Lunartik (Matt Jones) is offering up some options to the classic red tongued Big Licker with these 2 new removable tongues: Shock Blue and Mellow Yellow. Limited to an edition of 50 pieces of each colorway, you could grab one of these to replace your current tongue colorway. These are priced at £9.99 each (about $13).
The Sofubi Forest Show in Shanghai China will feature an Exclusive GID Cinematron and Exclusive GID Paca by UHOH Toys. Limited to 10 pieces each, they'll be available on a first come first served basis.
The Sofubi Forest Show runs April 11-12 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena - Diamond Exhibition Room (1200 Shibodadao Pudong District, Shanghai China). The show will features works from Apostle's Toys, Choke Hazrd, Hints and Spices, Science Patrol, SQDBLSTR, Star Case, and UHOH Toys.
Tenacious Toys is releasing another shop exclusive vinyl. The Tenacious Toys Exclusive KMND-Z Water Tower Bird GID Edition will be released on Monday April 8th 2019 at Noon ET. The exclusive glow in the dark variant of the Water Tower Bird vinyl figure is designed by Johnny "KMND-Z" Rodriguez.
Produced by 3DRetro, the 8-inch tall House of Blues Water Tower Bird vinyl art toy features a detailed sculpt and deco that follows the aesthetic of KMND-Z’s original paintings. This color variant features glowing legs and sides of the water tower.
The Tenacious Exclusive GID is limited to just 75 pieces and will run $79.99 each.
Children's author and illustrator T. L. McBeth has produced and released his first resin figure - Apple and Worm: Red Edition. This 6-inch tall hand-painted resin sculpted is a limited edition of 9 pieces (in this colorway). You can currently pick one up for $100.00 plus $15.00 for US shipping (contact Mr. McBeth for international orders).
CryptoKaiju has launched their second batch of Ethereum Powered Vinyl Toys. These Bitcoin-themed collectibles, named Jaiantokoin, uses "tamper resistant NFC tags and is digitally unique. It’s backed by a non fungible ERC-721 token, which is the same token standard used in the highly popular virtual game, CryptoKitties. The token contains metadata which describes certain aspects of the collectible, such as its birth date, gender, colour, a description and two personality traits such as ‘intelligence’ or ‘creativity.’" (I have no idea what any of that means...)
Just 250 pieces of the new physical crypto collectibles will be available worldwide. The 5.5 inch tall collectible is made from high-quality vinyl with injection molded arms and legs for added stability. The color version - Bitcoin or Ethereum -are chosen at random. And you can purchase one for $55.00 (or whatever that is in Ethereum or Bitcoin or whatever crypto currency you're into).
Lunartik has announced his Royal Tea Porcelain Tea Release. This 8-inch tall porcelain version of Matt Jones' Lunartik in a Cup of Tea will be actually made from porcelain, limited to 50 pieces, and come signed and numbered. While no firm price has been set, it'll be around £160 - £200 per cup (in the $200-$250 range). If you're interested in picking one up, contact the artist at matt@lunartik.com.
SPLURRT and Lulubell Toys has announced the Rotten Lime Collection. The signature hot green and black SPLURRT brand colors - with a swirl of milky vinyl tossed in for good measure - have been masterfully blended by Shirahama Seikei for this four figure exclusive release. Four SPLURRT sculpts have been chosen for this run:
Rotten Lime Cadaver Kid
Approximately 4 inches tall
$65.00
Rotten Lime Met Death Golem
Approximately 12 inches tall
$165.00
Rotten Lime Cinema Monster
Approximately 10 inches tall
$140.00
Rotten Lime Usir/Diggler Combo Set
6 inches tall with Usir Head, 4 inches tall with Diggler Head
$65.00
SPLURRT's "Rotten Lime" collection will be available on Saturday, March 9th 2019 at 9AM PT exclusively via lulubelltoys.com.
Tenacious Toys just announced the release of a new exclusive (blue) color variant of the Frank and Monkey resin statue from the Concrete Jungle series. Designed and produced by Steven Cartoccio, the 7-inch tall resin statue features the anthropomorphic Frank, star of the Concrete Jungle animated series, and his pet monkey. This latest release is a blue variant of the Frank statue, produced exclusively for Tenacious Toys. Only 10 pieces were made, and they are signed and numbered.
Frank and Monkey Blue Edition will drop this Thursday, February 28th 2019 at 11AM EST for $80.00 each.
Great Twins has started taking pre-orders for their Twelfth Scale Supreme Action Figure - Terminator 2: Judgement Day – T-1000. There will be two versions available - Standard and Exclusive. Measuring approximately 16cm (6.3 inches), the figure features a hand painted likeness of Robert Patrick as the T-1000 from T2. The Standard Version sells for $100.00, while the Exclusive Version runs $115.00. They are both expected to ship in Q3 of 2019.
The Terminator 2: Judgement Day – T-1000 figure features the following:
Devil's Head Productions will be celebrating Valentine's Day in style...with two new releases taking place on Thursday February 14th 2019.
2019 BE MINE APALALA
At first blush you may think this is the same toy that was released back in 2017...but it's NOT! This neon pink opaque vinyl has a special surprise this year. Not only does the 2019 Be Mine Apalala have orange glass eyes but the whole toy actually glows orange when the lights are out! BOOM! Comes with a matching Jizo-Anarcho OMAKE and a 3 inch diecut Pink Crawlah Apalala sticker as a bonus. Made in Japan. Not intended for children under 14 years old.
$130.00 each
2019 VDAY WOLFPACK
Riding hot off the heels of the DCON Wolfpack, another Shirahama X DHP collaboration runs wild. Soft pink vinyl with pink, red, gold, tan, lavender and dark purple paints. Made in Japan. Not intended for children under 14 years old.
$60.00 each