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I guess I haven’t been super-enthused about Disney’s Stitch Experiment 626 Project Custom Art Tour. It’s not the artists or the toys; maybe it’s the Disney? Even then, I can’t put my finger on it. I like Disney’s Span of Sunset collabs and my sister brought me a kind-of-cool Vinylmation figure back from Disneyworld. (She [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 20, 2009
Finally! I’ve never even seen Lilo and Stitch, so my love of this format has no foundation in narrative or nostalgia – I just really dig the Stitch toy. It’s like a Munny that doesn’t suck. Honestly, it’s really hard to make a Munny look good, but maybe that’s just me hitting a monkey-saturation point. No [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I was wrong when I predicted the next Cheshire Cat colorway would be Steampunk, but Span of Sunset’s Yevgeniy told me not to rule it out. So in the meantime, we’ve got baseball. Think it’s a stretch? Steroids = drugs = Alice in Wonderland… The newest cats on the block are available for $60 here. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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It wasn’t until I saw this awesome Stitch custom from the traveling Experiment 626 Show by Pocket Full Of Monsters that I remembered that, hey, wasn’t the 626 Show supposed to swing by my East Coast locale about a month ago, fresh off the boat from Hong Kong? As it turns out, I couldn’t have been [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 9, 2009
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Span of Sunset continues its line of Disney collabs with another Cheshire Cat. This one goes out to all the girls with the black fingernail polish. Did you know that once a year goths actually descend on Disneyland en masse? Chuck Klosterman has a great essay about the phenomenon too. The Cheshire Cat vinyl figure [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 4, 2009
As a general rule, I’m just not that into Disneyana. But this penetrates all walls of opposition. As seen on Freshness today, Disney fuels speculation about a sequel to the classic early-eighties film, Tron, with this Mickey Mouse figure in full “blue program” outfit. Medicom Toy Co. is currently taking pre-orders for the 5-inch figure, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 20, 2009
Medicom, Disney and H8G have teamed up once again to give one of my favorite Rocketmen the urban/designer/vinyl treatment. While I’ll never be able to shake the nightmares I had about Lothar and the blimp, I can’t deny my Rocketeer love. At 8″ tall, the $80 figure capitalizes on the same visual appeal that DC Direct’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 6, 2009
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Though I’m not the biggest Disney fan in the world, I seem to be a total sucker for creative reinterpretations of Disney properties – thus, my preoccupation with the traveling Experiment 626 Show, the BAPE and Be@rbrick versions of Mickey, Mickeymouse Prime, and whatever this guy is. Enter Organic Hobby and their never-ending collection of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 16, 2009
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Span of Sunset continues its Disney collabs with another Cheshire Cat. Pirate, Hip-hop and Cheshire Nation colorways (all still available here) are joined by the newest colorway: METAL. The Cheshire Cat vinyl figure is based upon Lewis Carroll’s character from Alice in Wonderland, here reborn into a 3D form by Span of Sunset, Inc. This [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Yup, more urban, hip and “cool” stuff starring classic Disney characters. (They really are going after our money aren’t they.) Here, A Bathing Ape has done their own take on the ever popular and totally classic Minnie Mouse character. Bape has collaborated with the major merch behemoth Disney on this adorably cute and old school [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 1, 2008
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It’s over. Disney has fully embraced the idea of the custom designer toy, and their mighty fists shall pound the idea into the masses, and their trumpeting, well-paid angels will send out a clarion call, mixing culture and subculture forevermore. The Experiment 626 Project Custom Art Show launched in Hong Kong this past Friday, November [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Yeah, it was just a matter of time for Disney to get their greedy hands into the designer toy market. Name anything pop-culture-ish and Disney will put their stamp on it, well except porn…they have yet to cross that bridge. Recently released was the Span of Sunset x Disney x BLOC28 x New Era sets of figures of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 25, 2008
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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...Tuesday, August 5, 2008
If you’ve read some of my older posts, you might have found out something about me. I love Disneyland. On my last visit to the hallowed ground that is Walt’s wonderland, I spied some great pieces by Amanda Visell and Michelle Valigura, plus there were those cool tee designed by David Flores and the like. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
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I love Disneyland. It really is the happiest place on earth. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny the power of Disney iconography, now can you? And the smartypants at Disney HQ continue to keep Disney products relevant. They’re not content to just rest on the laurels resting upon Mickey’s mass produced head, oh [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 16, 2008
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No, Shepard Fairey hasn’t stopped stencil-stumping for Obama to pick up the plight of Paris Hilton’s pooch. Instead, Disney has looked to the streets for inspiration and come up with this viral ad campaign for its new adventure/comedy, Beverly Hills Chihuahua. If you check out this website, you’ll find a Fairey-esque image of a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Ok, so I don’t know if a $200 robot counts as a “toy,” but this one needed to be mentioned. Disney and Thinkway are releasing a Wall-E robot in conjunction with the upcoming movie. The robot has 10 motors in it that move it every which way. He responds to noises and commands, [...]
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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