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Background The Gwin is a curious creature based on Tux (the Linux mascot), created by Larry Ewing & The GIMP. Gwins spend most of their time eating, sleeping, and hoarding treasure. They often form “armies” to protect their amassed riches….
Rocket World is accepting pre-orders for their first Creature Hoodie (partially pictured above) through November 15th. You’ll need to wear this fleece outerwear to be officially accepted as a human member of the Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo. There’s only 444 available…
We saw the design drawings for the new series of Trexis – PLUS Series 2 – from TOUMA and Joe Ledbetter…but here are the actual figures. They might be prototypes, but it gives you the feel of what the new…
Fugitive Toys has a number of new products in stock. You want to know what they are? Look below. • El Panda Classico (RARE) • El Panda Imperial (RARE) • El Panda Original • Tequila Original • Cactus Friends Polpettina…
With Halloween quickly approaching, Carnival Cartoons has decided to celebrate the season of ghosts, goblins, and all things geeky and freaky, by commissioning a handful of uber talented tattoo artists to take a stab at giving “Buzz Carney – The…
I came across a pretty cool site for collectors (of anything) to come together to show off photos of their collections – big or small. At Squirl, you can show off toys, your shoe horn stash or maybe that pile…
Wheaty Wheat is getting close to releasing the first 2 characters in Chris Lee’s Urbanites series. Mellow and Cleabus will be the first vinyl figures released from the line…and will be Lee’s first original figures available. Mellow – The Gentle…
The first character in the new mimobot Star Wars series (from mimoco) is Darth Vader (now up for pre-order). It’s available in 1, 2 and 4 GB storage sizes and will be preloaded with Star Wars mimobot contest. The Vader…
Sket One’s SketBots are now available from Kidrobot. 3DRetro is carrying them for $5.95 each. With the success of Dalek’s Icebots…these are sure to be popular as well. Like several of Kidrobot’s products…they have inserted golden tickets in random blind…
Toy2R is releasing another set of Choco and Minty figures (designed by David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim). This time, they will be an exclusive Artoyz European market colorway – Green Choco and Red-Pink Minty. They should be released in November…just…
PLUS trexi Series 02 (TOUMA + Joe Ledbetter) Play Imaginative is back with their second round of PLUS trexi sets. PLUS trexi series 01 saw the formidable combination of Tokidoki + Devilrobots. And PLUS trexi series 02 promises to be…
If you didn’t get to San Diego over the summer…you missed out on a very impressive Kaching Brand display. Possibly the most impressive figure was the 1/6th scale Bruce Lee (from Game of Death) sculpted by Arnie Kim. The figure…
Strangekiss.com has decided to give away a whole bunch of toys and artwork in celebration of launching their website. If you haven’t checked it out, you’ll find some amazing work from artists who should be household names. You’ll need to…
What’s there to say? The guys from Friends With You are going to be extremely busy this winter. They’ll be traveling the globe…and maybe stopping at a place near you.
BABY HELLHOUND PLUSH Play Imaginative is releasing its first Designer Plush toy (with Vinyl parts) – Baby Hellhound, designed by the great TOUMA from Japan. It looks like this might be one of the best plush figures of the year….