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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San Diego Comic Con – Surviving Day One.

First I should let you know that I actually don’t care much for humanity. I prefer to be surrounded by legions of plastic and vinyl then people. So I enter the whole Comic Con experience with a mixture of anticipation (for the toys) and dread (for the humans). But as we know, not all homo [...]

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Shawnimals Handmade Pocket Dollop

There sure is a lot of shit in the designer toy community, literally. There’s Frank Kozik’s Sho-Plops. There’s Manny Galan’s Dookie-Poo. Now, Shawn Smith drops a deuce with the release of his handmade Pocket Dollop. This plush measures about 4″ wide and comes with a small hang tag with its name and story. The [...]

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Hot shawnimals action! An interview with Shawn Smith

Shawn Smith is one busy, busy man. When he isn’t creating Shawnimal greatness with his wife and business partner Jennifer Brody, he’s been busy creating a Ninjatown game for Nintendo DS (due out probably in October 2008), partnering with Squibbles Ink on the recently debuted Plushform DIY Plush and pretty much just taking over the [...]

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