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Background Rocket USA recently released Series 4 of Gus Fink’s popular Boogily Heads line of hand sculpted bobble head figures. The lineup consists of six new characters: Charlie Black, Giggle, Qually, Phant, Twinks and Gus Fink. There have been a…
Background You probably remember Rocket USA’s Lubies line of softball sized plush animals. Between Series 1 and Series 2, they’ve decided to release a special character…the Flamingo. Yes, everyone’s favorite tacky lawn ornament (right alongside the gnomes or the bent…
Rocket USA sent us some turnaround shots of their upcoming Nibbler plush. The approximately 9.5″ tall Futurama character should hit shelves in September 2009. While the plush you see here is still waiting Fox’s final approval, you get the idea….
Yesterday, we began our review of the Lubies Series 1 plush line from Rocket USA. With twelve adorable plushies available in this initial series, we’ll be taking a look at the other six characters and give you our overall opinion…
Background The newest – and one of the cutest – plush lines from Rocket USA designer Michael Perry and Joy Michel (the designer behind the Beanie Babies) is the softball shaped Lubies. “Lubies are a break-through line of plush combining…
Background With the impending release of the Boogily Heads Series 4 from Rocket USA and artist Gus Fink, we have decided to take a look at some of the variant Boogilys. These variant colorways come packaged randomly. In each of…
The Rocket USA had a number of new Gus Fink designed products on display. The special red colorway of the Charlie Black Boogily Head was a NYCC exclusive. And the Boogily Head Series 4 was being shown off. Those as…
Background Joy Michel (the former VP of Creative for Ty Inc. and the designer on nine of their plush lines including Beanie Babies) and Rocket USA designer and founder, Michael Perry, have teamed up under the Dakota Designs label to…
Joy Michel (former VP of Creative for Ty Inc. and designer on 9 of their plush lines including Beanie Babies) and Rocket USA designer and founder, Michael Perry, have teamed up to release a truly huggable plush line – Lubies….
Background Rocket USA has yet again teamed up with artist Gus Fink to release a line of plush characters. The Puff Dogs are six round plush puppies with various personalities that are made to appeal to children (and adults) of…
We’re teaming up with Rocket USA to give six – that’s right 6! – lucky winners a pair of 5″ tall Puff Dogs. The pair of Gus Fink’s Puff Dogs (and the winners of the contest) will be randomly selected….
Rocket USA and Gus Fink have teamed up for another line of adorable plushies. The Puff Dogs line consists of 6 different characters: Gikki, Juff, Mushy, Bradley, Yuki and Pilyo. Look for them to be released in 8″, 5″ and…
Background Rocket USA and artist Gus Fink teamed up to release a cute line of plush characters known as the Stitch Kittens. The first six figures (Xoom, Blurb, Ava, Nubbs, Patches and Gimpy) are easily displayable and include a mini-comix,…
We’re teaming up with Rocket USA to give away a quartet of hard to find Boogily Heads variants. From left to right, the characters are Kitix, Mummoo, Scantron and Skrapbear. Each one of these figures is limited to a run…
Background Rocket USA recently released Series 3 of Gus Fink’s Boogily Heads. The lineup consists of 6 new characters: Futoro, Skrap Bear, Mummoo, Pumpkin Billy, Scantron and Zuggs (in that order above). The Boogily Heads line is based on Fink’s…