Collecting Tsum Tsum's
To all who are reading this,
You might have seen these cute, squashy, almost square little Disney critters in the shops, you might not have. I've been hooked on these guys, and although my collection is pitiful compared to some hardcore fans, I still love them nonetheless! Some of you may be wondering what they are. Well, I'll tell you.
These are Disney Tsum Tsum - a range of collectable toys based on popular Disney characters. They started out in Japan, with tsumu meaning "to stack". The toys are designed to be stacked, forming squares, pyramids and other little patterns. Tsum Tsum characters were originally released in Japan in 2013, as a tie in to the video game for Apple and Android devices, as well as arcade machines. The aim of the game is to create chains of three (or more) characters to earn points. I'm hoping to do a post on the game soon - it's something I really enjoy playing. I first found out about the game on YouTube on Noodlerella's channel about a year or so ago - check it out here!
Now Tsum Tsum's have gotten incredibly popular so that places like Clinton Cards, The Entertainer, Smyths Toy Stores, Toys "R" Us, and even B&M Retail are starting to sell the toys and other merchandising. I think the appeal is that they are so freaking cute - they're squidgy, tiny and just make me smile. As our Japanese friends would say, they're totally kawaii! The games even produce variants of characters such as having Valentine, or Christmas editions of Standard characters, with the chance to win others at certain times of the year. When Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens was released, you could enter Star Wars themed events on the game to win Tsums like Darth Vader, R2-D2 and Leia. And of course, that means you can buy Star Wars Tsums in the shops - yes, you can have your own squishy, small Kylo Ren! As well as standard Disney Tsum's, you can also get Marvel Tsum's like Iron Man and the rest of the Avengers! Tsum's come in small (£3.50), medium (£10.00) and large sizes (£20.00), and these are the usual retail prices.
So this post is a celebration of my collection!
I love Zootopia (2016). It's one of my favourite films of the year, starring the first police officer rabbit, Judy Hopps as she adapts to life in the big city, changes her opinions and takes on one of the largest cases the city has ever seen. I love the film so much, I wrote a post about it here! So naturally, I had to get these Tsum's, even though there is a few missing from my collection. These guys sit on the top shelf of my central bookcase in the study. Top left is Nick Wilde, fox and central character. Top right is Finnick, fennec fox and Nick's partner in the criminal underworld. Bottom right, is Clawhauser, cheetah and police dispatch officer. And finally, bottom left is Judy Hopps, rabbit, police officer, and all around amazing bunny!
Next up is a full collection which I was lucky enough to get for my birthday! I loved The Lion King (1994) as a child, and in fact, I still love it now. The music makes you sing along, I love the character Scar, and of course, we will always remember Mufasa... These Tsum's sit on both sides of the middle shelf of my central bookcase, and they look really cute! Do these guys really need an introduction?
The next group of Tsum Tsum's sit on the left hand side of my desk. They guard the Post It notes, and more often than not, get caught on cables and topple off to land on stacks of paper. I love the colour scheme I've got going here and when I'm working, they're cute companions! On the bottom left is kitten Marie from The Aristocats (1970), and her right sided white counterpart is the healthcare companion Baymax from Big Hero 6 (2014). Going up a level on the right we have T-I-double G-R, and that spells Tigger from The Many Adventure's of Winnie the Pooh (1977), and on the left is the silly old bear, Pooh, himself! In the centre of the sticky notes is one of my favourite Disney characters, ever - the mysterious Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland (1951). And last, but certainly not least we go back to the Hundred Acre Woods for Winnie the Pooh's best friend, the pink Piglet!
With the rest of my Christmas money, I bought a Medium sized Minnie Mouse Tsum, because after all, she is a classic in her own right. She's my first medium, and she sits on the ottoman beside my bed. She looked awful lonely though, and as a reward for doing really well in a horrible video assignment for university, I decided to get her a friend. I decided upon my favourite Disney bunny - Judy Hopps!
My Tsum Tsum addiction is getting a little out of control. It's bad enough I will text my mum to remind her to send me a Heart on the game, or I'll run around the display in my local Clintons doing impressions of the characters. Oh no! I've also got these little beauties too! The first item is this fleecy pink blanket that was on sale in The Entertainer, and is perfect for lounging about on the sofa with. It's clearly made for a child's single bed, but since I'm really small, it covers me perfectly. It can even be wrapped like a toga! This blanket is adorned with Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Eeyore, and Marie, on both sides. Originally priced at £10.00, I got it for £5.00 - a real bargain! It's been the perfect addition to keeping toasty, and it makes me feel all cute, especially when I'm curled up on the sofa!
Keeping with The Entertainer, I also got this aluminium children's drinks bottle! It's perfect for taking along to placement - all the kids love looking at the Disney characters and it makes for interesting conversations. It holds 500ml of water, and the top is quite secure, even though it doesn't look it from this picture. You just have to make sure that the inside of the bottle is firmly down, otherwise it might spill if knocked - the hazards of working with children! Originally priced at £5.00, I got it for £2.50 - another half price bargain. I love the patterning and colouring and it was definitely a good choice. The best thing is that at placement none of the members of staff judge you for having weird interests, so this bottle can be a real conversation opener.
This next collection was all a Christmas present, and I'm loathe to use any of it because it's all so freaking cute! I love stationery - it's my Achilles heel. These bits and pieces came from Wilkinson's.
In the centre is an A5 exercise notebook with hundreds of characters all over it, priced at £3.00, now on sale. Inside, it's lined on the edges with the characters. The only complaint, is that the plastic covering scratches really easily. On the top of the notebook, is a slim barrel plastic coated pencil case, priced at £4.00, now on sale. It's perfect for keeping all your cute stationery in. It comes with the same design as the notebook, and is really squashy.
On the left is a pad of sticky notes with Buzz Lightyear, Snow White, Daisy Duck, Stitch, Pluto the Dog, and Tigger designs, priced at £1.75, now on sale. As well as being cute, they're great reminders of where you are in your notes/reading.
Next is a totem pencil, priced at £2.00, now on sale. The design is the same as the exercise book and this comes with three detachable totem erasers in Dumbo, Mike and Chip. Alongside this is the Stitch novelty pen, priced at £1.50, now on sale. It writes in blue and black ink, and this is changed when you press the ears down!
Scattered at the bottom is a set of mini erasers, priced at £2.25, now on sale. The designs are Minnie Mouse, Dumbo, Daisy Duck and Marie.
Going up on the right is a sticker sheet, because everyone loves stickers. Priced at £1.50, these are now on sale, and feature many loveable characters that slowly increase in size.
And finally, the memo block, priced at £2.25, now on sale. Each coloured memo section is adorned with different characters that correspond to the colours, and they're headlined by Daisy Duck, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy.
And finally, this little treat that I received in the post from my best friend. He knows I like heroes, he knows I like Tsum's (I got him into playing the game!), so he sent me this rather cute, but bizarre comic book. I haven't read it yet, but I'm quite excited to see where these cute Marvel Tsum's will take us, and what adventures they will have. This was a variant edition of the cover, and price unknown.
Who's your favourite Tsum Tsum? Do you have any?
Yours, with eternal ink,
Zoe
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Currently reading: Let The Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
You might have seen these cute, squashy, almost square little Disney critters in the shops, you might not have. I've been hooked on these guys, and although my collection is pitiful compared to some hardcore fans, I still love them nonetheless! Some of you may be wondering what they are. Well, I'll tell you.
These are Disney Tsum Tsum - a range of collectable toys based on popular Disney characters. They started out in Japan, with tsumu meaning "to stack". The toys are designed to be stacked, forming squares, pyramids and other little patterns. Tsum Tsum characters were originally released in Japan in 2013, as a tie in to the video game for Apple and Android devices, as well as arcade machines. The aim of the game is to create chains of three (or more) characters to earn points. I'm hoping to do a post on the game soon - it's something I really enjoy playing. I first found out about the game on YouTube on Noodlerella's channel about a year or so ago - check it out here!
Now Tsum Tsum's have gotten incredibly popular so that places like Clinton Cards, The Entertainer, Smyths Toy Stores, Toys "R" Us, and even B&M Retail are starting to sell the toys and other merchandising. I think the appeal is that they are so freaking cute - they're squidgy, tiny and just make me smile. As our Japanese friends would say, they're totally kawaii! The games even produce variants of characters such as having Valentine, or Christmas editions of Standard characters, with the chance to win others at certain times of the year. When Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens was released, you could enter Star Wars themed events on the game to win Tsums like Darth Vader, R2-D2 and Leia. And of course, that means you can buy Star Wars Tsums in the shops - yes, you can have your own squishy, small Kylo Ren! As well as standard Disney Tsum's, you can also get Marvel Tsum's like Iron Man and the rest of the Avengers! Tsum's come in small (£3.50), medium (£10.00) and large sizes (£20.00), and these are the usual retail prices.
So this post is a celebration of my collection!
I love Zootopia (2016). It's one of my favourite films of the year, starring the first police officer rabbit, Judy Hopps as she adapts to life in the big city, changes her opinions and takes on one of the largest cases the city has ever seen. I love the film so much, I wrote a post about it here! So naturally, I had to get these Tsum's, even though there is a few missing from my collection. These guys sit on the top shelf of my central bookcase in the study. Top left is Nick Wilde, fox and central character. Top right is Finnick, fennec fox and Nick's partner in the criminal underworld. Bottom right, is Clawhauser, cheetah and police dispatch officer. And finally, bottom left is Judy Hopps, rabbit, police officer, and all around amazing bunny!Next up is a full collection which I was lucky enough to get for my birthday! I loved The Lion King (1994) as a child, and in fact, I still love it now. The music makes you sing along, I love the character Scar, and of course, we will always remember Mufasa... These Tsum's sit on both sides of the middle shelf of my central bookcase, and they look really cute! Do these guys really need an introduction?
The next group of Tsum Tsum's sit on the left hand side of my desk. They guard the Post It notes, and more often than not, get caught on cables and topple off to land on stacks of paper. I love the colour scheme I've got going here and when I'm working, they're cute companions! On the bottom left is kitten Marie from The Aristocats (1970), and her right sided white counterpart is the healthcare companion Baymax from Big Hero 6 (2014). Going up a level on the right we have T-I-double G-R, and that spells Tigger from The Many Adventure's of Winnie the Pooh (1977), and on the left is the silly old bear, Pooh, himself! In the centre of the sticky notes is one of my favourite Disney characters, ever - the mysterious Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland (1951). And last, but certainly not least we go back to the Hundred Acre Woods for Winnie the Pooh's best friend, the pink Piglet!
With the rest of my Christmas money, I bought a Medium sized Minnie Mouse Tsum, because after all, she is a classic in her own right. She's my first medium, and she sits on the ottoman beside my bed. She looked awful lonely though, and as a reward for doing really well in a horrible video assignment for university, I decided to get her a friend. I decided upon my favourite Disney bunny - Judy Hopps!
My Tsum Tsum addiction is getting a little out of control. It's bad enough I will text my mum to remind her to send me a Heart on the game, or I'll run around the display in my local Clintons doing impressions of the characters. Oh no! I've also got these little beauties too! The first item is this fleecy pink blanket that was on sale in The Entertainer, and is perfect for lounging about on the sofa with. It's clearly made for a child's single bed, but since I'm really small, it covers me perfectly. It can even be wrapped like a toga! This blanket is adorned with Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Eeyore, and Marie, on both sides. Originally priced at £10.00, I got it for £5.00 - a real bargain! It's been the perfect addition to keeping toasty, and it makes me feel all cute, especially when I'm curled up on the sofa!
Keeping with The Entertainer, I also got this aluminium children's drinks bottle! It's perfect for taking along to placement - all the kids love looking at the Disney characters and it makes for interesting conversations. It holds 500ml of water, and the top is quite secure, even though it doesn't look it from this picture. You just have to make sure that the inside of the bottle is firmly down, otherwise it might spill if knocked - the hazards of working with children! Originally priced at £5.00, I got it for £2.50 - another half price bargain. I love the patterning and colouring and it was definitely a good choice. The best thing is that at placement none of the members of staff judge you for having weird interests, so this bottle can be a real conversation opener. This next collection was all a Christmas present, and I'm loathe to use any of it because it's all so freaking cute! I love stationery - it's my Achilles heel. These bits and pieces came from Wilkinson's.
In the centre is an A5 exercise notebook with hundreds of characters all over it, priced at £3.00, now on sale. Inside, it's lined on the edges with the characters. The only complaint, is that the plastic covering scratches really easily. On the top of the notebook, is a slim barrel plastic coated pencil case, priced at £4.00, now on sale. It's perfect for keeping all your cute stationery in. It comes with the same design as the notebook, and is really squashy.
On the left is a pad of sticky notes with Buzz Lightyear, Snow White, Daisy Duck, Stitch, Pluto the Dog, and Tigger designs, priced at £1.75, now on sale. As well as being cute, they're great reminders of where you are in your notes/reading.
Next is a totem pencil, priced at £2.00, now on sale. The design is the same as the exercise book and this comes with three detachable totem erasers in Dumbo, Mike and Chip. Alongside this is the Stitch novelty pen, priced at £1.50, now on sale. It writes in blue and black ink, and this is changed when you press the ears down!
Scattered at the bottom is a set of mini erasers, priced at £2.25, now on sale. The designs are Minnie Mouse, Dumbo, Daisy Duck and Marie.
Going up on the right is a sticker sheet, because everyone loves stickers. Priced at £1.50, these are now on sale, and feature many loveable characters that slowly increase in size.
And finally, the memo block, priced at £2.25, now on sale. Each coloured memo section is adorned with different characters that correspond to the colours, and they're headlined by Daisy Duck, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy.
And finally, this little treat that I received in the post from my best friend. He knows I like heroes, he knows I like Tsum's (I got him into playing the game!), so he sent me this rather cute, but bizarre comic book. I haven't read it yet, but I'm quite excited to see where these cute Marvel Tsum's will take us, and what adventures they will have. This was a variant edition of the cover, and price unknown. Who's your favourite Tsum Tsum? Do you have any?
Yours, with eternal ink,
Zoe
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Currently reading: Let The Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
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