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Giant Smokestack Spotted at SDCC
Sometimes bigger really is better. Spied at the San Diego Comic Con in the stunningly cool Strangeco booth was the epically large Smokestack by Mars1 statue, which clocks in at about three feet. The thing is way too big to be called a toy or a figure, this large piece is an idol to be [...]
Continue reading...San Diego Comic Con – Surviving Day One.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Japanese Kaiju Previews for SDCC 08
Monday, July 21, 2008
ToyTokyo has been cool about giving us slices of their sweet roster of SDCC exclusives, but for a couple of snaps of the kaiju, I had to go straight to the sources. Blobpus delivered on a full photo of the Blobpus DX & Dokugan Dayglo Green Version (above) and Intheyellow supplied a glimpse of the [...]
Continue reading...The Insider’s Guide to San Diego Comic-Con
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Last year 125,000 people attended San Diego Comic-Con. While some were industry professionals and Comic-Con veterans, others were newbies who were completely overwhelmed by the scene. Maybe I’m just speaking for myself. I made all the rookie mistakes last year: waited until the last minute to get a hotel room, didn’t pack snacks, forgot my [...]
Continue reading...San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Part 5
Friday, July 11, 2008
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...STRANGEco x Max Toy Co SDCC 08
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Amidst the fury of SDCC ‘08 teasers from STRANGEco, comes word of a great big dose of kaiju from Max Toy Co. Turns out, STRANGEco will be sharing a booth (#4629) with MTC’s Mark Nagata (who will be there on Friday, July 25th). Check out some of the hand-painted exclusives from Mark Nagata for [...]
Continue reading...tokidoki Goes Platinum for SDCC 08
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The latest news from STRANGEco brings the tokidoki SDCC ‘08 exclusives to oh…a zillion. Just off the top of my head there’s already an 8″ Dunny, a Geisha, a Kaniza Starfish. Now let’s add tokidoki x STRANGEco’s platinum edition Cactus Friends and Cactus Pups and a special edition mono Bulleto (edition of 250). tokidoki fans [...]
Continue reading...San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Part 3
Friday, June 27, 2008
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...STRANGEco SDCC ‘08 Craola and MARS-1
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
STRANGEco has finally given us a visual complement to Greg “Craola” Simkins‘ large-scale original figure hints, which date back to last October in a Fecal Face interview and last January in a Vinyl Pulse interview (both good reads). Greg’s previous releases (a walrus for Upper Playground and the standard and chase Scurvy Nevil for the [...]
Continue reading...Bounty Hunter x James Jarvis King-Kun Gray Colorway for SDCC 08
Monday, June 23, 2008
Oh no they didn’t! Making my job choosing five SDCC ‘08 exclusives each week even that much more difficult is the latest revelation from STRANGEco: a gray Amos Toys edition of the Bounty Hunter x James Jarvis King-Kun collab. A limited number of the standard black King-Kun colorway, which sold out immediately in Japan and [...]
Continue reading...Amos to Publish SDCC’s Wonder Women of America
Monday, May 26, 2008
Wonder Women of America is a book about the girls who visit San Diego Comic Con dressed in costume as their favorite fictional characters. All the images in the book were shot during the July 2007 convention. Spread across the 192 pages, there are 185 shots of more than a hundred characters–with quotes from [...]
Continue reading...Paper Arsenal Hits London
Friday, May 9, 2008
While living in San Francisco may push me towards stricter gun control, the new London exhibit of Paper Wars definitely makes me want the right to bear arms. You may remember the AK-47 we showed you a couple weeks ago from designer Martin Postler. Well now there’s a whole series of destructive armaments [...]
Continue reading...StrangeCo Meets MoMa in Somewhere City
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
East meets west in this continued collab between New York’s Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco’s StrangeCo. Quoting from StrangeCo’s website, Somewhere City’s designer is Croatian-born, Goran Lelas: an accomplished designer whose career spans fashion, illustration, children’s literature, product and costume design. Beginning in the Italian fashion industry, Lelas has developed a signature aesthetic [...]
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