Here's a gallery of almost all of the Michael Lau items I have. Each figure came with an extra pair of shoes, hat, in the case of Davy he came with a CD, trio of intertwined cats and fold out poster.

I managed to get most of the items from eBay before many collectors discovered who Michael Lau was. Now the prices have gone through the roof and it prevents fans like me from picking up many new items.

If there is one benefit to having other Hong Kong artists flood the market with similar figures is that prices have stabilized a little in the past few months.

On the right is the first Gardenergala art book published by Sony as part of the Viewsic partnership / gallery openings in Japan. The book features pictures all of the Gardeners and a sticker sheet with several Gardeners on it. It is highly recommended for people interested in Michael's Work.

You can see the Michael Lau figures in addition to other items, the Calpis bottles, the Davy CD, the LMF CD and prototype LMF Sci-Fi Robot, a Maharishi sticker sheet and postcards, and even a Gardenergala credit card application plus a card from the Minami Go! Round Artwalk Exhibition. Both cards are from Japan.

The figures from left to right: Stone-Edition Davy, Box C, Young Miss, Lazy Brian, Lazy XXX, B/W, Lazy Tatto, Young Square, Lazy Yan, Square, NY Fat, Miss, Maxx (from the box set) the Michael Lau mini figure in Colette blue and the 3" LMF Sci-Fi Robot.

The Japanese skateboard and street culture magazine "Ollie" pictured far left, often has articles and reviews of Michael's work as well as the work of his contemporaries.

The figure and toy insert pictured left was from the February 2003 issue.

The bottles on the right are from their X-Style water. This is water loaded with carbs and lightly flavored like Gatorade.

Thanks go out to my friend John from iRC for giving me his bottle and getting my collection started

From left to right: Billy with Wakeboard, NY Fat, Maxx and Miss

The box set comes in a custom hard plastic case with an embossed Maxx on the front, an actual 6" Maxx and a CD-ROM with short animated movies of the Gardeners and an interview of Michael Lau by Tokyo Tribe creator Santa Innoue.

Davy came with his pets. These are three cats intertwined into a little base.

Here is the pride of my Gardenergala collection. Lazy Brian and Lazy Yan were the first of the original Gardener figures I owned. I got Lazy Tattoo later but both he and Brian are from the PARCO exhibitions in Japan.

From left to right: Lazy Brian, NY Fat, Lazy Yan (Based on LMF band member MC Yan) Maxx and Lazy Tattoo.

Look at the detail on Brian, Maxx and Tattoo! Those are actual metal earrings, chain wallets and chain bracelets. NY Fat has a jacket made by Maharishi and is holding two spray cans in his hands, there are even pockets in his jacket for two more cans (not pictured). Yan is even holding a pair of dice in his hand.

The image on the far left was from a Casio watch G-Shock insert in the pages of Ollie. It would be the very first time I had been exposed to Michael's work and eventually develop into a passion.

Immediate left is a detail of the character Fatwest holding his wakeboard.

This magazine is useful for people interested in seeing a list of products Michael has made, as well as items that aren't for sale.

There is an interview with Michael, Brothersworker and Eric So inside as well as pictures of just about all the figure work those Hong Kong artists have made.

This magazine is a street culture magazine that talks about hip-hop, DJ, graffiti art, collectibles, skateboarding and just about anything else that can be deemed cool by the global community.

This issue is notable because there is an interview with the distributors of many of Michael's projects, Ningyoshi's Workshop.

To the right is the cover of the flyer from the Toy Show as well as one of the pages featuring the Soccer Lam figure. There is also a quick interview with Michael and what figures he plans to release at the show.

For the record Michael released the Pig from the Crazy Children and the Soccer Lam figure with a promise of a few more new figures for 2002.

One side of the postcard features a small calendar for the month of April and the Crazy Children figure Deadkid in silhouette.

The back of the postcard features the name of Michael's workshop Crazysmilesco.

On the immediate right is the January 2001 issue of Quest Magazine (#01). The Quest issue features an interview with Michael, a look at his workspace and various unique pictures of his early Crazy Children and Tokyo Tribe 2 figures.

The premier issue of Quest also came with a set of Michael Lau designed DC Shoes for 12" figures. Happy hunting!