Archive | September, 2008
Ashley Wood’s MK2 Bramble Deep Powder Drop Dates
Pre-order Ashley Wood’s Deep Powder Bramble at Bambalandstore.com next week: OCTOBER 1st 9:00 AM AEST SEPTEMBER 30th 4:00 PM PT SEPTEMBER 30th 23:00 GMT Deep Powder will cost 250.00 USD shipped to your door via EMS Courier. Any orders placed for a Deep Powder Bramble in the first 48 hours at Bambalandstore.com will receive a signed giclee print. Deep [...]
Continue reading...Alex Pardee x Cyndi Lauper For G1988’s Cover Band
26. September 2008
Seriously, Alex Pardee is consistently invigorating the art scene with inspired moves like this. Not only did I have this cassette, but I’ll show my age by saying that I probably also had a “She Bop” cassingle. [Remember that brilliant idea: 2 songs on a big chunk of plastic?] Not that I had any idea [...]
Continue reading...Art by Davey Amanda LePore Celebriduck
26. September 2008
I think it’s cool when toys cross over, and this is exactly the case with Art by Davey’s Amanda LePore CelebriDuck. By broad definition, it’s a designer toy. It’s also a rubber duck based on the image of a NYC icon, and the fashion world (from Lady Bunny to Patricia Field), as opposed to the [...]
Continue reading...Barbie Goes to the Birds
26. September 2008
Yeah, I know that Toycyte is no place for Barbies, but I just couldn’t resist posting something about this particular plastic blonde American icon. Mattel, to celebrate the forty-fifth birthday of Alfred Hitchcock’s chilling ode to suspense and scary black avians, released a very special The Birds edition of its classic doll. This Barbie is [...]
Continue reading...Mimobot Exclusives for Yahoo
26. September 2008
Yesterday I posted about the collaboration between tokidoki and Yahoo and the exclusive line of purple and Yahoo logo-ed T-shirts. Today I bring you yet another Yahoo exclusive, the limited edition Mimobot series. You may know and use the Mimobot flash drives and their mash ups with artists such as tokidoki, Sket One, Reach and [...]
Continue reading...Art + Action: Custom Obama Action Figure Show
26. September 2008
This is what I’ve been waiting for. It channels a couple of my passions (customs and change) into one unique art event. Jailbreak Toys, makers of the Obama Action Figure, will present ART + ACTION at Toy Tokyo’s gallery: The Showroom NYC on October 17th. Contemporary artists, toy designers and graf writers like Mars-1, Peat [...]
Continue reading...Hut on An Island - Grass Hut x Islands Fold
26. September 2008
On October 3rd, a nice friendly collaboration takes place in the Hut On An Island. Hut on An Island is a great meeting of the artist minds of the folks of Grass Hut and the Islands Fold Artists. The show opens on Friday the 3rd at 6 pm and includes such artists as Bwana Spoons, [...]
Continue reading...SOFT&FURRY Goes Soft and Furry
25. September 2008
I miss blogging about these guys, so here’s a late-breaking post. As spotted on JoyEngine, Josh Holland’s Furries had a bit of a local walkabout the other day. This is great, and I especially like the pic where they are posing in front of a flyer reminding you to register to vote. Cypher13 promises more [...]
Continue reading...Death to Ugly Vinyl! (But Uglydoll Vinyl Lives On)
25. September 2008
A recent message board post by David Horvath seems to have thrown a bit of confusion in the air regarding the future of designer toys. David posted “…we can’t continue ‘designer toy’ projects unless the producers get each item, and each colorway of each item, safety tested and certified. It’s our own new personal policy.” Kidrobot [...]
Continue reading...tokidoki x yahoo!?
25. September 2008
Yeah, tokidoki is EVERYWHERE! But on my default Yahoo.com browser window? Yes, even there. Internet God’s Yahoo are doing some promotion about “the power of purple”. They had some really slow loading video that explained the gist of it, but you know, I really don’t have that much patience to wait for it. But in [...]
Continue reading...Party With Killa Instinct
25. September 2008
The best way to celebrate the release of the new Killa Instinct figures? Why with a party of course. There are two official release parties for this figure created by artist/designer Marka 27 (aka Victor “Marka” Quinonez) and producted by Bic Plastics. This ten-inch creature comes with a bolt cutter, gas mask, spray can and [...]
Continue reading...Mickey Mouse Transformers?
25. September 2008
Word on the street is that there may be some new transformers characters hitting the streets, but this time the characters will be transforming from, Mickey. Yes, Mickey as in Disney’s Mickey Mouse. In the November 2008 issue of Figure Ou magazine, there is a teaser for this rumored crossover by TamkaraTomy. The silhouette is [...]
Continue reading...1000% Roen Vampire Be@rbrick
25. September 2008
Another cool Be@rbrick from Medicom Toy Co. that they won’t ship abroad! This 1000% Be@rbrick Roen is based on the imagery of Japanese streetwear brand Roen, by Hiromu Takahara. You can have a look at some of Roen’s warez on Diabro where you will find $400 jeans and a whole bunch of cool, albeit [...]
Continue reading...James Jarvis Amos Stash Update
25. September 2008
Beginning this Saturday at 1PM, Amos Online Store, James Jarvis fans of the gold and silver membership caliber will have an opportunity to fill those gaps in their Silas/Amos vinyl figure collections. Details will be made available in an email from Amos. To become a member, you have to 1) join the Amos mailing list [...]
Continue reading...FullyVisual Gama-Goon Artist Proofs
25. September 2008
Remember FullyVisual’s hand-crafted metal tribute to GAMA-Go’s Gama Goon? Well, the original limited production of 100 figures sold out, but FullyVisual has now made available 15 artist proofs. They are approximately 4″ x 2.5″ and one is a gold-plate chase! That’s pretty fantastic odds of getting the gold (1/15 rather than 1/100). Go for gold [...]
Continue reading...MCA Megabox Qees Now Available
25. September 2008
I’m stoked that it’s becoming easier to find Toy2r’s Qee these days. After a bunch of blogging about MCA’s Hong Kong Megabox show and tribute Qee, the figures are now available via MCA’s webstore. You can order a 3.5-inch MegaBoxee Qee ($15 shipped in the US) or a 1.5-inch MegaBoxee Qee mobile phone strap [...]
Continue reading...New Custom Dunnys By Squink
25. September 2008
Squink’s custom Dunnys usually sell out faster than I can finish blogging about them, so I’ve got to be short and sweet. He just threw up a couple customs on his webstore here. The Dunny above is Kichi-San: an original one-off Dunny hand-painted and sprayed in bright yellow, orange and pink with a light dusting [...]
Continue reading...Bonding Videos from Ignite What’s Next
25. September 2008
In between the Atlanta and Boston stops on the Ignite What’s Next Tour, Alex Pardee posted some pics on his blog. You could probably alternately title the tour: The Triple D tour (for Drinking, Drawing and Depravity). Looks like total fun, and damn could I use a Sparks right now after getting up early to [...]
Continue reading...Heart of Uamou Release
25. September 2008
Have a little heart. A little Heart of Uamou that is. These figures were designed by artist Ayako Takagi and have been released in very limited and a very exclusive run of the Heart of Uamou. How exclusive? These were only made in a run of thirty, yes thirty! This new version on Uamou is beautifully [...]
Continue reading...Be@rbrick Series 17
24. September 2008
Medicom Toy has just publicly announced some of the details of their newest series of the beloved cherished and madly collected Be@rbricks. Coming soon will be the release of Series 17. Two of the artists that will be featured in this new series are Alexander Girard and The World of Golden Eggs. Alexander Girard (1907-1993) is [...]
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