Glowpup - 3DRetro x Nathan Hamill's Newest Octopup

It's October and what would October be with some ghostly apparitions? 3DRetro and Nathan Hamill are proud to present the latest in their Octopup line, Glowpup.  Rotocast from translucent white Sofubi in Japan these baby cephalopod-canines will look great chilling out with their brothers on your shelf.  But, much like Vanilla Ice. turn off the lights and they'll glow!

Available now for just $10 at 3DRetro.  Get yours now.

-The Highest Fever

@thehighestfever

Mimoco Runs a Kickstarter: BatteryBot,The Fun Mobile Device Charger with Personality

BatteryBot is the world's 1st and only character-based rechargeable backup battery for smartphones, tablets & mobile devices, by Mimoco!

Introducing...MimoPower BatteryBot by Mimoco and YOU! 

Mimoco®, The Art Toy meets Consumer Electronics Design Studio based in Boston, MA (and makers of MIMOBOT® character-based USB flash drives!) is proud to introduce the new MimoPower line of mobile charging accessories.
Kicking off the MimoPower line is BatteryBot, and we’re bringing it to Kickstarter first...because, well, we can’t do it without YOU!

10 Initial BatteryBot Designs!: 
To start off, we are committing to ten primary designs from our Animal Critterz and Core Series collections. You can be sure that the styles below will be produced and available once we hit our primary Kickstarter goal!

Features & Technical Specs

• Capacity: 5200mAh (minimum, may increase with stretch goals!)
• Cell Type: Li-ion battery 
• Input: DC 5V/1A [MicroUSB] 
• Output: DC 5V/2.1A [USB] 
• Cycle Life: 500 Full Charges 
• DC Charging Time: ~5 hours 
• Charging & Battery Indicator: LED light-up feet 
• Dimensions: 3.5” x 2” x 1.5” [89 x 51 x 38mm] 
• Weight: 5.1oz [145g] 
• MSRP: $70-$80 (but it's only $40 if you back their Kickstarter!)

CLICK HERE TO BACK THE BATTERYBOT KICKSTARTER

SoKo Cat Release - Mini Candy/Caramel Apple Custom Dunny Series

These Mini Candy/Caramel Apple Dunny series (announced in late August) will make you say “awwwww” while simultaneously giving you cavities!  Just to be clear, these cuties they are not edible, so please don’t try to consume them.  As with the full-sized series, you can choose between Mini Candy Apple Dunny (red with shaved coconut) and Mini Caramel Apple Dunny (caramel with peanuts)!  These delicious Dunnys will be available for sale at this weekend’s Chiller Theatre, but they will also be available in her store for after the con for US$25!

Hand painted using high quality acrylic paint. Hand signed and numbered by SoKo Cat!

If you'd like to know more about SoKo Cat, you can visit her blog, follow her on Instagram, and check out her store!

~Mr. N. Visible

Sally Shortfries by UMEToys - DCon Exclusive

You want fries with that? Well UMEToys has you covered! At this year's Designer Con Urban Vinyl Daily will be offering up these 3" resin figures for just $40 each. They are an edition of 8 figures and will come bagged with a specially designed header card for the release. Also, one lucky person will snag a special chase variant of these lovable french fries! Make sure to stop by the Urban Vinyl Daily booth #315 this November 9-10th and treat yourself to an order of starchy goodness.

-The Highest Fever

@thehighestfever

DCAY574 Cadbury Screme Dunny customs up for preorder

DCAY574 is releasing a new Halloween themed version of his Cadbury Dunnies that came out earlier this year. The "Cadbury Screme" Dunnies feature purple and green Cadbury foil wrapping and a white and green creme spilling from the Dunnies chocolate head. These are available for preorder now at DCAY574's store for $80 a piece, but hurry, these will sell out fast.

~Mr. N. Visible

TurboPistola x AOI Ion Men drop Oct 23

Ion Men release tomorrow night,Wednesday the 23rd at 9pm eastern here:

www.turbopistola.storenvy.com for $25 each. There are 8 different builds available, each one showcasing one of the 8 different heads. They are being released in limited numbers. The listings are already up in the store if you want to check them out. Here is the product description from the store if you want to use any of the info:

This is a u5 inch sofubi figure designed by turboPISTOLA and AOI. Cast in clear black vinyl and made in Japan at Siccaluna Koubou. Each figure comes bagged with header card and consists of 7 parts and 6 points of articulation. All parts are completely interchangeable for your building and customizing pleasure!

KiD iNK iNDUSTRiES Wiseman & the Crane resin figure available

The beautiful 3.5-inch resin Wiseman and the Crane blind-bagged figure by KiD iNK iNDUSTRiES is still available. This piece is proving a popular gift for collectors whose fathers served in the military. Click here to buy Wiseman & the Crane. Click on the Learn More tab to read the backstory about the original piece this sculpt is based on.

Fonzo Loves California Show at Dragatomi

Opening on November 16th at Dragatomi and curated by the Freak Store, "Fonzo Loves California" will feature custom Fonzo pieces from 42 different artists. 

Artists include:

Scribe, Scot Tolleson, MapMap, Camilla D´errico, Double Parlour, Chauskoskis, DrilOne, Jeremiah Ketner, 64Colors, Sergio Mancini, GerardMDS, Artmymind, Gary Ham, Rsin, Stuart Witter, Charles Rodríguez, Burundanga Design, Task One, Gabriel Carpio, Otto Bjornik, Grimsheep, Shojonotomo, Eimi, Chikuwaemil, Tasha Zimich, Ardabus Rubber, Beast Brothers, Silvia Cipolla, Jay222, Jon Paul Kaiser, Umetoys, Mark Nagata, Jason Limon, Sonnito, Muxxi, Spencer Hibert, Mab Graves, Mike Fudge, Calvin Ma, Nakanari, Pj Constable and Patrick Wong

Sneak peeks will be available soon.

~Mr. N. Visible 

NYCC Exclusive VISEone Zombie Goo Yellow available now

Our good friend and HUGE NYCC help VISEone has created an 8" follow-up to his super popular 3" Tube Monster series. The 8" Zombie Goo figure is vinyl and they made 100 pieces of this Biohazard Yellow edition for our NYCC booth. At only $40, this is a big and affordable piece! First few orders will get signed pieces! Buy your Zombie Goo here.

OkTOYberfest Group Exhibition Recap

 

OkTOYberfest group exhibition, featuring Ardabus Rubber, Fuller Designs, JC Rivera, Rocketboy and Shadoe Delgado at Royal Flesh Tattoo Gallery, opened Oct19th and was a smash hit. The space was packed from opening until closing as guests mingled, enjoyed drinks provided by Atlas Brewing Company, and won raffle prizes from Royal Flesh Tattoo Company and Rotofugi.

Many pieces from the participating artists sold in online preview and at opening, but remaining pieces can be viewed here and inquired at OkTOYberfest@gmail.com
Let's take a look at some of the exhibition photos and pieces featured in the show;

 

 

 

NYCC Exclusive Monster Embryo by Taylored Curiosities available now

Taylored Curiosities supplied us with our smallest and most delicately priced NYCC Exclusive: 1.2 inches tall and only $16! Limited to 10 pieces, we only have a few left. Buy your Monster Embryo here!

NYCC Exclusive JC Rivera Bearchamp figure & shirt package available now

Bearchamp figure is 8" tall and made of resin by Pobber Toys. Shirt is cotton and made by outsmART Originals. The package is $100 and limited to 50- buy yours here! We have shirts in Men's M, L, XL & XXL.

Creatures and Companions by alarment dropping Oct 27

 Read more on alarment's blog here:

Creatures and Companions « alarment.com

Free Toy Weekend Extended At Outsmart Originals

Our friends at Outsmart Originals have extended their free toy weekend. Order some tees and get free toys. What could be better?

How about a Frank Kozik Dead Astronaut tee? Limited to just forty tees, you better get it in gear and grab a tee before they're gone!

Hit up http://outsmartoriginals.storenvy.com now! 

-The Highest Fever

@thehighestfever

New Art Toy Release by Creo Design - SLUMBERBEAN

Slumber x Creo Design are proud to present the long awaited release of the SlumberBean 'Flavour Friends' series.

 SlumberBean was originally created by illustrator Sam Hadley, also known as Slumber in 2010. The Slumberbean already stars in a series of illustrated prints but now he's ready to snooze around your home in a new limited series of Art Figures called 'Flavour Friends'. SlumberBean features in the Pictoplasma Character Compendium, and has been exhibited in Bristol, Berlin and Madrid.

Cast in Creo Design’s unique PU resin and sitting 5 inches tall, SlumberBean has been hand crafted, cast and painted to perfection by Creo Design. He even comes tucked-up in his own bean can with an exclusive label designed by Slumber. The SlumberBean & Friends are now waiting to relax anywhere you like. 

The first edition 'Original Flavour' drops Friday 01.11.2013 at mid day GMT from slumberbean.com for £30 Ex shipping. Each Flavour is limited to 20pcs. The first edition of Original Flavour will be 10 pcs with 10 more to follow.  So be quick to grab your Original Flavour before they're gone.

Please note this is a work of art and not a toy. Slumberbean is a sold cast art piece with no articulation.

 Stay tuned to their twitter for flavour updates. Also see more of SlumberBean on Facebook and Behance. You can also see more of Creo Design work on his Facebook.

~Mr. N. Visible

NYCC 2013: Sunday Oct 13 featuring our signing with 123KLAN and packing up

Absolutely amazing custom action figure by Jason Chalker & Kris Dulfer. THANKS GUYS!!!

... and Jason & Kris even made a carded 2-pack of me and Steph! How fucking cool is this.

Clutter created a whole series of trading cards featuring all the DTA finalists! We didn't win, so don't take this as a proclamation of Tenacious winning. We all got cards in the series!

Humbled. Really? This blog you're reading was a finalist in this category. Amazing. Thank you.

Yes, that is actually KLOR & SCIEN of 123KLAN signing at our table. Thanks Wolfgang for setting that up!

Last pic. VISEone at 1am Monday morning. I took him to an American diner after he helped me deep into the night, packing up, loading up and unloading. Forever my German brother. Thank you buddy. So good to spend time with you again.