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Ron English via Popaganda will be releasing a special Pink Colorway of his Smack Crack & Pot vinyl figure. The piece will be available beginning on Monday February 27th 2017. The latest cereal killer will be limited to a run of 100 pieces and sell for $80.00 each.
Toy Art Gallery has released a limited factory-painted edition of Candie Bolton’s Oh My! Yokai: Night Parade – The Fox Force 5 edition. These 2-inch tall gachas are hand-painted with silver, blue, black and green on bright red soft vinyl. You can pick up the set – including Kitsura, Tanuki, Kawauso, Bakekujira, and Tengu – beginning today for $75.00.
Joe Whiteford has teamed up with Zectron again and taken vinyl bloodlust to an all new level with this micro-run of Blood Bats. Inspired by the endless winter and a thirst for warmth, each painstakingly hand-painted monster bat is beautifully unique. Each piece comes with an embroidered BLOOD BATS New Era Snapback (shown below) created exclusively for this release and a killer glow-in-the-dark bat head enamel pin made by Undeadequiped.
These 10 inch vinyl monsters were originally designed and sculpted by Zectron using the Brandt Peters Skelve head as inspiration and produced in the highest quality vinyl by Unbox Industries.
“This ethereal portrait of Amy the fuel of Strangekiss has been captured in soft paint etches from the bristles of the brush. The depth of the blue eyes in this work can tell tales.”
Strangekiss is releasing this limited edition run of the above pictured Amy print by artist Jeremiah Ketner. The limited edition of 10 signed artist proofs goes on sale today (February 24th 2017) at Noon PT. The 11-inch by 14-inch print will run $119.95, with 100% of the proceeds going to cancer research for Small Cell Neuroendocrine Cancer – to the NecTur program at M.D. Anderson, the only program trying to help this rare cancer
Funko is introducing new characters to its Rick and Morty Pop! vinyl figure collection. In addition to Rick, the troubled scientist, and his kind-hearted grandson, Morty, fans can now collect Weaponized Rick, Weaponized Morty, Mr. Meeseeks, Mr. Poopy Butthole, Bird Person, Squanchy, and Snowball.
Dark Horse and CD PROJEKT RED have announced three new figures from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The new The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt figures consist of Geralt of Rivia, Dandelion, and Shani. Geralt is ready for battle in Grandmaster Ursine armor, providing him immense protection from melee attacks. The bard Dandelion is Geralt’s close friend. Shani, Geralt’s friend and love interest, is the medic from Hearts of Stone expansion to The Witcher 3.
From Planet 3 Toys comes Bōzu “精霊 Seirei Edition”. Bōzu stands at approx. 3.5 inches tall and is cast in SuperClear sofubi. Each one comes with a handmade stamped tag. They’re produced in Japan by Grody Shogun/Lulubell Toys.
Seirei or “精霊” means “Spirit” in Japanese. The figure will be available beginning on Saturday, February 25th 2017 at 10AM PT from Lulubell for $30.00 plus shipping.
Castbreeder has introduced a new art toy designed by Andy Kurovets. W.A.Y.N. is a hand-sculpted, hand-cast, and airbrush painted resin figure that measures 3.94 inches x 3.14 inches x 2.76 inches. W.A.Y.N. is limited to a run of 50 pieces. Sales start on April 15th 2017. The figure will run $65.00 (includes shipping).
Tru:Tek and Rich Page of UME Toys have joined forces to form Submission Toy to collaborate on a number of sofubi and keshi-related projects. They’ll have a large number of figures available beginning on Friday February 24th 2017 at 6PM ET.
Funko has announced their new Rick and Morty Mystery Minis series. This blind bag collection includes all of your favorite characters from the popular series on Adult Swim. You’ll be able to collect all 12 of the stylized characters for the ultimate mini Rick and Morty collection.
Buzzard Guts and DAMarx Toys has released their latest bootleg resin art series. It’s a Star Wars/Marvel mash-up that uses Kenner’s 1977 protocol droids as a base for popular Marvel characters. These 3.75-inch tall resin figures are hand cast and hand painted by DAM and mounted on a sturdy 6-inch x 9-inch cardback with illustrations by Ryan Winn (one of the creators of Valiant comics). Each card features a homage to classic Marvel comic covers by Jack Kirby, Bob Layton and Todd McFarlane.
There are 4 figures in the set – The Cybot Avengers features C3-PO as Iron Man and the Captain, while RA-7(death star droid) mutates into Hulk and Spidey.
On Friday February 24th 2017 at 2:30PM ET, the Skelevex Defaced Series 3 will be released over at www.dmsdesignertoys.com. This collaborative Skelevex Die Orama custom series features the Birmingham UK graffiti writer known as Hoakser. Measuring in at 3 inches long, the handmade polyurethane resin cast Skelevex feature the hand-painted graffiti style designs of Hoakser.
The Artpin Collection has announced a few art pins that they’ve added to their collection. First up, there’s Vampyramid by Portland artist Martin Ontiveros. The 1.5-inch hard enamel pin on a card is released in a limited edition of 125 pieces.
Secondly, there’s Arianhrod from internationally acclaimed Scarygirl creator artist Nathan Jurevicius. The 1.25-inch hard enamel pin on a card, available in two colors. Each one is released in a limited edition of 75 pieces.
Michael Stills and Strangekiss are back. And their first original release is Unknown by Jon Paul Kaiser. Yes…this resin art toy is purchased blindly. You can sort of tell what it looks like from the drawings and you likely know JPK’s style. This limited edition run of 15 pieces will begin shipping in 6 to 8 weeks. The approximately 4-inch tall figure sells for $159.95.
Scott Kinnebrew – a.k.a. The Forces of Dorkness – has created this John Wick Chapter 2 – The Pencil as a tribute to an amazing action-movie franchise. It’s a real pencil, coated is resin for durability, and custom painted to look like it has entered someone’s skull and then been retracted. Each one is hand made so there is some variation between each so no two are alike.
