Tomica Pui Pui Molcars
From the best anime series of 2021 comes the greatest ridiculously inexpensive imported toy cars of 2021. Pui Pui Molcar is a short-form stop-motion anime about a world where people drive around inside living guinea pigs. It’s ridiculously adorable. Since the series is from Japan and such quirky fare takes its time making its way to the West, I had to get my toy fix imported via the fine folks at Hobby Link Japan
These five little cars are part of Takara Tomy’s Tomica toy car line, basically Japan’s answer to Matchbox. They are part of the Dream series, which features fanciful licensed designs. Each comes in a little box, perfect for storage and display.
What’s so lovely about the Pui Pui Molcar Tomica toys is they are heavy and die-cast, while the finish on the vehicles feels sort of soft. Not quite flocked and fuzzy, but the hint of a fur feel is there. They only cost like six bucks apiece, which is well inside my annual toy budget. Plus they each have a permanently surprised look, so you can pretend they are reacting to whatever that red thing is on my desk. What is that thing?
