Toynami

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Toynami is a Van Nuys, CA toy company. Originally founded in 2000 by George Sohn, Toynami is primarily focused on anime licenses for speciality retailers and collectors in the North American market.

Part of the early driving force that lead to the creation of the company was Sohn's interest in producing and releasing modern Macross Valkyire toys, something he spearheaded with Japanese company Yamato while VP at Toycom. When legal issues arose blocking the non-grey market release of Yamato's Macross toys in North America, Sohn left Toycom and started Toynami, ironically first acquiring the Robotech license, which was the thing that roadblocked Yamato and Toycom's Macross toys.

Using Robotech as a starting point, Toynami has since expanded seeking other primarily anime based licenses and aiming more towards collectors instead of the mass-market.

[edit] Present licenses

Robotech - Harmony Gold
Macross - U.S. Market via Harmony Gold
Naruto
Bleach
Inuyasha
Futurama
Chobits
Voltron
Emily the Strange

Futurama

Recently Toynami picked up the Futurama lisence.

SDCC Exclusive Glorious Golden Bender
SDCC Exclusive 'mating' Zoidberg	Series 1 figure Phillip J. Fry	Series 1 Figure Dr. John Zoidberg	Wizard Exclusive parellel universe Zoidberg
Series 2 figure Turanga Leela	Series 2 figure Zapp Brannigan

Currently series 3 is scheduled to have Bender and Kif.

All of the first six figures have a piece needed to build the Robot Devil