Otaku celebrate Barack Obama's inauguration the only way they know how: with action figures! This shot of our new Commander in Chief kickin' it under a kotatsu is only matched by the one where he's wielding a pair of gleaming katana blades. The doll is a 1/6 scale (roughly 12") figure produced by the Japanese Hong Kong based DID Corporation.
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January 21, 2009
Obama Banzai
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This is the coolest fucking thing ever! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: shane | January 21, 2009 at 01:59 PM
I believe DID (Dragon in Dream) is a Chinese company, a rebranding when something funky went on with the Dragon name.
I don't doubt they have a Japanese branch simply because the 1/6 scale figure world is still a happening thing there whereas it's become somewhat dead due to Hasbro killing all 1/6 scale GI Joe products and the surviving niche companies are constantly raising the price of their goods, causing people to bail from the hobby.
Good to see Obama is old school, what with the Famicon sitting there...
Posted by: Steve Harrison | January 21, 2009 at 02:32 PM
Good catch Steve! Fixed.
Posted by: Matt Alt | January 21, 2009 at 03:38 PM
Obama in Kotatsu, nice combination!
I thought it was Nocchi, though...
And why they put Fami-con aside...?
I got to get that one!!!
Posted by: yutte | January 21, 2009 at 07:10 PM
Ohh, I'm just anal about that stuff, I'm not trying to bust any balls or anything.
Dragon (or DID now) has cranked out some amazing stuff, but it's insanely priced, and I think it's intentional raping of the market.
I also suspect that Hot Toys/Blister Direct is owned by the parent company that owns Dragon/DID...what am I saying, of COURSE they are, it's owned by Communist China! :)
Posted by: Steve Harrison | January 22, 2009 at 07:45 AM
Looks like the links to samurai obama are dead. Darn!
Posted by: GregB | January 24, 2009 at 02:52 AM
According to the gamu toy page, the feature was temporarily removed it due to the massive number of people who were directly linking to the photos. It may go up again sometime in the near future once things cool off. In the meantime, BoingBoing saved a bunch of the images:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/21/barack-obama-is-a-ni.html
Posted by: Matt Alt | January 24, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Argggghhhhhh
Must.Get.NOW
Posted by: Heather | January 25, 2009 at 02:48 AM
I suspect that DID is named "DID" because there already was a Hong Kong-based company called Dragon making models and action figures...
Posted by: thomas | January 25, 2009 at 07:31 PM
Linkie: http://www.dragon-models.com/
Posted by: thomas | January 25, 2009 at 07:32 PM
I guess a lot of fans would attend the next Otaku Fest in Barack Obama cosplay. See ya there!
Posted by: azala | June 18, 2009 at 06:50 AM
Lol! Does it comes with that nintendo too? This is so cool!
Posted by: Bigfoot toy | November 06, 2010 at 07:22 PM