Download Cool Spiky Baby & Mask Hoody Paper Toys by Shin Tanaka
Discovered Mr Shin Tanaka from the archives of Urban Retro Lifestyle, a paper toy designer who has generously offered some of his beautifully designed paper toys (the more collectable than playable type of toy) for download as templates in PDF format.
© Shin Tanaka
There are currently seven series of free Spiky Babies from Shin Tanaka. Only templates from [Series 07] can be downloaded as the older series have been sold out and cannot be downloaded anymore (You can still view the gallery of the toys in the other series to find out what you have missed out, though)
Here’s all the toys available for [Series 07].
© Shin Tanaka
I’m not sure whether series become sold out after a pre-determined number of downloads or after a certain period of time so do visit his website quickly at shin.co.nr and get your Spiky Babies before [Series 07] is sold out 
© Shin Tanaka
By the way, there are also Mask Hoodies available for download too (Currently Series 01 to 03 are available). I prefer the Spiky Babies though - they’re much cuter
Another nifty thing about these Spiky Babies is that you cannot choose the template to download as the server selects a random template for you to download everytime you click on Open a box Feels like buying one of those Japanese toy capsules (Gashapon) or those boxed trading figurines/kits at China Square Central in SG. (BTW, there’s a pretty good SG Gashapon site @ www.gashaponrakuen.com)
© Shin Tanaka
The server chose Yok aka Mr Big Moustache for me. He looks like a sleepy-eyed version of the Pringles mascot
There’s actually a way to download the templates for Series 05 to 07 via Google Search after you download one of the templates - hint: the site: keyword will be very useful I’m not going to list the direct links here because I don’t think that’s very fair to Mr Tanaka. Besides, clicking repeatedly on Open a box to try to get the one you’re looking for is pretty exciting stuff ;p
UPDATE (09 Nov 2008): For the guys and gals who have been searching for templates, enter site:www.ohashi-lab.bio.kyutech.ac.jp/~shin/ + pdf in Google and save the PDF files - that should get you enough templates to play with until the next series is released
I don’t know how you find out about this stuff, but, really, keep doing what it is you’re doing, even if it involves sacrificing small mammals. Brilliant post, once again!
Actually, I read about it on Urban Retro Lifestyle which I found while searching for “gnomes lair” on Google. Go try it
Actually, I’ll go figure
(enters with cage of gerbils…..)
…hi I was wondering if you could show me how to do the search sacrificing thing…..
highly original and fun, theres only so much you can do with wallpaper, now this post has made me consider DVD/cd covers…
I can just feel the “Just DVD Covers” blog coming soon
Awesome blog!
These paper toys are the coolest download I’ve seen in ages. Thanks for putting me onto them. Only problem is I want them all. Please, PLEASE tell me how to download the old ones
ajdinsdale@gmail.com
Hi emilex, sent you a mail. Have fun!
strange you might mention a dvd/cd co ver blog… i was… oh i’d mentioned it already.. my forgetful tablets are out of date….
Help! I can’t find the older ones either. Please.
I’m wanting all of the spiky and hoodys toys. Can you email me where and how to find them? ratrod67@yahoo.com
thanks a bunch!!!
Hi anonymous, see instructions in the comment above yours
Unfortunately, even I don’t have every Spiky Baby or Mask Hoody ever released and there really isn’t a shortcut to collect all of them.
Use the above instructions to get the newer sets. For the older ones, you’ll just have to hunt around … can’t really help you on that.
Thanks for the reply. I’m not really sure how to hunt for them. I’ve tried typing in key words in google but it’s not bringing up any older templates. Any help sent to me via email or posted here would be appreciated.
Thanks again for replying
I did do the copy and past thing as read above and got some of series 5 and on up.
Don’t worry, if I can get my hands on the older ones, I’ll host them up somewhere
I have links to a Rogue Status one from Series Two over at this post (Scroll to the bottom).
hi there!
anyone out there who has spiky baby from series 1 - 4 please please send me them!!! or advise me how I mite get them!! thanks!!
my email is y.s.p.700@gmail.com
ok I understand how to get the ones you want without having to click several times but what i dont understand is what I need to put in to get the past models.
can ya direct me a little bit further give me another hint to what im doing wrong or check it yourself and see if they fixed it now so you cant?
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Hi Mark, try entering “site:www.ohashi-lab.bio.kyutech.ac.jp/~shin/ + pdf” in Google.
This basically tells Google to search the website for any publicly accessible PDF - which in our case are the templates that we want.
Note that series 1-4 are no longer available - I think Shin deleted them off his server a long time ago
Hey i just found out about the spiky babies
Can some one please send me series 1 to 7 or tell me how i can get them??
Hi Raadszeell , enter the search string in the comment above to get what’s available on the web. I also don’t have the rest so I can’t help you with that
[mayb hope for shin tanaka spiky baby fans out there]
trying my best to help you,
mayb this is a way to find Spiky Baby Series.[Series 1 to 4]
Try finding them [hint:certain direct download hosting sites]
& a word of advice:its quite IMPOSSIBLE to get series 1-4 by search engines or mayb forums(ive tried countless times)
Goodluck
what????
ive tried everything to get spiky baby series 1 and onwards and the direct download websites dont have the files.
will some one please tell me where i can find them
Where do you get the old ones??? Please??? The’re so cute and awesome!
email me:
appleshorse@sailormoon.com
i need the series 1-7 ?
someone can help me?
please
basuratotal2006@hotmail.com
i have series 4-8 and the delux series someone can help me to find the first 3 series i mean 1-3 please mail me:
gilboy666@gmail.com
Genial!!
hi i need the series 1-7 ?
someone can help me?
Hi, i have just discovered shin tanaka and I found no serie anywhere…….someone can help me ? delux series or 1-7 ?
Please mail me lologlem@free.fr
Hi Admirer, see if this link works for you - here.
Sorry, just checked the above link and realized all the Spiky Babies series are no long available for download.
You’ll have to wait for the next series though.
guess i’m abit or alot too late to discover this site but i really love shin tanaka’s spiky and mask hoody paper toys. the t shirt boys are very cute too. could anyone up there could help me , where can i download all these templates ? my kids are very happy about this paper art thing and they too are hoping able to do all these paper toys. thanks a million!
by the way, i’m 47 a father of two kids and hope i’m not too old for this kind of stuff !
Updated the post with some info on getting the older templates
Good news, there is a new serie beginning on shin Tanaka’s site…..
On the other hand, i finally found spiky babies series 1-8, if someone………
(my email : have a look on 19/08/08 )