STIKFAS™ seems a good choice when it comes to tokens to colleagues or staff as 5000 members of the Ministry of Defence finds out, the good way. Since the DMG Alpha Male figure, more MINDEF staff were presented with Stik-goodness. 5000 small STIKFAS™ goodie bags, each with a tan Alpha Male figure and an original Stiker sheet, were commissioned by MINDEF for their 19th MINDEF PRIDE day. With the slogan "New Mindsets New Possibilities", STIKFAS™ does seem to be the perfect novelty item for this event.

Since its preview here on our Produce pages, we've been getting numerous mails asking "When can I get that Assault Team?" Well, this new wave of products is now available for purchase in our online store. In addtion to the Mixed Body Type Assault Team Mega Pack, which has an Alpha Male, Omega Male, G2 Alpha Male and Beta Female in the set, we also have now the G2 Sigma Male Egyptian as well as the G2 Alpha Male Outdoor Adventurer with his little boat. So if there's a distributor in your region, do check with them for availability in your region. And swing by our online store if you don't have distribution in your region or simply love to have your stiks shipped to you from Stikfas HQ here in Singapore. Enjoy a brand new wave of theme building!

Things have certainly been picking up in the UK! Ever since the assignment of Meanwhile UK as the UK distributor, things are livening up for the STIKFAS™ scene. Automattic Comics, who've been retailing Stiks for quite a while now has always been in the forefront of the STIKFAS™ popularity push in the UK. His customers can certainly vouch for that. And those who haven't been there, can check out his latest STIKFAS™ display and wall of stock here. So if you're in the UK but haven't got a retailer like Automattic Comics in your region, it's time to give our distributor a holler and recommend him to your neighbourhood toy or comic retailer. Visit them at www.meanwhileuk.com. Cheers.

Meanwhile UK Ltd. was recently announced as the official distributor for STIKFAS™, Cuboyds™ and Kootikooti™ in the UK. And now their website has officially gone live. Visit them at www.meanwhileuk.com. So "if you love Stikfas and live in the UK" let them know. And let the Stik-fanaticism begin!

More goodies in the Stikfas.com online shop. Cuboyds™, the pre-assembled cubic cousin of STIKFAS™, is now available for purchase. Every box you buy comes with 12 individually blind packed figures. But no worrries, about the blind assortments. Each box has 3 of each of the four assortment colours so you're certain what you'll get in the box. But for Kootikooti™, it's truly a blind assortment. The Kootikooti™ wrestling stiks will also be available by the box, each containing 20 blind assortment packs. Each packs comes with 2 kootis but you don't know what you're going to get. Could it be a 10 pointer or the very rare 1280 pointer? Who knows. So if you do not have distribution in your area for these two new product brands, here's one place where you can get them. For loose purchase at retail, do check with your local distributors.

Saturday, 13th May, a group of 20 teachers from different schools around Singapore visited the STIKFAS™ HQ under the programme dubbed "Meet-A-Designer" organised by the Ministry of Education. In a simple morning session, they were shown the environment we worked and sat through a session with Mr Banyj where they learnt the STIKFAS™ way of innovation and creative thinking. Students always found it a thrill to visit a toy company, and for once, the teachers get to feel a refreshing change as well.

Raffles refers commonly to Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore back in 1819. But here in our little nation, Raffles is also the name of some great education institutions, one of which is Raffles Junior College. On 8th April, Raffles Juniour College celebrated its 25th Anniversary along with the official opening of its new campus. As a token to the college students, the school commissioned a series of 1500 STIKFAS™ goodie bags dubbed "The Rafflesian", in the college colours. These were given to the kids. Half of which were boy versions, which was a white Alpha Male with "Raffles" print, green baseball accessories and black rock star accessories; and the other half were girl versions with a white Beta Female with "Raffles" print, a green skirt, green fencing accessories and black pop star accessories. All the sets were personally numbered by the college staff. And if you google for these things, you might find some interesting feedback on the net among the students' blogs!

In January, we enticed you with actual pictures of upcoming products. It was well received so why not keep it up. You've seen the latest pictures of the Assault Team, Adventurer and the Egyptian and you've been left to wonder what those 3D images really represent. So here are the actual items, take a good look and see what these sets have to offer. Due on retail this month!

The STIKFAS™ forum in Katoots.com has always been a main avenue for communications among local StikFans and also for foreign StikFans to communicate with them. But recently visitors have had problems accessing the forum pages due to a 'nuclear fallout' in the Katoots server. Since then, access has been restricted till the 'nuke' effects have been settled. And now, it seems they're back, at www.katoots-reloaded.com. This is a temporary site while the major repair work is done on the original site, but all features are complete. Those of you who have been missing out on the Singaporean StikFan action, do drop in and let them know you survived the 'nuke'.

STIKFAS™ has often been featured in the press and this News page has been riddled with them for the past years so we thought we'd put them together so you can get a bird's eye view. A new section has been added to Stikfas.com where you can view the list of print / online articles about STIKFAS™ since the beginning. Drop in, take a look and see how far we've come and how much we've gone through.

SO it has been a month of guessing, speculation and various mathematical strategies applied. And after a whooping 185 entries, with guesses from as low as 175 to as high as 10,256, we've finally come to the results. Ladies and gentlemen, the numbers that you've been looking for - 1183! Again, applause for Damien who counted every single bit in the glass jar. About half the crowd were within the high hundreds and the one thousand range and about a dozen of you within 50 away from the actual result. But end of the day, three persons came closest among you all. We have Ng Chenyee with 1157 (a difference of 26), Rochvail with 1164 (difference of 19) and Sam Scheidler with 1200, a mere 17 away from the result. Our three top guessers will be contacted directly for their prize, a Mega Pack Assault Team each, autographed by Mr Banyj!
Thank you all for your participation. Look out for our next wacky contest.