Kozik's Usagi-Gon in Gamera Colorway Now Available for Pre-Order!!

Pre-orders are up at TokyoToyStore for Kozik's very, very latest Usagi-Gon figure which is part of Wonderwall's Kaiju for Grown Ups Series. Limited to 200 pieces in Gamera Green, it will arrive in January for around $80. In case you missed it, here is a Preview showing some of Frank's sketches and prototypes of the Usagi-Gon.

Ryukendo Microman on Motorcycles!!!

Ever since I was a kid, i've loved Micromen!! They are the perfect size for taking with you and always come with a boat load of cool accessories. When you apply the Ryukendo license and have Ryukendo and Ryujino Microman figures, you improve perfection! Now when you take Ryukendo Micromen and put them on 1:24 scale real-life sportbikes, were going off the hook!

If you like Japanese characters on sport bikes, check out:
Bubblegum Crisis on Ducati's or Hakaider on Harley's

Super 7 Exclusive Gargamel Smogun Releases!!

This Saturday, December 23rd, Super 7 will release it's exclusive colorway of Gargamel's latest Smogun figure. It's about 5 inches tall and comes in a clear orange vinyl with metallic blue spray. The colorway is not only in Super 7 signature orange, but also a throw-back to the original and very rare IKB Smogun design and colorway pictured below. BTW, these guys will cost you $5,000 each of you can find them! Thanks to Pogue for the pic from his trip to Japan a few months back. To see more toys that you prolly will never own, check out Pogue's thread here on Skullbrain



I had the pleasure of checking out the Super 7 Smogun first hand and all I can say is: Wow! It really came out nice! At $40 each, a great deal so get to Super 7 this Saturday at 11am or goto the online store or call! Do something!

Fresh Rumblebabies Straight From Kozik!!

One of Kozik's latest projects (if you can keep up with them all) is his custom Rumblebabies from the upstart, but quite popular Rumble Monsters. Kozik got 50 clear blue and 35 Glow in the Dark Rumblebabies and hand painted all of them. They came out amazing and are permanently fixed to my keyboard now!! It's nice to own a custom piece by Kozik when the rest of the toy world is over run by his production pieces... Thanks Frank for the in-progress shots. Cool to get a brief glimpse into your world.

Holiday Bounty Hunter x Kaws!!!

Clear BxH x Kaws in holiday colors...what's more to say? I like 'em both...but just maybe not together? Oh, and maybe not for $350 each? C'mon, people, they are vinyl toys for crying out loud! ummm...ok...i'll take 2...

White Hot Real x Head Colorway!!!

RealxHead fans are in a white hot frenzy over this latest exclusive colorway released in-store at Jyarinco in Japan. Don't bother trying to click on the link and dropping an email to the store because these guys are long gone. They've hit the aftermarket like a raging avalanche and one piece in particular is commanding an icy half a grand! That's right, the Evil Mutant Head pictured above went for close to $500 on Yahoo! Japan Auctions the other day and there is one on eBay right now that is close to $300 and will continue to climb no doubt! Why the insane figures with everyone tapped out at Christmas? Santa Claus only knows, but apparently the reason is that there are less than TEN of the frosty Evil Mutants with the Red Hot Hands in existence!! What about the other two? Well, there are a bit more of them. Supposedly 30 each which is still not very many. Good luck Real x Head hunters!! Thanks to LivingDead and Datadub in Japan for the pics!

Super 7 x Marmit Exclusive Giant Mecha Godzillas!!!

Super 7 is releasing not one, but two Marmit Giant Mecha Godzillas for the holidays!! The first version above is the one that will make you go out and get a subscription to the Super 7 magazine because this clear vinyl with red spray is a Super 7 magazine subscriber exclusive!!!! Now go ahead and get that subscription by clicking HERE

The second version which is available to all the regular Joes is the super cool clear red with black spray! From Super 7:

A giant 14 inches above the land comes this clear red version of Mecha Godzilla! Painted with black, gold and silver spray. A Super7 x Marmit exclusive, limited to 75 figures WORLDWIDE! Put it under the tree for that lucky someone by purchasing it at Super 7 for $165

New Gargamel Pics and Previews Plus Skulltoys!!

Just a couple of previews coming your way. First up is the upcoming full color Mini Smogun from Super 7 x Gargamel. It pays homage in sculp and color to the original IKB Smogun Kaiju. What is it?? It's a Smog Monster made of tires with a car as a head! How cool is that? It comes in clear orange vinyl with metallic blue spray and will be sold exclusively at Super 7.



Next up we have two new colorways of the Skull Toys Mini Figures: Glow in the Dark and Clear. I'm still waiting to my first set of Skull Toys Mini Figures so these two will be a welcome addition to the gang.

Finally we have some shots of my new Max Toy Co. Gargamel Mini Zag and Biskup Mini Dragamel. They are both completely awesome!!!!

Rise of the Aquookie!!!

When I first got a glimpse of the above Aquookie, I was like: "What the hell is that??" I was but a wee lad when Star Wars was released and of course I had the Chewbacca action figure from Kenner. You HAD to have a Wookie. Back then, he was the only Wookie plus he had a crossbow laser rifle. How cool is that? So the Chewbacca action figure is near and dear to my heart. Somehow this guy here has managed to get a furry Wookie all wet and paint him somekind of underwater Wookie or Aquookie as he calls them. Dunno, something crazy about that, yet something kinda cool. check out those rhinestone eyes he's got going! Well, I think they're beautiful and very nicely painted. It's a fresh take on an old Wookie! I asked Agent Lovelette what was next and he told me he's working on (get this): Halloweenwoks (a little late)
and Death Stare Droids (voodoo themed death star droids). This sounds very interesting, but he needs help getting old Ewoks and Death Star Droids. Maybe if you send him yours, he'll cut you a deal on the finished product? Go for it! You know you ain't using those figures for anything good!



From the Aquookie website:

When Star Wars was released in 1977 the world went crazy. Nearly every character and even those character's races enjoyed their chance in the spotlight. Such was not so for the wookies. Most of the race rejected popular press and exposure, retreating to and adapting to other locations to escape the bright lights of the Lucas Empire. In 1984 an oceanic explorer on a routine dive discovered what is now known as the "aquookie". Aquookies are wookies that somehow hypersped evolution and quickly adapted to the deepest parts of the ocean. Their fur has become slimy and resembles a bright tropical seaweed. Their diet and exposure to salt water has transformed their eyes to appear as jewels. No dive has ever resulted in the capture of a specimen. The aquookie figure is the result of a few rare photos shot in the mid and late 80's. Aquookies have not been spotted in over a decade. Many believe them extinct.



Aquookies are hand painted and numbered. Only 10 were made.
Each one comes bagged with header card.
Cost is $30 (price includes shipping in the U.S.)
No international shipping available.

ONLY 3 LEFT
email: agentlovelette@intenseactionkrew.com to purchase

NVC Crew's Gwintastic Customs!!!

Dr. Bao and Spive are at it again with another set of Gwintastic Customs for October Toys!!! I like how the duo which make up the NVC Crew are spreading the custom love to a wide variety of different toys. I'm still waiting to see them do a custom Japanese Vinyl toy!!! Cyborg Mini Zag Dr. Bao?

Dr. Bao dropped me a note with some background on their creative genius behind their latest project:

So....hey here's an update of our recent project.... You that look like a fan of mecha and robot stuff.....you will probably dig on our latest project....!!!!!! For this project, we worked for octobertoys.....We will be their December artist of the month.

So they send to us......their 3 or 4'' Gwin......I don't know if you ever see these toys but they are quite small..... But the hard thing about these toys is that they are just very hard to work with!!!! All the shapes are quite hard to deal with....



We've decided that we will do a series of ........ohhhh....think you wil like this world.....!!!!cyborg S.W.A.T team Gwin....I think the shapes and the concept of pingouin are perfect to do something ike that....So we started to custom them....but what we want to do was to do something that will not look like any other robots of kind of robots-soldiers that other artists did in the custom industry...... We just want to give that special look to our cyborg......The kind of " we're totally space!!!!" :)









But hey, one day I have one of these crazy idea!!!!!!!! I called him..........I go hey Spive....you remember that we're the December artist of the month right......so hey let's do something related to Christmas!!!!! And I add....let's do the Grinch!!!!! That's how I came up with the ideas of making the Grinch...... So I sculpt all the faces of the Grinch on the belly of the gwin. Then I decided to modify the head of the gwin so it looks like a Santa Claus hat......I decided not to add the "white stuff" (i don't know how you call it!!!!) on the mouth of the gwin so peole can still recognize that I use a gwin and custom it. If I would add this thing, it will look so much like the grinch that people will say that I only sculpt a grinch and won't recognize that it's a custom anymore.....



Dr.Bao's The Gwinch and Mr. Lunatiq will be on ebay for auction and the money will be given to a charity organism. We choose to give the funds to an association for people having Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. I have a daughter that has the syndrome so it's a cause that I support.

I think that the Gwinch concept really fits perfectly with the holiday time and everythting simply fits so well together.....from the the custom to the title. It can even be bought and give as a Christmas gift.....it's just the perfect timing for that!!! Because it will be auctioned and the starting price is quite low, I think it's a good chance for people to have a piece from us........for not much!!!!!

Bwana Spoon's New Custom Bats and Upcoming Toys!!

Must be winter in Oregon cause Bwana is cranking out not only a couple of rad, new Gargamel toys, but also this quartet of custom Steven the Bats!! Check out this painting for his upcoming trio of mini Bakobasos titled "Volcano Sunset": This will be ready by the end of the month, and I will open up pre-orders as soon as i have some good pics of the toys. 3 mini bakobas (Gargamel toy with bwana colorway eh)in sexy Hawaiian colors packed with this print, and nestled inside a big M1 egg. Awesome!!

The custom Steven the Bats are numbered and hand-painted. They can be yours for Christmas for only $200 each at Grass Hut Corp.



















Lastly, but most important, check out this all new, exclusive collaboration with Gargamel: The beginning of a long dream comes true for me. My first toy with Gargamel, "killer" is scheduled for release at the end of January. Since I go my very first taste of the candy gumdrop looking toys a few years ago from Gargamel I have been freaking out. The smooth lines and ripples, the spray, and all those Jolly Rancher sweet colors. Here is the first sneak at my new baby Killer. I will try to get out weekly updates on his progress. Will see how it goes. Thanks. Bwana.