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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It being a week until that Hallmark of holidays, Valentine's Day, we got together with Sideshow Collectibles and decided depending on how things go, some of our readers might need a magic pill. According to Urban Dictionary, Black Beauties induce mild to moderate euphoria, and we're hoping to pass that on to one lucky reader. The 8-inch Black Beauty edition of Medfed's Dolly is a Sideshow exclusive, limited to just 84 pieces. To get your prescription, make up a pill you wish existed and leave it as a comment below.
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
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Like most sane people, I hate going to the grocery store. I’ve found the trick to surviving many unpleasant (yet innocuous) situations is bringing a toy along. Toys can transform almost any orange alert into a yellow. Plus, if you’ve been roped into going somewhere with a partner or spouse, it’s kind of a good [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Imagine my surprise when I went for a stroll down to the Berkeley Marina and found myself escorted by a pair of Pixelfillu’s Space Crabs. These figures are even more awesome in real life than pictures and words can convey (but I tried). The sculpt is a cool shape, the arms are articulated and have [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
Tomatoes : the violent malcontents of the produce world. All this time I was suspecting the plantains. Wheaty Wheat seeks to expose the true nature of these dangerous creatures with this third colorway of Buckeye Rot that really demonstrates his true nature : black and radioactive. The 6″ vinyl figure follows up on the original red [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
Believe me, blogging about toys all day long, I know from cabin fever. Following their move across the country, Wheaty Wheat is now discounting select products by up to 40%. The deal on Christopher’s Lee’s Mellow figure is pretty phenomenol for 8 inches of vinyl. Check out what else is on sale, and say hi [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 16, 2009
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We’ve been anticipating Wheaty Wheat’s newest toys since July. Finally, Wheaty Wheat Studios have all four colorways of Pixelfillu’s Space Crabs in stock online. All versions are $59.99, except for the white colorway, which is $49.99. Prices just updated per WW’s clearance sale! Each item breaks down to edition size as follows: Green: Limited to 160 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
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Friday, February 6, 2009
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