Steve Scott mmm . . sushi . . .Illustration2013 Let's all go on HolidayIllustration2013 forward! The psychedelic stuffIllustration2013 Vinyl Pulse|Daily News About Designer Toys steve weigl on the Behance Network Rad Toy Review El Grand Chamaco on the Behance Network Discussion Boards • View topic - Calling design submission for trexi series 03! I have received some questions via email and would like to share here. -There is no limit to how many designs you want to submit. You can 1 or 100...hahaha! -You can select any heads you like to design, or you can have your design on all heads, it is all up to you depending on which design is more suitable for which head. -There is no specified theme for the design, you can have free play for the design, but I hope you can make use of the rotating head feature of trexi which will be our main consideration for selecting the design. -If your design are selected, there will be a compensation and it will be announced to you after you have been selected. -Kindly note that this is just a call for design submission and not a contest. -Pls submit your design in Adobe Illustrator (any version will be fine) with a copy of Jpeg. -When you submit your design, pls include your Name, Male/Female and Country. Any further queries, pls feel free to post on the board or email. Thanks. Jacky
Tavo Montañez February 2011 + 5" Happy Labbit Series 1 [kidrobot] Mouth accessories: Popsicle, gas mask, hot dog. Mouth accessories: dynamite, fast food cup, pipe, pacifier. Mouth accessories: carrot, lollipop, corncob pipe, beer bottle. Mouth accessories: mustache, banana, bubble gum bubble, ice cream cone. + 5" Happy Labbit Series 2 [kidrobot] Unopened. Unopened. Unopened. + 5" Happy Holliday Labbit Series (Christmas) [kidrobot] Unopened. + 5" Happy Holliday Labbit Series (Easter) [kidrobot] Mouth accessories: Lollipop, Tulip, smashed ice cream cone, carrot. Tellaeche Hot Toys Classic Predator When Hot Toys was doing the Predator's movie series, they produced Dutch, Billy and Predator. I picked up Dutch but while considering whether to get Predator, I missed out the chance to get it.The only way was to get it at absolutely ridiculously high prices in the secondary market.Luckily in the movie "Predators", the classic Predator made its appearance and Hot Toys produced it together with the other characters in that movie. As I don't have the Hot Toys original Predator as reference, I can't tell how different both Predators were. I can only assume that they are true to the movie they appeared in.For me, this figure will represent the Predator from the first movie. For all those familar with this line's packaging, it has the slip over sleeve with the red acetate window in which you can see the picture from the inner box.The design of the inner box is also very nice. The figure and its accessories are all placed nicely in their plastic trays. Open! Close! Undamaged Damaged...I see you!
cult cartoons « MAN-E-NEWS// The TMNT inspired Battle Beast customs from Ersico… Having acquired a huge selection of vintage Battle Beast mini figures a while back, Ersico has set about working on his latest custom run… this time around inspired by none other than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Featuring a whopping 18 different designs in total, each pays a loving tribute to the central characters from the original Playmates toy line, including obvious choices such as Beebop, Rocksteady and of course the Turtles themselves, alongside the more obscure Ace Duck, Mondo Gecko and Usagi Yojimbo. Priced at a super-cheap $18 a piece, the whole cast will be heading to the Ersico store tonight (10/16) at 9.30pm EST… MAN-E-NEWS// Mishka’s Spongebob Bootleg Kaiju revealed… Mishka‘s Greg Rivera has just revealed the latest version of the extremely popular Bootleg Kaiju will be dropping soon! MAN-E-NEWS// The Neca-style Utrom custom keshi from Plastic Playhouse x Eric Nilla… MAN-E-NEWS// ManOrMonster?
Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys. There is a trend underfoot: designer toys or urban vinyl are becoming mainstream. These aren’t mass produced toys that you’d find in bigbox toy stores, in fact to call them “toys” is a bit misleading: these are pop art sculptures that happen to use toys as canvas. Chances are you’ve seen urban vinyl toys. They are collectible figures and toys, made from vinyl or plastic, designed by both budding artists and famous ones alike. The whole thing got started in the late 1990s when Hong Kong artist Michael Lau created the first urban vinyl figure from an underground comic, which looked like a custom-made GI Joe action figure. After friends raved about the unique toy, one thing led to another and a genre was born. This whole trend is captured by Ivan Vartanian in his new book Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys. … we realized a consistently recurring theme: the act of subversion. But enough readin’, let’s see a couple of examples from the book: From Junko Mizuno and KAWS:
TOYS « H U N T L E Y B L O G [Vimeo 17697153] [Vimeo 16785287] [Vimeo 12892083] SOMEONE CLEARLY HAD ENOUGH TIME ON THEIR HANDS TO CUSTOMISE THESE SHENMUE ACTION FIGURES BY McFARLANE! [Vimeo 8556008] January 27, 2010, 1:27 AM Filed under: DESIGN, TOYS