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Collin and I wrote up a bunch of guides to cheekily target certain types of holiday shoppers. The “season of giving” may now be over, but here are quick links to Gift Guides for Bunny Lovers, Stargazers, Toy Fashionistas, Steampunks, The Recently Dead, Kaiju Kids and People Who Love Cephalopods. You never know when you’re [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 22, 2008
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Although it’s not yet Easter, bunny lovers can indulge this holiday season with one of a ton of bunny figures. The rabbit is perhaps the most popular animal to spawn designer toys. From Dunnys to Bunees, it was hard to choose just ten for this list. Carrot Shake Jake - $32. Gary Ham’s first vinyl figure [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Sun Ra had it right when he told the world that ’space is the place’. We’ll be fleeing our rapidly-decaying planet soon enough, so here’s a mess of traveling companions to keep you sane among the myriad stars. Mars-1 Observer from Strangeco – $35 to $50. No space-based collection is complete without the transparent-domed creature called [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
Savvy designers know that the toy collecting scene is not just a simple sausage fest. Here are eleven items that are designed with the ladies in mind. Each piece was created by an artist who also makes toys. In several cases, the accessory includes a limited edition figure. Metal For Monsters – $81. Cool artists like [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
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Most guys would rather get toys than clothes for the holidays, but how about when the lines between the two are blurred? Over the past year, more toy designers have been venturing into the field of fashion. Thanks to their fluidity, it’s now easier for you to wear your love for toys on your sleeve [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
If you find yourself wishing that you lived in a fictionalized Victorian era, reprogramming your iPod to run on coal, or giving bronze accents to your autogyro, you might be a steampunk. Boids from 2petalrose – $18. If strange, faceless robot birds are your thing, the assemble-able Boids are for you. Cris Rose’s Runcibles – $50 to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
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So, you’re dead. While your new state of non-being should have severed all ties to earthly desires, loves and possessions, you just can’t shake your love of toys. Unfortunately, you couldn’t take them with you to your new residence in the underworld, and the place is lookin’ kinda drab. These toys are all completely sympathetic [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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Kaiju toys for kids of all ages (at prices that won't incur the wrath of Hedorah)...Everyone loves a Lucky Cat, and RxH has taken him to a new level! Their Mini Fortune Kid is a cycloptic version of the traditional Fortune Cat, and addictively cool. And the colors! Oh, the colors...
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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There’s no use in denying the tenacular awesomeness of the many-tentacled invertebrates of our great oceans, and personally, I’m just waiting for US legislation that will allow me to marry one. So, until I have eight arms to hold me, I suggest the following toys for anyone who might be living the same wet, fevered [...]
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Monday, January 5, 2009
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