Thursday, 3. May 2007, 05:06:19
vinyl, unkl, plastic, toy
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For those of you that are familiar with UNKL Brand toys you already know that they are famous for their "po" toys. The Unipos are some of my favorite and people have been waiting for a little while for the release of series 3 and 4. Well the wait is no longer. You can purchase all 8 of the new Unipos at the
UNKL Brand Website. In addition to the 8 new 3 inchers, they have released a couple limited 6" designs as well that are based on one Unipo from series 3 and one from series 4. I recommend picking all of these up if you get the chance as the Unipos look great in person.
Monday, 23. April 2007, 22:57:49
nintendo, games, touma, tech
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In a bit of crossover news it looks like famous Japanese toy designer Touma has a DS game coming out shortly. Gabu Gabu Planet appears to be an adventure game that looks like it follows in line with games like crash bandicoot. 3D side scroller with lots of fruit to grab and stuff to jump over. But the real gem for me is that the characters in the game all hold a nice Touma styling, sharp chompers and all.
Go Nintendo has stated that this release will indeed be coming out in the US, it's just a question of when.
Monday, 23. April 2007, 15:35:56
painkiller, pusher, thomas han, toy
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So one of my current favorite Artists/Toy Designers is Thomas Han. He has a very unique style that deals with a lot of intriquite lines and bright colors. He is most recently well known for his 8" White Heat "Painkiller" Dunny that came out last year from Kid Robot(of course). It looks like Han's newest contribution to the world of designer toys will be his first original sculplt called a Pusher. Apparently these will be available in 4 different designs: Animal, Spirit, Monster and Pirate. According to
Vinyl Pulse there will also be an SDCC(San Diego Comic Con) exclusive design to look forward to. Overall I would say that Han has a winner of a design on his hands and it's definitely one to keep an eye out for.
Friday, 20. April 2007, 15:47:55
vinyl, kaiju.japan, joe ledbetter, toy
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Not exactly new news(a couple weeks old in fact), but I bring this up because today you can actually get your hands on these super limited vinyl works of Japanese art. The SFT exclusives are special limited versions of the already popular Kaiju For Grown Ups series of vinyl by Wonderwall. Each of these colorways were created for the Souvenir From Tokyo Museum Shop located within the National Art Center Museum in Japan. So if you aren't jumping in your seat already trying to find out where you can get them, then without further ado you can pick them up here:
http://shop.tokyocube.com/toys-listings-brand.htm?b=5&t=58 They will be on sale at 18:00 UK Time(an hour and fifteen minutes from the time this was posted) today April 20th. ALl I can say is that if these are your thing and you really want one, then good luck, but you may need more than luck to get your hands on these.
Saturday, 14. April 2007, 08:08:37
jled, toy2r, designer, joe ledbetter
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If you are into toy collecting or are familiar with who is hot in the Los Angeles art scene these days then you know who
Joe Ledbetter(aka JLED) is. Currently Ledbetter is responsible for some of the hottest toys in the designer toy scene with items flying off shelves and limited pieces skyrocketing in price. One of his newest toys, and the newest addition to his line of 8" Toxic Swamp Qees, is the 8" Toxic Swamp Cat in Purple. This Qee is limited to a production of only 300 pieces and is exclusive to
Forbidden Planet. The past offerings in the line of toxic swamp qees have all been great and are great quality like most of the toys that Toy2r puts out. You can currently pre-order this Qee for 34.99(GBP) and it will be delivered July 30th, 2007.
Wednesday, 11. April 2007, 16:27:44
be@rbrick, dunny, toy, collect
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I have been thinking about this long and hard and I have decided that as my interests change and I gadget related news has become slightly stale that I will add a new aspect to my blog. From here on out I will cover Vinyl/Designer Toys in my blog in addition to the tech and gadget related news I have already been covering. To get this started off I will direct you to my Toy Gallery located in the photos tab above. Most of the pictures are items from my collection with a few random pictures as well.
Some of you that read this might be scratching your head thinking, "well these are just toys, what is so special?" Well Designer toys are toys that are generally created by an artist and/or painted by an artist. Many of the toys are "platform toys" which means that its one general toy design that many artists paint or use any variety of mediums to translate into their own work of art. You might be familiar with some of the more famous designer toys out there like Qees from Toy2r, Dunnys from KidRobot or Be@rbricks from Medicom. Beyond the more famous brands there are many small companies or independent people making toys that are completely amazing and deserve recognition(although their sales prove how sought after they are).
To make this transition easier to you the readers I will be adding special icons/tags to distinguish a toy post from a tech post, I will post what these look like very soon.
Update: I have added pictures for the tags to reduce any confusion and to easily identify what the post is about. You will notice in the upper right hand corner there are 2 icons. One icon for posts tagged with the word Toy and pretaining to anything related to designer toys. The other icon is for posts tagged with the word tech and pretaining to anything technology or gadget related.
Thursday, 3. August 2006, 01:19:13
Apple, ipod, music, 1984
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I absolutely had to put something up about this when I saw it, Legos and Apple's 1984 commercial together. PodBrix, makers of custom collectable themed Lego diaramas have gone one step over the edge this time and have done a recreation of Apple's 1984 commercial using Legos and an LED. It's pretty impressive to see one of the most influencial commercials of all time come to life in the form of Legos, I bet if the folks over at Chiat/Day have a tear in their eye right now. If you have an affinity for Apple products much like I do, especially the older years, then I highly recommend checking out the
PodBrix website as they make some incredibly fun products. The 1984 playset is being made in extremely limited quantities, 100 total, and is selling for $198.99. You better act fast if you want one though, they just went on sale as I was writing this and with only 100 available they are expected to go extremely fast.
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