ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Coast to Coast With Shawnimals on the Ninjatown Tour

Just like following the Dead only 10X cooler, ToyCyte’s Jeremy and Saki caught up with the Shawnimals gang in San Francisco and New York. Shawn Smith, Jennifer Brody and game developers, Venan, hit up Double Punch, Rotofugi and My Plastic Heart to pre-acquaint fans of Shawn’s plush toys with the upcoming Ninjatown game for the [...]

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Pay a Visit to Ninjatown!

It’s finally time to pay a visit to Ninjatown! But if you live in San Francisco, Chicago or New York, you don’t have to actually go to Ninjatown, ‘cos Ninjatown will be coming to you. The Ninjatown Sneak Peak Tour is hitting those towns to celebrate the upcoming release of the Nintendo DS game based [...]

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BEYOND TOYS: Joe Ledbetter Gelaskins

Introducing a new ToyCyte feature: BEYOND TOYS. In this series, we’ll explore the outer reaches of the designer toy lifestyle. We’ll actually (shudder) go beyond toys to bring you some of the must-haves from your favorite artists. If platform-style designer toys are but a template on which the chosen few can wield their paintbrushes and [...]

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