Nerd (Un)Culture
Everyone’s favorite designer flash drives were on display at SDCC. Not only were there exclusive mimobots, but mimoco also had a number of upcoming artist series on display. These included the Devilmobotz – designed by Devilrobots – and are now…
Creatus Maximus debuted their Smart Bombs line at San Diego Comic Con. Their first 2 duo packs took on the likenesses of Batman and Robin and R2-D2 and C-3PO. Check out the drawings we have of the upcoming characters. There…
Rocket World upsized this year. They have a bigger booth and a number of new products on display (and for sale). The SDCC exclusive bears – Sun Tzu and Midori – were going fast on preview night. I’ve seen the…
Neth Creatures has 3 SDCC exclusive figures available at their Comic Con booth. The brown one is flocked and if you pick up the white one…ask J to do some custom work on it. They also had a 3 different…
Blackwater Toys premiered their Kuggs and mini Kuggs lines at SDCC this year. The first 2 figures in this line look great. We should have an in depth review of the line coming up in the next few weeks. 2006…
Glen and Android 8 had a number of very cool prototypes on display at Comic Con. They also had several new prints, t-shirts, Glen’s handmade androids and Brendan Monroe’s exclusive Sour on sale at their booth. Upcoming projects include: BoyCatBird…
If you stopped by the Uglydoll booth tonight, you definitely saw the garbage cans full of Secret Mission Uglydolls. Yes…they are your favorite Ugly characters in as all black SDCC exlusive plush. Also on display were new 2″ tall Uglydolls….
Tonight is the opening of San Diego Comic Con….sort of. It’s Preview Night, which means a bunch of crazy people trying to grab the exclusives they want. Me? I’ll be there to cover the events. Check in for our coverage…
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…
All I can say is…YES! Fawn Gehweiler’s candy girls – Edie, Pippi and Sailor Girl. Necessaries Toy Foundation has posted this photo on their blog…with the message – “soon”. We know that these will be on display at the DKE…
Robert, from Kung Fu Toys, was a very busy man this past week! Not only did he go to the Glen Barr event, but he also caught the Luke Chueh show at Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica. The opening…
Why is it that whenever I hear of a show at the Billy Shire Fine Arts Gallery…the first thing that pops into my mind is Talia Shire (of Rocky and Godfather fame)? In any case…Glen Barr was exhibiting his work…
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…
If you were in Seattle and didn’t make it out to the Munny Show opening…well…then you missed out! No worries though. You can check out all of Schmancy Toys coverage at their flickr site. A bunch of very cool customs.
The NVC Crew – Dr. Bao and Spive – have combined 2 of their favorites in this custom set. Infusing their love for Asian pop culture with their musical taste – specificaly rap – the NVC Crew’s custom is called…