Neat trinkets from gaming #1: Metal Gear Sound doodads

Rather than fish through studies about whether or not video gaming increases your riboflavin consumption, I've decided to expand a bit into the simpler realm of "really cool things from video gaming I just happened to run into" and see if it takes off. Which is to say I'm going to post this until you like it.

Today, I ran into Toy Tokyo while out with a friend and in the midst of her being enamored with their selections of Extremely Expensive But Well Crafted 12" Figures, out of the corner of my ear (THIS IS HOW HEARING WORKS I SWEAR) I heard one of the most beautiful sounds known to man: a Codec ring.

Behind me were two peg racks near the register filled with 6 different noise-making octagons labeled with either "Snake" or with other game-related symbols (the Codec ring was labeled with the screen prompt "CALL" from the Metal Gear Solid games) in different colors, signifying that each made a different sound. I don't speak moon-speak so well, so it's not like I knew what any of the Japanese Snake sound-a-gons said (though the one I bought WAS familiar, Snake's "Gojira Snake." - what he says while responding to a Codec call), but even without the three Snake-speak boxes, you have Item Pickup sound effect, the afforementioned Codec call and Alert (!) sounds.

I have no idea how new they are, but they're MGS4 related items and I love the heck out of them. I picked them up for $7 a piece because I'm that much of a Metal Gear nerd. Be on the lookout if you are too! Or just head over to Toy Tokyo.