy fanatics. At first, I thought that the Toy Expo is like the annual Toy Warehouse Sale of Toy Kingdom, but when I attended the preview night it gave me an idea that this is really a great toy expo featuring top toy brands distributed by Toy Kingdom nationwide. The Toy Expo is like a fun house filled with lots of toys, gaming activities, booth display of toys, toy trials and giveaways. The Toy Expo targets the consumers to experience the kingdom of toys for kids and adults, I'm sure kids will love to roam around with 23 giant toy booths and displays around the SMX Halls 3-4. Parents will love to tour around too,even if you are in tight budget, the event will not require you to pay for any entrance or buy toys, just be there and experience the fun with toys and meet mascot characters.

There will also be a live auction that will happen on stage, they will auction some Lalalooopsy dolls and the proceeds will be donated to SM Foundation.

"It will definitely be an amazing and memorable experience for everybody. This is our way of saying "thank you", for making Toy Kingdom the number one toy store in the country. The Toy Kingdom's Toy Expo is not just an expo, it is an experience...and it starts TODAY." - Rose Marie Mamonluk-Dylim, Senior Vice President of Toy Kingdom, International Toyworld Incorporated.

Here's the event poster
Visit Toy Expo Philippines 2012 from August 23-26, 2012 at SMX Halls 3&4 in SM Mall of Asia

for updates visit their Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/ToyKingdomPH
and Twitter - https://twitter.com/ToyKingdomPH

Mascot meet and greet / other highlights schedules

Aug 23
10am - Potato Head
11pm - Sylvanian Families
2pm - Lalaloopsy
330pm - Play Doh Tubby
5pm - Dora the Explorer and Boots
6pm - Sylvanian Families

Aug 24
10am - Play Doh Tubby
11pm - Lalaloopsy
2pm - Mr. Potato Head
330pm - Sylvanian Families
5pm - Spongebob and Patrick
630pm - Play Doh Tubby

Aug 25
1am - Mr. Potato Head
11pm - Ben 10 and Gen Rex
2pm - Lalaloopsy Auction
330pm - Ben 10 and Gen Rex
5pm - Dora the explorer and Boots
630pm - Monster High Fashion Show

Aug 26
10am - Mr. Potato Head
11pm - Sylvanian Families
2pm - Lalaloopsy
330pm - Play Doh Tubby and Mr. Potato Head
5pm - Spongebob and Patrick
630pm - WBBA Beyblade Tournament

And here are the photos of toy booths at Toy Expo

I arrived late and I missed the opening program, here’s a scene of the hourly raffle draw for VIP guests. Also check out Advocate Pinoy’s VLOG for the video coverage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ1NKTtKtp8&feature=g-all-u

Check out the Nerf booth and practice your shooting skills

The magical booth of Disney, not only Disney characters but also for Marvel Comics characters

The pinkish booth ever…Hello Kitty booth

Nick Jr. booth features all kinds of Nick Jr. character merchandise, also they are heavily promoting TMNT cartoons, it’s the new cartoon that will air soon in Nick Jr. The TMNT merchandise will be available this December 2012. Also they are giving away free TMNT mask, so pick your favorite mask color. I got Michaelangelo and Leonardo.

Sylvanian family booth features the super cute diorama

Hasbro booth features toys for toddlers and kids, toys like Baby Alive and Sesame Street

Vtech booth for the young and upcoming techie

Mega Blocks booth for connecting and building the blocks

Little Tikes booth with play all you can set up and rides

Lalaloopsy booth, cute booth like candies

And my award for the best display booth goes to Lego! hahahahh They set up an exhibit of the “Its more fun in the Philippines” LEGO diorama

Barbie booth, a house set up for young girls and stylish ladies who grew up with Barbie

I-zone booth, best for gamers and oh wow!!! try those games for free!

Bandai booth or Gundam booth features an awesome exhibit from the Mecha Pinoy group

Thomas the train booth

Brick Road booth features two kinds of real Camaro cars, one in yellow and one in black…really awesome booth for die cast cars

Cartoon Network booth

Here’s my favorite booth – the Speedtech booth, they have a cool RC cars track

Hot Wheels booth

Transformers and GI JOE booth displays the giant Optimus Prime statue and other mini figure statue

Xploderz booth, try a toy gun and practice shooting here

Tomica booth, I almost missed this booth, try the car fishing game and also check out the Tomica city diorama set up

Here’s the set up of their cashier, if you will buy toys make sure you bring your own reusable shopping bags

Here are some random highlights during the VIP night

Hello Kitty

Met our friends from MindStyle and also Gaby Dela Merced, also I got star struck when I met COOLRAIN (the tall guy with glasses) the guy responsible for designing those NBA Figures. check his work at http://azraelsmerryland.blogspot.com/2011/03/nba-collector-series-1-by-coolrain-x.html

Avengers costume, if ever I have 5 kids, I’ll buy each a costume

and again…Hello Kitty

giant Spongebob Squarepants air blown statue

friends from Toy Soldiers got an early shopping haul full of GI JOES

giant game board at Nick Jr. booth

I really want to play with this ahhahaha. Baby Alive still amazes me the tech they used

My mom bought this from the states, and I didn’t know that the price will drop as low as 50% off
this is an awesome find, grab it now and pair it with a keyboard, guitar and strumming Ernie and talking Cookie Monster

The RC track in Speedtech booth

the sales lady advices that I buy this for my son since he loves fire trucks. But..price is P3.7k
#%#%#!%!!! too expensive, but check out the details!