Nerd (Un)Culture
Background If you’re a fan of designer toys, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen the Rolitoboy figure from French designer Rolito. He teamed up with Toy2R to produce a number of the normal (6” tall) and mini (2.5” tall)…
The sixth figure in Jamungo’s BUD of the Month is the Glowflage Abomb, designed by Ferg. This piece will be available during New York Comic Con (April 18th) at the MyPlasticHeart booth (#866).
Urban Warfair has announced a few new projects that they’ve been working on. They’re showing off the first clay prototypes for the up and coming 4″ mini skully. This new vinyl toy will be the first of many from Urban…
Background Growing up, Uglydoll creators Sun-Min and David were big fans of tokusatsu (special effects) television shows. These programs often featured kaiju characters. Now, they want to honor those memories with a line of Japanese kaiju figures. With the Uglydoll…
Gary Taxali and Chump Toys have two new vinyl figures for sale – OH NO and OH OH. Each retails at $60 or $80 <--if you want it signed. The figures stand at 6 1/2" tall and their legs are...
Sideshow Collectibles with be distributing the Medicom Toy produced Lost line of Real Action Heroes. The first character from the ABC show is Jack Shephard (played by Matthew Fox). It’s a pretty good likeness of him during the opening crash…
The launch of JamFactory and Crazy Label’s vinyl toy – Droplet – will take place at Go Go Plastic! in The Custard Factory (Birmingham). If you attend you’ll be able to get your hands on Droplet before anyone else in…
The MG2 Mexico from Marka27 follows up on the success of MG1 Brazil with an all-new head sculpt and a working speaker. MG2 is even bigger at 17″ (versus 15″ for MG1) and has been improved with an external AC…
Sideshow Collectibles will be distributing the Horton the Elephant vinyl from Super Rad Toys. Direct from the upcoming feature film based on the Dr. Seuss short story of the same name – Horton Hears A Who! – the 9″ tall…
Erick Scarecrow sent us photos of the first figure from ESC-Toy’s Old Skool Kaiju series. The first design is called Dizign. This one is the “Ultra Dizign” colorway, and is limited to 350 pieces worldwide. It will retail for $69.99…
We found the above image of the exclusive Sleepy-Time Dookie-Poo at the NY Comic Con site. You’ll want to check out the Chaotic Unicorn Booth (#2354) for the glow-in-the-dark vinyl. There will be only 200 figures and each will run…
Mezco Toyz has announced that they will be teaming up with Toys”R”Us to offer two exclusive figures from their NBC television series Heroes line: Fire Rescue Claire (Hayden Panettiere) and Times Square Teleportation Hiro (Masi Oka). Fire-Rescue Claire features the…
This little green Devil not only steals the halos from Angels but he sucks their pure, rich, red blood too. His lust for innocence and evil is unrivaled in Heaven and Hell and you’ll find his angelic appearance beguiling, but…
Background Plaseebo Custom recently released the second edition of their Night Gamer rotocast vinyl figure. The glow-in-the-dark piece was co-designed and sculpted by Bill Hand and Bob Conge. And as with all of the Plaseebo characters, they have a rather…
Max Toy Company has teamed up with Portland based artist Martin Ontiveros to produce his interpretation of the classic kaiju character – Booska. The piece is officially licensed by Tsuburaya Productions and sculpted by Kiyoka Ikeda of Tokyo-based toy company…