We headed out to Burbank, California for the annual ANME Founders Show about a week ago. It’s a tradeshow where we go to meet, talk, see new products, and spend some face-to-face time with industry colleagues. Deals are made, new friendships are formed, old friends share stories from their year – it’s pretty great, actually.

So, after getting in pretty late on Saturday and hanging out at the Welcome cocktail party, we got ready for the first day of the show. On our morning agenda was Tantus , and we got to see the new flesh tone toys and harness sets. Awesome! Then it was onto Topco , and yes, people, we did see the Fucked line, and yes, I took photos. The Topco booth was a red and yellow big top style circus tent with a blow-up Joanna Angel doll suspended in the middle.

There were several new lines, from Bordello collector’s style masturbators, military themed toys, the new Cake line of products, the all white Asylum line, the Hardware line, the Fucked toys, and the Vida line.

Next up, was California Exotics (http://www.edenfantasys.com/sex-community/companies/cal-exotics/). Al and Susan were excited to show us their newest lines. Their luxe booth was packed with new offerings, including the much talked about Vanity by Jopen line which is gorgeous and powerful, and a freezer case with the new Ice line ready to play with and test out.

There are new pieces in the Couture line, a new Inked harness, a new luxury style line call L’Amora that looks great, awesome triple stimulators (a fish and a lizard!), Zen stone-like massagers, and fun new bright pieces in the Shane’s World line.

Later we headed out to more meetings (our days were packed), and we saw the gorgeous new bCurious colors at the bSwish booth while visiting with our buddies there, then I popped into the Ruff Doggie booth to play with whips and paddles, and later stopped in to see the awesome Digital Playground pirate ship in their booth (which Peggy posed in front of for me) and her newest treasure.

Then it was onto Rocks Off to see my pal Leslie and her newest toys. Oh man, the new Boy Toys from Rocks Off look great! And the bullets, including Leslie’s badass bullet sash, are awesome. And there’s something new for the ladies too, with the new Groovy Chick – check out the orange!

And then I popped into System Jo’s huge booth before we had to run on to another meeting, this time with Jimmyjane – to see the all new Form 3 (sorry, no pics allowed!).

We ended the night with a delicious sushi dinner at Katsuya in Hollywood with our friends from Evolved and Zero Tolerance. Then headed over to the party of the night being put on by Storerotica, Evolved, Pipedream and more. We drank, danced, and talked into the night. Lots of laughs and good conversation. It was wonderful and busy day.