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.
- Dolls
- More Dolls
- Goodness gracious, there are even more of them!!!
- Sailormoon -- the original Girl Power
Star Wars fans rejoice, there are at least 20 racks-full dedicated solely to the franchise.
- Star Wars are going to go crazy... there are so many racks full of cabinets, dedicated to Star Wars alone!!!
- More Star Wars
- Need I say more?
You will most likely find the stuffs that clicks with you there, and if you can't find them there, chances are you won't find them anywhere else.
- Matrix
- Characters from various animes and Kamen Riders...
- Trekkies fans rejoice!!! You are not forgotten...
- Spawns
Located, in Teluk Bahang (beside the SJK (C) Eok Hua school), the museum is about half an hour's drive from Georgetown and it is opened daily.
- Japan's various Super Robots & Metal Robos
- Monsters and even, X-Files!!!
The best part, you can take all the photos you want in there.
- Malaysia Book of Records
TOY MUSEUM
Address:
1370, MK 2, Teluk Bahang, 11050 Penang
Entrance: Adult RM 15, Child RM10
Open everyday from 9.00am to 6.00pm
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