Nerd (Un)Culture
Background Booska is a cute and lovable kaiju (“monster” in Japanese), who first appeared on Japanese television in 1966. In the years since, Booska spawned another TV series in the 90’s, as well as numerous toys and merchandise. Max Toy…
Background When asked about the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Keira Knightley stated of her character Elizabeth Swann, “we went off into a grungier look for her. That was really exciting actually, to take the character and make…
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,…
Background If you were alive in the 80’s, you probably remember what handheld video gaming was like. Before the revolutionary GameBoy…we had mini arcade games (they only featured one title) that weren’t that mini and had an iPod nano sized…
Background Sideshow Collectibles continues their extremely collectible 12” tall Star Wars line (specifically Militaries of Star Wars) with the release of Commander Praji. Directed by Lord Vader to personally oversee the mission to retrieve the stolen plans for the Death…
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…
Background Tonner Doll Company announced their Pirates of the Caribbean license last year, and it immediately became a favorite of Plastic and Plush. The Captain Jack Sparrow Tonner Character Figure won our award for best male 1/6 scale figure…even though…
Background You might remember way back in 1993, Activision decided to release the Alien vs. Predator for the old SNES system. You probably had it, while I was stuck with Sega Genesis or Intellivision or my old Tandy. That game…
Background Jon Schiller is a designer who recently released his own line of plush toys called Little 9 and Friends. Along with the plushies comes the first comic book and plans for a line of vinyl figures. We got our…
Background The online retailer uRabbit has introduced their first designer vinyl piece – Icy Bunny. The piece is a collaboration with artist Husky Kevin, and will probably have you dreaming of soft-serve ice cream for the next week or so….
Background Erick Scarecrow and his ESC-Toy label decided to drop a surprise figure on the designer toy scene shortly before NY Comic Con. While there are often long buildups to the release of figures, nothing really leaked out about the…
Background Onell Design has released several new Pheyden and Exellis colorway designs from their Glyos System series. Among the characters that we’ll be looking at are the Eclipse Pheyden, Cosmic Wave Pheyden and Andromeda Pheyden (all pictured above). We’ll also…
Background Joe Spada is a fan of the designer toy scene. You might have seen him around the various discussion boards. Living most collectors dream, he decided to have his own character design produced. TOBOR “is a cyborg mercenary designed…
Background Here’s part of The Last Mimzy synopsis from RottenTomatoes.com: Two kids find a bizarre box on the beach and are soon exhibiting signs of off-the-chart genius in this gently mind-blowing fantasy film. Little Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) finds a…
Background A small demon named Keek dreamt of one day becoming a true Devil. Lucifer eventually sent him to walk the Earth and create chaos and fear amongst all men. It quickly became clear that Man himself had already created…