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Sep 27, 2010

Nolasco / Blamo Project Unveiling at NYCC 2010

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The Brent Nolasco / Blamo Project will be introduced at the Tenacious Toys booth (#2878) at the 2010 New York Comic-Con, October 8-10.

The Nolasco / Blamo resin project is a way for Brent to express himself and to have a non-conventional release. Brent wanted the process of making figures and products to be more of a fine art than mass production. He wanted a more "hands on" approach to making his next figure, like how resin figures were first done by artists.

Brent first sculpted this figure by hand. It's something he had never done before. The figure consists of 6 pieces that are hand casted separately and then put together.  Each piece is hand painted by Brent so there is slight variation in each paint job.  

Each piece is very unique and has it's own characteristics that set them apart from one another. Brent likes that they are more organic and free-formed than pieces from a factory which pumps out products for the masses. It makes each release more personal.  

The runs on these upcoming figures are going to be limited quantities. Some will be just "one-offs". Brent is looking to do some sculpting and other interesting things with these figures to keep the ideas fresh.

Figure Info:
Name: Mijo (My Child)
Medium: Resin, Acrylic Paints
Size: 5.5 inches
Price: $300

For more info please contact Brent at:

Sep 24, 2010

Tenacious Toys Custom Marshall Blind Box Series shot

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Boy that's a whole lot of blind-boxed customs, isn't it? Our Custom Marshall Blind Box series will be for sale here at 9pm EST this upcoming Sunday, September 26th. 
Limit of 2 per person. Price will be $49.99 per piece.
We've released a bunch of teasers and flyers but there are TONS of variants and chases that you haven't seen yet. Images of those figures will be released next week.

Sep 23, 2010

Art by Indonesia power couple Eric & Pamela

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Eric Wirjanata, head of Thunderpanda toy company from Indonesia, sends over a picture of his lastest custom: Astro TV Boy, which he created from a Takara Astro Boy figure and Munny accessories! The figure is for sale for $45 at the Slanted Toys shop and will be on display at Eric's show at Plastic Culture in Jakarta.


Eric's girlfriend Pamela Halomoan (cool name, right?) is an animation student who will be helping Eric at the Thunderpanda booth during the Singapore Toy Con 2010. These are her Cupcakes Paper Art, featuring her twisted characters! 

And finally, Eric has been kind enough to let me sell t-shirts with one of his Skullrider drawings on it, so look for that in our Cafepress apparel shop soon!

Sep 22, 2010

Tenacious Toys Custom Marshall Blind Box Series work-in-progress

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So here's the process of creating our little Custom Marshall blind box series: take a bunch of custom Marshalls (above), and the ratio cards and stickers (left)...



Insert ratio card + sticker (cuz stickers rule) into each box...

Then apply stickers to outside of box, on the panels that used to show 64colors' beautiful original designs for the Marshalls (much respect to 64colors but we had to cover those designs because they no longer apply to what's in the boxes...)
Et voila! 
The Custom Marshall blind box series will be for sale in our Exclusives section this upcoming Sunday, September 26th at 9pm EST. 
Any leftovers will be brought to NYCC to sell in our booth in early October.

Sep 21, 2010

Lemi 5-inch mini plush sets now in stock (Americas Exclusive)

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We continue to be very impressed with the work that Eric of Thunderpanda puts into his plush toy releases: his 5-inch mini versions of Lemi the Space Wanderer just arrived, and the set is amazing! The three plushes come packed in a 10-inch zippered bag, screen printed with Lemis all over it. There is a magnet and a sticker in there as well. You get the whole set for just $25! Tenacious Toys is the exclusive retailer of these plush sets in the Americas. You can buy yours now here.
Each Lemi plush has a lanyard with either a suction cup or keyring at the end. The blue colorway is limited to 150 pieces worldwide, the pink to 100, and the green plushes are limited to just 50 pieces. Eric recently had his first solo show at Plastic Culture!

How to make your own blind-box series: Step #37 (gather printed materials)

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Step #37 (gather printed materials): 
Gather the stickers you made to apply to the outside of the boxes, as well as the ratio cards you had printed up. Count remaining stickers you have left after that. 
Do you have enough to throw one into every blind box, along with the ratio card? 
Yes, you do. 
Take fuzzy pics with your terrible webcam so that you can show everyone by posting to your blog.

John Stokes custom Jouwe: "HoneyPot Stroll"

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Our friend and fellow blogger John "Spanky" Stokes has been developing his own customizing style over the past couple years, and I think this is one of his most successful pieces thus far: a custom Jouwe for the group show at Toy Art Gallery in LA. John writes:

After watching the National Geographic channel, I got inspiration from the deep sea dwelling fish... more specifically the "Angler Fish" that has a long node of filament and attached to the end is a ball of bio-luminescence that the fish uses to lure his prey closer to eat them... and as you can see that is kinda what I did when creating the "HoneyPot" Stroll. The figure itself was sculpted on using magic sculpt, wire, tin foil, and I also used faux fur, a glass eye, wood stain, acrylic paints and other misc objects. I also created the "HoneyPot" with resin and inserted a self-contained LED unit with a built in switch.

Nice work Spanky! 
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