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Just like the phenomenon of Fatima customization I posted about yesterday, Yoskay Yamamoto’s Koibito is also ripe for custom fodder. At first, it seems a curious piece for a custom, but then much like Motorbot’s CrappyCat customs, anything is possible with art toys. Even my girlfriend, who isn’t normally inclined toward vinyl, referred to Leecifer’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
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A new red and white colorway of Yoskay Yamamoto’s Koibito is now up for pre-order at Munky King. The 7-inch vinyl figure is limited to 1000 pieces for $80 each. A ship date of late March is anticipated. There have been numerous production and custom colorways of Koibito that have, without fail, sold out. Place [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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I just returned from LA, but I already want to go back. Munky King is doing a formal release of Koibito by Yoskay Yamamoto on Thursday, December 11th from 7-11PM. Yoskay will be signing, with special custom pieces available. In fact, there will be an added special surprise for a small number of customers first [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
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Something fishy is about to go down at Munky King. But don’t worry: it won’t be a smelly affair. It’s a party to celebrate the official release of the very much anticipated Koibito figure by Yoskay Yamamoto. Being released with be the Gold Koibito in a limited edition of 500, and a special Munky King Exclusive edition of 150, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 29, 2008
I first saw this on Yoskay Yamamoto’s blog. Wired Magazine has a nice gallery of 10 Things You Should have Bought at Comic-Con. Their picks include some of my favorites like these Rocket World’s IWG Zipper Pulls and Yamamoto’s Koibito. (I give credit to the the commenter who corrected the mis-spelling of Koibito.) Most of their [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 28, 2008
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Signings here and signings there, signings were just about everywhere at the San Diego Comic Con. In my haste to try to squeeze in as much as I could on my daily rehashes of all things SDCC, I neglected to post a couple of photos I snapped of some hot sketch and autograph action [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Yoskay Yamamoto is one of the artists on my must-see list. To promote his Koibito toy, he created these limited edition gocco prints. In case you didn’t know: “gocco” is a self-contained compact color printing system that is popular in Japan. I didn’t know that either; I had to wiki it. Each hand-painted print is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 21, 2008
Yoskay Yamamoto posted an update on his Koibito: Black. The San Diego Comic-Con exclusive will be available at Munky King’s booth (#4539). The figure is 7″ tall and is a limited edition of 150. The figure itself is lovely, and the packaging looks beautiful. I’m guessing that he was involved in designing the box because [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 23, 2008
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I saw this picture of the all-black Koibito on the Project: Gallery blog. In case you’re not keeping track, this is the fourth colorway of Yoskay Yamamoto’s walking koi. To summarize, here are the four editions that we’ve seen: Project: Gallery: white and silver Standard: red and white Munky King: black and gold San Diego Comic-Con: I’m guessing [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 20, 2008
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Every year, fanboys and fangirls of varying stripes descend on San Diego for Comic-Con. Although the event has extensive programming, there’s one activity that unites the collectors with the cosplayers, the MMP gamers with the manga readers, the superheroes with the steampunks: the pursuit of SDCC’s exclusive toys. ToyCyte will be publishing a weekly bulletin of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Yeah, like you needed yet another reason to jet out to Southern California for the San Diego Comic Con. Well, if you have already decided to descend onto the oh so crazy scene that is SDCC, here is a trio of items to add to your “must buy” list. Los Angeles toy store, gallery and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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The annual Culver City Art Walk took place this past Saturday. Project: Gallery had a special group show called “insider trading” which featured their gallery represented artists. If you missed the show, the images will be online on June 3rd. Yoskay Yamamoto presented his painting “Kirin” (above left) at the show. This has been a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Yoskay Yamamoto posted an update on his upcoming Koibito toy. The left colorway is the Project:Gallery edition he did for his solo show. The middle is the standard colorway, and the right is described as the Munky King edition. The release date still hasn’t been arranged, but he said it will be available “around this [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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Yoskay Yamamoto opened his first solo show, the upside of down, at Project:Gallery in Los Angeles. He unveiled the prototypes for Koibito, his upcoming toy from Munky King. The left is the project colorway, and the right will be the standard colorway (courtesy of his blog). Koibito is based on one of his original paintings. [...]
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
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