VID-DESCRIPT: Hope Gallery Tattoo presents “Disturbance in the Force”, a tribute to Star Wars featuring over 50 artists exhibiting paintings and custom toys. Artwork from the show available for purchase @ hopegallerytattoo.bigcartel.com”- Video shot on location by OsiRisORion (whose “Jabba & Bib” artwork is available here)
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Event-Video: Disturbance In The Force @ Hope Gallery Tattoo (June 4)
“Custom Toy Union” is a forum specifically dedicated to custom vinyl (“including but not limited to Dunnys and Munnys”), and besides regular custom toy features and artist interviews, the folks at CTU are currently in the midst of production of their first Custom Dunny Blind Box Series, with a scheduled July 23rd debut at the San Diego Comic Con, with the final customs made available at US$50 per
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Custom Toy Union Assassins Series (Custom Dunny Blind Box Series for SDCC release)
UK-based toy customizer / artist Andy Mitchell aka Custard4Gravy reveals in full his HomeTweetHome custom-Dunny series (first teased here) featuring 3 x dioramic set-ups with a 3″ Dunny as base as their habitat, with miniature treehouses and various sculpted birdies. Uber-reasonably priced at £30.00 per and orderable via his online shop from Wednesday June 9th @ 7pm (GMT)!Meanwhile, CLICK THRU
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Custom-Release: Home Tweet Home Custom Dunnys by Custard4Gravy (June 9-drop)
U.S.-based “authorized bootlegger” of varied toys, from Huck Gee’s to Dunnys, to Rebel Pilots [tagged] Dodgrr forgoes making miniature resin toys and wields together a mecha-suit to sit and operate in, ala Ma.K S.A.F.S. … no wait, that’s a custom 3″ Dunny?Completed for a Kidrobot message board Custom Dunny Trade (Series 11)
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Custom-Showcase: Custom Dunny by Dodgrr
12noon on June 5th saw the online public release of Super7′s “Super Seven Secret Society” exclusive membership ~ priced at US$125 ~ which included “a free t-shirt and two free toys, access to the private SSSS discussion forum, early access to Super7 releases and SDCC Exclusives, passes to Super7 SDCC events, special discounts, and SSSS only releases and made-to-order editions.” [via]… well,
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About That Super Seven Secret Society Membership You Missed
VID-DESCRIPT: adidas Originals invites you to join David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, DJ Neil Armstrong and some of your dear, old friends for an intergalactic 2010 FIFA World Cup™ viewing party that you’ll never forget. [Text via]Now that is a cross-pop-cultural geek-lurving promo ad right here! Heck, not being a huge fan of
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adidas Originals: Star Wars Cantina 2010 (World Cup 2010 Promo)
Spotted this excellent stop-motion animated short by NAEL on his flickr and thought it would be a perfect opportunity to post about ThreeA Toys’ TOMMY MISSION figures from their Adventure Kartel line of 1/6th-scaled action figures, that are currently being sent out to fans.
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ThreeA Toys’ Tommy Mission: Stop-Motion by Nael & Toy Images
And with this video showcasing the “articulated tongue action” of the final prototype of Playge RAT [Search] created by FERG ~ we get to see the figure’s ratty headsculpt (and I mean that in the nicest of ways) as well as it’s sharp black+white suit! (Presuming that that of course is the actual body, and not a prototype-test-bod, innit?)CLICK THRU for another “test” video ~ from 3 months back but
What’s the next best thing to giant robots? In my little corner of the world, it is operators (men or women) in robot-armor or exo-skeleton suits! So tis will no small delight to see Huck Gee’s “BRUSIER” the Vlad Systems Vl.12 PowerSuit being operated by his custom-Munny “Sgt Vasquez”! And mind you, this is not a Mini-Munny, but a full-on 7-incher Munny sitting in the operator’s module ~ heck of
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Custom-Release: The "Bruiser" (Vlad Systems Vl.12 Powersuit) with Sgt Vasquez by Huck Gee
VIDEO-DESCRIPTION: MANILA, Philippines – Over a dozen local artists placed a green spin on the Robotic Tarsier (Robotars), an art toy designed by architect-artist Jomike Tejido, to help promote environmental awareness. Among them is Redworks Manila’s Gilbert Ibanez who designed Zakitar, a Robotar that “takes in dew from its mouth to grow hydrophonic plants in its body.” ~ “Zakitar is my first
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Robotars on Ch7 in Philippines
The connection between blind lawyer-by-day “Matt Murdock” and Hell’s Kitchen-hero-by-night Dare Devil, and vigilante “Frank Castle” aka The Punisher has been the stuff of comicbook legends thru the years (well, to the folks who care about them anyways) from fisticuff-clashes to sharing jail-time on Rykers (back in ’06 ~ my comicbook-experience has stopped since then), they are arguably one of the
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Custom-Showcase: The Punisher & Dare Devil Custom-Celsius by Rotobox (for Marvelous Masterpiece Tribute Series)
Malaysia-based toy-store Full Toys organizes their first BabyQee DIY custom contest (“Pre-Lauching Participant Design Art Work Submission”) with submissions from the public viewable in the video slideshow above, and in still-images via Full Toys’ Facebook-album. The Final & Custom Show is scheduled to happen June 5th @ Eightfourcube’s SPACE:CUBE Gallery & Store in Ampang, Malaysia (2pm-4pm). Drop
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Full Toys Presents A Baby Qee DIY Event @ Space:Cube (June 5)
by Eleanor de Bruin These bulky, well-built robots from Ernest the Bear are decorated with appropriately robotic designs, using lithography. The bright colours and detail give each of the three available designs a unique and slightly sinister look. Just a few quick twists of the robots’ wind-up mechanism and the little tin guys are ready to scoot off across the floor
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Wind up Tin Robots
A gorgeously custom-painted TUTTZ from artist Emily Bee with an astoundingly sweet palette, for Argonaut Resins’ series of resin figures, shown here being one of three figures in total to be released (one at a time via her Etsy shop). And mind you this is still a work-in-progress!
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Toy-Teaser: Custom Painted Tuttz by Emily Bee
Shown above is a threesome of colorways featuring the ARKIVINSTANT vinyl figure designed by Arkiv and made by adFunture. Holding court center-stage is the RED (+White) Arkiv Dutch edition, while being flanked by (on-left) the Rotofugi-blue Arkiv and the OG black-and-white figure.
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Red Arkiv Dutch Edition Available Now @ Outland Store
The lil dino-figure shown above-left is named “tyrannoCECILrex”, and he’s the next character created by Nathan Hamill after his first Boris the Raccoon release. Plans are afoot for the production of a small resin run with the first batch debuting at the coming SDCC (exact booth TBC). While neither quantity nor price is as yet determined, we know that each 4″ piece will include a limited edition
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Toy-Teaser: tyrannoCECILrex by Nathan Hamill
by Eleanor de Bruin Fisher-Price has released a fun new game, bound to appeal to Thomas fans aged four and over. The Thomas & Friends Birthday Surprise Game is specially designed for younger ones, as no reading is required and all of the fun is based on trying to be the player who matches the most picture cards. The brightly-illustrated board shows Thomas’s home territory, the Island of Sodor.
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Thomas & Friends Birthday Surprise
by David Smith Tri 3D is the three-dimensional strategy game from PaNic Games , which aims to appeal to serious strategy game-players and family boardgamers alike. Split over three levels (which will strike a chord with Star Trek fans who remember Spock’s 3D chess), the game can be played by two or three players, who attempt to surround or corner their opponents’ pieces. Pieces can be moved one space at a time and can jump between the triangular levels for surprise attacks
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PaNic Games Tri 3D
by Eleanor de Bruin Sometimes there’s a toy that’s so simple and yet so brilliant that you wish you had invented it yourself, like these new colour mixing glasses from Learning Resources . Priced around £6.99, the glasses fit children aged three upwards.
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Learning Resources Colour Mixing Glasses
Scored this from Hasbro’s 2 figures for S$25 promo. I’m impressed to see how far Star Wars have come with their articulation. Since picking up 2002′s GIJoe’s 3 3/4 figures, I’ve been wondering why Hasbro couldn’t translate it to all their toy lines
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Star Wars Hasbro Legacy Collection Jedi Luke Skywalker
This took longer than expected as I thought I could complete it in the same weekend as Unicorn mode. I was slightly surprised that HGs these days have so many parts, and even my 80+ crocodile clips mounted on skewers weren’t sufficient to clear all the parts at one go. Again, a simple spray paint job which involved applying yellow, dark blue, grey and gunmetal, and finished off with a
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Gundam 1/144 HG Unicorn Gundam (Destroy Mode)
A much easier job compared to the 1/48 Destroy Mode Unicorn Mode Head. I sprayed paint on the inner horns (yellow), the collar area (grey) and the vulcans (silver) and laid on a matte coat and that was about it for this piece.
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Gundam 1/48 Unicorn Head Unicorn Mode for HG 1/144 Unicorn Gundam
Scored these two kits during Metro Sengkang’s Gundam promotion last weekend to show my support for my neighbourhood toy store. I’m not finished with them yet, but I was fiddling around with them to see how my Gundam shelf could fit them.
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Gundam HG 1/144 Unicorn Gundam Destroy & Unicorn Mode in Shelf
As promised, here’s the 1/48 Unicorn Head Base in Destroy Mode. I cut short the time needed to work on this piece by eliminating one step of the initial process I wanted to use. I originally wanted to spray the eye area black, then paint over with enamel silver and finally with acrylic green
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Gundam 1/48 Unicorn Head Base Destroy Mode for 1/144 HG Gundam Unicorn
Via Ngee Khiong Quite a cool novelty item to own, and it comes with a special edition RX-78 1/100 model kit with can be mounted on the phone charger base. The RX-78 model kit has ‘metal in frame’ according to Ngee Khiong and I’ve no idea how that will work out.
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RX-78 Softbank Mobile Phone with RX-78 1/100 Model Kit
Cos your fans here would love to marvel at awesome sculptures like these up close and personal. Pix from Taiwan event, via lukazou Fellow SG & MY collectors, if you care enough for this, make your statement here.
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Please bring the Iron Man CollARTible Expo to Singapore & Malaysia, Hot Toys
UK-based retailer OneSixthBruce will offering up the previously posted “Retailer Exclusive” WWRp Mk2 Berties for the grand price of £0.00! All you need to do if and when you score one from them, is to pay for postage and packing! Release will be via a predetermined time ~ (hell, I’ll be having my finger on the mouse-click, cheapsakte that I am!)Read more about the giveaway here, and be a fan of
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OneSixthBruce Retail Exclusive Bertie Giveaway
CLICK THRU to have a closer look at the Retailer Exclusive editions of WWRp MK2 Berties from ThreeA Toys ~ featuring “Ghost Hunter, “SandCrab” and “EMGY”! Do check with your regular retailers for availability and price.Source: ThreeA Toys-blog
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Toy-Teaser: Retailer Exclusive WWRp Mk2 Berties by ThreeA Toys