ToyCyte sale!
We've slashed our prices for a lot of our toys to make room for more customs! Go get some amazing deals today at our store !
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Just a quick reminder: Alex Pardee will be signing the eagerly-awaited Walrus Rider (beautiful black and green edition) at San Francisco’s Upper Playground tomorrow between 12-2PM. Pre-ordering the figure from UP is recommended. If the $110 vinyl toy is out of your price range, Alex says to come on down anyway and say hi. He’ll [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 8, 2009
Awesome. Completely awesome. Sometimes things just have a way of working themselves out if you wait patiently. Like how LOST will resolve all my questions eventually. Or how Alex Pardee and Upper Playground went and made a perfect black and green colorway of the Walrus Rider, and I didn’t even have to tell them that [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 3, 2009
Upper Playground is giving away an Alex Pardee painting, “The Trap.” The painting is signed by Alex and at 6 feet by 4 feet, it is almost as tall (and with way more personality) as that NBA tool they had on last night’s episode of The Millionaire Matchmaker. You, too, can feel like a baller [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 26, 2009
We’ve been eagerly awaiting a picture of the finalized Alex Pardee Walrus Rider since Upper Playground sent us some proto-pics. Stores are starting to drop photos to gauge interest in the piece. I don’t like pink and I don’t like teal, but I LOVE this figure. This will be one of a couple colorways, so [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
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In honor of their tenth anniversary, UP's first ever "thank you" sale begins today. The sale is good for 50% off on everything in stock at their retail stores and website. With shirts, hoodies, hats, socks, books, toys and housewares by Sam Flores, Jeremy Fish, Estevan Oriol, David Choe and Alex Pardee, there's never a better time to stretch your dollar. We're talking mugs for $6, shirts for $12, New Era caps for $22.50 and hoodies for $30.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
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In the back of our heads, we've been biding our time and waiting for a toy. Sure, there's been some plush and a platform Dunny and Gwin, but what we really wanted was to see some of Alex's original characters leap into the third dimension of vinyl. Thanks to Upper Playground, we're going to get it.
Continue reading...Thursday, December 18, 2008
Upper Playground keeps knocking it out of the park with their array of housewares and lifestyle goods. Even in an economy where art toys can seem gratuitous, it’s harder to deny the practical application of a shirt, pillow or drinking mug. On that last note, UP has released their new glassware collection, including a stein, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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Upper Playground always has these great free catalogs in their shops that are cut more like paperback novels than anything Lillian Vernon. I’ve been saving them because it’s handy to have the artist bios/statements and view each designer’s range and watch how they (and the company) have evolved. To commemorate its upcoming 10-Year Anniversary, Upper [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
Upper Playground and superFishal have done it again. First there was the Barbary Coast line of upscale duds and gear, and now here’s the ultimate in big-eared lowbrow toy-based toppers. It would be an understatement to say the there has never been a New Era as awesome as Jeremy Fish’s Bunny Head. There’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 24, 2008
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This is the month of mad shirts from Alex Pardee. If you have some sort of opposition to entering your local mall to procure his new Night of the Treeple x Hurley line at Macy’s, he’s got your back (chest and shoulders) with more tees of terror that you can get at your local Upper [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 23, 2008
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I’m loving the new line of Sam Flores/12 Grain t-shirts for Upper Playground. There’s something for everyone. No matter where you fall on the hipster/anti-hip spectrum, Sam Flores should have an archetype you can relate to. I’m really digging the couple listening to records. There’s also a baller, a lowrider and an Indian with the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
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During the week of October 20th, Upper Playground will be running a daily Obama print contest featuring limited edition, signed and numbered prints by Morning Breath, Alex Pardee, Munk One, Justin Bua, David Choe and Sam Flores from their sold-out Obama Print Series. Every day from October 20th through 25th, they will open a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
I was just wearing my Upper Playground Bunny Busters (Jeremy Fish’s Bunny Skull x Ghost Busters) t-shirt to an event yesterday, and my girlfriend teased me about my wardrobe seeming to consist solely of black shirts with cartoon critters on them. Well, thanks to Upper Playground and Superfishal, I can continue to sport the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 25, 2008
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In between the Atlanta and Boston stops on the Ignite What’s Next Tour, Alex Pardee posted some pics on his blog. You could probably alternately title the tour: The Triple D tour (for Drinking, Drawing and Depravity). Looks like total fun, and damn could I use a Sparks right now after getting up early to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 19, 2008
Upper Playground just dropped their exclusive orange edition of N8 Van Dyke’s Pay Day. The 5.5-inch figure sculpted by Eli Livingston comes with a glock, a bag of loot, sneakers and a walrus mask (in honor of Upper Playground’s mascot). Unlike the brown, grey and G.I.D. versions of Pay Day, the UP orange edition’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 12, 2008
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I’ve been covering all of the awesome Upper Playground x Barack Obama prints, which each retailed for $200 and sold out faster than Joe Lieberman. Well get ready to wear your politics and drop a zero off the pricetag, because if you missed out on the prints, they’re back as shirts. Upper Playground and Digital [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 28, 2008
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Remember Jeremy Fish’s Barry the Beaver? Lisa from Upper Playground just sent me this video shot on location with Jeremy Fish at Good Vibrations in San Francisco. How awesome and awkward is it when two women comment to Jeremy that they’ll think of him when they’re using the vibrator? You can still get a Barry [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Sparks, Upper Playground, and Juxtapoz are getting together this fall with a follow up to last year’s inaugural Ignite What’s Next Art Tour. Three different events will showcase live painting by three of the top artists from the world of contemporary art: Sam Flores, Alex Pardee and N8 Van Dyke. Each event will also include [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Previously featured in this post about Manifest Hope, David Choe’s inspired Obama prints are now up for grabs. But get ‘em fast. These prints sell out faster than a Barack Obama fundraiser in San Francisco. Fine artist David Choe is the latest artist to partner with Upper Playground to produce not one, but TWO Barack [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 15, 2008
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Dang, I got swamped and snoozed on reporting this by a couple days and it’s already gone. The latest Barack Obama art print for Upper Playground by Swiss graphic artist and current Brooklyn resident Grotesk has sold out. In the last decade Grotesk has developed a passion for folk art, street photography, hand-painted signs, vintage [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 24, 2008
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San Francisco’s Upper Playground, Ningyoushi and Double Punch have collaborated with illustrator N8 Van Dyke on Pay Day, a simian stick-up artist. The 5.5-inch figure comes with a glock, a bag of loot, sneakers and a walrus mask (in honor of Upper Playground’s mascot). N8’s work has appeared in diverse forms from the pages [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Today marks the release of the new David Choe Adidas Originals sneaker from Upper Playground. This Stan Smith shoe is the second sneaker in the four-part series, which also includes kicks from Herbert Baglione, Sam Flores, and Aesop Rock. A new sneaker will be released each Thursday. Each pair will retail for $150.00. Los Angeles native [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Today marks the release of the new Herbert Baglione Adidas Originals sneaker from Upper Playground. This is the first sneaker in the four-part series, which also includes Sam Flores, David Choe and Aesop Rock. A new sneaker will be released each Thursday. Each pair will retail for $150.00. Hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil, acclaimed fine artist [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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Sam Flores has dropped a San Francisco-style New Era 59FIFTY cap at Upper Playground. The 59FIFTY fitted cap requires 22 steps to make it perfect. Finishing touches like the taping, labelling and symbolic New Era flag on the left-wear side makes this a premium way to get hathead. The caps are available at Upper Playground [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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There’s only room for a certain amount of favored toys on my desk. While some of the mini-figures rotate (Qees, Dunnys, a Trexi or Fatcap here and there), a Kaws NYC bus stop and Jeremy Fish’s Get Small Series Bunnyskull (above right) are a part of the permanent tabletop collection. The bus stop is [...]
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