Nerd (Un)Culture
Background If you’ve followed Rocket World’s Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo line, you’re probably familiar with the IWG’s three most popular characters: Titus, Hannibal and Affonso. Artist Patrick Ma has put a new and unique spin on those three with the release…
Background Onell Design has decided to get into the rotocast vinyl game as they recently released their first vinyl piece – Armodoc. Part of the Glyos System Series, this new character packs the same type of building potential as his…
Background Shocker Toys – known for their Shockini and Indie Spotlight lines – recently launched their line of urban vinyl inspired figures – Mallows. While the company has released a few licensed character Mallows, we’ll be taking a look at…
Background Sideshow Collectibles has plenty of popular product licenses, but one of the most collected is the Militaries of Star Wars series. If you like Stormtroopers or Clone Troopers, they’ve released various iterations of both. And the latest armored trooper…
Background After lapping up some weird, brightly coloured, glowing ooze, this litter of cute kittens turned into nine different types of lucky. Go Lucky Neko. Dreamland Toyworks has released the Go Lucky Neko blind-boxed series of cute vinyl kittens. Designed…
Background The newest Uglydoll – and last of the new characters announced at the beginning of this year – is now available for your purchasing pleasure. We first saw Uppy, designed by David and Sun-Min, as a blue plush back…
Background In June of 2003, AFI (the America Film Institute) released their list of 100 greatest movie villains – and heroes. Over six years later, and many people still don’t understand how the most recognizable villain of all time finished…
Background Mark Ryden is one of the most popular contributors to the lowbrow art scene. And since there is such crossover between the designer toy world and lowbrow art, for years, collectors have been clamoring for some sort of original…
Background A few years back, Sun-Min Kim and David Horvath introduced collectors to their Bop N’ Beep character. It was the first Uglydoll to have two completely different colored sides (and a face on each one of them). Turny Burny,…
Background One of Patch Together’s newest On Demand figures is from artist Paul Taylor’s Wapsi Square comic. Monica and her Magic 8-Ball t-shirt have been turned into a limited run resin statuette. Monica has stopped questioning her own sanity and…
Background It was last year when designer Jure Gavran introduced collectors and lowbrow art aficionados to his Scapegoats line of rotocast vinyl figures. His Immigrant Billy raised some eyebrows and got some laughs, and he’s been slowly trickling out his…
Background The GreeNees are a line of six designer plushies created by a family – Shai (dad), Ellie (mom), Dylan (daughter) and Sawyer (son) – from their apartment in West Hollywood. Dylan drew the characters when she was 4 years…
BackgroundIn only a few short years, Mark Nagata has taken his toy company – Max Toy Co. – from a somewhat small one man venture to one of the premier kaiju toy companies. They’ve worked with some of the top…
Background So far, 2009 has given fans of the Uglydolls a number of new collectable plushies. The fourth and fifth releases of the year are the first married couple from David and Sun-Min – Mr. Kasoogi and Mrs. Kasoogi. Mr….
Background It was a little over a year ago that we introduced you to the first four Dookie-Poo vinyl figures. Designed and created by artist Manny Galan, the character was brought to vinyl form by Chaotic Unicorn as a series…