seen@sdcc2008: tamashii nations

In addition to the Movie Realization Batman & Batpod [tagged / pic courtesy of Steve Talkowski's flickr] on display at the Tamashii Nations' booth @ SDCC (altho I wonder why they are still showing the unpainted proto) included various rump-kicking hyper-insane'O S.I.C. Imagination Works Dioramas showcasing works by Takayuki Takeya and Kenji Ando - for which Kirkland of Toybot Studios has more

tamashii nation by bandai

And then it all clicked: Toynami's SDCC-exclusive Shitama-Kun is a character icon found on Tamashii (English / Japanese) - aka Bandai's new collector-focused label - which clicked with "Tamashii Nations" Masakazu Katsura-designed Batman - seen @ Toy Tokyo (but 2 "i"s instead of 1 :p), which happens to be the one of the "Movie Realization"-lines of Bandai! ... sorry folks, I'm just slow that way

shitama-kun & konta @ san diego comic convention 2008

Peep the devilish vinyl-duo SDCC-exclusive for Toynami dubbed SHITAMA-KUN & KONTA! ... And while I have no empirical evidence to back this up, my humble deduction is that: this figure is a vinylization of a Furi Furi-designed character and is one of the character icons for Tamashii (Bandai's new collector-focused label / Japanese-www) - Shitama-Kun and his trust doggie Konta is limited to only