Nerd (Un)Culture
In the Triangle area of North Carolina? Well…you’ll want to swing by Carrboro’s Carr Mill Mall and Wootini on September 8th (from 7pm to 12am) That’s when the opening reception of Ron Liberti & Doug Barker’s gallery show will take…
myplasticheart, the popular online urban vinyl and designer toy store announces the acquisition of veteran online designer toy shop Sweatyfrog.com. myplasticheart will leverage the existing capabilities and extensive knowledgebase of Sweatyfrog to form one of the most comprehensive online shops…
AdFunture will be releasing 30 customized pieces of their proto-type version of G-Robot. The figure has been designed by the Taiwanese design crew – Djebala. It will make its debut on September 2nd during opening night of the 768squad Exhibition…
August 23, 2006 – September 10, 2006 At Gallery LELE Daikanyama, Tokyo Red Magic have collaborated with more than 30 artists around the world. They are known as one of the biggest artist toy project teams, creating figures with unique…
The ever interesting Heatherette has designed a new series of Heatherette-Bots. Kidrobot will be releasing these figures on August 24th. The series features: The Radiant Sun: Richie Rich The Powerful Moon: Travor Rains The Shining Star: Amanda Lepore The Lucky…
The 8″ Artist Collection MCA Qee (including a 2.5″ MCA Mon Qee) will be released this fall. Toy2R is currently accepting pre-orders for the figure. It will be limited to 500 pieces and sell for $80 apiece.
Background Undoboy’s first venture into the designer toy world is the Super Bastard line of paper toys. The line was inspired by old ‘mix and match’ books he would peruse through as a youth. The toys do their best to…
Crazy Label is selling some unique products through their online shop. If you are a fan of Treeson, you can actually pick up a blank, DIY Treeson figure. They also have a few Tamo figures for sale. These figures have…
The Happy Tree Friends are cute, cuddly animals whose daily adventures always end up going horribly wrong. No matter how innocently their day begins, it always ends in mayhem. And Play Imaginative has brought them to life as Trexis. The…
Background Kaching Brand and Mizna Wada (Mizna Lens) are fairly new to the designer toy scene…but they have both come out “punching”. Mizna has designed 2 figures for Kaching – Hachoo Boxing Style Monkey and Lollipop Girl. They were both…
If you missed picking up the Indrid Cold Mothman from davidhorvath.com, well, you missed out. They sold out in 30 minutes. Which, ironically, is the length of time it takes me to watch Golden Girls on Lifetime. Maybe if I…
Itokin Park has produced another amazing handmade figure – Kawadoji. The creator of some of the most insane handmade creations, Itokin Park has assembled another killer design. Future Plastik will be getting 3 colorways of the figure (not to exceed…
You can check out the Gama-Go Pop Up Shop at San Francisco’s Double Punch shop starting on August 19th. Here are some previews of Tim Biskup pieces that you’ll be able to see…and possibly purchase. In order of pictures: Glow-in-the-Dark…
Edition of 50 pieces. No artists proofs. Made in Japan Goes on sale Wednesday August 16th on davidhorvath.com 11am Pacific time. $100 shipped At 11am Pacific time, instructions will be posted on the davidhorvath.com front page. The sale will be…
Attaboy has put his Fuzzy on the Outside Flocked Axtrx figure up for pre-order through his Yumfactory site. You might be used to seeing a green Axtrx, but the pink and black flocked rotocast toys are limited to 250 pieces…