Sneak-Peek: 15 Artists & Vendors to Watch at Pop Toy Show SG
Hirono @ Marina Bay Sands. | Courtesy Pop Mart
⏰ FRI, JuL 4, 2025 @ 1 pM PST
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Pop Toy Show (Aug 2025; Beijing + Singapore) is Pop Mart’s in-house designer-toy fair. After a pandemic-postponed launch, its first full edition opened in Beijing, Aug 2021 and has run there annually since. Beijing remains the giant, multi-zone flagship, but Singapore’s bilingual event is designed for Southeast Asia’s collector boom, making it the clearest preview of which Pop Mart characters and partner brands will headline the next 12 months. Use the exhibitor and featured-artist lists below as a roadmap. They’re the fastest way for fans and buyers to spot fresh IP and up-and-coming creators before the rest of the world catches on.
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Featured Artists @ Pop Toy Show Singapore 2025 (So Far)
⏰ Last updated Thu, Jul 3, 2025
Featured Artists are the illustrators Pop Toy Show invites for meet-and-greets and small-batch merch drops. This year’s roster is still rolling out, but the three names below have been announced so far.
Note: Nearly all of Pop Mart’s official character artists are already on the guest list. For the running roster, see the show’s official artists page.
1) ClogTwo
📍 Singapore 🇸🇬
ClogTwo (Eman Jeman) has been spraying in Singapore since 2004, but it was the debut of MechaSoul—hyper-mechanical skins of gears and pistons draped over pop-culture icons—that boosted his work to global recognition. He co-founded Ink & Clog Studio in 2012, painting murals from London to Mexico while freelancing for brands like Mercedes-Benz, Google, and Converse. The handle “CLOG” comes from a jammed spray-cap; “TWO” reminds him there’s always someone better, he’s told interviewers.
On the toy front, his MechaSoul TEQ63 collaboration with QUICCS & Martian Toys (250 pieces at US $85) sold out back in 2020, cementing his crossover pull. Two years later the 10-inch polystone MechaSoul Optimus Prime ($359, light-up eyes) pushed him onto collector wishlists worldwide. (Full disclosure: I just bought five of his recent “Child Graffiti” sketches, so I’m a collector now, too.)
Clogtwo, The Graffiti Writer (2025). Colour pencil on 5.8 × 8.3 in. 300 gsm acid-free paper; edition of one.
2) Liunic
📍 Jakarta, ID 🇮🇩
Heart Space vegan-leather baguette bag by Liunic × Owi — limited-run, handmade in Indonesia and shipped in collectible packaging.
Indonesian illustrator Martcellia Liunic slipped out of her advertising job in 2015, launching the wearable-art label Liunic on Things so her “cute-but-trippy” doodles of dreamy rabbits, flower-girls and anxious puppies could live on T-shirts, tote bags and stickers—merchandise meant to “heal your inner child.”
“I’ve always been drawn to psychedelia,” says Indonesian illustrator Martcellia Liunic of the gouache series she created after a trip to Amsterdam, adding that it strikes “the right combination of cute and trippy.” In this piece, everyday motifs (planets, teardrops, suns with kitten faces) explode into riots of color and pattern.
Liunic’s menagerie is painted in a high-sugar palette, candy-pink hits against citron yellows and cornflower blues. These tones would sit naturally beside Pop Mart stalwarts like Pucky or Dimoo, yet crank the saturation up another notch.
Liunic’s first art-toy heroine, Ella, arrived last year as micro-runs of 12 and 50 and quickly sold out. She’s been dropping new colourways ever since.
3) MonKiddo
📍 Kuala Lumpur, MY 🇲🇾
Post-grad blues turn monstrous in MonKiddo, Malaysian illustrator Jayee Lim’s character universe where the pink, horned SoSo clocks into a cubicle jungle of caffeine, chaos, and corporate memes. The IP fronts a five-beast cast that “brings joy through stories of spirited monster characters,” with SoSo as the anxious every-worker at its core. The satirical office strips spill across webcomics, video skits, and collab merch lines with Rhinoshield (featuring nice customization options) and local stationery giant Loka Made.
Exhibitors @ Pop Toy Show Singapore 2025 (So Far)
⏰ Last updated Thu, Jul 3, 2025
Exhibitors (below) are the toy brands and studios that Pop Toy Show seats in retail-style booths, while Featured Artists (above) are individual illustrators invited mainly for signings and small-batch merch.
1) China Moe Town
Booth No. AE63, AE65 & AE67
China Moe Town (唐萌街) is an up-and-coming designer-toy label that lives and breathes one character: OPanDee, a sleepy panda who also happens to be a jiangshi (the hopping vampire of Chinese folklore—New to the genre? Try Mr. Vampire). The mash-up works—the talisman on the panda’s forehead and its half-lidded glare hit the sweet spot between cute and creepy, giving the brand an instantly recognizable calling card.
Their breakout line is the “Zombie Party” blind-box saga, now on its third edition; a full case hides ten base figures and up to two secret chases, so completists keep ripping foil long after launch. China Moe Town hasn’t stopped at PVC: the panda shows up in the “Mountain-Sea Kindergarten” plush series, where each OPanDee dons mythical-creature costumes, and in an Animal Earphone Pack that doubles as cable winders—handy merch that sneaks the IP beyond the toy shelf.
Real-world visibility: This April, the studio partnered with Singapore’s transit network, dropping OPanDee SimplyGo EZ-Link charms at S$18.90. The entire blind-pack batch flagged “Sold Out” on ActionCity’s site the same morning it went live. (Full disclosure: I requested a product book from China Moe Town for Seattle Toy Store. Click 👉 to learn more about Secret Chase.)
2) Happy Garaje
Booth No. AE49
Childhood Friends (2023) — hand-carved and painted wood, 10 × 9 × 8 in. From Mark & Jo’s Dream Swimming series.
Happy Garaje began as a two-person studio, illustrator Johanna Velasco and sculptor-designer Mark Joseph Deutsch, in sunny Cebu, Philippines. Since 2009 the pair have toggled between picture-book pages, gallery walls and toy convention floors. Their wood-carved vignette “Childhood Friends” (2023) shows their aura perfectly: two kids in scuffed helmets, one riding a battered water canister while the other pushes the trolley. It’s an ode to backyard make-believe; almost feels like a sun-bleached Polaroid.
On the toy side they broke out with “Boopap”, a blind-box line of resin mischief-makers whose candy colours and sleepy eyes echo their wooden cousins. After selling out Series 1, the duo confirmed on social media they’ll debut Boopap Series 2 at Pop Toy Show Singapore this August. (And something for the collectors: Johanna snagged a Gold Award from the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles in 2011, putting Happy Garaje on the global radar long before the designer-toy crowd caught up.)
3) Hungry Hamster & Geoducky
Booth No. AE70
A two-brand mash-up that shows off Singapore’s indie-toy scene.
Hungry Hamster Collectibles is the brainchild of designer-musician Freddy Lim. Each plump buddy clasps a half-eaten “munchie,” telegraphing the vice it personifies. The first two figures, The Original (edition 300) and the black-and-gold An Evil Thought (edition 200), officially launched at Rotofugi’s show in Chicago, flanked by artist paint-ups.
A few feet away you’ll find Geoducky’s Clayground, where illustrator-sculptor “Geoduck” Tan hand-sculpts the Gugujiang clan—mushroom-capped jiangshi twins and their dim-sum pet—then resin-casts small batches in her kitchen studio. Her Etsy shop logs 160-plus sales since 2023.
4) Jelly Caricature
Booth No. AE19
Jelly Caricature is a Singapore art collective that turns a “photobooth” into a live-drawing station: drop a Jelly coin, strike a few quick poses, and watch an artist sketch caricatures onto a four-frame strip—no camera, just pen and paper (think a photobooth run by illustrators).
The traveling stand, branded “Jelly Podtraits,” debuted a few years ago and now pops up at festivals. IEach strip costs S$15 for one face or S$25 for two, and the team caps it at two faces so the drawings stay crisp. Their Instagram bio now lists “Pop Toy Show @ Marina Bay Sands, 22-24 Aug.” See you there! 👋 🖊️
5) MONKEY CRAB
Booth No. AE26
MONKEY CRAB is a Tokyo-based art-toy label founded in 2020 by illustrator-sculptor Rei Kawakami. Inspired by the clean silhouettes of KAWS and TOUMA, Kawakami channels that graphic punch into a single lovable gorilla named “Joe Mountain.” The stylised ape stands upright with a confused face, walking the line between cartoon mascot and muscle-hunk kaiju.
Recent Joe drops via a two-lane lottery—one listing for Japan, another tagged “for overseas.” Collectors submit a zero-yen entry during a four-day window; winners then have 48 hours to pay ¥16,000 for the 19 cm soft-vinyl figure.
The IP is also already proving it can stretch beyond vinyl, Pop Mart-style. MONKEY CRAB’s fashion arm has rolled out a pre-order-only tee—four Joe Mountains under the caption “sometimes, cry…” for ¥5,900, shipping worldwide this August—alongside a sold-out XRAGE nakama × MONKEY CRAB work shirt that fetched ¥10,000 and capped orders at four per customer.
XRAGE nakama × MONKEY CRAB “Blue-green” work shirt (¥10,000, sold out) — chain-stitched Joe Mountain car graphic across the back.
6) MeMiann Studio × Gim Neko
Booth AE10
A Bangkok pairing where bright-eyed monsters meet pocket-sized cats.
MeMiann Studio (below) began in 2018 as illustrator Memi’s on-line shop of original characters—think gloomy clowns, lab-escape monsters and rainbow “chakra rangers.” Today the Pinkoi store lists 350-plus sales. Across the table, Gim Neko (above) models feline figurines and ring charms from polymer clay, a coloured PVC-based sculpting compound that bakes hard in a home oven, locking in crisp edges and matte, paint-ready surfaces. Her Instagram feed shows custom “Meowsofa” couches and glow-tipped cat rings.
7) NekoLand ねこらんど
Booth No. AE44
Cloud-born rainbow cats frolic in NekoLand (not to be confused with Singapore’s only “cat-playground-café,” which is over at Clarke Quaye). Created by illustration duo cioccomoca—Rinrin & Yasuaki—this pastel after-life began as silkscreen prints and has grown into an IP of pins, posters and plushies. The pair describe themselves as a “character illustration unit,” and they travel the Asian art-fair circuit to meet fans face-to-face.
8) PlanetBear
Booth No. AE59
PlanetBear began as “Baixiong Department Store (白熊百貨商店),” a candy-coloured universe run by wide-eyed taiyaki-headed pandas. Store-manager PanPan, kid-sister Panny and delivery-panda DoDo now headline blind-box hits. The brand’s 2025 ROOTOTE pop-up proved PanPan can anchor lifestyle goods—from mini-totes to café collabs—so a themed “PanPan Mart”-like counter stocked with plush keychains and pastry-themed exclusives feels plausible.
9) Studio Toki X Neufcats
Booth No. AE12
Home-grown prototyping lab Studio Toki offers one-stop resin printing for Singapore’s toy scene, and indie label Neufcats (tattoo artist Ael Lim) re-imagines fortune cats as post-apocalyptic rebels. It’s the rare booth run by fabricators and artists, great for collectors who want process talk alongside indie spotlights.
10) Tasty Toastys
Booth No. AE58
Chanel Lee launched Tasty Toastys as a 7,600-piece NFT drop in Feb 2022. The carb-core collection sold out within a week, popular particularly in the United States, South America, and in Singapore. The success snowballed into many more plushes, as well as a popular blind box series. (Full disclosure: I bought two sets of the Holiday Toastys: Mystery Plush Series 2. I wanted to check them out—I see how they’d be really popular in the United States. I’ll probably rehome them on Mercari afterward… just a heads up.)
11) Zaky Boy by Zak Mini Monster
Booth No. K30
Russian-born, Dubai-based street artist Zakhar Evseev translates graffiti icons into vinyl. His 2018 Flammable Street Vandal series (Can Boy and Bomb Boy, 7.8″ resin, limited 40 pcs) set the tone: spray-can lids for heads, inflatable fits with big white sneakers. This year he’s firing on all cylinders: a workshop photo from May reveals a hulking matte-black astronaut (above), while his Mushroom Mini Monsters (below) sold out quickly. These fresh sculpts stretch his palette from spray-can satire to sci-fi daydreams, tones Pop Mart’s core roster hasn’t touched broadly yet.
12) Idea Burst | 树皮shupi
Booth No. AE04
Chinese studio Idea Burst pairs designer Shupi’s soft-shaded line art with pop-Buddhist humor. The breakout blind box, Amitofo: Good Mindset, hides 6 regular monks plus 2 secrets inside 8 cm PVC shells. Vol. 2, City Walk, stretches the joke to 9 designs + 1 secret (above), trading meditation mats for city-bike passes and iced lattes.
Shupi’s recent large resin, “Swipe My Card” (12 cm, ltd. 3,000 pcs), depicts a four-armed monk clutching a credit card, coffee cup, cash and fries—symbols the artist links to “humans’ four basic needs” and to the Thai Syamsi fortune-sticks rite. The piece drew headlines—and the nickname “Girly Buddha”—yet every drop still sells out.
The brand’s 2025 tour hits ACF Thailand, Designer Toy Life Taipei, and Pop Toy Show Singapore, signaling a Southeast-Asia push.
