New Planet Cybertron: Penang Toy Museum

Hello there fellow Planeteers and Cybertronians,

Welcome back to The Planet's Journal, and continue with our tour of Penang, the Pearl of the Orient, we will pay a visit to what is touted by the Malaysia Book of Records as the LARGEST and COSTLIEST Toy Museum in the world!

Now that's a huge claim, if you ask me. But once you are inside this particular establishment, you'll to believe that claim, and here's why...

: Power Rangers/ Super Sentai

: More Rangers

The museum consists of a whopping 120,000 toys and figures, of all shapes and sizes, for both the young and adult collectors.

: Vintage wrestling figures from WWE/F and the now defunct WCW

: Chinese Pop Icons and Mr. Bean

There are also numerous statues of characters from various Hollywood Blockbuster movies, computer games, comics and TV series.

: Pirates of the Carribean

: Supermen... loads of them...

According to the owner, Mr. Loh Lean Cheng, based on my short conversation with him, whatever that visitors see inside the establishment, those are only 70% of what he has, and there are still 30% more waiting to be shifted in, mostly due to the lack of space.

: Wild Wild West and some 60's and 70's comic characters

: Biker Mice from Mars

He was inspired to start collecting toys after he visited a particular Toy Museum in the UK, fast forward 40 years later, the existence of this fantastic Toy Museum.

: Voltron

: Characters from Marvel Comics

There are rows and rows of racks, consisting various toys and figurines you can think of: ranging from classic favorites such as G.I. Joes, Action Man, Star Wars, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe & Transformers, to the more recent Ben 10, Spongebob Squarepants and various anime/ Japanese-exclusive character figures.

: Street Fighters

: War Planes

On the side of the rooms, there are numerous statues of various characters from movies and games, some are 1:1 scale, while some are obviously way bigger.

: Transformers, my most favorite of all...

: More Transformers

: M.A.S.K.

The statues, mostly acquired directly from Hollywood ranges from movie characters such as King Kong, various characters from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars...

: Spidey and Batty, featuring Astro Boy

: Superman and King Kong

... to characters from animated features such as Pixar's Wall-E, Monster's Inc...

: Wall-E

... to comic-based movie characters such as Batman, Jokers, Captain America, Superman, Hulk etc...

: Hulk

: Iron Man

... to games and cartoon characters such as Optimus Prime, Gundam robots, Zelda, Lara Croft and many more.

: Gundams

Girls, sweat not, you are not forgotten, there loads of girl toys available throughout the museum ranging from dolls, Pullips, Barbies, plushies, you name them, they got them.