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Celebrate History With an Exclusive Black Abraham Obama Bust by Ron English

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

History was made last night, and many people the world over woke up this morning proud of America for the first time in eight years. MINDstyle and Ron English would like to commemorate this momentous occasion with the vinyl fusion of two “skinny presidents from Illinois:” Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. As blogged yesterday, [...]

ART + ACTION = Obama 08 Custom Toy Show TONIGHT!

Friday, October 17, 2008

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The 2008 US Presidential Election will be a historic and groundbreaking event. While the race and gender of the candidates is unprecedented, so is the huge outpouring of art. The latter can be seen tonight in NYC at ToyTokyo's The Showroom where Jailbreak Toys presents an evening of customized Barack Obama action figures by Brin Berliner, Damion Silver, Bigfoot, Denise Despirito, Leecifer, kaNO, Brent Nolasco, Matt Hawkins, Brian Colin, Dionysus Cho, Erick Scarecrow Jeaux Janovsky and more. Regardless of how you lean politically, a show of this nature has never before been attempted. All figures will be for sale with proceeds going to fund the Campaign for Change. You can look back at all the coverage of ART + ACTION = Obama 08 here, or scroll down for our exclusive pictorial. ToyCyte's NYC correspondent will be bringing us coverage of the show, so stay tuned. Tonight's event begins at 7PM EST. There's a rumor that Amber, the Obama Girl, may make an appearance. Wish I could be there.

Kill Audio Pre-Release Party at Toy Tokyo

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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Kill Audio Pre-Release Party at Toy Tokyo

You may have checked out the Kill Audio vinyl figure when it made the New York Comic Con and San Diego Comic Con scenes, but in case your didn’t, now is your chance to score your very own version of one of these blood splattered toys. The piece was developed by Claudio Sanchez of the [...]

StrangeCo tokidoki Fever at SDCC

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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tokidoki fever ravished the San Diego Comic Con, and it was h-o-t. Not only was the tokidoki booth one of the more crowded and popular spots in the toy ghetto, (I dreaded having to fight myself through the masses on this aisle) but the tokidoki releases at StrangeCo, Kidrobot and ToyTokyo also dispersed the Simone [...]

The Residents Figure by Toy Tokyo

Monday, July 28, 2008

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First off, I should let you know, I hate the Residents. There isn’t much music that I can equate with nails on achalk board, but this band makes my skin crawl. Perhaps you are a Residents fan? Well, I’m sorry. But your band sucks. I should also mention that the love of my life, the [...]

ToyTokyo Exclusives Latest Updates

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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I’m really digging the diversity of the ToyTokyo (Booth #5237) SDCC ‘08 exclusives and this is the third installment of exclusives [tagged]. Barack and Buff? tokidoki and Daniel Johnston? Kaiju and Plush? It’s an inspired mix and ToyTokyo continues to release images of the exclusives. Here’s an update to the previous posts with new photos [...]

ToyTokyo SDCC 08 Exclusives Updated

Monday, July 14, 2008

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I’m really digging the diversity of the ToyTokyo (Booth #5237) SDCC ‘08 exclusives; a couple of which made this week’s ToyCyte SDCC ‘08 Weekly Roundup. Barack and Buff? tokidoki and Daniel Johnston? Kaiju and Plush? It’s an inspired mix and ToyTokyo continues to release images of the exclusives. Here’s an update to the previous post [...]

ToyTokyo SDCC 08 Exclusives

Monday, July 7, 2008

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I’m really digging the diversity of the ToyTokyo (Booth #5237) SDCC ‘08 exclusives; a couple of which made this week’s ToyCyte SDCC ‘08 Weekly Roundup. Here’s what is planned so far: SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON DEBUTS Barack Obama Action Figure in White Suit (200 pieces) Mark Bode’’s “Bode Broad” L.A. Version Ron English MC Supersized “Glitter Version” Nathan Jurevicius Peleda SDCC [...]

Barack Obama: An Action Figure We Can Believe In

Friday, July 4, 2008

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Sure, I’d like to think that my little “Playing With Politics” series [tagged] and Obama poster coverage [tagged] has gotten some toy fans thinking about the importance of the upcoming presidential election. But try as I might, nothing penetrates the hearts and minds of toy collecting voters quite like an action figure of presidential candidate, [...]