Original Gee Painting All City Style Trains Live at ToyCon UK

All City Style (winner of Best DIY platform in last year's Designer Toy Awards) has announced that Gordon Smith, aka Original Gee, will be representing ACS at ToyCon UK. Gee will be at The Toy Chronicle booth (#1-3) at the April 9th show in London, showcasing his superb, hyper realistic graffiti-covered ACS trains. Gee will be painting ACS trains live, selling his completed pieces, and attendees will also be able to pick up blank ACS trains at the booth. Get there early to grab a free mini ACS wall graphic!

Full blog post here on the ACS site, including more info about Gee.

SNEAK PEEK: All City Style trains for The Grand Slam (Nov 22 at PIQ)

L, top to bottom: Bio TATS CRU, NICER & BG183. R, top to bottom: Spencer Herr, Original GEE & Ralston Fox Smith.

We are super excited for Saturday, which is the launch of the next show that we are helping out with! Klim Kozinevich, owner of Bigshot Toyworks and creator of the All City Style 20-inch DIY trains, managed to pull together an absolutely ALL-STAR crew of artists for this show, which he dubbed The Grand Slam. Graffiti legends, designers, and artists of all stripes all exhibiting together at PIQ in Grand Central in NYC!

RSVP to the show here on Facebook or just drop by PIQ at 4PM on Saturday November 22nd to check out the trains. 

If you can't make it to NYC for this show, make sure you are following All City Style on Facebook and on the All City Style website. There will be many more ACS shows popping up around the world, as the next batch of All City Style trains are set to hit US shores in early December. Ask your favorite retailer to stock All City Style!

Till Saturday, we leave with with the video below of some of the trains Original GEE had painted in the past... chalk another one up for this legendary artist!

Bigshot Toyworks and PIQ Products Present THE GRAND SLAM on November 22

Bigshot Toyworks and PIQ Products present The Grand Slam, an art show of one-of-a-kind custom painted All City Style subway train models. The Grand Slam opens on November 22, 2014 at 4PM in the PIQ shop located in the Shuttle Passage of New York’s Grand Central Terminal.

The All City Style train is a DIY platform representing one of the most iconic (and controversial) canvases for street artists and writers worldwide: the NYC subway train. Created by Klim Kozinevich, and produced by Bigshot Toyworks, the All City Style trains were tremendously popular upon their introduction in 2004. Supported by multiple art shows in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Moscow, Melbourne, and more, the All City Style trains were embraced by the street art, fine art, and designer toy communities. Artists of all styles agree that the All City Style train is an excellent and unique platform for expression. In celebration of a decade of All City Style trains, PIQ gallery and Bigshot Toyworks proudly present The Grand Slam: the next chapter in this ever-evolving concept.

The artist roster for The Grand Slam includes some of the most respected names in graffiti and street art:
PHASE 2 • VULCAN • DOME • RIFF 170 • CHOR BOOGIE • Glenn Barr • SCIEN • KLOR • Louie "KR.ONE" Gasparro • AW177 • Galen McKamy • Brutherford • Steve Talkowski • Martin Hsu • Joshua Izzo • Luis "ZIMAD" Lamboy • BRISK • APEXER • Tkid • Ralston Fox Smith • Gabriel Shaffer • Tragnark • Lou Pimentel • Joe MacCarthy • James "SEXER" Rodriguez • Rob W Hunt • Eternal • Task One • Kurt Barbee • Bio • BG183 • NICER • DERO • PER • Frank Kozik • AngryBlue • Frank "Wore" Croce • Eric Orr • MCA • MERES CBS • Part TDS • Carlie Ramer • Hieronymus • Spencer Herr • Original Gee & more

This show is open to the public and the pieces will be available for purchase in the PIQ shop, with pickup available 2 weeks after the opening. Art aficionados of all ages are welcome to attend the show, as are members of the press. Blank All City Style trains will be available for purchase at PIQ or from one of the All City Style retail partners listed on the website:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/

Kids can download the All City Style training page or papercraft model from the All City Style Downloads page:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/downloads

Check the list of All City Style retailers:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/retail-shops

Visit PIQ Products:
http://www.piqproducts.com/

Learn more about Bigshot Toyworks:
http://www.bigshottoyworks.com/

All City Style Trains are back on track and available to shops at wholesale

Big news from Bigshot Toyworks: their insanely popular All City Style blank subway trains are back! Bigshot is now accepting wholesale orders from shops interested in restocking this product which sold out nearly everywhere, world-wide. I'll definitely get some.

ACS trains are 20 inches long and are essentially a half of a train car- back is flat and comes with necessary hardware to mount to a wall. Each ACS train also comes with pegs and holes so 2 can be combined to form a whole train car. A versatile piece. So many famous artists have customized ACS trains that it would be absurd to even begin to list them. Basically, it's everyone you've ever heard of. Go to the ACS website and click on Shows to see a bunch of custom painted trains. ACS shows have been help in countries around the world. I think the last one was in South Korea. Next one I believe will be Cardboard Spaceship... and I only know that because I'm paying attention to attentive bloggers. Just like you're doing now. How meta.

Anyone wishing to purchase single trains, or small numbers, will have to contact your favorite local retailer to obtain them. SRP is $40 each.

Shops wishing to make wholesale purchases can email orders into sales@bigshottoyworks.com - wholesale pricing begins with orders of 40 trains. The ACS trains come in 10-pc cases and you can buy 10, 20 or 30 of them but you'll be paying a higher price per piece than you would at true wholesale pricing you get when you order 40+ pieces.

Best of all, Bigshot has for the first tme produced crystal-clear Ghost Trains (pictured below) which are ONLY available at wholesale to shops that make 40-train purchases. Shops can buy 20 Ghost Trains for every 40 silver (original) ACS trains they buy.

The shipment of All City Style trains is headed our way... so get your orders in!

If you need more info, click here to view the most recent ACS email. Or sign up for their email list yourself at the bottom of their Contact page.

All City Style trains by BigShot ToyWorks

Alright, this is not really 1/6 or a designer toy related but I do think its worth a mention!

One of the key elements that ties the Hip Hop culture together, Graffiti, I'm sure some of you may have been or still are, into that sub genre, I'm still am, always will be!

Was back in 2005 that BigShot ToyWorks first released these 20" long blank canvas trains for all Graff artist to throw up pieces in a miniature scale, the trains had amazing success, with original Graff artist and along with the designer toy community, produced some amazing works, with exhibitions all over the world. 

Now they are back, due to be released early January 2014

Check out this video by UK artist Original Gee

If you are interested in buying or stocking these awesome trains, contact Klim on sales@bigshottoyworks.com

Thanks for reading

Wai Man

www.onesixthbruce.co.uk