Lil Leo figure at VRC event

A tiny figure on a table is the kind of thing that gets lost at a normal convention. At VRCくりえいてぃ部2 in Tokyo on April 12, 2026, a small LilLeo character figure instead became its own attraction inside a hall built for Virtual Reality Chat creators. (event.vrccreative.net 1) (event.vrccreative.net 2) (vrnavi.jp 1) (vrnavi.jp 2) That event is not a headset meetup in a back room. It is scheduled for Ikebukuro Sunshine City Exhibition Hall B, charges 1,000 yen for general admission, and lists 205 creator circles across 234 spaces plus 24 sponsors, including 19 with booths. (vrnavi.jp) (vrnavi.jp) (event.vrccreative.net) (event.vrccreative.net) The organizer came out of a creator group inside Virtual Reality Chat, but the whole point is to move work off the screen and into a physical venue. Its own description says it was launched to give creators active on virtual social platforms an offline place to show and sell what they make. (vr-lifemagazine.com) (vr-lifemagazine.com) (vrnavi.jp) (vrnavi.jp) LilLeo is not a mascot pulled from a toy company catalog. It is a paid three-dimensional avatar model sold by Japanese 3D artist tonoda_tonoda’s Booth shop for 5,000 yen, built for use in Virtual Reality Chat with Unity 2022, Avatars 3.0, and PhysBone support. (booth.pm) (booth.pm) (booth.pm) (tonodashop.booth.pm) Once an avatar like that catches on, it stops being just one download. Booth’s marketplace shows 287 LilLeo-related items, including clothing, makeup textures, animation add-ons, and face-tracking accessories made by other sellers for the same base character. (booth.pm) (booth.pm) That is why a small physical figure lands differently here than it would at a standard toy fair. The figure is a desk-sized version of a digital body that already has a paid model, a try-on avatar, and a mini economy of compatible parts around it. (booth.pm) (booth.pm) (booth.pm) (booth.pm) The scale of this shift is easier to see in the event’s own numbers. The first VRCくりえいてぃ部 offline event in April 2025 reported 104 circles, 16 sponsors, 146 avatar entries in its avatar display program, and about 1,500 general visitors, and the 2026 edition is materially larger on every headline count. (vr-lifemagazine.com) (vr-lifemagazine.com) (vrnavi.jp) (vrnavi.jp) The program has also widened beyond tables of goods. This year’s event adds official Virtual Reality Chat merchandise, a content stage, and a disc jockey area, which makes the hall look less like a niche software fan meet and more like a full creator convention with its own entertainment floor. (vrnavi.jp) (vrnavi.jp) So the little LilLeo figure is not really a side detail. It is what happens when a character born as a Virtual Reality Chat avatar becomes something people want to buy as files, customize as fashion, and then recognize instantly when it appears in resin on a real-world table in Ikebukuro. (booth.pm) (booth.pm) (booth.pm) (booth.pm) (event.vrccreative.net) (event.vrccreative.net)