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Jul 25, 2013

NEXT LEVEL - Plastic Cell Marzy

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To celebrate my triumphant return to blogging here, I'm going to do a series of posts about folks that I feel are doing "Next Level" work.

First up is the new Marzy release from Plastic Cell.

So why does this qualify as "Next Level"?
  1. Double DIY:  Sculpt, mold and cast blank THEN sculpt and paint customs?  Awesome.
  2. Presentation:  Full color packaging, figure with accessories and a print.  Take notes folks.
  3. Price: Total package price for the Marzy figure - $89 plus shipping.  Accessible to collectors but not astronomical.  Perfect pricing.
  4. Quality: Just a damn nice looking figure.  Evocative and respectful of the source without being a shameless rip off.
All the releases are based on a blank figure sculpted and cast by the Plastic Cell crew called "White Cell".  They can be purchased individually for an exceptionally reasonable $15 (mine was $22 shipped).



So check them out on Facebook and Instagram!

Ian Ziobrowski kills it...

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Just saw these amazing customs on Ian's Facebook account. These customs blew me totaly away!
"Roasting" this Nuggyeater is one of the biggest yet. Standing 12 inches tall this custom Paw Raw can be seen miles away roasting the finest in NUGGLIFE. These are not commonly seen creatures, but will devour fields within minuets. Best have some good traps, cause it will take a lot to take one of these down.



The "Pill Keeper"... Evil has come to NUGGLIFE.. For a green country only something must done. Even Crook Ed the cop doesn't approve.

Leafy "HAZE" custom, and "The Burnt Snails" custom Betso dunny. Snails will be Available online.
Follow Ian Ziobrowski (Nugglife) here:
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      - Don P

We Become Monsters unleashes Dimension Hoppers!

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 From one universe to the next the Dimension Hoppers by We Become Monsters have journeyed here to search out new companions for their travels.  These 5" tall resin creatures feature articulated heads and hand painted details. Available in Pink, Blue, Sol, Glow, Battle, Tundra, Swamp and Funker, you're sure to find a pal who fits right in with your universe jumping lifestyle!

Dimension Hoppers will be available Friday, July 26th at Noon EST for $55. 

All orders get a free micro SLAB (while supplies last, and supply of these is dwindling) and entered for random drawings to get a full size WBM SLAB. SLABs are our waste reduction program that turns waste resin into art. Liking www.facebook.com/webecomemonsters also adds another chance for a large size SLAB.




Jul 24, 2013

Custom Teddy Scares Now Available

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Teddy Scares are adorable- in a disturbing kind of way, and they are now available for custom printing on 8" plush teddies! Each of 3 Teddy Scares character comes with a different available printing location on its outfit, ready to be emblazoned forever with your custom logo.

Your custom Teddy Scare is just an inquiry away, drop a line to Mike at theshank254@yahoo.com for details.


 
-Tasha Zimich

Mintyfresh Exclusive Ron English Mouse Mask Murphy: LAST CALL!

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If you've been putting off your purchase of fellow Designer Toy Awards Finalist Mintyfresh's exclusive Mouse Mask Murphy figure, you might want to go buy it now. I just heard from them  and they tell me they are nearing sellout (we've been talking because I was very interested in this exclusive from a business perspective- a VERY smart choice IMHO since this is the most sought-after Ron English toy character).

This exclusive Biohazard colorway is limited to just 100 pieces and it's 10 inches tall- huge and awesome. A MUST-HAVE for all Ron English collectors. Produced in vinyl by Made by Monsters- some of my customers say the QC on Made by Monsters pieces is the best in their collection!

Don't sleep, buy it. This one will soon be sold out, never made again. Then go vote for MintyFresh in the DTAs cuz I certainly don't run the best online toy shop in the world...

Product of the Day - nati513 2 Till Midnight custom 3" Dunny

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Todays featured product is a one of a kind custom 3" dunny from nati513. "@ till Midnight" is a hand painted and customized piece on the Kidrobot dunny platform. Featuring a body representative of the earth and a mushroom cloud exploding from it's head, this custom could be yours for the sale price of $50 at the Tenacious Toys website. 




Jul 23, 2013

Design a Dynomighty Wallet, Get Sales, Get Paid, Go Global!

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Dynomighty Wallet design by SENaspace
Dynomighty Wallet design by SENA


Dynomighty Announces their "Artist Collective" program, designed to encourage submissions of new designs for their MightyWallet Tyvek wallets. Tyvek is that crazy material the USPS uses in their Priority Mail packaging. You can print on it like paper, but it doesn't tear.

Artist Collective is a creative channel where up and coming, developed, or masters of the fine arts can produce a MightyWallet® of their own design. Artists from around the globe have joined in and started sharing their art to inspire others...not to mention create an amazing wallet! Once the artist's design is approved they can choose to launch it immediately or save it to coincide with a show or event to help cross-promote. It puts the power of promotion into the artists hands.

Once the design is launched, there is a 30 day window in which they will need to have 30 backers support their design. If the wallet design clears the 30 by 30 challenge, the wallet will go into production. Any and all backers will receive the wallet. A few of the most successful designs will be offered to over 1600 stores across 66 countries around the globe. So not only do you get to create a wallet of your own design, but if your design clears the 30 by 30 challenge, it will be seen around the globe.

This unique project is part of Dynomighty's commitment to encourage art and design. Founded by an artist, Dynomighty has and always will support art, artists, and those that choose to Be Mighty!







Dynomighty Wallet design by Alisa Yang
Dynomighty Wallet design by Alisa Yang
So here's the thing: if you're an artist, and you are ALREADY producing artwork in various forms to sell online, you should DEFINITELY take advantage of this program to get products with your art on it distributed around the world. Worldwide recognition is NO JOKE. As an artist it should be your main goal, if you hope to support yourself on the sale of artwork alone. You're gonna have to sell both original art, and products like this with your art printed on them, in order to make it.

And you KNOW I would never push you to do something that's a waste of time. Money MUST be the end goal.

Basically the program works like this: go here, click on CREATE, and upload your design. From that point you have 30 days to get 30 people to pre-order your design. That's as easy as a little social media work, or blogging work, or an email blast to your mailing list (because you DO have a mailing list, right?). MightyWallets are $15 at retail- super cheap for customers. If you have a mailing list of 300 people, and you might get 10% to spring for it, you're golden.

You can see this process in action here, where buyers would browse designs.

OK so once you get 30 of your people to back your wallet design (it's like a mini 30-day Kickstarter), your wallet goes into production. Your backers pay and get theirs and ALSO you get 15% of the profits generated by the sales of your wallets on the Dynomighty site.

ALSO, the most successful wallet designs are offered up at wholesale to Dynomighty's impressive network of retailers in 60+ countries!

To sum up: if your design goes through, you get MONEY and GLOBAL RECOGNITION. What the hell are you waiting for?


Go find Dynomighty on their website, Facebook and YouTube.


Dynomighty Wallet design by ieatcoffee
Dynomighty Wallet design by ieatcoffee

Dynomighty Wallet design by hero
Dynomighty Wallet design by hero

Quality customs from One-Eyed Girl

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Speechless by these extremely artistic customs from One-Eyed Girl.
Wanted to share my monsters for "A Monster's Lullaby" at Strychnin Gallery this month!
This is Snoodle the daydreamer, custom 8" Dudebox
This is Squeedle, Irk, Bop, and Doug, the Barber Shop Quartet. Made from various vinyl toys
This is ZeeZee Snorington, custom mini munny/rooz
Follow One-Eyed Girl a.k.a. Kasey Tararuj here:
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Peace of the Trooper by Don P

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My latest custom, the base is a 8 inch Trooper Lotus from Mighty Jaxx and ClogTwo. This piece will be soon available at Mintyfresh.eu. I will probably do a small series of these Troopers, when you are interested than contact info@mintyfresh.eu




Jul 22, 2013

Jon-Paul Kaiser's Locodonta Dunny Signing Schedule extended

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It seems that UK artist Jon-Paul Kaiser didn't get enough of us "yanks" during SDCC, he has decided to have a few more signings for his recent Locodonta Dunny release. Since Jon-Paul Kaiser is a UK artist, collectors don't get many chances to attend his signings or events. This is a great opportunity to meet the soft spoken Jon-Paul Kaiser in person, at least for anyone in Northern California, who is able to make it down to either Kidrobot SF or Dragatomi in Sacramento.

First, on Wednesday July 24th, Jon-Paul Kaiser will be in San Francisco signing at the Kidrobot SF store.



On Thursday July 25th, Jon-Paul Kaiser will be in Sacramento, signing at the Dragatomi store.
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For anyone in the area of either store, be sure to head on over and show JPK some love.

Portal Mini Munny by Klang

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What an insane idea is this...

I  have just finished a new custom, Its based one one my all time favourite games 'Portal'. Its a mini munny. 1 off. hand sculpted and painted by me.price of £70. available soon from www.collectanddisplay.com




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Nathan Hamill Mini10-Doh "The Legend of Lavabear" Artist Proof and Print

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Head over to Nathan Hamill's BigCartel store and get yourself an limited artist proof edition of his "The Legend of Lavabear" Mini 10-Doh figure AND! a signed mini print of the artwork.  $30?  That's a steal!  Only 20 available (probably less now cause I get distracted easily while I'm blogging) so grab one quick!

-The Highest Fever
@thehighestfever

In Control Of My Own Destiny busts by A Little Stranger

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An artist being able to self produce a Designer Toy or art piece is becoming more and more feasible with the growing popularity of resin. UK artist Holly Stanway, aka A Little Stranger, is a part of that trend with her latest release of 2 resin pieces titled "In Control Of My Own Destiny".

From A Little Stranger's blog:
These two busts are hand cast from my original sculpt, and painted in their own unique colourway; one light to dark, one dark to light. Both pieces have glossy gold eyes. Each is one of a kind and not to be repeated.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
- See more at: http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2013/07/in-control-of-my-own-destiny-busts/#sthash.vhdUCo7g.dpuf
These two busts are hand cast from my original sculpt, and painted in their own unique colourway; one light to dark, one dark to light. Both pieces have glossy gold eyes. Each is one of a kind and not to be repeated.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
- See more at: http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2013/07/in-control-of-my-own-destiny-busts/#sthash.vhdUCo7g.dpuf
These two busts are hand cast from my original sculpt, and painted in their own unique colourway; one light to dark, one dark to light. Both pieces have glossy gold eyes. Each is one of a kind and not to be repeated.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
- See more at: http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2013/07/in-control-of-my-own-destiny-busts/#sthash.vhdUCo7g.dpuf
These two busts are hand cast from my original sculpt, and painted in their own unique colourway; one light to dark, one dark to light. Both pieces have glossy gold eyes. Each is one of a kind and not to be repeated.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
- See more at: http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2013/07/in-control-of-my-own-destiny-busts/#sthash.vhdUCo7g.dpuf
These two busts are hand cast from my original sculpt, and painted in their own unique colourway; one light to dark, one dark to light. Both pieces have glossy gold eyes. Each is one of a kind and not to be repeated.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
- See more at: http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2013/07/in-control-of-my-own-destiny-busts/#sthash.vhdUCo7g.dpuf
These two busts are hand cast from my original sculpt, and painted in their own unique colourway; one light to dark, one dark to light. Both pieces have glossy gold eyes. Each is one of a kind and not to be repeated.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
- See more at: http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2013/07/in-control-of-my-own-destiny-busts/#sthash.vhdUCo7g.dpuf
These two busts are hand cast from my original sculpt, and painted in their own unique colourway; one light to dark, one dark to light. Both pieces have glossy gold eyes. Each is one of a kind and not to be repeated.
Busts are sold separately. Each bust is approximately 3.5″ tall and comes secured to a solid, felt bottomed base ready for display. Available now in the A Little Stranger Shop.
- See more at: http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/2013/07/in-control-of-my-own-destiny-busts/#sthash.vhdUCo7g.dpuf
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In Control of My Own Destiny Bust (front) - A Little Stranger


In Control of My Own Destiny Bust (Back) - A Little Stranger
These busts look really similar to the upper portion of a work in progress sculpt revealed on A Little Stanger's blog back in January, which featured a standing 8" sculpt, also titled "In Control Of My Own Destiny".
 
As for these two uniquely painted 3.5 inch busts, they are available now for 60 GBP plus shipping (about $92 plus shipping) from Holly's online shop. I do anticipate more unique versions to be released in the future, getting the most out of any created mold.

Be sure to keep up with Holly:
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A Little Stranger

Hands In Factory's Baby Horns Trio

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Hands In Factory has announced that their Baby Horns Trio is now available for pre-order.  The trio, consisting of Ad, Vexx, and Firehorn, are beautifully crafted and rather sporty looking 7" vinyl figures.  Priced at an unbelievably low $45 a piece, you can grab the whole trio for just $130.  The series is limited to 500pcs and can be pre-ordered by emailing tj_park@naver.com.



A Peak At New Resin From Kid Ink Industries and Forces of Dorkness

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Our friends Kris Dulfer of Kid Ink Industries and Scott Kinnebrew of Forces of Dorkness often share work-in-progress shots with us on the various Facetograms and Twitbooks.  Today we get some serious teases for upcoming releases.  First up we've got Mr. Kinnebrew's Boba T.  Intergalactic bounty hunter and gold-necklace laden muscle man, he's gonna pity the fool that does grab one of these new resin figures at NYCC this October and all that jibba' jabba'.


Next we've got a whole slew of pieces from Kris Dulfer.  Sharing some of his classic pieces like Delskull and Love-Chain key chains and PonderBoxes in new Heisenberg-approved glassy clear and ice blue colors.  Also, a bag of... well whatever that might be.  


Watch Scott Kinnebrew and Kris Dulfer's FB pages for more info.  




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