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Designer Eduardo Escobar Beckwith – a.k.a. el Escobas – will be presenting his new Molote art toy on Saturday October 3rd at the Munky King LA. The figure is inspired by wrestlers of the Lucha Libre Mexicana (Roots and Culture)….
The folks at MONSTREHERO are presenting the first edition of their newest sculpt – DUMPSTERBOT. The figure is cast in crystal clear resin, and includes a bag full of painted and unpainted DUMPSTERMONSTRES. The figure features articulated ball-jointed arms and…
Designer Mariska Vos-Bolman has announced a new character has been added to the Fluffels collection. Tumsy is a cute bunny. She loves flowers. Laying in the sun looking at bright yellow flowers makes her very happy. The character is also…
The Heretic Pixies “are a motley assortment of characters displaced from their natural habitats and forced to take up residence in our urban sprawl…fantasy/mythical characters forced to live on the streets, in the dark places where no one looks.” Each…
Tokyocube has unveiled a series of special hand-crafted custom art toys from Bufagin. The group consists of 8 Blobpus figures (plus 16 pieces of original artwork), all meticulously reworked by Japanese artist Masayoshi Hanawa over the course of 2-3 months….
Based on the web comic series by Ray Friesen, the Pirate Penguin & Ninja Chicken plush toys should soon be available at your favorite designer toy shop. The Pirate Penguin comes complete with eye patch, fear inspiring hat, cloth hook…
Ryan Chapman and Gruff House have released the newest Golden Delicious characters in blue and green. Each 5.5″ tall handmade figure comes with an 80’s mobile phone (err…Zack Morris?) and oversize clock necklace. These one of a kind resin pieces…
A few weeks back, we showed you several illustrations that Lana Moffett created of the main characters from the HBO show – Flight of the Conchords. Well, she’s finished up sewing all of the handmade plushies. Check ’em out! Now,…
Check out Nathan Hamill’s newest posted art piece – Angel Pony. Verrrrry trippy. I’m not sure if this will make it’s way to toy land, but I could stare at it for hours…while eating Doritos.
Matt Hawkins has released It’s Only a Paper Moon papercraft toy featuring his Comic Monkey character. The 18″x24″ 3 color screen print on chip board is a limited edition of 200 pieces ($20). The signed piece is now in Matt’s…
Los Angeles artist Van Arno joins Corey Helford Gallery for his solo show entitled “A Change of Skin”. Larger and more ambitious than before, “A Change of Skin” marks a new direction for the artist as Arno introduces multiple characters…
Tenacious Toys and NEMO (NYC-based sculptor Mike Mendez) have teamed up for a new custom exhibition – The Rollie Show. That’s right! They’re using those 99-cent Avon roll-on deodorant bottles (specifically the version pictured above) as a custom platform. Makes…
YouTube user fireflameuk has posted a video detailing the arrival of a special friend…a special monster. Straight from Monster Workshop to your doorstep. While we do wish these guys really moved around like that…it’s just stop motion animation.
Meredith from Corporate Pig has posted up 20 of her handmade polymer clay My Guys up on ebay. If you’ve never seen these, they’re very cool one-of-a-kind sculpey figures. Each one starts out at $20 and the auctions end today…
Illustrator/game artist Shelly Rodriguez is currently taking pre-orders (through October 16th) for her upcoming Ika plush. “Ika is a happy, cuddly squid who likes to live with happy people.” The 6.5″ tall by 5.5″ wide plush has embroidered eyes and…