Ducobi announces "RB" figures and proceed to seduce your wallet

12:00 PM on 01.31.2010   |   Rio McCarthy

"RB" immediately stole my heart as soon as I saw them, and I fell in love with them once. My heart was then  ripped from my body and stepped on repeatedly as soon as I saw the prices on these beautiful creatures.

Ducobi is a company made of extremely talented designers and developers from Korea, Japan and the United States who have a mission to create designer toys for the true toy collectors of the world. They've created these "RB" figures and their main focus with these toys is craftsmanship, which is quite apparent when you see that they are covered in mother-of-pearl inlay and lacquer finish with insane amounts of detail.

Now there's no doubting that they're beautiful figures, but the prices and availability of the pieces vary greatly. Some of the designs are limited to only 10 while others have up to 100, and the prices range from $750 to $1,400. The White Tiger piece (which I am madly in love with along with the Guardian of Organ) has already sold out even though it was one of the highest priced at $1,400 each. Each of them stand around 6 1/2 inches tall and would make a beautiful focus piece for any collection. So what do you think? Would you save that much money to have these pieces shining in your presence?

[Via SpankyStokes]