Nerd (Un)Culture
Background “One of Disney’s most enduring love stories, Snow White tells the story of an innocent young princess forced into danger by her jealous Wicked Queen only to find safety and friendship amongst the Seven Dwarves, and the ultimate rescue…
Just yesterday, I was thinking…there aren’t enough plush toys depicting scabs. Kids love scabs! From Purple Flavor – the same folks who gave you the Hello Maggot and Sperm plushies – each Bandage and Scab plush should run around $15….
George and Ayleen from Toy Break welcome guest host Neil Winn for their 69th Episode – entitled Resintastic. Not surprisingly, the episode deals with a number of resin figures…just check out the show notes: Join us for a resin-tastic episode…
A Gary Baseman original – the Pink HotChaChaCha painting – is now available for purchase for the first time ever. This one-of-a-kind painting – created to celebrate the release of the pink HotChaChaCha vinyl toy – is acrylic on wood…
Background The folks at Monster Workshop (aka Stitches and Glue) state that their main goal is to help abandoned and abused monsters find a safe and caring home. They produce handmade plush monsters, usually in runs of about 10 pieces…
Jared Deal and Argonaut Resins revealed their Kanji resin sculpt after teasing us with a montage of glimpses. Look for the joint project between sculptor Eric Nocella Diaz and Deal to be released this April.
Onell Design has posted these two photos to their blog…saying that these custom painted figure with hand cast urethane heads are almost ready. I’m guessing that you’ll have to act quickly on these since they appear to be rather limited.
In addition to the 3″ & 9″ Urban 1 Collection, several one of a kind 9″ Vinylmation creations designed by select artists from the Disney Design Group will be made available at the Art of Disney in the Downtown Disney,…
Following up on the overwhelming success of last year’s art toy show, Vinylmore, Atomic Books has once again asked artists to customize blank, vinyl toys (between 2.5″ and 4″ tall). Vinylmore 2: Tiny Town will open on April 3rd at…
Sideshow is previewing their next 1:6 scale Indiana Jones that will be available for pre-order. The 12″ tall Indiana Jones in German Disguise is just what the fuhrer ordered.
The Scallywogs’ studio is a collaboration between two best friends that fell in love and married some twenty years ago. All started when David’s love of plushies and Susan’s many years of sewing experience came together to create something fun…
Urbanix Gallery is proud to present Zeev Engelmayer’s special Passover solo show: Matza & Tequila. Engelmayer, one of Israel’s most famous Illustrators and comics artists, displays in this exhibition illustrations, collages, and original hand written texts from the “Engelmayer Haggadah”,…
Coming soon from Super7 and Lamour Supreme is the amazing vinyl Mongolion. The shadowy creature known only as Mongolion is stalking nearer and nearer, rumored to be joining the ranks of the endless evil army, the Snakes of Infinity. Escape…
Paul Shih has been secretly working on his first handmade resin toy called Metal Spirit. This character is part of Paul’s (punk and heavy metal inspired) Hollow Threat project. The above image is not the final product, they are still…
David and Sun-Min will be releasing two new Ugly Board books this summer (July 2009). Entitled ABC U Later and 1 2 3 4 U, these (approximately) 20 page long board books will help you (or the child in your…