Nerd (Un)Culture
With Halloween quickly approaching, Carnival Cartoons has decided to celebrate the season of ghosts, goblins, and all things geeky and freaky, by commissioning a handful of uber talented tattoo artists to take a stab at giving “Buzz Carney – The…
I came across a pretty cool site for collectors (of anything) to come together to show off photos of their collections – big or small. At Squirl, you can show off toys, your shoe horn stash or maybe that pile…
Wheaty Wheat is getting close to releasing the first 2 characters in Chris Lee’s Urbanites series. Mellow and Cleabus will be the first vinyl figures released from the line…and will be Lee’s first original figures available. Mellow – The Gentle…
The first character in the new mimobot Star Wars series (from mimoco) is Darth Vader (now up for pre-order). It’s available in 1, 2 and 4 GB storage sizes and will be preloaded with Star Wars mimobot contest. The Vader…
Sket One’s SketBots are now available from Kidrobot. 3DRetro is carrying them for $5.95 each. With the success of Dalek’s Icebots…these are sure to be popular as well. Like several of Kidrobot’s products…they have inserted golden tickets in random blind…
What might be the nastiest name for a custom show…the Yeast Infection online auction is set to wrap up in a little over a day. You can go to the ebay shop where El Maz (curator of the show) is…
Toy2R is releasing another set of Choco and Minty figures (designed by David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim). This time, they will be an exclusive Artoyz European market colorway – Green Choco and Red-Pink Minty. They should be released in November…just…
PLUS trexi Series 02 (TOUMA + Joe Ledbetter) Play Imaginative is back with their second round of PLUS trexi sets. PLUS trexi series 01 saw the formidable combination of Tokidoki + Devilrobots. And PLUS trexi series 02 promises to be…
If you didn’t get to San Diego over the summer…you missed out on a very impressive Kaching Brand display. Possibly the most impressive figure was the 1/6th scale Bruce Lee (from Game of Death) sculpted by Arnie Kim. The figure…
Strangekiss.com has decided to give away a whole bunch of toys and artwork in celebration of launching their website. If you haven’t checked it out, you’ll find some amazing work from artists who should be household names. You’ll need to…
What’s there to say? The guys from Friends With You are going to be extremely busy this winter. They’ll be traveling the globe…and maybe stopping at a place near you.
BABY HELLHOUND PLUSH Play Imaginative is releasing its first Designer Plush toy (with Vinyl parts) – Baby Hellhound, designed by the great TOUMA from Japan. It looks like this might be one of the best plush figures of the year….
The latest show at Melrose Avenue’s Gallery1988 was the entitled “We’re All Mad Here” event. Inspired by, and celebrating the Cheshire Cat (from Alice in Wonderland)…the show included original artwork and custom vinyl Cheshire Cats from several of the world’s…
From the disturbing mind of John Pinkerton comes the Zombie Hamsters. These Vinylfixx exclusive Zombie Hamsters are limited to only 5 and each is hand numbered, dated, and signed by John Pinkerton. Once these limited edition, custom handmade Zombie Hamsters…
Sergey Safanov has sent photos of his newest character – Gooma – all the way from Russia (with love?). They did a small run of the figures in hard vinyl. Serey plan on posting comics and stories about them a…