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Background San Diego Comic Con 2008 saw the Uglydoll booth with one limited edition exclusive plush for folks to fight over – Sleepy Chilly Ice-Bat. Ice-Bat lives in an ice box. Everything he touches turns to ice…Yet he warms your…
This might be my favorite vinyl Ice-Bat Kaiju variant. The piece is from Uglydolls and intheyellow.com (exclusive to intheyellow) and will be limited to a run of 50 pieces. The Clear Glitter version looks like they took a clear Ice-Bat,…
The newest Uglydoll looks a little bit like a pig, but I don’t think she has a corkscrew tail. Remember all of that talk about how Uglydolls were only for boys and they only had boy characters? Not so fast!…
The big news at the Uglydoll booth was that we finally got a chance to see the hush hush SDCC Exclusive plush: Sleepy Chilly Ice-Bat. Ice-Bat is decked out in his special singing hat as well as those pink angel…
Yep…it’s the line many of you have been waiting for. The Uglydolls folks will be producing their own line of vinyl mini “action” figures. (We’ll be showing you photos from their SDCC booth to give you a better reference to…
If you order through Uglydolls.com (no end date given) any order over $50 will receive a free Little Sailor Babo. You’ll just need to enter the promo code: SUMMERSAIL at checkout. Ahoy!
If you thought that only one Uglycon in a year would do…you thought wrong. Uglycon NYC will take place this December 6th at Giant Robot New York. The Uglydoll crew will be in attendance and will have handmade plushies, limited…
If you live in or around Tokyo…you’re lucky! Uglycon Tokyo will take place on October 10th at the Stitch Tokyo shop. There will be special Uglydolls “in editions of 100 and 25, paintings, drawings, prints and some Ugly art by…
Background Uglydolls have released the newest design from David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim – Babo’s Bird. You know how everyone looks like their pet? Well, Babo looks just like his pet peeve! BIRDS! Babo can’t stand birds! They always eat…
David Horvath just got back from Japan where he saw the first samples of the Bossy Bear x Rody Shirts. They will soon be available at the Rody Cafe in Tokyo (part of Tower Records cafe in Japan). For those…
Background You probably know the story behind David and Sun-Min’s Uglydoll line. If not, where have you been? Well, the duo has released a few new designs for 2008. And we are going to take a look at one of…
David Horvath has posted photos of the 3rd Ugly Kaiju vinyl character on his blog…and if you skipped over the title of this post as well as the above photo….then you’ll be surprised to know that it’s Babo! Look for…
Here’s a pretty fun birthday wish video for David Horvath. Sent by his brother, David posted it up on his blog. And what are brothers for? Well, I guess reminding you of your first speeding ticket. Definitley an entertaining watch.
Background Kaiju is a Japanese word that means “strange beast”. Specifically, it is used to refer to a genre of tokusatsu TV shows and movies. Tokusatsu had a huge influence on both Uglydoll creators Sun-Min and David since they were…
David Horvath announced on his blog that intheyellow.com will be releasing a limited edition (50 piece run) Glow-in-the-dark Ice-Bat Kaiju vinyl. Look for the newest Uglydoll vinyl kaiju colorway to drop this June.