MOTHRA from Dream TOMICA #toylife

I whinge-n-whine like a lil'biatch on about having no money to "buy toys" constantly, because well, I truly cannot afford to purchase the various "art toys" I blog about daily (still true btw) … but honestly I am still albe to treat myself once in a while to smaller and just-as-awesome production toys, case in point: the MOTHRA model car shown here!

A "companion" of sorts to the previously released "Godzilla" mobile (which I realized have not featured on this blog!!! *GASP*), Takara TOMY has released his kaiju nemesis as a "bus" under their Dream TOMICA model car brand, with this design concept looking like it's in the brown caterpillar "stage", before it transforms and blossoms into the giant kaiju moth we know! Pretty adorable, methinks :)

I purchased mine for SGD$10.95 at a local toyshop. Also spotted in Toys'R'Us in Tampines Mall. This should not be a tough piece to track down at all, and more likely the Godzilla version will be available alongside as well, IMO :)

WHO-IS: "Mothra (モスラ Mosura?) is a kaiju who first appeared in Toho's 1961 film Mothra. Mothra has appeared in several Toho tokusatsu films, most often as a recurring character in the Godzilla franchise.

The name "Mothra" is the suffixation of "-ra" to the English word "moth"; since the Japanese language does not have dental fricatives, it is approximated "Mosura" in Japanese. The “ra” suffix follows the precedent set by “Gojira”, which in turn is derived from kujira (鯨（クジラ), the Japanese word for “whale,” to indicate the character’s enormous size." (Wiki)