ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

The Resin Collective Melts Minds at Red Hot Robot

Following quite the fever pitch, Red Hot Robot opened its doors for the Resin Collective, and the red dots started flying. Store owner Jason Kiningham was way ahead of the curve curating this show, which featured standout work from today and tomorrow's hottest resin designers. Even a local Phoenix rag covered the show, re-interpreting Jason's "lowbro" lingo as "way cooler than that boring museum crap" in their article, Anti-Toy Story. Those familiar red (sold) dots were quickly adhered to Cris Rose's Rotund's Romp, Cris and Okkle's Happy Joy Bot, Le Merde's Vanfar, Hello, Brute's Danny, Makkinoso's Evil Spike, WeKillYou's William Palerne and pretty much all pieces by Arbito and 2Petalrose. The dotting continued into the night, as fans circled around the display and marveled at the diversity of the medium.

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New Artist Additions to the Resin Collective Show!

Jason from Red Hot Robot announced nine new additions to the already-awesome Resin Collective group show coming April 11th to Phoenix. The “newbies” come from Argentina, Australia, France, Japan and the USA and include: Dave Pressler, Imagination Asylum, KAIOVODO, MackDaddy, Mutant Massacre, Roy Wasson Valle, Spooky Parade, Tan-Ki and Uh Oh Toyworks. Click on the [...]

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Imagination Asylum is a Family Affair

Who said making toys isn’t a family affair? Father-Son Team, Imagination Asylum is hard at work releasing two vinyl toys this year, one of them a 10″ Kaiju.Their latest resin character, The Islanders has just launched. A perfect addition to your tiki-styled living room. Rich Dufresne and his son, Jeremy are working together, but it [...]

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The Cyclops of Dufresne

As revealed over on the Kidrobot forums, Rich Dufresne of Imagination Asylum has recently collaborated with a great and unknown artist to begin work on a neat, cyclopean resin figure that harkens back to the exciting days of Ninja Turtles and Earthworm Jim. That mysterious artist happens to be his son, and his vision rivals [...]

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