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Background Undoboy’s first venture into the designer toy world is the Super Bastard line of paper toys. The line was inspired by old ‘mix and match’ books he would peruse through as a youth. The toys do their best to…
Background Kaching Brand and Mizna Wada (Mizna Lens) are fairly new to the designer toy scene…but they have both come out “punching”. Mizna has designed 2 figures for Kaching – Hachoo Boxing Style Monkey and Lollipop Girl. They were both…
Background For ages, Sasquatch and Yeti have been living as myths and in the shadows of the human world. With the introduction of the internet and email, Sasquatch and Yeti were able to meet and fall in love over the…
Background You might be familiar with the full-sized Neo Blythe dolls, but there are actually a few other lines that Blythe fans clamor about. Petite Blythe and Blythe Belle both use the same Blythe girl look, but are a smaller…
Background Choco and Minty were famous candy bar mascots…that is…until they were fired. Now, the troubled duo is looking for work. Are you hiring? These figures were designed by David Horvath and produced by Toy2R. There actually is a candy…
Background Designed by Craig Anthony Perkins, and produced by Genshi:Toy, the Broken Heart Robot is a unique toy – for reasons we will get into. Since we always love a good background story…how about this one. On his home planet…
Background Play Imaginative’s We All Speak Football Trexi line includes several 10” figures, in addition to the set of 24 3” Trexis. This entire line was created in conjunction with soft drink giant Coca-Cola to celebrate the World Cup. Coke…
Background Crazy Label is a fairly new toy company founded by the one and only Wookie. They currently have a number of projects in the wings, but their first vinyl figure is known as Treeson. The Treeson character is the…
FreeBento.com has sent us a few of Frank Kozik and Kidrobot’s latest collaboration – Mongers. Background If you see a figure with an X on its forehead and a cigarette in its mouth…it doesn’t take much to realize it’s from…
Winston Ma – 9.2/10 Inspired by: I would like to express that Coke and Trexi are the most important units on this project. It looks like a Football Referee is the most important person on a Football game. So I’m…
Background Just in time for the 2006 World Cup, Play Imaginative has released their We All Speak Football line of Trexis. With 25 designs from around the world, this series (sponsored by Coca-Cola) is for designer toy collectors and soccer…
Background Wheaty Wheat Studios has assembled some of the best designs from last year’s Custom MAD*L Show, as well as some new designs, in what is being referred to as the MAD*L Artist Series. Phase 1 and 2 each had…
Background Max Toy Co. and Mark Nagata have released their first original figure. Captain Maxx is perfectly replicated from the only known surviving figure from the 1970’s. The figure and character are an homage to classic Japanese superheroes. Captain Maxx…
Background We got our first glimpse of the latest Uglydolls at Toy Fair. Chuckanucka and Moxy had fans talking. Moxy was just recently released, so we should be seeing Chuckanucka in about 6 weeks or so. Want to know more…
Background The So What line of vinyl figures comes to us from Taiwan’s PhalanX Creative. The 4.5” figures are designed by artist Mark Chang, who obviously has been influenced by the work of Michael Lau. FreeBento.com has sent us the…