Giant Robot at SDCC 2012

Cris Rose Personal Trimensional Viewer - Micro 3A Bertie Resin Diorama

Love the backstory. These guys available at 10am PST at Cris Rose' webstore. $90 each. Limited to edition of 2.

PTV Backstory

"Not long after the phone, television and internet services merged, a single Holographic system, the Trimensional Reception, Interaction and Broadcast Endevour became the universal method of communication. Whether it was to chat with your Gran or watch the latest sports event on the other side of the world, Trimensional was the only way to do it. Being such a mouthful, most referred to it as TRIBE and most devices, as Trimensional Viewers, or TVs for short.

The Personal Trimensional Viewer was an extension of TRIBE, a small encapsulated unit that would sit on your desk and show you a live, photo realistic, 3D Hologram of a chosen loved one, 24 hours a day. It didn't matter where they were or what they were doing, they'd be doing it in the little glass dome next to your mug of coffee.

The concept was purely innocent and technically perfect... but it soon became apparent that there was a serious social flaw in it - namely every time your mother went to the toilet or had a shower... It was a disaster. One of the fastest selling products in history became one of the fastest failures - no one wanted them and they were returned in their tens of thousands.

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One rather lonely owner of a robot repair centre didn't have any friends. He just had robots. Lots of robots. Thousands of robots. They weren't even his either, not most of them - most of them had their own owners and they were merely in the grounds of one of his estates while they were being repaired, serviced, or in some sad cases, dismantled for parts.

Keeping everyone updated on the progress of their own unit was tough, as many considered their robot "part of the family" and the thought of them standing in a forest or field, waiting for attention from a maintenance Sprog, meant that a progress bar in the system just wasn't enough - they needed personal reassurance that everything was going fine. The constant calls were enough to drive a business owner potty!

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A chance mistake at the recycling depot changed this repairman's fortunes, when instead of his usual weekly delivery of robot parts, 5 hovertrucks full of returned Personal Trimensional Viewers were dumped on his doorstep. Once the initial distress had passed, a thought occurred. A number of units were set up to provide realtime views of individual robots as they were worked on - this was exactly what he needed!

A few frantic calls later and he'd contacted the dejected inventor. Explaining his idea, both men suddenly saw a brighter future ahead and it was agreed that all returned units would be forward to the repair centre instead of recycled.

Life was much simpler now. On picking up a faulty robot, the anxious owner would be handed their own Personal Trimension Viewer. This would be tuned to show their very own Rotund or Ruckus 24/7, right there on their desk at work or coffee table at home.

Being able to see their brave little guy any time of the night or day wasn't just a relief, people found it fascinating to watch. Before he knew it, people were bringing in their Sprogs for tune-ups, adjustments and refitting, just so they could watch it all being done, like some sort of mechanised reality TV show.

It became apparent that while people may not want to watch other humans any time of day, they did want to see what their robots were doing and many asked if they could keep the PTV once their bot was returned. They could of course. For a price.

MONSTREHERO AXE FACE B.C. Today at Noon..!!!!

Axeface...the Scourge of Pre-history and the Ancient Enemy of the Skullmasters!

The spawn of ancient beasts and dark science, the Axeface clan is renowned and reviled for their brutal combat skill and blood magic alike. On the battlefield they are cruel and merciless, their arms and armor crafted from the bones of their fallen foes.

An Axeface is alway ready for a rumble!

For Sale today at noon! Only at the MONSTREHERO Shop. $75 bones each.

L'amour Supreme x David Healey Witch Hunt Resins

Another awesome collaboration between L'amour Supreme and David Healey. The Witch from Snow White? $40 each. hit up david@healeymade.com

SUCKADELIC TOY LORDS OF CHINATOWN EP 3 Preview Night...!

TOY LORDS OF CHINATOWN EPISODE 3 IS READY TO DROP!
After a year of speculation, rumors, and forgetting about it completely, the next chapter of the exciting SUCKADELIC Comedy-Drama-Supervillain Soap Opera is ready to be unleashed on the World! (Or at least the few hundred Suckers willing to submit themselves to it) Therefore, with great pride/ abject fear, we would like to announce the very first ever:

SUCKADELIC SCREENING PARTY IN NYC!
Join The Super Sucklord and a gang of degenerate, 3rd rate comic-book
rejects for a night of Drinking and watching shitty movies! What could go wrong?

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

THE PRODUCERS CLUB
358 West 44th St NYC (Between 8th and 9th Av)
Friday May 18, 2012.

TWO SHOWS ONLY: 9 PM and 10 PM
Seating is Limited! FREE ADMISSION
CASH BAR (Sorry)

WEAR YOUR MASK!

SKINNER x Jay222 H.P. Lovecraft Education Project: SHOGGOTH SLAVE...!

Wooooah!! as you may know, The Elder Things needed someone or some "Thing" to carry out their mundane duties and such...What does an Elder Scientist do? make a race of hideous amorphous and submissive slaves...a roiling mass of hideous subservient intent...well A Shoggoth can only put up with so many millenia of slavery and then well..an uprising of course!! Shoggoth Slaves can get together and take over the massive psyclopean ruins just beyond the Mountains of Madness where they can hang out and eat the remains of Giant eyeless penguins and Elder Thing Corpses...This is a follow up to last months figure as they go together nicely...next month we have a more humanoid figure that is going to knock your socks off..Jay 222 is kicking ass, as you can see from this sculpt...this figure is going to be more expensive because it is bigger...7 inches tall and heavy and wide...5 and a half inches wide...the largest one so far...it will be $125.00 plus $15 for shipping, $20-$25 if you are out of the country...these go on sale Monday april 30th at noon!

via: SKINNER's Blog

Galaxxor Cyborg Space Barbarian at C2E2..!!

via Galaxxor blog:

The Cyborg Space Barbarian figures Orion Axe, Wardraak, Hallogrim,Gammathrall and Drowlok consist of a helmet that was originally designed and sculpted by Ben Spencer and produced in resin by Marty “The Godbeast” Hansen. These Cyborg Space Barbarian figures also feature bodies from disused vintage Masters of the Universes that were rescued from second hand stores, flea markets and the like, and brought back to brilliant life with hand painting and tlc from Ben Spencer. Each character will be available in an edition of 5 with 2 special horned “chase variant” figures. They will come in standard bag and header card format and will be available for $40 each from the Nerd City booth #842. Any leftovers will be available next week in The Galaxxor Online Store.

Seismic Ace Robot at Lulubell Toys..!!

Smash Tokyo Toys is reinventing itself from 9" resin toys with magnets for articulation to trying their hand at the so-called "American Sofubi" movement by making vinyl robots in Japan. The new venture is called "Any Old Ion". Looking forward to your new vinyl robots. For the record, I think resin robots with magnets are pretty cool.

farewell to the resin Seismic Ace Robot. We hardly got to know ya. Available now at Lulubell Toys for a very reasonable $20.





Factory Shots

Cris Rose x PodgyPanda Ramsay and Podgonauts Collaboration

Ramsay (description by Cris)
Designed to look like a Panda, this was at the specific request of a chain of theme restaurants who wanted all their robots to cook, serve and look like animals while doing it. Outfitted with a splash-guard to stop him getting prawns in the face and a big-ass jetpack, Ramsay was often in the air as each restaurant was a huge bio-dome, complete with trees, plants and running streams. The tables themselves were little open-top pods, hovering around the landscape, allowing diners take in the view while their robot chef cooked down below and jetted up with their orders. Ramsay's programming was simple and he was good at his job...




Wait a minute... where did those orders go? He put them right here...

Podgonauts (description by Podge)
The first batch of Podgonauts are rearing to go! These fine lads of the Panda Exploration Core are equipped with everything they need for their top secret mission. High powered Jetpacks, advanced spacesuits and more courage then you can shake a stick at! What secret mission are they about to embark on? Stay tuned to find out!"




Prints
As part of the collaboration, PodgyPanda has been working on some fantastic artworks that will be turned into high quality lithographic prints by Fugi.me! They'll be released shortly after the resin and feature a number of panels that stand alone in their own right, but that together tell more of the story. Prices are very affordable, around the $20-25 mark and will see one released every month.

Once announced, all prints will be available directly from PodgyPanda's store.

As a little extra, here's a couple of sketches!




Release Details
Released on April 5th, both first editions are limited to just 5 each and sport very similar colours. Both are the same size and weight at 3" x 3.5" x 3.5" and 250g (9oz)

Ramsay Edition A comes in Tangerine Orange with articulated head and removable dome, priced at $160 each.

Podgonaut Edition A comes in the form of the Panda Exploration Core, dressed in Jumpsuit Orange each with a laser engraved disc embedded in their chest. They also have articulated head and removable dome, but every single face is unique! Not only that, but one lucky buyer will find their Podgonaut comes with a chase in the form of a little suited Monkey mechanic in matching colours and a rusty finish applied by Cris! All this for the great price of $130 each.

Along with the Edition As, I will be releasing a very limited run of 3 "Dark Chocolatier" Ramsays for $190 each photos of which will be shown on the day. PodgyPanda will be releasing a number of one-off Podgonauts too, numbers and prices TBA, but they will go up along side his Edition As.

All versions of Ramsay will be available at crisrose.bigcartel.com

All Podgonauts and future prints featuring both characters, will be available atpodgypanda.bigcartel.com

Monster Pants Sea-Borg Captains

Once the sole inhabitants of a planet covered entirely in water, the beings that would become known as the Sea-Borgs were an advanced and peaceful race. Then one day an army of Invaders attacked their world, stripping it of its valuable natural resources and nearly wiping out the worlds' undersea civilizations. The survivors from the various kingdoms banded together, rebuilding their ruined bodies with cybernetic weaponry and armor in order to combat the alien attackers who continue to exploit and pollute their world.

Meet the Sea-Borg Captains:

SB-101 SEA-BORG KING
The leader of the aquatic race charges into battle with his mighty hook weapon!

SB-102 SEA-BORG MIST
A master of stealth, Mist's specialty is covert missions to the ocean surface with his aqua-blaster.

SB-103 SEA-BORG ABYSS
Armed with his diving blade, Abyss lurks in the deepest, darkest trenches of the ocean floor.

These first three Sea-Borgs are available now as 4.5 inch plastic resin figures from MonsterPants Toys. All are handmade and packaged by filmmaker, writer and artist James Felix McKenney. The toys are can be purchased individually for $20 each or $50 for the set of three at the MonsterPants Shop:

www.monsterpants.net/channel

Quantities are limited, so be sure to order yours today!

More to come at sea-borgs.com

SKINNER x Jay222 H.P. Lovecraft Education Project: The Elder Thing...!

From SKINNER's Blog:

This is the most insane sculpt yet! Jay222 has outdone himself!!! 5 and a half inches tall and 5 across...super bulky and amazing all around!! made famous by the story, At The Mountains of Madness...the Elder Things are genius scientists who came to earth hundreds of millions of years ago...they had sought refuge in most forbidden places on earth and had even been fought back by great Cthulhu itself...alas they had problems finding their way off earth as their ability to sail on solar winds was lost to them after so many millenium of earth bound toil...they built the Giant city beyond the Mountains of Madness and there dwelt until the great demise that had befell them in a rebellious blow by nature of beings their own science had wrought...Go read this book ya psychos!! this figure is so beautiful and i tried to give it a cool psychedelic luster that I hope you like...will be available monday at 12 noon for the standard $100 we have been charging...definitely getting your moneys worth on this one!!.....please include $15 for shipping because i want to make sure all of its tentacles and wings are safe, OK? heres the link to

buy them on Monday March 26th at noon over here








I love this thing. It looks like a vagina has been infected with the T-Virus (from Resident Evil) while eating a bag of Skittles..hahahaaahaha.

KING SWINE by Guf at Tattoo Royale..!!

From Guf at Tattoo Royale

My next TR Garage Toy is an original design by me that I call King Swine.

He was once enslaved in the uranium bacon mines of the evil Pharmear Braun, but earned his freedom in the mud and gained great strength as a pen fighter. ( still working on the back story, I really just wanted to sculpt a pig monster. )

He is approx 7 inches tall . I did the sculpt in Castaline wax. ( It comes in soft medium and hard, I prefer to work with the hard. ) He will be roto cast resin and I will have some ready for Wonder Con next month.


Looking forward to checking this piggy in the flesh..!