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Jailbreak Toys Presents the Photobama Freestyle Contest

29. May 2009

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Jailbreak Toys Presents the Photobama Freestyle Contest

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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Disturbingly Cute 3A Squares Revealed

21. May 2009

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Disturbingly Cute 3A Squares Revealed

3a has been producing some of the most original, beautifully complex and expensive 1/6th scale stuff out there – but the upcoming Squares might be what finally gets me to part with my lunch money. Robots have a way of doing that to me, through force or coercion, one way or another. Scheduled to be released [...]

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Where the Wild Things Are Kubricks

15. May 2009

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Where the Wild Things Are Kubricks

Now that the LOST season finale has come and gone, search trends show a renewed interest in last year’s LOST Kubricks. Since I can’t tell you who is occupying Locke’s body (or if/when there will ever be a BrautKubrick), here instead is a preview of the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are Kubricks. In anticipation of [...]

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The GG Allin Throbblehead

11. May 2009

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The GG Allin Throbblehead

This is probably the first and last Bobblehead you’ll ever see on ToyCyte. A company called Aggronautix went and made, of all the anti-bobble things, a GG Allin Throbblehead. And if DKE is game to distribute it with the rest of the lot of “art toys” (and Dov himself assimilated one into his personal collection), [...]

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Huck Gee’s Skullhead in a Bunny Suit

6. May 2009

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Huck Gee’s Skullhead in a Bunny Suit

If you are the rare bird who was put off by all the violence in those carefully-crafted weapons-n-ammo accessories of recent Huck Gee customs, you’re in luck: Huck is showing off his softer side with a series of ten SkullBunny figures. This little guy has been sitting on the backburner for a year or so, trying [...]

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Star Trek Nodniks: To Boldly Go Where Everyone Has Gone Before

29. April 2009

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Star Trek Nodniks: To Boldly Go Where Everyone Has Gone Before

Funko, purveyors of all things which combine aspects of ‘bobble’ and ‘head’, are again stumbling into that vast, vast, overcrowded arena of the pseudo-designer toy with their upcoming Nodniks – definitely not to be confused with Funko’s OTHER Trek / ‘urban vinyl’ amalgamation. The Nodniks, which will also include various Marvel superheroes and classic cartoon characters, [...]

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Tim Burton’s 9 Goes Figural

27. April 2009

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Tim Burton’s 9 Goes Figural

What happens when you cross Little Big Planet with Wall-E? Well, ‘9’, apparently. I admit I knew nothing of this film until NECA started dropping images of the toys associated with it. Ostensibly, a bunch of sacks have to clean up a planet that we’ve, once again, seriously messed up with our McDonalds and SUVs and [...]

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Some Ass For Your Desktop

22. April 2009

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Some Ass For Your Desktop

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy86Vj1wUc4] I’ve seen a wide variety of completely extraneous USB peripherals designed to do nothing more than mildly entertain as they suck valuable electricity from your computer’s sparking, sad heart, but I think that things have reached a new pinnacle of bizarre excess when we’ve started to plug wiggling schoolgirl asses into our computing devices. As spied [...]

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Ashley Wood’s Large Martin Available Now

20. April 2009

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Ashley Wood’s Large Martin Available Now

Large Martin is the largest (19.5 inches ) 1/6th WWR figure  so far from 3A , now on sale at Bambalandstore.com. There are 3 different colorways to pick from: Panda, Big Red and Mr. Frosty (Deep Powder Camo). Each Large Martin costs $300 USD and includes EMS worldwide shipping. A package deal containing all three [...]

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The Four Horsemen’s Fantastic Exclusive is Crowned, Nevermore

14. April 2009

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The Four Horsemen’s Fantastic Exclusive is Crowned, Nevermore

We first mentioned the elaborate voting process for the Four Horsemen’s annual fan-determined ‘Fantastic Exclusive’ action figure back in February, but this week, a champion figure was finally announced : The Raven of Gothitropolis – and I admit, it was probably my favorite of the bunch, so kudos, majority rulers! I am among you, you [...]

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Ashley Wood Deploys Large Martin: Dead Eyes Open

9. April 2009

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Ashley Wood Deploys Large Martin: Dead Eyes Open

Dead Eyes Open (by Severed Heads) is not only one of the best dissonant synth songs of 1984, it now stands poised to be one of the best large toys of 2009. The fliers for Ashley Wood’s Large Martin take a not-too-subtle dig at mini figures. But Martin doesn’t have to drive a sports car [...]

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Olan Ventura Doesn’t Hate Superheroes… Really

2. April 2009

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Olan Ventura Doesn’t Hate Superheroes… Really

The Taksu Gallery in Kuala Lampur might be the very last place you’d expect to find art that focuses on action figures and their travails, but 33-year old artist Olan Ventura spent over six months tying up and sometimes destroying his DC Direct, Marvel Legends and Justice League Unlimited action figures so that he could [...]

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Takashi Murakami’s inochi Action Figures

2. April 2009

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Takashi Murakami’s inochi Action Figures

Wow. Check this out. The last time we reported on a Takashi Murakami “action figure,” it came with a NSFW $15.2 million price tag. At a mere $1,500 these highly stylized inochi action figures ease up on your budget, while still keeping some of that sexual tension intact. Murakami originally created the figures for a [...]

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3AA and Ashley Wood Oyabuns: Yama and Naga on Sale Now!

23. March 2009

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3AA and Ashley Wood Oyabuns: Yama and Naga on Sale Now!

I’m going to keep this short so you don’t waste time reading and miss out. Ashley Wood and 3AA Toys just dropped (to the general public) a limited amount of 1/6-scale Tomorrow Kings Oyabuns:  Naga and Yama. These figures really hearken back to the golden days of “designer vinyl.” Each figure is 12 inches tall [...]

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Sideshow Toys’ Annual Diane Kamahele Memorial Auctions Go Live

19. March 2009

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Sideshow Toys’ Annual Diane Kamahele Memorial Auctions Go Live

I met Diane Kamahele at the very first Toy Fair that I ever snuck into. I was an unshaven amateur with a half-fake pass from a lighting company and no experience whatsoever and a case of stomach butterflies, but Mrs. Kamahele welcomed me warmly into the Sideshow Toys booth, giving my friend and I a [...]

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Life-Sized Gundam Set To Destroy Shiokaze Park

18. March 2009

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Life-Sized Gundam Set To Destroy Shiokaze Park

For a country that tends to compact and miniaturize things, Japan’s sure got a weird giant fetish goin’ on lately. First with the (debatably fake) anime-crotch-train-girl, and now with this 59-foot tall Gundam RX-78-2 set to be displayed in Tokyo’s Shoikaze Park for two months, as shown in this promotional illustration. Not only is the metal [...]

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Medicom Brings Back The Real Action Hero Rocketeer

10. March 2009

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Medicom Brings Back The Real Action Hero Rocketeer

Sideshow and Medicom aren’t making it very easy for me to save my hard-fought Benjamins, now that they’re re-releasing the amazing RAH Rocketeer 1/6th figure in a new, sexy Version 2.5. This guy has been my holy grail for a long time now, and I don’t much care that he’s not an original Version 1 [...]

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Jeremy Geddes Cosmonaut for 3A Toys

9. March 2009

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Jeremy Geddes Cosmonaut for 3A Toys

Here’s some exciting news. It’s been almost a year since we posted about Jeremy Geddes, but 3A Toys has given me a reason (beyond being a fan of his paintings and first name) to write some more.  3A will be releasing a 12-inch figure of Jeremy’s Cosmonaut under its 3A Showcase imprint. Judging by the [...]

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Suckadelic Stormtrooper = FAIL?

4. March 2009

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Suckadelic Stormtrooper =  FAIL?

more fail, owned and pwned pics and videos I’m a regular reader of Failblog, but mostly because I like to feel better about my position in the food chain. So, I was a bit surprised when I saw that someone had submitted an image of Sucklord’s Gay Empire Stormtrooper as a ‘FAIL’ yesterday. Of course, it [...]

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Michael Lau’s Elsa for CSBOOTH16

3. March 2009

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Michael Lau’s Elsa for CSBOOTH16

Michael Lau’s CSBOOTH16 takes place at Michael Gallery March 21st and 22nd. The going theory is that the main Gardener is going to be Brian and that Hellboy may be Brian’s secret figure. Now per CrazyToyz0709 (from where this info and photos all derive), we see the second figure, Elsa, Brian’s girlfriend. 0709 speculates that [...]

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Data Liberator AKI Coming From Ashley Wood This Week

23. February 2009

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Data Liberator AKI Coming From Ashley Wood This Week

Get ready, because these Ashley Wood figure pre-orders move fast. On February 24th, the Bambaland Store will be putting the mysterious ‘Data Liberator AKI’ up for order. As usual, I’ve had to consult a few linguists and scientists to decipher Wood’s abbreviations, use of wacky Australia time, a half dozen half-completed websites and alien sentence structure, [...]

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12 Inches Of Scarlett Johansson From Hot Toys

20. February 2009

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12 Inches Of Scarlett Johansson From Hot Toys

So, the reports coming back from the cinematic experience of The Spirit aren’t too friendly, generating such caustic IMDB comments as ‘is this the worst movie ever?’ and ‘Bad movie? Definitely!’, but if there’s one good thing that comes out of this train wreck, it’s that we get a Scarlett Johansson figure. That’s worth [...]

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Johnny Ryan Angry Youth Comix Figures: Faithful and Toxic

20. February 2009

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Johnny Ryan Angry Youth Comix Figures: Faithful and Toxic

Span of Sunset got together with Johnny Ryan Angry Youth Comix to produce two incredibly faithful figures: Loady McGee and Sinus O’Gynus. Loady McGee “is the spikey-haired, zit-faced jerk who loves watching snuff movies and eating teddy grahams”. Now a vinyl action figure approximately 8 inches high, he comes with a baseball bat (with nail [...]

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Span of Sunset Has Space Troopers in Stock Now!

18. February 2009

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Span of Sunset Has Space Troopers in Stock Now!

We interrupt our New York Toy Fair coverage to bring you two pairs of words I haven’t yet really had the chance to commit to print: “Space Troopers” and “in stock.” Span of Sunset now has 8 items from Toygraph, and if you act quickly, you won’t have to pay flipper prices for your fix. The [...]

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Uglydoll & David Horvath at Toy Fair 2009

18. February 2009

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Uglydoll & David Horvath at Toy Fair 2009

Scheduling Toy Fair one week after New York Comic Con is like a sucker punch straight from the tundra-fists of the chilly NYC winter. There’s only so much one man’s feet can take as they traverse the vast expanses of the West Side’s Jacob Javits center for three or four days in a row, barely [...]

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