Designer Toy News and Reviews
STRANGEco debuted several of the hottest new vinyl figures at San Diego Comic Con. Their SDCC exclusive grayscale Luey figure set (by Bob Dob) was a personal favorite. And the upcoming Vivisect Playset is going to include some of the…
The ToyQube booth was displaying a number of prototypes from the company (mainly, works by Keith Poon). They were selling Kaniza blanks, however, the actual line was only being displayed in prototype form. They also had a number of his…
Strangekiss partnered up with Rocket World, and the design styling of Patrick Ma, to present this SDCC Strangekiss exclusive edition – Pandji. It’s limited to just 100 pieces – with many of them sold at Comic Con – and sports…
Comic Con was the first time that Tonner displayed their new Jack Sparrow Tonner Character Figure from the Pirates of the Caribbean license. Although they did not have her on display, the Elizabeth Swann figure is also in production. The…
The Pu Pu Bros booth was stocked full of merchandise from Bwana Spoons, Le Merde, Martin Ontiveros and Justin Scrappers Morrison. Bwana had a new pair of shoes from Deckline (He was selling them…I’m not commenting on his personal footwear)…
If you stopped by the Munky King booth, you had a chance to get something signed by Luke Chueh, Thomas Han or Amanda Visell (among others) as well as seeing their prototypes and/or new pieces. The following pieces were on…
Super7 had a number of San Diego Comic Con exclusives on display (and available) at their booth. Usually, their booth can be downright overwhelming…so many colorful kaiju displayed in their glass display case as well as the larger pieces on…
Atomic Monkey LTD introduced a few new character at Comic Con. The Igor and Count Monkula resin figures have joined the 3″ tall Franken Monkey cold-cast resin statuette. The company also had a couple of sculpts for possible upcoming Atomic…
Erick Scarecrow’s Soopa Coin-Up Bros. was revealed at the DKE Toys booth at Comic Con. The blank DIY vinyl will be approximately 7″ in height and hopefully drop in the 4th quarter of ’08. It’s modeled after the “handheld” arcade…
Sideshow Collectibles really got the ball rolling by showing off a few of their upcoming 1/6 scale Star Wars figures: Bespin Luke Skywalker and Padme Amidala – Ilum (the winner of the Extended Universe poll). Also displayed from the Star…
If you’ve been to San Diego Comic Con, you know where to find the Toy Tokyo booth…they’re always right along that left hand wall. The NYC based toy store had a number of exclusive figures for sale, and unfortunately for…
UNKL was showing off their new Wilco UniPo Set at Comic Con. The six piece set depicts all of the members of the Alt.Country band. Collectors also got a chance to pick up the SDCC Exclusive HazMaPo as well as…