Ashley Wood World War Robot Email Sign Up!!

You can now sign up for new information on Ashley Wood's offcially titled "World War Robot" by going here: HERE. Or you can just send an email to: enlist@worldwarrobot.com. A cool collaboration between Ashley Wood, Bigshot Toyworks and Three Zero, World War Robot or affectionately knows as Bertie, this highly anticipated toy with 43 points of articulation will bring a fresh perspective to the 1/6 market. Scheduled to be released at NY Comic Con 2008.

Brian Flynn & Dora Drimalas Featured on Apple Pro Website!!

Check out the dynamic design duo of Brian Flynn & Dora Drimalas featured on Apple.com!! How cool is that? You guys like that picture? Look familiar? Yes! It's mine!!

Here's an excerpt:


Super7 started out as “a fun little side project,” says Flynn. After collaborating on a book called So Crazy Japanese Toys, he decided to follow up with a magazine on a similar theme. “And that became an outlet for other personal projects we wanted to do.”

Today, the Super7 empire includes a physical store in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood, a website and online catalog, and a series of print publications, including two semiannual hardcover books. The latest is a travel guide to the toy stores of Tokyo, which sold out its initial print run of 5,000 within a week.

“We make t-shirts, hats, glasses, notebooks, books, posters — and tons and tons of toys,” says Flynn. “Whatever we want to make, we can do it through Super7.”

The store carries a variety of vintage and modern toys, many of which are designed by Flynn and other artists, including noted illustrator Gary Baseman. Some of Super7’s most popular items are Flynn’s Frankenghost and Ghost Fighter characters, which he created in collaboration with Japanese company Secret Base. “We’ve been doing them for three years now, so people have gotten to know them,” he says. “We’ve made tons.”

Among Super7’s recent additions are Flynn’s Ghostland figures. “It’s a set of miniature ghost figures, cute little guys that have taken on the manifestations of whatever killed them,” he explains. “There’s one that’s like a little octopus with a peg leg and a little battleship on his chest, and a guy that looks like a blowfish from eating sushi, and an office ‘working stiff.’ The first wave of production is 15,000, and there’s a second run of 15,000 already being made. This line is distributed pretty much everywhere — but with other stuff, you can only get it at our store and a couple of stores we deal with in Japan.”

Custom Cronic Walder Maverasu!!!

After waiting patiently for a few hours outside Super7 for the Cronic! show a couple of months ago, here is my prize!! I got to choose any of the custom figures, but it was a no-brainer for me to grab this Purple Walder Maverasu!! It comes with beads and pipe cleaners on the inside Woot!!

Gargamel Clear Mini Zag!!

Got this little beauty recently and I have to say it's prolly the best looking Gargamel Mini Zag ever produced. It matches what one collector called "The Zag dreams are made of" referring to the SDCC07 full size Zag which is indeed very beautiful. Comes with an insert on the header card you can cut out and insert. Looks rad either way....

Ningyoushi Exclusive Rumble Monsters Mini Damn Eaters!!

Wow, Ningyoushi cranks out another exclusive hit with these two Rumble Monsters Mini Damnedron Eaters!! Your choice of two variants. Both clear vinyl with either a red or blue tank and Hummer eaten inside. To be released exclusively at Ningyoushi on Monday, December 10th at noon. $48 each. I wouldn't sleep on these as they will go fast.







While I like the included Tank and Jeep, the fun with clear vinyl is that you can put all kinds of cool stuff inside!! None of the following are included with the Ningyoushi Mini Damn Eaters...



What about 1/144 scale Votoms micro mini figures? Sold separately, but also available at Ningyoushi!!





Mini Zag inserts?

New BLObPUS intheyellow.com Figures!!!

man, I gotta hand it to BLObPUS. Those guys know their way around a color scheme. I'm digging they like clear painted vinyl and i've always been into the glitterati! Now that we have had some outstanding recent colorways for Dokugans and Cyclopas, we need those colorways on the OG BLObPUS!!!

These two look like exclusives for intheyellow.com which is a Japanese designer toy site.

Popsoda x Real x Head 5th Anniversary Goodies!!

It's only fitting that RealxHead do a release to celebrate Popsoda 5th Anniversary. After all, the #1 RealxHead Mori, did design the Popsoda figure!! So we have a double release of an un-painted pearl hot pink Mutant Chaos and this crazy metallic Popsoda. I like the fact that the Popsoda figure is clear grey vinyl underneath. Gives the figure a bit of depth.

One-Up New Set of Frothy Skuttles Preview!!

Ken must be eating a lot of ice cream, milk shakes or that Japanese candy cause we have a trio of frothy Touma Skuttles coming your way in December. The figures are partially flocked to give them that frothy look. We have Milky Skuttle, Melon Skuttle X and Strawberry Baby Skuttle. Yummmmmmmy...!!!! More importantly, check out Ken's new website with online store: One-Up New Web Store

Metal Gear Solid Kubricks Chase Figures Revealed!!

I'm stealing these photo's (shamelessly) from Andy's toy blog Toysrevil, but since he stole them (without shame) from Blog@INSTINCTOY, I feel less guilty. I'm digging the icy, stealth chase figs, but not sure if I wanna pay the big bucks to get them. Frankly, I prefer the painted versions...especially MGS4 Ninja and MGS3 Skull Face.





I'm going to apologize in advance, but this last pic of Snake holding up Ninja reminds me of one of my oldest and most favorite toy photos which is forcing me to re-post. I think I took it with a 1mg camera..!! lol....!!

Popsoda 5th Anniversary Rangeas Lottery!!

Hey all you Rangeas fans!! Those cool dudes at Popsoda are gonna let everyone from around the world participate in their lottery for the 5th Anniversary Rangeas!! Awesome!! I think it's easily the best Rangeas produced!!! Damn, this guy is AMAZING!!


Everyone in the world is welcome to participate in the Rangeas lottery!

If you wish to participate please send an email to: rangeas@popsoda.jp by 12pm noon (Tokyo time) December 6, 2007.
Please put "Rangeas Lottery" in the subject line of the e-mail.

Good Luck!

Max Toy Co. x Rumble Monsters Damnedron!!!

Max Toy Co exclusive painted clear Rumble Monsters Damnedron was announced late last week and unfortunately demand for these two figures far exceeded the limited supply. Subscribers got first dibs, but even all the subscribers were not able to get their hands on these two hard to obtain figures! Great job Mark!! I'm personally rocking the all clear so you can see the amazing insert!

Bounty Hunter x New Era Fitted Caps!!!

Bounty Hunter is releasing two new fitted caps by New Era. Should be out soon for around $80 each. I'm digging the guy above.

Combat-R Zero is Almost Here!!!

Robert De Castro's awesome, self produced Combat-R Zero is almost here!! Check out the packaging. I can almost feel the thud of their robotic feet on my desk. I gotta go and clear out about 6 linear feet of shelf space for these guys cause they are BIG!! Will be for sale online at www.atomicmushroomtoys.com after the New Year!