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New Toy2R Potamus Figures
Are Smorkin’ Potami the new Labbits? Toy2r announced another set of colorways (including a couple Jamba Juice-sounding hues) for the 2.5-inch PoTaMus figures by Frank Kozik: Black Anarchy, Jungle Green, Orange Smoothe, Very Berry, Greyscale, Wermacht, Red Army, D-Day and of course, the mysery figures that are often the crowning achievements of a Toy2R release. [...]
Continue reading...Frank Kozik’s New Flocked, Pink and GID Dr. Bomb
Monday, September 8, 2008
Frank Kozik's Dr. Bomb returns with his trademark one tusk, one cig style. This series has had some colorways as killer as a pachyderm surgeon smoking near a bomb. The new ones are: Pink Murder Bomb, Hairy (FLOCKED!!!) Bomb with Red Eyes and GID Murder Bomb.
Continue reading...MCA MegaBox Qee and Customs
Monday, September 8, 2008
MCA is back from a whirlwind event at MegaBox in Hong Kong. The show saw the painting of 90 customs over a period of two days, the release of Simian Nation and an exclusive limited edition MegaBoxee Qee. Customers with MegaBox purchases of HK$800 or more (with two printed receipts) are eligible for either a [...]
Continue reading...Toy2R x Target Qee
Monday, September 8, 2008
Whether you like corporations or not, you have to acknowledge that Target (or should I say, tar-JAY?) is much cooler than its closest competition. From Devo to Domo, Target is courting a hipper shopping contingent. Sunny shops there for orange soda and I am partial to their Top Wire stenobooks. People seem divided on the [...]
Continue reading...Nada One x Toy2R Kid666 Figure
Friday, September 5, 2008
Toy2R has branched out of the Qee mold to bring on this sick, slick original Kid666 figure from Nada”One. The 10-inch figure has articulation at the horns, hands and sneakers. Kid666 is limited to just 500 pieces worldwide with a release date expected to be around the holidays. But if you want one right [...]
Continue reading...Alice Cherry Blossom Qee Collection
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Hide all your fancy schmancy sow this Fall because the new Alice Cherry Blossom Qee figures that you are just going to have to possess will undoubtedly devour it all in a second flat, just to get the strength to retain their awesome cuteness. Artist Charles Stephan of said Alice Cherry Blossom fame and Elfdoll will [...]
Continue reading...MCA x Toy2R Simian Nation
Thursday, August 28, 2008
A couple of us were recently musing on the Toy2R forums that Toy2R should put out more books. Message received. Toy2R is releasing this Artist Collection Book 01 starring MCA of Evil Design. The full-color soft cover book is 96 pages. It’s being printed in an edition of 1000 and will be available in September [...]
Continue reading...Barcelona Qee by Pepa Reverter
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
From designer Pepa Reverter and Toy2r comes this unique set of three Qee expressing the love and passion of Barcelona, Spain. Pepa speaks several languages and works in many media, including: painting, sculpture, photography, design, video production, illustration. She says: “We live n a high-speed, ever-changing present, in which more things are happening all the [...]
Continue reading...Kozik 8″ Qee: Nightfighter Versions
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Taipei Toy Festival was months ago, but the exclusives are still out there. Not too long ago, I got my hands on Frank Kozik’s GID Anarchy Potamus. Vinyl Fallout announced that they have two Kozik exclusives from TTF: 8″ Qee Fritz Bear Nighfighter Version and 8″ Qee Ivan Cat Nightfighter Version. Each 8″ Qee was [...]
Continue reading...MCA x Toy2R Show in Hong Kong
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Good news for MCA and Qee fans in the Hong Kong area. He’ll be doing a show with Toy2R at the end of August. He’s doing up a 60-inch Elder Ape Qee (above right) in a red and yellow colorway for the event. There’s also a 36-inch Elder Ape (above left). I always dig [...]
Continue reading...LUISAVIAROMA Qee Series
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Since 1930, Florence Italy’s LUISAVIAROMA has been a premier retailer focused on serving the unique needs of the luxury market. Their clean and modern website features clothing, shoes and accessories from the latest runway collections of the most important fashion designers. I’m not all that hip to fashion, but even I can recognize names like [...]
Continue reading...New Qee-Wear T-Shirts From Toy2R Style Collection
Friday, August 8, 2008
In a world of mini-figure saturation, Toy2R continues to kill it with cool artist Qee figures, charity auctions and sweet apparel. This post concerns the last item: a series of new T-shirts for the Qee Style Collection. In the past, the Tee2R store had some issues, so I can only hope they are resolved [...]
Continue reading...Toy2R’s Bart Simpson Customized Qee Auction for Red Cross
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Now back from a globe-trotting exhibition, The wait is over. Toy2R has unveiled most of the 10-inch Bart Simpson Qee customs on the Toy2R forums. But if you’ve got ADD, anticipatory anxiety, high blood pressure, something in the oven or a slow Internet connection, you’ll feel like you’re still waiting (for the pages to load; [...]
Continue reading...Molly Qee Series 2 from Toy2r
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Hot on the tails of the Mollympics series, Toy2r follows up its successful Molly Qee series 1 with this brand new Molly Qee series 2. This time, Kennyswork has created six new designs, all based around the theme of music. The Molly Qee series is sold blind-boxed with trademark oversize crowns. Related posts Toy2R Qee Forums Now [...]
Continue reading...Qee DIY Value Packs Simplify Customization
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Toy2r is killing it with their DIY ranges and innovation right now. News of the day is that they’ve now re-engineered an 8-inch DIY Qee from the inside out. Lots of customizers have struggled with toys they wished would come down with a quick and temporary case of leprosy (see Removing Heads and Arms Without [...]
Continue reading...2.5-inch DIY Qee Assortments
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I’ve been eagerly anticipating these 2.5-inch DIY Qee since April. All the basic shapes are represented: BearBearQ, KitCatQ, DoGgQ, ToyerQ BunneeQ, MonQ and PiggeQ. The standard DIY figure is white, but packed among the blind-boxes (each case has 30 figures) are clear, G.I.D. and “a few rare variants that you gotta find to believe.” Also [...]
Continue reading...San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Part 4
Friday, July 4, 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. Related posts San Diego Comic-Con Exclusives Part 1 Gama-Go Yeti [...]
Continue reading...Paris Tout P’tits Commemorative Qees
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Remember the Paris Tout P’tits x Colette x Toy2r Charity Auction? Toy2r got such an outstanding reaction to this event that they’re releasing commemorative Qees. There will be a 2.5-inch regular Qee and a 1.5-inch zipper-pull, both featuring the Paris Tout P’tits branding (on front of Qee and back of zipper-pull). Artists involved in the [...]
Continue reading...Gama-Go Yeti and 30-inch Wood Deathbot at SDCC 08
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The SDCC ‘08 news keeps coming, and this time it’s two from Gama-Go. First up, the eagerly-awaited 2.5-inch Gama-Go mascot x Toy2r Yeti Qee. Maybe it’s because he’s a Yeti, but somehow he seems bigger than a 2.5-inch Qee. You can see a sample of the Yeti at the Diamond Booth at SDCC ‘08. [...]
Continue reading...Toy2r Presents New Baby Qee Series
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Toy2r has six new 3.5-inch Baby Qees coming down the pipes. The most exciting development is a new sculpt, which, just like Ganesh, has an elephant head. Now for the bad news. I RARELY have any criticism for Toy2r. Their Qee platform was my gateway toy into this genre, they give to charity, [...]
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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