Donnie Yen: 14 Blades Trailer

Donnie Yen is a badass. If you haven't seen him in the the wonderful IP Man Biopic, you're missing one of the best martial arts movies ever. I'm now looking forward to this period film called 14 Blades. Donnie getting down with a box full of swords. Seems a bit awkward, but ok. Look for it in 2010





via: The Awesomer

Toygraph Next K.I. The Creature on the Flying Saucer

Here it is, the next K.I. The Creature on the Flying Saucer from Toygraph. The last version sold out literally in five minutes, so be quick on this one...!

Send email to: shop@toygraph.shop-pro.jp

Ｋ.Ｉ ‘the creature on a flying saucer ordering starts on 12/26 at 11:00 a.m. (Japan Time) Which is 6pm on Friday, December 25th in California.

We will accept orders from 11:00 a.m. on the 26th of December(Japan Time)which is 6pm on the 25th of December in California. Any orders received before this time will be invalid.







Toygraph also sent toybot studios an exclusive look at the next version of this toy aptly called "Gunhead" I'm liking this version a lot. Notice the chainsaw right arm.



Check out this fan video featuring Toygraph Space Troopers from Cedar Laine of Black Apricots Films.

Ganmetall Celsius Custom Gunpla Figure 2: Zaku II

As inevitable as "ping" after "pong" or "peanut butter" after "jelly", we have the 2nd figure in Rotobox Vinyl Anatomica's Gunpla Tribute Series: Zaku II...!! Of course. Only released in an edition of 2 so you Gunota's better head over to Rotobox's site and get yours! I really like what they have done with both of these customs. Not too over the top. Spencer still maintains much of the original design of his Ganmetall Celsius figure and just adds enough to make you realize you are looking at the Gundam universe.

Interview with Matt Walker of Dead Presidents Designs

Here is part 3 of 3 in our interview series. This time we have the legendary Matt Walker of Dead Presidents telling us how he got into this game and what's coming up in 2010...! Also check out all the customs from the Kaiju Invades San Francisco show online and available for purchase at Ningyoushi right NOW!!

Interview with Matt Walker of Dead Presidents from toybot studios on Vimeo.









Matt's brother Jimmy. The muscle behind the team.

Cris Rose Salvage Brambles

I'm digging these new custom Brambles from Cris Rose. Cris always has a great backstory to go along with his creations too. Three in this series available now for $220 each at Cris' Online Web Store

The Federation of Robots for Ethics and the Environment (FREE) started off as a couple of guys that found a Bramble in a ditch.

Seriously damaged with it's head blown off, the skirmish that had left it there in that state had long moved to pastures new. It seemed such a shame to leave it there to rust, but there was far too much missing and not enough spare parts to return it to it's former glory. Even the robust A.I. systems were shot.

From that Bramble came the first Salvage bot. Built from 80% of a Bramble (give or take), his body was fully reconfigured and his brains rebuilt from what was at hand. The final touch was a fractal algorithm was applied to his programming to truly randomise his personality, making him unique and as unpredictable as any human!

Luckily for FREE, the first Salvage Bot was friendly and helpful. This proved to be somewhat of a default state for an intelligent being, something discovered as more and more parts were retrieved from the battlefields to construct more Salvage bots.

There was the odd one that had an attitude problem tho, one that couldn't bare to be separated from a weapon of some sort - these were named after angry bugs, like WASP and deployed to protect the rest of the crew if need be. Mostly they just fired blanks, but the noise and mad flailing was enough to diffuse most situations... even if that was through laugher.

The Salvage Bots, while not smart enough to be set loose and determine their own purpose (FREE's AI routine reconstruction would never match up to Rothchild's original solution), they served for a long time as the backbone of the repair and release program that FREE started all those years ago.

Atomic Mushroom Panzer Ace Proto Pics

Updated pics of unpainted samples of Robert Decastro's upcoming Panzer Ace Mech from Atomic Mushroom. man, this guy is looking good. Looking forward to adding him to the mecha stable. Robert says he's about 99.9% there so we should be expecting this bad boy sometime early next year...





Check out the GID version!

More Dropcloth Please? Thank You!

More pics of the upcoming 3A Toys Dropcloth. Apparently he's not wearing a skort or a skirt or an apron, but a "Kilt" as in Celtic Kilt. Cool, but where's the plaid?

Avatar AMP Suit Maquette Pre-Order Up at Sideshow Collectibles

I saw this beast at SDCC last summer and I have to say it's pretty awesome. It's huge. stands 21" tall x 18.5" wide. weighs in a over 12 pounds. Very impressive piece. Well, it's up for Pre-Order at Sideshow Collectibles. Only 500 will be made. Due out 2nd Quarter of 2010. This bad boy will set you back $1,200. It's also a maquette which I think is like a statue basically. I'm not sure if anything is articulated or if you can actually play with it. I'm guessing not. I think if i'm gonna throw down $1,200, I wanna see fucking LED's, tons of die-cast, the pilot should be articulated so you can put him in the cockpit, missle firing, etc. Yes, that's right, I want a very high-end toy.