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Background Medicom’s Vinyl Collectible Doll (VCD) line is of interest to both designer vinyl collectors as well as Star Wars fanatics. (They do have plenty of other VCD lines such as Disney and Marvel) Their super-deformed vinyl series has brought…
Background One of the most recent releases from Crazy Label is the House of Liu collection from the artist known as Veggiesomething (aka James Liu). The figures, sold separately, are known as Mei Mei and Di Di. House of Liu…
Background Upper Deck made their first SubCast figure – Spider-Man – available to the public on August 28th. That is, unless you had attended Comic Con, where they made a handful (100) of the overall run available for purchase. The…
Background Sideshow Collectibles distributes several lines from Medicom Toy. Among those is the Vinyl Collectible Doll, otherwise known as VCD, line of super-deformed vinyl figures. The stylized figures have a little more attitude than the 1/6th scale variety and are…
Background If you’ve never read Jeff Pidgeon’s blog, you’re missing out on some entertaining opinions. His Toy OTD (of the day) segment highlights old and new collectables from action figures to statuettes to Happy Meal toys. With a background in…
There really hasn’t been a groundbreaking documentary about the designer toy scene. We need our own version of Style Wars. Toys Are Us: A Revolution in Plastic is out to show the world about the hobby…the addiction…the religion that we…
Background Jamungo has released Series 2 of their popular Blow Up Dolls (BUDS) platform toy. The blind box series contains 16 different designs from 15 different artists. Depending on the design, your likelihood of finding a specific figure ranges from…
Background October Toys has released Series 3 of their popular Gwin line. The character is based on the Linux mascot, Tux, which was created by Larry Ewing in 1996. The third series consists of designs from 5 of the brightest…
Background Kaiju Eyezon born from a mutant potato now an ally of the evil Alien Xam. Both sworn enemies of Captain Maxx. Can Captain Maxx defeat these two powerful monsters? Max Toy Company’s newest evil kaiju figure is a mutated…
Background The company known for creating the only Designer USB Flash Drives on the market – mimoco – has entered the vinyl game with their vimobot line. Their first vinyl series is similar to the Core Series 1 line of…
Background If you’re into exclusives, San Diego Comic Con always has enough to satisfy your needs. Max Toy Company premiered a number of their new products, and also had a few SDCC exclusives for purchase. One of those exclusives was…
Background The Candykiller novelty keychain, from Wheaty Wheat Studios, was created to calm collectors who want Brian Taylor’s Jack Rabbit character in vinyl form. It’s to whet your appetite as we approach the release of the full-size Jack Rabbit figure…
Background Upper Deck’s All-Star Vinyl line includes figures from the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NFL and the NHL. While they focused on NFL quarterbacks to begin the ASV line, they have since shifted their focus to the NBA and…
Background Rocket World introduced Series 4 of their Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo (IWG) line earlier in the year. The four piece rotocast vinyl series was broken into two releases – Makutu and Oishi were released around March and Candace and Burnum…
Background Christopher Lee and Wheaty Wheat have teamed up to produce the second of his vinyl figures from The Urbanites. Mellow follows close on the heels of Cleabus, who was a much smaller vinyl. The Gentle Confectioner is currently available…