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Our first vinyl custoMONDAY artist we featured was a fan favorite (and one of my personal favorite artists in the scene), OsirisOrion, aka Robert Ingellis. I have been working with OsirisOrion for a few months now to produce a ToyCyte line of customs and today we get to debut them in our store! All dolled [...]
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One of the many, many little projects I’ve been working on are The Squidulons. I’ve teased photos of these in my Flickr for months, and my blog, but I’ve finally assembled the first set of five into one awesome wave. Please stay tuned as the story emerges. There are dozens of sketches for other citizens [...]
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Patrick Francisco has been working with AlwaysSEEN.com towards an exclusive T-Shirt project and they are finally ready for release! The shirts are very limited in quantity (under 60) and women’s sizes are especially scarce. Grab yourself a shirt while you still have the chance to clothe yourself. Here are some words from AlwaysSEEN: “Artist Patrick Francisco [...]
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In April of 2008, I’d come to an impasse on my screenplay and was regarding even the words I’d written on my grocery list as being poorly formed. I was still logging keystrokes on the computer daily, but a significant number of them were going to buying toys on eBay. Then fate intervened in the [...]
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2008 was the year that changed my mind about designer plush. It began with the innocent-enough acquisition of two items: A Curster Yeti by Erin Currie and Frank by Kristin Tercek (aka Cuddly Rigor Mortis). Following that, my mind, and the floodgates, were open to plush. I kept in touch with Kris and watched as new creatures were born into the Cuddly Rigor Mortis stable. You can see how her interests in Japanese culture, animation and horror movies are reflected in the detailed dolls. And detailed they are: each of the sizeable hand-sewn plushes comes with extra touches like embroidery and a birth certificate. If that conjures up an image of an Xavier Robert's signature, hello to everyone else who was born in the late 70s! But with designs based on Universal Monsters and New Jersey lore, these ain't no Cabbage Patch Kids. You can find the CRM crew on Facebook or you can enter here to win a 13 x 15-inch custom Anubis plush in the contest!
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You know that slice of trivia about how Usher finds it soothing to sort his M&Ms by color before a show? Yeah? Really? You do? Stay with me, I’m going to loop back to that. Toward the beginning of my time at ToyCyte, I was writing about Jon Burgerman A LOT. A toy here, a [...]
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Hot off the ToyCyte presses, Andrew Bell will be releasing his next Giver colorway aptly named Giver of Disease : Pestilence edition! This glorious grayscale with a hint of red edition is the 2nd Giver of Disease release, the previous was the Gangrene edition. The Giver of Disease: Pestilence edition will dropping in a few [...]
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Last night I could hardly sleep. Why you ask? well because today was the release of Chris Ryniak and Squibbles Ink + Rotofugi’s Big Muscamoot, part of Squibbles Ink Ink + Rotofugi’s Lake Monster series of vinyl toys. The colorway that dropped today was Lake Monster LM001B (aka “Seaweed”). Well to my disappointment by the [...]
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Arkiv Instant is the creation of Indonesian artist Rushhead, I have been following this project for quite some time and this toy release is a long time coming! Rushhead has teamed up with adFunture and now the long wait is finally over. adFunture will be producing the Arkiv Instant figure and is currently taking pre-orders [...]
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Since I began ToyCyte in April 2008, I had the amazing “once-in-a-life” opportunity to try and find a great news team to cover an industry I love. I was able to explore any and all options to make a toy news blog profitable on a larger scale. I quickly found Jeremy, and a few other [...]
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Toy2R delivers on the previous teaser with some new coming attractions: A Qee collection based on the artwork and iconic images of Reservoir Dogs, the debut film by Quentin Tarantino. Toy2R is working directly with Lionsgate on the Reservoir Dogs Qee collection, which will include a limited edition 8-inch Mr. Black Qee Bear and an [...]
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MINDstyle just released some proto photos of Michael Lau’s upcoming vinyl marionette for their art toy collectible series: The task presented by Paramount Licensing was to create an interpretation that would translate well as vinyl. Michael was given the freedom to create his vision with the approval of the estate for the iconic character. What [...]
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… literally. Gonakadet, Padihershef, Ghost Boy – they’re all goners, except for the customs left over in WKY’s shop. They’re bustin’ the old rubber molds to make way for all new awesomeness, so if you want one of WKY’s classic resin pieces, the end times are near. Fear not, though, as WKY has already produced [...]
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I wonder what North Korea’s Kim Jong Il thinks of his semi-prominent place in American popular culture. For legions of late-night viewers, Kim looks a lot like Mad TV’s Bobby Lee. But to Canadian customizer Okedoki, he looks more like a Kidrobot Munny. Writes the artist: This was a commission for Foosh, for their 10 [...]
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Just a quick reminder: Alex Pardee will be signing the eagerly-awaited Walrus Rider (beautiful black and green edition) at San Francisco’s Upper Playground tomorrow between 12-2PM. Pre-ordering the figure from UP is recommended. If the $110 vinyl toy is out of your price range, Alex says to come on down anyway and say hi. He’ll [...]
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Hooray! He’s back. I’ve missed writing about Jailbreak Toys’ Obama Action Figure so much. Here’s a double-dose of news for the most political man in plastic. 1) Jailbreak is sponsoring an awesome Obama toy photography contest and 2) They are currently producing a Michelle Obama Action Figure! While we wait to see how they model [...]
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Lulubell Toy Bodega has dibs on an exclusive that’s sure to tempt cat lovers and metal heads alike: Real Head x FullyVisual Mini Fortune Cats. Dreamed up by Mori, designer and owner of Real Head Japan and hand crafted by Jamie from FullyVisual, these kittens are heavy. I want to insert some bad pun about [...]
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Pink is easily the frontrunner when it comes to color of choice for kaiju figures. So it kind of makes sense that when pink aficionado Buff Monster released the first edition of his Kaiju For Grown Ups figure last November, he had an even pinker version in the works. The clear magenta Demon Seed is [...]
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Local hero Patrick Ma will be making the midwest feel lucky when he heads to Chicago to debut the newest IWG designer vinyl series, the IWG Sleepy Bears, and 5 new vector illustrations. Three of the illustrations were inspired by iconic characters found in classic 1960’s and 1970’s anti-hero movies. As with all sales under [...]
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We first showed you Camilla D’Errico‘s cute-yet-evil Kuro plush proto back in February at Wondercon. Now the 6-inch softie from Camilla’s self-published book, Tanpopo, is hitting stores. “Cute, cuddly, and with a most peculiar feature: a too‐cute‐to‐believe booty that would make even J‐Lo jealous, this little guy has received squeals of delight at recent conventions, [...]
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We’ve previously written about the customized anime robots of Rotobox – how they’re production quality pieces, pay homage to some of the great robots and characters of animation, and how they completely transform Qees into new creatures with custom cast parts and amazingly clean paint jobs. Well, they’re back again with the fourth series of [...]
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By Jason Babler | Mon, Jun 1, 2009
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