Nerd (Un)Culture
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…
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…
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…
Onell Design released the above photo of the newest head design for their upcoming Buildman figure. This one is fashioned like a visor (similar to Master Chief) and should work well with customs.
Random House has revealed the title of the third Ugly Guide from David and Sun-Min. The Ugly Guide to Being Alive and Staying That Way is slated to be released in January 2009. The book will be 64 pages (the…
Bigshot Toyworks has announced that the Neighborwood blank wooden D.I.Y. figure is currently shipping. The figure was created by Mike Burnett, and based on many of his own wood creations. I’m sure there will be some custom shows using this…
Upper Deck has released photos of the all new Sidney Crosby All Star Vinyl sculpt. Crosby II will feature the Penguins forward posed in his signature slap shot. The piece will be released in four colorways: 2007-08 Home and Road…
Strangekiss has revealed the wax model of David Lanham’s Zog vinyl figure. It should be ready to go by SDCC this July…and we can’t wait! They’ve also revealed the artwork for the limited edition colorway designed by Frank Kozik. This…
Tonner’s 2008 Dreamscapes Convention will be taking place from May 16th through the 18th in Lombard, Illinois. However, if you won’t be making it out to the event, you’ll be able to follow it through their convention blog. They’ll have…
Background Onell Design has released several new Pheyden and Exellis colorway designs from their Glyos System series. Among the characters that we’ll be looking at are the Eclipse Pheyden, Cosmic Wave Pheyden and Andromeda Pheyden (all pictured above). We’ll also…
The Go Hero continues to release teaser images of their 1/6 scale Buck Rogers figure. This week, it’s his jet pack. The little LEDs should make it appear like flames if you’re in the dark.
The OUIP[wip] Project is a platform toy from the Korean delitoys label. Delitoys is supposedly short for “Delicatessen of interesting toys” and/or “Delicious Toys”. Either way, the first teaser image of their platform toy is posted above. The concept behind…