ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from Carnival Cartoons

I’m not Irish and I don’t drink much, so I enjoy Saint Patrick’s Day purely for the color. I’d been itching to pick up the Carnival Cartoons Pierce and Nathan set, but I was biding my time. I had an inkling that if I waited for spring, I’d be rewarded with green. Today at 9AM [...]

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Carnival Cartoons Go Goth at Coney Island

Hot on the heels of Collin’s post this morning, here are some snaps of the latest Pierce and Nathan colorway courtesy of Eric Nocella, sculptor extraordinaire of Carnival Cartoons. Looks like Jared Deal took the carneys on a trip to Coney Island where you can see the Cyclone, Parachute Drop and Wonder Wheel in the [...]

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NYCC: Jared Deal’s Purple Carney Exclusive

Taking his cues from classic sideshow personas of yore, Mr. Jared Deal’s givin’ us some old fashioned carney love with his series of Carnival Cartoons figures – and everyone knows that carnival love is the purest kind of love there is. Gifts of fried dough with starbursts of powdered sugar, the thrilling goldfish-in-a-plastic-baggie fauna, and [...]

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Carnival Cartoons’ Pierce and the Dog-Faced Boy Edition Updates

Jared Deal just posted up some nice new pics of the VTN-exclusive edition of Pierce the Human Pin Cushion and Nathan the Dog-Faced Boy. The two characters designed by Jared and Garnet Syberg-Olsen were sculpted (as with all the Carneys figures) by Eric Nocella, and will be packaged together. There will be 5 colorways released throughout [...]

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Vinyl Toy Network Exclusives Roundup Part 1

The VTN roster of exclusives is filling out into a nice array of something for everyone, with an emphasis on designer vinyl. The list, so far, includes: Marka27’s Broken Bone Day of the Dead Edition MiniGods David Flores’ SketchArtis MAD’s Sham the Clown Marka27’s Killa Instinct GLOW [...]

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VTN Exclusive Carnival Cartoons Pierce and the Dog Faced Boy

We had gotten a peek at these new characters in the Carnival Cartoons line, but when pressed for details, all I could get out of the series’ sculptor, Eric Nocella, was that I should prepare to be blown away by designer Jared Deal’s colorways. Eric revealed the protos and I waited patiently. And now here [...]

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New Carnival Cartoon From Jared Deal?

Here we go again… Jared Deal and Argonaut Resins are at it again, this time with what an astute sleuth would deem to be a new figure for Jared’s Carnival Cartoons range. If you picked up their previous collab, Vlad, all figures have shipped. (Vlad sold out in about six hours.) Expect more teasers for [...]

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