ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Space Crab and Buckeye Rot Are Swimming to the Surface Now

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Wheaty Wheat Studios has just posted an update: Space Crab and Buckeye are on the ocean steamer to a store near you! Space Crab by Pixelfillu comes in 4 limited color variants: Green: Limited to 160 pieces Black: Limited to 80 pieces White: Limited to 560 pieces Red: Limited to 304 pieces Each figure comes numbered with [...]

Wheaty Wheat Grand Opening Sale

Friday, October 10, 2008

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Cut out that middleman. Buy your toys directly from Wheaty Wheat. To celebrate their brand spanking new website, which they say is simpler and cleaner, plus their own ecommerce machine via indiemerchstore.com, they are giving a special 15% discount. Yeah, who doesn’t love a sale, right? Their Grand Opening Discount applies to all of their [...]

Wheaty Wheat Projects Update

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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Things have been pretty quiet over at the Wheaty Wheat website with nary an update in a year. But Plastic and Plush reported that this is all due to relocation, new personnel and changes in sales and distribution. The studio will be closed from July 18th to August 11th, but will be checking email [...]

SUPERFAN: Jeff Tucker on Joe Ledbetter collection

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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ToyCyte believes that collectors can often be as enigmatic and interesting as the artists with whom they’re obsessed. Have you ever marveled at a high bidder on eBay and thought “Who IS that?” In this series, I’ll be interviewing some of those people. If we pick you and you share your story, ToyCyte will give [...]

Vinyl Toy Network: more pictures

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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As promised, here are more pictures from Vinyl Toy Network ‘08. This year they had a cool t-shirt with the cute logo. They held several raffles throughout the day, and the second big raffle was officially the most frustrating raffle ever. It seems that a lot of people left without waiting for the raffle. The [...]

Dose Up on Medfed’s Dolly

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Medfed is an imprint that focuses on the relationship between people and medicine. Their figures are “designed to prompt individuals to examine both the origin and extent of their relationship with medicine.” I can get on board with that. Of course, here in the States, many people’s relationship to medicine is fairly nonexistent due to [...]