alien space cadet by john mccormack x devil head's productions Obie the sock-lurvin' ALIEN SPACE CADET is finally slated for touchdown on both Earth and toy-stores! Created & designed by John McCormack [interviewed] and produced by Devil's Head Productions (maker of The Saddest Devil) - the Orange-colorway Cadet measures a whopping 11 inches tall (including sock) - comes individually clamshelled and boxed (4 wide x 9 ½ wide x 11 tall). Distributed by DKE space-poo and dookie stripes for dookiepoo-paperjam contest (dateline: aug 30) The DOOKIE-POO PAPERJAM CONTEST is screeching rapidly to the finishing deadline now tonight @ 11:59pm (approx 9 hours from time of this post actually) and we have here a couple of sweet papertoy-dios for everyone's download pleasure (CLICK on images to be directed to the contest-blog for PDF-download links) to play with your Dookie-Poo vinyl figure - featuring Kim Jacobsen's moon-hopping ogorki plush from kaiju bento a new wacky plush dubbed OGORKI from Kaijubento (creator of Wagamo) is distributed by DKE Toys - this pickle-hunting little whacked-out looking bunny measures 7.5" x 7" and retails for US$25-per. adfunture's suitman vinyl figure adFunture has just released their SUITMAN Vinyl Figure - featuring the vinylization of Artist Young Kim, aka SUITMAN's black-suited 2D classic character-creation [sneak-peeked earlier]. With articulated ball-joint shoulders, and turnable legs - the 28.5cm / 11.2 inches tall SUITMAN is now available online here for US$60-per. Do note that this Suitman vinyl figure is only made when Young Kim has about joe ledbetter x nike de mexico posters WHAT IS: Joe Ledbetter x Nike de Mexico 3 Poster Set - featuring: Muertos, Toro, y Chupacabra = 4-color process on paper (approx. size: 15.5" x 23.25") at US$50-per set of 3, all signed by JoeLed. Many a nights, I'd actually not dared to sleep, literally becoz loadsa things happen at night (circa Singapore time) as the rest of the Western world awakes and goes about their daily tasks, which hello, brute's my little arpie (aug 30) Hello, Brute's MY LITTLE ARPIE [blogged] will be made available for your purchasing pleasure online on August 30th @ 3pm west coast time (6pm eastern). Standing 3.5 inches tall, hand-cast in polyurethane resin and hand-painted, My Little Arpie is Jon Knox's first mini figure. Limited to an edition of 10-pcs @ US$35-per - the figure comes signed and numbered, bagged with header card. (Shipping dynomight nyc: bumrush custom show @ the showroom nyc (sept 6) DynoMightNYC gave thirty artists a blank version of BUMRUSH [PEEP] to create their own version of everyone's favorite limited edition monster [tagged] - slated for a group customs-show @ The Showroom NYC on September 6th (One Night Only). And for your Bumrush-customizing needs, DynomightNYC will be releasing the DIY-version of Bumrush on the day of the show itself, with limited supplies (less gaston caba's underwear collection by blablabra Now, we've had urban-designer themed / inspired tees, and fashion accessories like bags and jewelry, but not very often undergarments, innit? Well, Argentina-based Gastòn Caba is here to fulfill that niche with Hong Kong-based underwear brand Blablabra releasing a collection of his MUSHROOM in tasteful (and cute) women's intimates and accessories. Currently available via a list of Hong this one's for the children of sichuan charity auction on liveauctioneers.com (ending aug 31) And so the MINDstyle-organized THIS ONE'S FOR THE CHILDREN OF SICHUAN charity auction is currently underway, featuring an insane variety of toys (including original paint masters, artist proofs and production pieces) and artwork listed for your bidding pleasure/s, from an equally astounding list of creators. In total, 29-items are made available, with bids ending August 31st, 2008. Clicketh this city deserves a better class of criminal - and hot toys is gonna give it to ya! movie masterpiece 1/6 joker (bank robber version) Further to my earlier post (featuring "live" figure display pics) about the impending 1/6th-scale JOKER (BANK ROBBER) from Hot Toys' Movie Masterpiece line (the second Joker figure to be released / FIRST) - Blister.jp has it listed @ SRP of 22,000YEN (US$202 / SGD$286) - which happens to be quite a difference compared to the earlier blogged HK$920 (US$118 / SGD$167 / based on the Hong Kong the phantom plush preview from jon schiller Jon Schiller drops word+pics of the 2nd plushed character from his villain C-FORCE (Little Spot was the first previewed) = The PHANTOM! Standing 17-inches tall, The Phantom will make a special appearance @ the SF1988 Gallery in October (including Little Spot) and will be for sale limited only at SFG1988. phu!'s rebel pilots for october launch Readers of my blog may remember PHU!'s original and self-produced toy P77 a while's back? (circa 2007) Well, they came and went in a blink of an eye - and now here's a scooper headsup about his next toy; dubbed REBEL PILOTS - scheduled for an October launch! [FYI: notice them 2-inch duders seen in a host of PHU!'s custom pieces, as pilots?] *stay tuned for further updates * details, yo!* deep powder bramble mk2 teaser by ashley wood x 3a toys Teased on the Bambablog is this ad-image with a snowflake-icon (below-left) and a "hidden" (darkened) text that reads: "release A: DEEP POWDER BRAMBLE MK2" = and if that doesn't mean an snow / artic colorway 1/6th-scaled Bramble, I don't know what does! LOL (and if this be true) Deep Powder MK2 would be the 3rd Bramble to come from creator Ashley Wood x 3A Toys - after the MERC and EURO DIV martin x by james jarvis & amos toys for silas' 10th anniversary To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the brand SILAS, James Jarvis updates his MARTIN figure (released circa 1998 / first toy with Silas!) with Amos Toys' YOD body-form - for a Silas & Maria exclusive - dubbed MARTIN X! Standing 25cm tall (x-inches) - MARTIN X comes in Grey and Orange wth a SRP of 6,300YEN. Quantity is undetermined at this time - and as for the release date, Silas mentions: " seven is back: 1/6 brothersworker figure from kennyswork Previously teased (altho I did guessed wrongly :p), and now on pre-order status for a mid-September release (order via: info@kennyswork.com) - with a SRP of HK$1080 (US$138 / SGD$196) - Kenny Wong of Kennyswork rocks the impending (re)-release of SEVEN from the Brothersworker series - with this round featuring a brand new Hot Toys lean-n-mean "True Type 1/6-scaled articulated body (tattooed, ' about that w-sized runaway brain mickey mouse from medicom toy ...gimme my crack-cheese.. gimme gimme! W-Size MICKEY MOUSE (RUNAWAY BRAIN)-stats: - www - Length = 300mm / 12-inches - February 2009-release. - SRP of 18,900YEN (US$173 / SGD$245) - "W-Size" is an upsized release from it's regular figure/toy. alien & warrior alien: vinyl collectible dolls by medicom toy Medicom Toy lets loose a double-dose of Aliens in the form of Vinyl Collectible Doll - aka VCDs - with the ALIEN (above) and WARRIOR ALIEN (below). Both figures stand 22cm / 8.6-inches tall and are scheduled for a November-release @ 8,190YEN-per (US$75 / SGD$106) With prototype-production by Motor Ken and packaging design by H8GRAPHiX - the Alien [www] figure has a very cool clear skull-" 1/6 young indiana jones by medicom toy (with river phoenix likeness) First off, do lemme me gush-on, for this has to be one of the more exceptional headsculpts I've seen from Medicom Toy - of a real-life-character, in a while, IMHO. (And the molded hair looks cool too!) The late River Phoenix as Young Indiana Jones in the flashback sequences in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" [wiki] - hauntingly shines with it's likeness, altho the huge yellow-scarf is a tad 1/6 mark-2 iron man by hot toys C'mon, you knew this was coming (and for some, it had been a fond toy-wish, I reckon) - first Hot Toys does the MARK-3 signature gold x red colored-armor [PEEP] and of coz, you MUST have the all-chrome / silver-colored MARK-2 IRON MAN armor, innit? No doubt complete with the same frills (ie: illuminated eye-slits, repulsor-palm/s and Arc-light chest) ... but this time, the Mark-2 face-plate 1/6 bank robber joker by hot toys The Hot Toys x Dark Knight 1/6th-scaled articulated action figure onslaught [tagged] shows absolutely no sign of slowing down - what with a brand "new" 1/6-version of Heath Ledger's Joker dubbed: BANK ROBBER JOKER! (altho thank gawd they didn't go for the Joker-in-Nurse outfit, innit? heh) - featuring what I reckon would be cooler-looking headsculpts than the earlier version, IMHO - and of coz umbrella academy pvc toys by dark horse Further to my earlier feature of the upcoming UMBRELLA ACADEMY toy seen @ SDCC, illustrator Gabriel Bá has posted a sweet video on his myspace-blog [via MikeyWayOnline] of the PVC-figurines, showing their scale, and maaaaan, do I want a set of them pronto! LOL Gabriel blogs: "Every kid likes toys. Some of these kids like characters so much they grow up to become storytellers who will create more iron man marvel 3age figure (metallic color) by asunaro Scheduled for a late-September release is an adorable-ish 3age IRON MAN (Metallic Color Version) soft-vinyl figure from Asunaro - standing 16 cm tall (approx 6.3 inches) featuring a classic red+yellow comicbook Iron Man-armor - released in tandem with the Robert Downey Jr-starring live-action feature film's premiere in Japan, in September 2008 (wow - are they in for a treat!) Blister.jp has it chaos monkey by bunka x artoyz originals for september launch Seems French-artist Bunka's upcoming CHAOS MONKEY [tagged] toy-monkey is slated for a September 11th debut @ Artoyz Paris (currently no further details other than the date, I'm sorry :p) Produced by Artoyz Originals and standing between 14-15cm tall - the Chaos Monkey is developed from Bunka's various 2-D artwork and hyper-graphics (most recently in his collabo with Niark1 in their We Are Chaos brambles, zombies vs robots and popbots Ashley Wood updates the Bambablog with a rapid-round of WWR-news - starting with Bramble: There will be 3 variations of 1:6 scaled BRAMBLE MK2 [tagged] - with each limited to 200-pcs per - so far we've seen the MERC (above-left) and EURO DIV (above-center) editions / colorways. The 3rd variant is yet to be revealed. There has been speculation of prices for these 14-incher tall behemoth csbooth 15.5 on august 30th A message from Crazysmiles: "Due to uncertain weather situation with the typhoon, CSbooth 15.5 will be postponed to August 30 (Saturday). We apologize for any inconvenience caused." (FYI: previous date was 23rd August) The black+white jersey colorway (dubbed: TWOTHREE / 23) is the second batch of Jordons from the initial red+black jersey - shown above-pic-right (via Tomm's blog) and they sure maxx moody-custom by phu! Phu! hits another one out of the park with MAXX = his 8" custom-Moody for Lift's upcoming exhibition Mooood Swings in Detroit. The Maxx space pod comes with a 2" Rebel Pilot. Peepeth his blog for more pics. (keep rawkin' it bro!) elements prologue set by artoyz originals Created by the young artist EASY HEY from Delkographik Collective Studio and rendered by GREGOS, ELEMENTS are characters based on the following hypothesis: according to some ancient Greeks philosophers, all matter in the world is comprised of 4 elements: water, air, earth and fire. ELEMENTS PROLOGUE SET [tagged] is the first of an on-going series of ELEMENTS toys. Each figure is approx. 3" tall the giver of disease: gangrene edition by andrew bell Andrew Bell's GIVER OF WAR had just gone online @ https://www.deadzebra.com/shop/ [blogged] and now DKE Toys has just dropped notice of the availability of The GIVER OF DISEASE: GANGRENE Edition. Limited to 300-pcs with a SRP of US$60-per - the 5.5-incher tall Giver of Disease has posable arms, head and wings, and includes a Soup Dumpling of Doom accessory mini figure. Go bug your fav noop show by coarsetoys @ rotofugi (sept 12) and introducing noop! NOOP SHOW is an upcoming gallery show by creator Mark Landwehr of Coarsetoys @ Rotofugi Gallery, Chicago - on September 12th, featuring art and toys, as well as their newest shark-headed creation: noop! noop show by coarsetoys Friday, September 12, 2008 (6-9pm) Exhibit continues through October 5 Rotofugi Designer Toy Store & Gallery 1953 W. Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 (cheers for the go hero announces new license for 1/6 flash gordon Go Hero announces their new license for Larry “Buster” Crabbe as FLASH GORDON! From the classic 1936 sci-fi movie serials comes Go Hero's 1/6th-scaled adaptation of Flash Gordon - featuring die-cast accessories like Zarkov's Mini Rocket, Sword w/ Sheath and Raygun Pistol, and a ATOM Body within a tailored-uniform. "Explore the strange world of Mongo! Protect the beautiful Dale Arden! Save the