Will Sweeney’s injection-molded SU2CV car complete with Frite Gunner Kommandant vinyl figure came and went quickly this past weekend. Featured in Tales From the Green Fuzz 3, the 30cm scale model was produced by Amos Toys in collaboration with Three Zero in Hong Kong. The first production run of this figure is limited to 50 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
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Not sure if these are new, but they’re new to me and topical as ever. Japan’s One Up shop just posted a selection of new toys and merch by James Jarvis, including these Police “Behave” t-shirts. The shirts come in green, black and white (XS, S, and M only) for 5,040 Yen (~$57 USD). In [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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Following Internet rumblings from July and SDCC sightings, STRANGEco is pleased to announce the King Ken Mini Series! Designed by famed illustrator and designer toy pioneer James Jarvis, the King Ken mini series features a collection of new four-inch versions of his popular King Ken character in six special color variants. The Mini King Ken [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Amos Toys is opening up their Stash to the general public for the last time. Over the years Amos and Silas have built a stash which is made up of long sold out figures and products that they have [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 2, 2008
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This weekend James Jarvis and Co will open the Amos online store’s Stash to everyone. This is the last stock of ten years of toy-making that they have put aside. It is the final chance for collectors to pick up authentic Silas/Amos rarities at reasonable (ie. non-eBay) prices. Once they are gone, they are gone [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 25, 2008
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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...Friday, August 8, 2008
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I don’t know what these are about, but I like them. James Jarvis posted a few of these on his blog. I don’t know if these are posters or public service announcements. I just know that they’re very cool, and I want the one above. The characters look a bit Yod-ish but they also different. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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The Internet abounds with rumblings of a Mini King Ken series. I spied the above graphic on J.ME’s blog and tracked it down to the AMOS site, where they wrote this: The original grey King Ken was produced as a special edition addendum to the In-Crowd House of Horror series. The legend of Ken grew from [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 2, 2008
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OK so King-Kun is already sold out overseas and the chances of you getting one of the allotted stateside James Jarvis X Bounty Hunter collaborative figures are slim to none, but, hey, I managed to get 1 of 50 of these, so who am I to rain on your parade? That said, if you need [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 26, 2008
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Wonder Women of America is a book about the girls who visit San Diego Comic Con dressed in costume as their favorite fictional characters. All the images in the book were shot during the July 2007 convention. Spread across the 192 pages, there are 185 shots of more than a hundred characters–with quotes from [...]
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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