C.I.Boys.com Website Testing
I remember "C.I. Boys" from years ago, when they had a dedicated storefront in CityLink Singapore (leading to Marina Square) - with multiple display shelves of designer figurines and accessories (most memorable of which is their mecha-walker - which I lauded and desired, but never possessed) they were a sight to behold, IMHO. They came at around the onset of BE@RBRICKS launched in Singapore, and was pretty impressive in their array to showcase blind-boxed designer toys of the orient. Then they suddenly upped and disappeared. And while I plyed the 1/6th-scale culture, I never did have a chance to score these desired 3" cuties. Or perhaps the mindset of Singaporeans were not as "toy-sophisticated" enough to appreciate the notion of "designer toys", much less a toy made from the East. Michael Lau or Eric So might have pathed the way for a select collective of folks, but they sure weren't lined with "gold" for the masses, IMHO.
Years go by. At the onset of this toy-blog, I had witnessed a variety of C.I.Boys making their appearance at Taipei Toy Festivals in 2008, 2009 and 2010 (and as well my first post was in 2007 -featuring DGPH's series!), And eventually, the name "Love Original Project" became synonymous with unrequited dreams and uncompleted ventures, particularly with our friends in the West. Even more years go by….
Now C.I.Boys is poised to start afresh it seems, with the debut of a new website @ http://www.ciboys.com (currently at it's "testing" stage) - in time to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. Within the dedicated website you will find a catalog-story of their releases (FYI: Collections older than 2009 are viewable via "Media" clippings as far back as 2003 - which is pretty cool) as well as a myriad of figure-forms that seem well interesting - like designer-vinyl form "Mad Rabbit" and the Groovisions/Brockman / Playmobil-ish "Animody" series. Interesting indeed!
