Adult Toys
by David Smith LEGO’s Minifigures have always had an appeal out of all proportion to their size – many people buy LEGO sets just to get their hands on the brilliant Minifigures inside them – and now you can pick the little fellows up individually. For the first time ever, LEGO has released 16 individual Minifigures, priced around £1.99 each, for collectors to snap up.
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LEGO launches new Minifigures range
Scott of Super7 Florida has been teasing us with some more sneak peaks of the customs for the Monsters In The Mangroves Show, which is happening this Saturday, May 15th. You can find the roster of artists on our previous post on the show HERE
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Preview: Super7 Floridas Monsters In The Mangroves (05.15)
Mutant Vinyl Hardcore has picked up Japanese Toy Artist BLObPUS to help with the next release of the MVH’s very own Sludge Demon. No word on it’s release, but we do know that this version will be available through LASH’s webshop. So there will be no lottery for this guy,…
Beginning on Tuesday, May 11th WeKillYou will be having spring cleaning sale! The sale will be broken up into 3 different batches. The first batch will be some rare toys that consist of test pulls and customs, the second will be clothing, and the third will be all art related…
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WeKillYou Spring Cleaning Sale! (05.11)
More animated Monger-highjinks courtesy of W!ld Brain and Kidrobot, featuring the character-creations of Frank Kozik in this second episode of MONGERS, done as part of the National Stop Smorkin’ Month by Kidrobot [Details]. Watch out for the next episode to launch May 17th![Peep the first animated espisode "Smokey's Gambling Problem" here]
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Mongers: Straight Outta Compost (Kidrobot Animated Video by Wild Brain)
“Taken from the reefs of Planet 44, these two specimens appear to be mamal like and are able to survive on land or in the ocean. Reef Patrol & Deep Sea Dusters have now been reprogrammed with the task of discovering more specimens of ocean lifeforms on the planet.”DMS releases the first two test versions of an ongoing series of one-off handmade resin plaster figures, with Specimen #1 (measuring 2
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Toy-Release: Specimens by DMS (May 12-drop)
Looking at a number of different factors recently, including our previous calculation on Industry Size, I’ve begun to wonder about the long-term future of Starlit Citadel. There’s no doubt that we can grow the business to support a single individual (we’re there already if at a minimum wage amount). Probably even one or two employees. However, the difference between us and our major competitors down in the US is vast – many of them seem to have 8 to 10 employees and a lot more stock.
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Industry Size : So what?
“NEW 14 Pairs Shoes for Fashion Royalty, Lots” These are all Barbie shoes, many of which would not even fit a Fashion Royalty doll. This auction popped up in the Integrity Fashion Royalty category. Seller’s Feedback: Here’s the link to the auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-14-Pairs-Shoes-Fashion-Royalty-Lots-/290425603027?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item439eb703d3
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Misleading eBay Auction Title of the Day
Mighty Mouse is an animation superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. Originally created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short entitled The Mouse of Tomorrow. The original name of the character was Super Mouse, but it was soon changed to Mighty Mouse.
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Day 163: Mighty Mouse
And with this teaser-snap above-left, we get to finally see the color-scheme, as well as the “face” of Dynomight NYC’s latest diminutive dynamite; Our Hero, APPRENTICE! [tagged] The existence of the domino mask gives him that “superhero” feel, doesn’t it?Creator Justin Rudy shares with us that this is an image showing the base (paint) coat being applied to the 6-inch tall figure, with a
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Toy-Teaser: Our Hero, APPRENTICE! in WIP-Color by Dynomight NYC
“OniSake” by J*RYU is made from a sake bottle, magic sculpt for the mask, face(s) and body, fabric and thread for the clothing, sheet metal for the armor and sword, and wood for the hilt and teeth.OniSake is currently on display alongside other non-vinyl creations at The Not Vinyl Show @ Dragatomi [blogged / currently on show until June 1st). CLICK THRU to peep more of this sake-warrior! [13 x
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Custom-Showcase: OniSake by J*RYU (for Not Vinyl Show @ Dragatomi)
No sooner than teasers appear online [HERE], Hot Toys unleashes full-images and product details of their 1/6th-scaled BLACK WIDOW from the Iron Man 2 movie, featuring the likeness of Scarlet Johansson as “Natasha Romanoff / Natalie Rushman” (looking suspiciously like a “love-doll” here in these images, come-hither open-pout and all *cough*), as sculpted by Yulli and painted by JC.
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Toy-Release: 1/6 Black Widow Limited Edition Collectible Figurine by Hot Toys (Iron Man 2)
Hot Toys’ Iron Man collARTible Expo (had) just finished it’s exhibition period in Hong Kong [WHAT / Opening Day] and is moving on to the next station, in Taiwan! The exhibition will start from May 14th to June 1st, from across Taipei to Kaohsiung to Taichung. (May 14-18)@ SHIN KONG MITSUKOSHI, A9 Xinyi Place, Taipei(May 21-25)@ SHIN KONG MITSUKOSHI, Kaohsiung Zuoying(May 28-June 1)@ SHIN KONG
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Event: Hot Toys x Iron Man collARTible Expo In Taiwan (May 14-June 1)
by Eleanor de Bruin When we picture a princess, we tend to imagine a beautiful young lady living in a palace and surrounded by servants. This princess from Spin Master is indeed a beautiful young lady, but she lives at the bottom of the ocean and is surrounded by sea creatures.
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Spin Master Sea Princess Moon Sand
My featured photograph this week was made by my dear friend Laura Bigger, also known as Laura/LA. Using her Nikon D90 on a tripod in natural ligh, she presents us with an image straight out of a fashion magazine. Everything works together in this photo: the directional lighting, the composition, the limited color palette
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Picture of the Week Award ~ May 9, 2010 ~ Laura Bigger
Above posted is a video demo and specs for Medicom Toys’ 1/6-scaled RAH (“Real Action Heroes”) C-3PO and R2-D2 from Star Wars. Available in August 2010. CLICK THRU for production snaps of the infamous robotic odd-couple of sci-fi 
SRP is 19,740YEN for C3-PO, while R2-D2 can be had for 17,640YEN [via Blister.jp here+here][It actually took me quite some time staring at the image above to realize
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Video Demo for RAH C3-PO and R2-D2 in 1/6 by Medicom Toy
Amongst the artists participating in the Dragatomi Not Vinyl Show [blogged / currently on show @ Dragatomi until June 1st] is UK-creator Cris Rose, who does a “surprise” release of his new original resin design; RAMPART! The third in his new series of robots in 2010 so far (after Rummage and Rumble), this particular Rampart (above-left) is priced at US$125 for this one-off painted edition, which
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Introducing Rampart: Original Resin Robot by Cris Rose
“Kristopher Kong” is created by Richard Kuoch aka Podgypanda, and shown above-left (sans “glasses”) is a 15cm tall (6 inches) painted sculpt by MATBOT. Kristopher uber-pinchable and adorable, and seriously needs to be made into a production toy, methinks ~ Don’t you folks agree
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Painted Sculpt of Podgypanda’s Kristopher Kong by MATBOT
Scheduled for a pre-order this Sunday May 8th @ 5pm GMT is 2PetalRose’s last Samurai release (at least for a while) with BUSHI SAMURAI. Limited to 25 pcs worldwide, 20 of which will be on pre-order here on Sunday, with the remaining 5 pcs will be made available on the day of release on June 4th. Price is £90 GBP Plus £5 Uk postage and £10 Outside UK
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Toy-Release: Bushi Samurai by 2PetalRose (May 9-Preorder / June 4-Release)
From Russia-based artist Alexandr Bud’kin comes his latest project: CHIMERAS (Part 1) ~ a miniature project that consists of three characters made of polymer clay and dyed with acrylic paints. The figures are now available online via budkin.siteedit.su priced between US$65-68
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Toy-Release: CHIMERAS (Part 1) by Alexandr Bud’kin
This post serves as a pictorial guide of the transformation of Gundam Fix Metal Composite Unicorn Gundam from Unicorn mode to Destroy mode. First, start off the sequence by shouting at the figure in Unicorn mode, “Transform!” If that doesn’t work, try “Henshin”
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Gundam Fix Figuration Metal Composite Unicorn Gundam (Destroy Mode)
With Alison stepping down from the company on an active basis completely, a number of documents needed to be updated and amended, including a lot of credit card and banking information. In point of face, we actually had to reapply for most of our documents, a rather frustrating experience. Theory ran into reality whilst dealing doing our applications and I found out one of the many reasons why Canada (and Canadian businesses) are just not as competitive as the US. The business environment stinks
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The Business Environment in Canada
Ok so everyone loves the weekend…….that’s kinda a no brainer right? But this weekend I especially love as I’m going to see the rather brilliantly funny Joel Mchale at the Chicago theatre. I Love Joel Mchale his comedic timing on the soup always has me in stitches, no one can say chicken tatrazini and make me need to weeeeee quite like Joel (in a good way). And for the longest time I’ve always wanted to see something at the Chicago theatre so this really is a win win weekend……..plus we are staying at the Palmer hilton hotel for the night so we don’t have to endure the late night drive back to Rockford yaaaaaaaaaaaay life is good. I have a new critter I’d like you to meet too THis is Smithy, and he’s a bit of a scally wag…….he is looking for a forever home though so I will add him to the shop asap.
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Roll on Saturday……
We are always keeping an eye out and adding new products for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to the website. One company we’d like to highlight this week is Little Alouette. Little Alouette makes adorable wooden baby toys with a very smooth baby-safe finish, made from organic flaxseed oil
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The Oompa Minute v80: Little Alouette
by Eleanor de Bruin Josephine, Harper and Astrid (pictured from left to right) are classic dolls and best friends. With their faces beautifully embroidered into expressions showing their kind, caring personalities, the Lilydoll dolls from Manhattan Toy also have fabric hair in a variety of styles
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Manhattan Toy Lilydolls
by Eleanor de Bruin Flair’s Toy Story Story Maker is a bumper kit to help children create their own book based on the adventures of Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody. The colourful pack contains a Story Maker cover for a child’s unique book, and also ten printed pages to make up the interior.
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Flair Toy Story Story Maker
The 4th of the five limited edition Toy-A-Day CDs containing the PDF of the first 100 toys is now up for grab! All you need to do is to go to our Facebook Fan page and tag your name on this picture . You can also click on the above picture to go directly to the page. Good luck!
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The 4th Toy-A-Day CD giveaway
New Board Games Archaeology: The Card Game Arkham Horror Dice Set (5) Cthulhu Dice Dice Tower, Knockdown Dominion: Alchemy Munchkin Fairy Dust Display Neuroshima Hex: Duel Restocked Board Games Arkham Horror Citadels Card Game Call of Cthulhu LCG : Horror Beneath the Surface Combat Commander: Normandy Battle Pack Command & Colors Ancients #2: Rome vs Barbarians Dice Tower, Birch, Unfinished Dominion Dust En Garde Ergo FITS A Game of Thrones: Storm of Swords A Game of Thrones: Clash of Kings Ingenious Le Havre : Le Grand Hameau Expansion Lord of the Rings: Confrontation Deluxe Ed. No Thanks! Pandemic Prophecy: Dragon Realm Expansion Roma II : Arena Ticket to Ride Card Game Tulipmania 1637 Share This
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New & Restocked Board Games : May 6, 2010