TARA McPHERSON - POP UP AND SIGNING - March 9, Grand Central NYC

PIQ Grand Central Hosts the First Stop on the Tara McPherson  Pop Up Tour 2018

 Friday March 9th 6-8 PM

Internationally known painter, illustrator, and toy designer Tara McPherson kicks off her 2018 pop-up tour at PIQ Grand Central on March 9th 6-8pm. 

Tara brings her complex world of beauty, myth, and emotion to PIQ for an NYC start of her nine stop tour that runs from Akron to Asheville. Winner of Designer Toy Awards "Toy of the Year " in 2012, her partnership with Kidrobot continues with the recent Wonder Woman 7" and Care Bears Tender Heart figure releases. Choose from a comprehensive assortment of her prints, meet this stellar artist, and help give her a New York hometown send-off. 

About Tara McPherson

Tara McPherson is an artist based out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. She explores, through portraiture, the realms of our psychological states via myths, legends, astronomy, physics, nature, love, loss, childhood and good old life experience. Giving us a peek into the complexities of the human psyche through her otherworldly characters. Tara's success and influence runs through the worlds of fine art, music, advertising, comics, and toy design. 

About PIQ

PIQ (pronounced “pick”) toy and gift stores reflect the city that inspires them. Like New York, PIQ is unexpected, international, and a ready for a good time. With playful designs, witty books, irreverent novelties, designer toys, custom figures, and global treasures, everyone will find the gifts to make someone smile. PIQ is a division of the Sarut Group, with retail locations at Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center in New York, PIQ UniversalCityWalk Orlando and PIQgifts.com. 

 

At PIQ form follows fun.

Gotcha by Steven Harrington Drops March 6 at ToyQube

The “Gotcha” sculpture is designed by Steven Harrington and fabricated by Toyqube. Produced in a limited run of 180 pieces and entitled "Gotcha," the new sculpture stands 11 inches tall and weighs 4.5lbs. 

The sculpture is constructed of polystone, paint and metal and will be packaged in a cardboard spot-varnish sleeve. 

AVAILABLE TUESDAY MARCH 6TH 1PM EST AT TOYQUBE - CLICK HERE

Mighty Jaxx Rolls Out HUMPek the Humping Dogs by Whatshisname

The POPEK and PEEPEK figures designed by Whatshisname and produced by Mighty Jaxx have been some of our best selling art toys this past year! So we were really excited to hear that MJ is rolling out a follow-up: HUMPEK! I mean, honestly, the only thing dogs do more than poop and pee is hump, so this is perfect! Even better, we may be able to score an exclusive colorway. Still discussing. More info later. In the meantime you can grab the red HUMPEK here in the MightyJaxx shop.

Bobby's Shoes Set of 6 Pairs by ANATOY In Stock Now

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At the pinnacle, anyone would lose interest in their work. “Bobby” was a marathoner at the top of the tree. One day he watched a sprint race and began dreaming of a sprinter. He had an excellent endurance for running a marathon, but badly lacked speed. He met ANATOY and got a pleasant suggestion at the moment he felt helpless and frustrated.

6 individually packaged pairs of shoes

each fits Bobby the Slow Sprinter

materials: PVC & ABC

designed in South Korea by ANATOY

About ANATOY:

ANATOY is about the complex.

ANATOY is an Art Toy that brings the concept of anatomy to toys and talks about the mental or physical complexes that everybody has but hardly get people’s understanding.

People set goals and make steady efforts to overcome their complexes, but it is not as easy as they think. We have a number of characters who have their own complexes. They are offered a wide range of experiment suggestions at ANATOY Market (ATM) so that they can overcome their complexes and lead an ordinary life like others.

This process helps us understand and empathize with many different complexes of ourselves and others that all of us do not want to show. What we at ANATOY want is help people to have a better and deeper understanding of complexes things that everybody lives with and how one embraces them.

Bobby the Slow Sprinter 5.75-inch PVC Figure by ANATOY In Stock Now

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At the pinnacle, anyone would lose interest in their work. “Bobby” was a marathoner at the top of the tree. One day he watched a sprint race and began dreaming of a sprinter. He had an excellent endurance for running a marathon, but badly lacked speed. He met ANATOY and got a pleasant suggestion at the moment he felt helpless and frustrated.

size: 5.75" inches

highly articulated

materials: PVC & ABC

designed in South Korea by ANATOY

comes with free pin

About ANATOY:

ANATOY is about the complex.

ANATOY is an Art Toy that brings the concept of anatomy to toys and talks about the mental or physical complexes that everybody has but hardly get people’s understanding.

People set goals and make steady efforts to overcome their complexes, but it is not as easy as they think. We have a number of characters who have their own complexes. They are offered a wide range of experiment suggestions at ANATOY Market (ATM) so that they can overcome their complexes and lead an ordinary life like others.

This process helps us understand and empathize with many different complexes of ourselves and others that all of us do not want to show. What we at ANATOY want is help people to have a better and deeper understanding of complexes things that everybody lives with and how one embraces them.

Boonicorn & Friends Boo the Unicorn 10-inch Plush by JCORP In Stock Now

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Meet Boo, the party Unicorn — Boonicorn for short. He is 8” tall, super soft, and might just steal your heart with his rainbow magic powers! Designed by JCORP.  

size: 8" Tall, 10" Wide, 5" Deep

Monkey King Wreaks Havoc - Ghost version 1:6-Scale Action Figure by JT Studio In Stock Now

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Monkey King Wreaks Havoc – Ghost limited edition, designed & handmade by Jei Tseng.

Limited to 100 pieces.

Special accessories : Battle Damage Horns

This item is drop shipped from Taiwan.

Product details:

Height of figure: 30 cm

Materials: PVC, ABS, CLOTHES,

Funko Hikari XS Lilo & Stitch - Stitch Purple & Blue 2pc Set of 4-inch vinyl figures In Stock Now

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Stitch from Disney’s Lilo and Stitch is now available in Hikari XS form! Limited to 3,500 pieces, this sparkly 2-pack shows Stitch in purple and blue.

Window boxed 2-pack of 4-inch-tall Stitch figures, one blue and one purple. Cast in sparkly vinyl.

STX Taps Hasbro to Handle UglyDolls Toys in Advance of Uglydolls Movie

[PRESS RELEASE]

STX Entertainment and Hasbro are joining forces in advance of the UglyDolls movie.

STX has high hopes for the whimsically unconventional line of plush dolls and it's enlisting Hasbro to be its global toy licensee. UglyDolls first hit store shelves in 2001, the brainchild of David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim.

Throughout their decade-plus history of adorable ugliness the toys have been more a novelty item than a mass-market commodity. STX wants to change that by working with Hasbro, one of the world's largest toy manufacturers. Prior to the deal, Horvath and Kim had handled manufacturing of the dolls before tapping Gund, a maker of plush products, to create the items. That pact with Gund has expired. The UglyDolls movie opens in 2019 and is being directed by Robert Rodriguez ("Spy Kids").

STX is a relatively new player in Hollywood. It launched in 2014 and has produced such movies as "Bad Moms," "The Gift," and the upcoming Amy Schumer comedy "I Feel Pretty." Along with its films, the company is backing such TV programs as "Valley of the Boom" and also recently announced it is doing a virtual reality show with Rodriguez and Michelle Rodriguez.

"When Robert Simonds conceived of STX over three years ago, the idea was to build a global media company with entertainment properties that could seamlessly move across all platforms," said Adam Fogelson, Chairman of STXfilms, in a statement. "In UglyDolls, we have exactly that - a universally appealing brand with the potential to reach a massive audience on every screen and experience, and a meaningful way into animation. It is incredibly exciting to take this next big step with a company of Hasbro's global reach, experience and influence to bring the 'Uglyverse' to longtime fans and new audiences."

"UglyDolls is a brand with deep history and tremendous equity, and we are thrilled to work with STX to bring the Uglydolls story to life in all new ways via rich storytelling and immersive play experiences," said Samantha Lomow, Senior Vice President of Hasbro, in a statement.

The UglyDolls brain trust also praised the pact.

"Our roots are deeply intertwined with a profound love for the toy industry," said Horvath. "We've been fans of Hasbro's toy lines for ages, and are great admirers of their creativity and aesthetic sensibility. We are absolutely thrilled to be working with Hasbro and STX Entertainment on the UglyDolls franchise."

In addition to the upcoming feature film, STX has UglyDolls projects in the works across the company's multiple divisions, including its television, virtual reality, and games arms.

The global master toy deal between STX Entertainment and Hasbro was brokered by Stephanie Sperber at White Space Entertainment.