Hello Kitty Magazine in Germany, it looks very nice, I wished they had something elsewhere, it looks quite mature and well done, the price looks to be around 5.60 euros which is approx. 56 HKD.

If your Hello Kitty collection already includes the $30,000 dog bed, the one-of-a-kind platinum figurine, the $50,000 diamond pendant and the Fender guitar, then maybe, just maybe, you are ready for the $66,000 Swarovski crystal-encrusted Maneki Neko Hello Kitty doll. It’s quite large and looks not at all cuddly, but how can you not want it? Those eyes, that red bow cocked just so on the enormous head - you are powerless to resist the cuteness that is HK. This sparkly version of the popular feline is posed as a maneki neko, which is a good money fortune symbol in Japan. Covered with with 62,000 Swarovski crystal beads, the sparkly kitty is currently on display at the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo. Buy her and she will bring you riches.

A cute Hello Kitty IPOD case next to a Hello Kitty rice cooker.

This is not the latest news, however it is a special and exclusive item at approx. USD 4,000 worth reposting.

Aly & AJ have a new ride

The ‘tween’ pop duo hits the road in a Hello Kitty tour bus.

It’s a perfect storm of cute.

Aly & AJ, the pop star sister act, darlings of the "tween" music set, just setting out on their biggest tour yet.

Hello Kitty, the venerable pop culture icon of all things kawaii – cute in Japanese – sponsoring that tour.

And backstage at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on Thursday, they met onboard the Hello Kitty tour bus – the usual deluxe motor coach on which you find your touring musicians, only this one decked out with as much Hello Kitty merchandise as you’d find in the typical Sanrio store.

"It was ridiculous," says AJ – she’s the younger sister, 16, with the straighter blond hair – of what they saw when they stopped by the bus on the way to their sound check.

"We were thinking there’d be a few things, and there’s SO much stuff!" she says.

"We saw it right before sound check and we FREAKED out!" adds Aly, 18, the one with wavier tresses of hair.

• • •

We walked through the bus with the gals and this is (some of) what we saw:

• A Hello Kitty water dispenser, popcorn maker, coffee maker and toaster that toasts a Hello Kitty face on your bread. Ice cube trays that make Hello Kitty shaped ice.
• Hello Kitty blankets, sheets, pillows, towels, rugs. A toilet seat cover – that’s a rare item, we’re told by the Hello Kitty decorators. Not many people even know they exist – so don’t tell anyone!
• Strands of Hello Kitty lights attached to the top bunks where Aly and AJ slept early Friday as the bus headed north to a show in Concord. Litters of plush Hello Kitty dolls, Hello Kitty clothes for those dolls, guitar straps and guitar cases that would have to be moved before they could even think about sleeping.

• • •

"This is our mom’s room," says AJ, walking us into the master bedroom at the back of the bus. And let’s really, really hope mama loves pink as much as her daughters think she does.

"Check this out – it’s a humidifier!" AJ says, pointing to a sorta egg-shaped Hello Kitty.

"Because our mom has asthma," Aly explains.

"How cool is that?!?" AJ says – they tend to talk in a rush, finishing each others sentences like sisters, as if, oh, they’ve spent a lot of time on a bus together?

Mom also gets lots of blankets, pillows, a Hello Kitty doll made into a kind of headboard, an iPod dock with speakers.

"Half this stuff, I was like, uhhh, they make this stuff?" Aly says, pointing to the iPod device and expressing their surprise at all of the new and unexpected toys they’re getting.

• • •

As for Hello Kitty, she’s getting exposure on stage on a tour that while crisscross the continent in support of the just-released "Insomniatic" through at least mid-September – check www.alyandaj.com for details.

She gets banners on stage or at the venue. She gets Aly & AJ playing their Hello Kitty Fender Stratocasters each night when they rock out on their song "Rush" – Aly playing a forest green one, AJ on the ice blue.

"The fact that they’re great musicians, they play guitar, they’ve been successful in an area that’s typically been dominated by males – it’s girl power and we like that," says Andrea Sobel, vice president of marketing for Hello Kitty.

• • •

Aly and AJ seemed absolutely stoked to have the Hello Kitty bus to call home for the next few months – and maybe in a way, it’s a connection to home.

It helps that the Kitty made provisions for their dog. The bus is now equipped with dog carriers, collars, bowls and bedding for Willow, a "teddy bear" mix of bichon frise and shih tzu, who comes on the road with them.

The Kitty also connects them to their past, before they had all the trappings – and endless attention – of fame.

"We’ve always been fans of Hello Kitty," says AJ, remembering how they used to descend upon the Sanrio store in the Thousand Oaks Mall as pre-fame preteens.

And now, the store is more or less onboard their own bus – what teen girl isn’t gonna love that?

It’s a true baby grand piano,  this tiny music maker, which weighs in at 3.6 kg and is 18cm high by 25cm wide, features 100 jazz and classical standards built-in, and takes SD cards of music which it can automatically play on its 0.4cm ivories. The diminutive keys can also be tapped by hand, provided your fingers are disturbingly small.

There is also code you can use to embed this particular video which is only 280×200 in size so very easy for you to embed in a blog or personal webpage.

If you love all that’s pink and girly then you can definitely get your fix with the thousands of Hello Kitty gadgets and accessories. Now you can add a cute little pink Hello Kitty flower to your cellphone.

This is an artist impression of Hello Kitty and her friends, notice how there are hundreds of tiny My Melody, Kuririn and other Hello Kitty friends embedded inside Hello Kitty, clearly a demonstration of how important Hello Kitty is in relation to her friends is it not?