{"id":263503,"date":"2026-04-23T23:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:24:20","slug":"owners-of-toy-joy-opened-akiba-texas-in-downtown-selling-blind-boxes-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263503\/","title":{"rendered":"Owners of Toy Joy opened Akiba Texas in downtown selling blind boxes and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/akibatexas.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akiba Texas<\/a> opened in February selling blind boxes, trinkets, accessories and more, according to a representative from Giant Noise.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more<\/p>\n<p>The store concept is owned by the creators of Toy Joy and Yummi Joy, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The context<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/austinrockstexas.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Rocks<\/a> previously occupied the downtown space for 12 years before closing its doors on Jan. 31, according to its social media.<\/p>\n<p>The store sold apparel and gifts, noting to customers on Instagram that many of the same products are available at its other store, <a href=\"https:\/\/wildaboutmusic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild About Music,<\/a> which is located on Congress Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akiba Texas opened in February selling blind boxes, trinkets, accessories and more, according to a representative from Giant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[98706,132,134,133,98705,98707,749,98703,98709,98708,98710,98704],"class_list":{"0":"post-263503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-akiba-texas","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-austin-rocks","13":"tag-blind-boxes","14":"tag-now-open","15":"tag-toy-joy","16":"tag-toy-store","17":"tag-trinkets","18":"tag-wild-about-music","19":"tag-yummi-joy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}