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May 10, 2012

Resin is King series Golden Ticket Teuth

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The Golden Ticket prize for our upcoming Resin is King Series 1 has arrived- a custom painted Teuth by Brian Ahlbeck!

Resin is King Series 1 blind-box series drops May 18th

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Announcing Resin is King Series 1: a blind-box resin series featuring some of the biggest names working in resin today! We collaborated with Brian Ahlbeck of Dead Hand Toys on this project and we rounded up a few of the resin artists to collaborate:
 Staying true to the nature of resin toys, every single one of the 40 pieces in this series is absolutely unique. Each artist created a new sculpt specifically for this series, but after they cast the pieces in resin, each one is hand-painted or embellished by the artist to make it unique. Each sculpt comes in at just under 3 inches tall.  Each blind box will contain a randomly-packed resin figure, a ratio card and a sticker.

Brian Ahlbeck has created a Teuth as a Golden Ticket (below). The Golden Ticket will be randomly inserted into one of the blind boxes. The winner need only contact us according to the instructions on the ticket.
The Golden Ticket prize: this custom-painted Teuth by Brian Ahlbeck!
Resin is King Series 1 blind boxes will be $25 each. 

The release date is Friday, May 18th, 2012 at 8pm EST at the following link:

May 9, 2012

Pepe Hiller x Lunabee Woodbees

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Pepe Hiller announces his collab with UK artist Lunabee:
These hand carved wooden bees, aptly names WOODBEES, were created by Pepe in Switzerland out of maple & walnut wood and then shipped over to Lunabee to paint up. There are 10 bees in total - 9 smaller worker bees (approx 2.5 inches in length) and one large Queen bee (approx 3.5"). The worker bees will be up for $99 each and the Queen for $149.

These are the only bees that are being made - there will be no future series, it's a one off collaboration and so this is the only chance to grab one of these wooden delights.

The release is being split into two with 5 worker bees being released tomorrow Thursday the 10th May at 7pm London time on Lunabees store (http://lunabee.co.uk) and the remaining 4 worker bees and the Queen being released on Thursday the 17th May at the same time and in the same place.

7-inch custom Raffy Unicorn by Scott Kinnebrew of Forces of Dorkness

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With Kidrobot's release of the new 7-inch Munnyworld platforms, Scott Kinnebrew of Forces of Dorkness got a much bigger platform to work on for his Raffy Unicorn customs! This custom he's holding is literally the first 7-inch Raffy we unboxed and shipped out, and the first completed custom on this platform we saw. You can check out more of Scott's work on our website here. Look for much, much more from Scott in the near future!

Noferin Jibibuts Artist Series in stock now

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Jibibuts Artist Series wooden blind box figures by Noferin are in stock now! Currently we are selling sealed cases only as they arrived yesterday, but soon we will open some up to sell open-box at reasonable prices. Full cases of 12 pieces contain one of each of the 12 designs- a full, complete set in each case! No chasing rare colorways! I like that. 
This series contains pieces with artwork by some of our favorite artists: Andrea Kang, Anna Chambers, Bubi Au Yeung, Buff Monster, Leo Hillier, Martin Hsu, 64 Colors, Nathan Jurevicius, Noferin, Peskimo, Squink and Tado. 

May 7, 2012

Army of Darkness Ash custom by Jeff Beck

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Jeff Beck sent us these pics of his SWEET Ash Munny custom, complete with blood spatters, chainsaw hand and crazyface... and he didn't even know that Sam Raimi is my cousin! I love Sam's movies, and Army of Darkness in particular, so I'm really diggin this piece. To follow Jeff Beck, check out these links:

Real Steel AMBUSH articulated robot figure by 3A

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Worth noting as 3A makes inroads into manufacturing toys as collabs on other companies' licenses: Ambush, a 42cm (16.5 inch) tall highly articulated robot figure from the Real Steel movie. The detail and weathering is very impressive... this figure was available for preorder from the 3A web shop in mid-April. If you want to follow along with 3A's info and releases in the future, here are their links:

Note for confused newbies: there is nothing currently for sale in the 3A web shop. This is not a mistake. Literally everything 3A makes sells out right away. We recommend signing up for their VOX newsletter to stay informed.


Jon Malmstedt visits Gotto-san's studio in Japan

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Our ex-pat buddy Jon Malmstedt (Rampage Toys) now lives in Tokyo. A while back he was fortunate to be able to visit Japanese paint master Gotto-san, and he made this blog post and this video about his visit. Really, super cool to be able to see "behind the scenes" in the production of sofubi.


Something blue and evil this way comes... from Dave Webb

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Dave Webb (aka Davemarkart) created this sweet little blue evil thing... whether he knew it or not, he was creating his version of our little blue pitbull logo (below). He wanted to make us a present for helping him out, so he asked us what we wanted. We told him to make us something blue and wicked... and this perfect little monster is what he came up with! A damn fine addition to the official Tenacious Toys collection. Great work Dave! A thousand thank-yous!!!


May 4, 2012

Alarment custom Androids- sold out but worth sharing

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Allan Armenta (Alarment) sent us info about his sweet Android customs... obviously these sold immediately, so this post is a bit of a tease if you're interested in his Android customs... but definitely go to Alarment's store to see what else is available. There are customs on many various platforms available, or you can commission your own.

Stormies Kickstarter by Jon Walsh with resin by Matt A

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Now THIS is a Kickstarter I can definitely get behind (in fact, I pledged before I started writing this blog post!)

We've posted a few teasers this week, but here's what Jon Walsh has to say about the project:

Starting today, May the 4th, I am launching a Kickstarter project to help raise funding to have my Stormie figure resin cast by the uber amazing Matt*A (http://www.facebook.com/Matt.Acustoms). A Stormie is a 2.5" mashup/original sculpt of everyone's favorite ever-present imperial character, the Stormtrooper. As part of the project a large range of rewards are available to supports, ranging from $1 to $150. These include exclusive Kickstarter pieces and colorways, prints and even some custom one-offs by some of your favorite artists such as NikeJerk, Fuller, Ian Ziobrowski, UNCLE, JFury, Halfbad, Shez, Trust Pigs, 2bitHACK, F1shcustoms myself.

I'm super stoked for this. The project is already overfunded but there are still rewards left so click through and pledge to get yourself a Stormie! I'm down with any project that supports my artist friends and associates. 





To pledge, go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1600197459/stormies-episode-1 and check out the project to see what is going on in a galaxy not too far, far away.

WIP: Beautifully Ugly Ghost Girl custom by Cyberphunkk

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beautifully ugly, originally uploaded by cyberphunkk.

Emmanuel White Eagle shares with us a new custom called "Beautifully Ugly" on a Ghost Girl platform. He writes that he has been planning to do it for a few months, and he finally had time to work on it. Above is the illustration that the figure is based on. This character will also be a series of paintings, illustrations, and customs, and maybe an original if he can get funds yet for producing it.

Below is a WIP photo of the custom. The back end of the Ghost Girl will be brought out from the sketch into 3D so it will be a 360-degree all around sculpted custom.

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