Nerd (Un)Culture
Tristan Eaton, of Thunderdog Studios, has teamed up with ESPN to create a limited-edition, re-imagining of the ultimate X Games athlete. Transformed by gamma radiation from mere mortal action sports competitor to a highly evolved super-athlete with perfectly honed skills,…
Background The online retailer uRabbit has introduced their first designer vinyl piece – Icy Bunny. The piece is a collaboration with artist Husky Kevin, and will probably have you dreaming of soft-serve ice cream for the next week or so….
Day 4 has started before Day 3 has ended?!?! Yep. Two contests for the price of none. Congrats to Amy from Arizona for winning Day 2’s IWG Latura. We have teamed up with Strangekiss to give away one toy a…
Sideshow Collectibles will be distributing Medicom Toys’ Peanuts line of Vinyl Collectible Dolls. The Pig Pen VCD stands in around 8″ in height and features everyone’s favorite dirty little kid dressed up in his overalls. Look for the piece to…
Background Erick Scarecrow and his ESC-Toy label decided to drop a surprise figure on the designer toy scene shortly before NY Comic Con. While there are often long buildups to the release of figures, nothing really leaked out about the…
We barely got Day 3 in on time…woo! Congrats to Svetlana from Italy for winning the Harriet Carney vinyl. We’ll announce the Day 2 winner tomorrow. We have teamed up with Strangekiss to give away one toy a day in…
ARTDENKA, a Japan based design team, is releasing their new vinyl toy – SKULLBOX. This dangerous creature from hell has 7 movable joints and a blank face on the back for customization. Every SKULLBOX is packed in the HELLBOX with…
Gabe Rose of Parlez Fashion Brand (website should be launched shortly) has introduced a new PVC figure named Cursed Soldier. Limited to a run of 50 pieces, the figure will be painted in a greyscale color pattern…”like the figure walked…
Jon Schiller, the creator of Little 9 and Friends, not only had a booth at the Vinyl Toy Network show (Sunday May 4th in Pasadena, CA) but he also snapped some photos of the happenings at the event. O…and I…
Well, the contest on Day 1 is now completed…so we move on to Day 2 of our Toy a Day Contest. We have teamed up with Strangekiss to give away one toy a day in May. Today’s toy is the…
Sideshow Collectibles has announced that they will be distributing Medicom Toys’ Astronaut Snoopy Vinyl Collectible Doll (VCD). The figure is just over 5″ tall and features everyone’s favorite beagle dressed up in his space gear. Look for the piece to…
The Perk Pioneers, designed by Shanghai design duo – PERK, are produced by adFunture. You should soon see the 3.5″ tall figures roll into shops near you (or into online stores). Personally, I’m a little creeped out by them. They…
Max Toy Co. has collaborated with Kaiju artist Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez, who has hand painted only 10 Kaiju Eyezons. By far the most limited Eyezon to be offered, Carlos has used very expensive paints that contain special glitter and ingredients…
Over the next several days…or weeks…or rest of May…we’ll be teaming up with online retailer (and future vinyl toy producer) Strangekiss to give away one toy a day. Today’s toy is Harriet Carney from Carnival Cartoons. Here are the rules:…
Hi-Fructose magazine is pleased to announce their upcoming Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Box Set. The set will reprint a “best of” selection from the first four hard to find volumes of Hi-Fructose in one hard cover 250 page edition. The book…