Toy Carnival 2009 at SAM

July 6, 2009 | By Juliana Heng In The ultimate level, Toy observations, Toy updates, Toys in the news, Where to get your toys |

The Toy Carnival was held at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) from 10am to 6pm yesterday and the place was super crowded! It was also my first time at SAM. The Carnival occupied 2 floors of air-conditioned halls within the white Colonial style building, which was used as a school in the past.

I expected the Toy Carnival to be very similar to the Sunday Toy Market at China Square Central (CSC), with more or less the same sellers and visitors attending it. Well, there were indeed lots of familiar faces and the toys on sale were the usual collectible toys at CSC.

There were many Cosplay Storm Troopers, plus their Commander and Darth Vader from Star Wars ‘patrolling’ the premises. I also came across ‘real life’ Masked Riders mingling and taking photos with the crowd! The open air courtyard section was dedicated to NERF guns stuff and games.

Towards the late afternoon while I was there, the sellers started giving more discounts on their toy wares. I found lots of Transformers Movie 1 toys on sale there! Alas, I ran out of cash so I couldn’t pick up all those Transformers stuff I wanted and had to let them go. I didn’t expect to have anything to buy since I went there so late, thinking that all the good stuff would had been sold by then.

I didn’t take any photos at the Toy Carnival as I was too busy looking at all the toys, fortunately many fellow toy bloggers who attended the Carnival did. You may click on the following links to read their blog posts and view their exensive collections of photos taken at SAM yesterday!

COLLECT’em ALL: Report on Toy Carnival at S.A.M.

deSMOnd Collection: Toy Carnival at SAM on 5 July 2009

Little Plastic Man: Toy Carnival at SAM

Open The Toy: Toy Carnival at SAM Review

Kenmoo2007: Toy Carnival at SAM Photos

The organisers did a great job and I definitely look forward to having the Toy Carnival every year! The next major local toy event coming up this year shall be the Singapore Toy & Comic Convention (STCC), to be held from 13-16 August 2009, at Suntec City Convention Centre. It’s just a month away, hurray! And more toys to collect too!

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Toy Carnival 2010 review

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10 Comments so far

LEon on July 7th, 2009

Thanks Juliana for linking to my blog. It’s quite hard to take some photos there with the crowd. Those on my blog are the few percentage that look presentable. Btw I link this entry at my SAM entry too.
Little Plastic Man on July 7th, 2009

Thanks for linking me up! Will link up the rest who have also blog about the toy carnival!
Juliana Heng on July 7th, 2009

Hi LEon & Little Plastic Man,

You’re both welcome! I enjoy reading your blog posts and looking at the photos you took. Really appreciate your efforts in sharing them online with others

Thanks for linking me up too!
deSMOnd on July 7th, 2009

Thanks for the linking too..Hope to meet up with you in the coming STCC event
Juliana Heng on July 7th, 2009

Hi deSMOnd,

Same here, yay for STCC 2009!
Reagan on July 8th, 2009

Wow… seems lots of fun there… must be very exited & fruitful trip for you all.
Dennis on July 8th, 2009

Thank you for linking me up too! I didn’t bring along much cash that day too cos I don’t think there would be much to buy. On the contrary, I ended up borrowing money from my friend. Ha! Ha!
Juliana Heng on July 8th, 2009

Hi Reagan,

Yes it was fun that day, and super crowded too!
Juliana Heng on July 8th, 2009

Hi Dennis,

You’re welcome! The deals and variety were better than expected. I shall be more financially prepared for the STCC next month!
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