Curves and Bullets Arsenal Brings the Cosplay Heat to NYCC Booth 780

Tenacious Collective member Rolo will be showcasing his Curves and Bullets world in Booth 780 at NYCC 2017. That includes the Curves and Bullets Aresenal (customized nerf blasters) and Curves and Bullets comic books, plus concept art, live action photos and character designs. Come to booth 780 to immerse yourself in Curves and Bullets!

Mark our booth in your NYCC Show Planner so you don't miss this madness!

WeGo Pop Up Shop at NYCC Booth 780 Tenacious Collective Sat / Sun

We are very excited to announce a special event at our NYCC booth this year:

Saturday and Sunday Booth 780 will be hosting a Mechatro WeGo Pop Up Shop featuring a whole slew of different WeGo figures in both the 1/35th and 1/12th scale sizes!

(NOTE: WeGos will be available for purchase all 4 days of NYCC. To purchase on Thursday or Friday, locate the lighted glass WeGo case in Booth 780 and ask a booth staff member nearby for assistance.)

Many of these WeGos are shipping directly from Japan and are otherwise extremely hard to find in the USA. The red, green and blue WeGos pictured have deco like the Japanese taxis! No other retailer in the USA currently has the above-pictured WeGos.

So, what is a WeGo?

WeGos are super articulated Japanese robot action figures, with tons of poseable joints and compartments that open to reveal an interior. Read more about the Mechatro WeGos here, and don't forget to add Booth 780 to your NYCC Show Planner so that you can find us easily on Saturday!

Tenacious Collective at New York Comic Con 2017 Booth 780

Oooohhhh boy, it's THAT time of the year again!

Once again, we will be quarterbacking the most diverse, eclectic, welcoming and just plain FUN booth at New York Comic Con!

The Tenacious Collective will be located at Booth 780 at New York Comic Con. We are in the back of the same big room that we were previously in the middle of... way back by the back wall and the loading docks. We won't be hard to find, because we will have a BOAT LOAD of awesome artists, creators and indy companies represented inside our booth.

Add us to your NYCC Show Planner now!

Here's our 2017 cast of characters:

#1 - NUGGLIFE: Custom toys, resin figures, streetwear / apparel like shirts, caps, beanies, joggers, sweatshirts, etc

#2 - Bun Leung: Illustrations, stickers, prints, sketches

#3 - Jon Schnepp - Writer, director, producer, voice actor and MUCH MORE. Posters, comics and lots of cool merch

#4 - GhostLion (aka Hungryghostt & BlaqLion): Custom toys, resin figures, pins, stickers, illustrations and more

#5 - SeeOne: Author / illustrator / creator of The Adventures of Miru and Nitelyfe Pins - comics, graphics novels, pins, illustrations and much more

#6 - Rolo Ledesma: Creator of Curves & Bullets - illustrator and purveyor of fine, one of a kind cosplay accessories, graphic novels and comic books

#7 - Black Drove (Boobotcher & Grizlli Atom) - pop-up shop selling sofubi, resin, kaiju of all stripes, all OOAK or micro-run collectibles from 40 different artists (Thursday and Friday only)

#8 - EFUE (MikeDie, JosL, Anthony Respect and ChristieBear) - toys, pins, illustrations & artwork, paintings, and much more

#9 - Mechatro WeGo Pop Up - a wide selection of 1/35-scale and 1/12-scale WeGo robot action figures (Saturday & Sunday only)

 #10 - Concrete Jungle - (Steven Cartoccio) new resin figures will be available

Stay tuned to this blog, plus the Tenacious Toys Facebook, Twitter & Instagram, to keep up to date on all of the exclusives in our booth!

Introducing Frankpool by Concrete Jungle Studio - The Merc with a Muzzle - NYCC Booth 309

We are very proud to announce that the Frankpool figures by Steven Cartoccio (Concrete Jungle Studio) will make their biog debut at our NYCC Booth 309! These are highly detailed 9" resin figures designed and produced by Steven, who will also be on hand during the show at Booth 309. (Word is, Steven will be bringing some other awesome items - prototypes - that you won't want to miss!) The Concrete Jungle is an animated series featuring Frankpool and all the animals and humans around him in NYC.

The Red Frankpool is the standard color, with only 100 produced. We will have a limited number available at Booth 309 for $125 each. Red Frankpools will ALSO be available simultaneously online on the TenaciousToys.com website during the show, in case you can't make it to NY.

The Grey NYCC Exclusive version of Frankpool is limited to 10 pieces only, and is priced at $150. You MUST attend NYCC to get one of the Grey NYCC Exclusives.

Both Frankpool colors come with 2 alternate heads which show off their canine good looks. You know this item is RIGHT up our alley! Big props to Steven for gracing our booth with his awesome indy collectibles!

Tenacious Toys NYCC 2016 Show Specials

First NYCC 2016 announcement! We have a couple of NYCC Show Specials that we want to share with you:

First we have the new Tenacious Toys logo t-shirts pictured above in a rainbow of colors! All cotton, many sizes from Youth Small up to Men's 2XL. They are $10 each and we only printed 150 of them, and we are going to retire this particular t-shirt design after they are gone. (Not the logo itself, we are keeping that Playful Gorilla logo!) Next t-shirt printing will be a different logo/layout. Make a purchase from Tenacious Toys during NYCC and we will give you a shirt in your choice of size and color for FREE!

Second show special is the awesome Jason Freeny CAPSL keychain collection. Our special pricing for these items is 1 keychain for $5, 2 for $8 and 3 for $10. Or, you can pick up a full sealed case (15 keychains) for $45. We're going heavy on the Freeny this year. Jason will be back for another signing at out booth, and we will have a global debut of a brand new Freeny x MightyJaxx figure - look for info on that posted here soon!

Next posts about NYCC will be about our exclusives!

NYCC 2015 Slideshow - nearly 150 images from our booth and around the convention

Click here to see our giant slideshow of images from NYCC 2015, or click here to just check out the album (without slideshow feature).

NYCC 2015 Wrap Up

photo by Matt Siegelbaum / Strongtreeimages.com

Well, another successful New York Comic Con is in the books!

This was a HUGE show and a huge booth for us and it would not have been possible without all the help we received. There’s no fucking way one person could run a 600-square-foot NYCC booth without a LOOOOOT of help. I have a lot of people to thank:

First off, thank you to our boothmates / collective members for bringing the FIRE and making Booth 208 the most vibrant, varied and unique booth in The Block. We probably have more going on in our booth every year than any other booth in the block, just in terms of volume and variety of unique items, and the number of artists presenting their work. Tenacious Toys alone had about 30 exclusive items. The entire booth together had maybe 100+ exclusives, depending on what you call an exclusive.

Our collective this year included us (Tenacious Toys), Furry Feline Creatives, Hungryghost, Cash/Alex/Arsenal of Artists, ManlyArt was there in spirit but due to a personal situation, he backed out and was replaced by ArqSpin, Ian Ziobrowski (Nugglife), Suburban Vinyl, Bigshot Toyworks and Jon Schnepp/Holly Payne. Original art, custom toys, resin figures, production vinyl toys, prototypes, a couple celebrities and even a custom Tequila show. All in the same booth.

Our AWESOME booth staff included: Jackie Candelier, Michele Kerzner, Joseph Rios, Danny Wilkes and Kris Dulfer all took turns watching over the booth and the register, and Tavvon Reynolds and Joshua (Pickman’s Vinyls) both showed up and sat behind the table for solid hours and/or days without me asking them to, which was incredibly helpful.

Aki Solomos and his brother stayed late after wrapping up the Furry Feline space and helped us pack up and load up, along with Jackie, Joshua, Joseph, Michele and Michele’s BF. I can’t tell you how helpful it is to have a large group of people who actually stick around as late as we need them to on Sunday night. Sunday is a HUGELY stressful day for me - after working an entire day of NYCC, we then pack up the entire booth in a matter of hours. This is a booth we spent 2 full days setting up, so all those hands and all that help is so very important to me. In the past, Kris and I have been FUCKED by people taking off early, and we are stuck unloading by ourselves at 1AM. Actually… in the past NEMO has stayed late to help and also in another year VISEone stayed with me till 1AM. But having 2 people pack an entire booth is not fun. Having 8 people is way better. We finished packing up before 8PM this year. WIN!

I’d like to thank all the artists who created beautiful artwork and custom and resin figures that made the Tenacious Booth shine:
- Abe Lincoln Jr
- Colin “Big C” Hoffman
- ETC Toys
- Forces of Dorkness
- Jacob JAMS
- Jon-Paul Kaiser
- KiD iNK iNDUSTRiES
- Matt Anderson & MaloApril
- Matt “Obscure” Perez
- Mike Die & Melodreama
- Enthusiasta Gallery
- Mr Munk
- Mike “NEMO” Mendez
- Patrick Wong
- RSIN
- Pickman’s Vinyls
- Playful Gorilla
- Rampage Toys & Skullheadbutt
- Renone Labs
- Sekure D
- Sucklord
- Taylored Curiosities
- Tru Slithers
- UME Toys
- Wuz One

I’d also like to thank the following companies for working with us: Carbonation Toys for sending over some Fizz Kids and prints, ArqSpin for lending the ENTIRE booth their turntables for display of toys, which are so tight and awesome that I am going to bring some to DCon with Bigshot, and MightyJaxx for supplying us with Jason Freeny products for our signing.

I want to give a special thank-you to Alex Cohen of ReedPOP who made sure our operation was running smoothly, stopping by several times to chat and see if he could be of assistance.

Shout outs to Pickman’s Vinyls and my neighbor Megan for both bringing me Grande Starbucks with soy and no sugar, as i desperately needed caffeine infusion.

Super thanks again to Jackie who took time off of her REAL FUCKING JOB where she runs shit, to hang out with us freaks and weirdos, watch over our register, help customers, and she even brought me a sammich from Lenny’s every day so I didn’t faint at 12:30pm, which I tend to do if I don’t have a sammich. Honestly Jackie I could not have done it without you, esp with Steph out of town.

More super thanks to Leslie who took care of Tiny the Wonder Pitbull during NYCC so she wouldn’t have to hold her water for 16 hours. Another person without which I could not have actually run the NYCC booth.

Thank you to my childhood friend Emily, the closest thing to a sister that I have, for sending over one of the NY Times reporters to film me talking about cosplay at NYCC and get me up on the New York Times site with “Tenacious Toys” and my name written out on-screen. Also thanks to Sci-Fi Ninja Theater, Cotton Candy Machine, Big Kev's Geek Stuff, and The Ultimate Toy Collector for interviewing me! On that note, big thanks to GO Figure News and the now-award-winning Toy Chronicle for partnering with me on delivering my exclusive content to their readers. Hope we got them a little taste of the NYCC experience.

Congrats to my buddy, booth mate and employer Klim of Bigshot Toyworks for WINNING a DTA award for Best DIY for All City Style! A 10-year overnight success story! And also for helping develop/produce Jermaine Rogers’ Choices, which ALSO won a DTA award.

And on that note, big ups to Miranda, Josh, Nick and all the other people who both ran the huge Clutter booth with, quite frankly, some of the best NYCC exclusives, and THEN went and ran the Designer Toy Awards on Saturday night. Not to mention, putting out the biggest and best issue of Clutter I’ve ever seen, FREE to attendees. Running shit like bosses.

Oh, and huge congrats to Ian Ziobrowski, another booth mate and another DTA award winner. Basically, our booth DESTROYED it at NYCC, and we did it with smiles and only a few near-fistfights!

Finally, the BIGGEST thank you of all: thank you to all of you, for attending NYCC, stopping by the booth, purchasing products, and giving us tons of smiles, high fives and positivity. I am allergic to negativity in this scene, I refuse to deal with it. So thank you for all the positivity, as that is what I am trying to cultivate amongst the East Coast crew that surrounds us.

It was a stellar show. I have yet to take a real break, still doing accounting, sending payments, sending boxes out to various people and companies, and trying to wrap shit up in general. This blog post is part of that wrap-up process.

We have a ONE WEEK ordering window set up for our leftover exclusives and we’ve sold a bunch already so get your orders in this week please.

We will ship next week and then Steph and I are going to DisneyWorld. Literally, we are taking our first vacation in 10 years together to Disney in late October/early Nov so Tenacious Toys will be inactive during that time. Shipping resumes early November and then I am preparing for a big showing at DCon, working in the Bigshot Toyworks booth! Launching something new there so pay attention. Somewhere in that time, also, the Four Horsies of the ‘Pocalypse figures will arrive and I will be shipping those out to backers alongside Kris Dulfer, so the next 8 weeks are highly regimented and planned, with spotty communication.

See you at DCon, or online, or at NYCC next year! I am already planning NYCC 2016 so get ready for another level up between now and then.


Much love from NYC.



- Benny Kline

ArqSpin Records Cosplays for Posterity at the Tenacious Collective NYCC 2015

This year we had a company called ArqSpin in our Collective, interacting with the vibrant NYCC cosplay community! ArqSpin is a combination of hardware (the turntable) and software (their app) that allows you to record the spin of an object and share it online in a way in which the visitor can interact with it and spin it around with the drag of a mouse. They make a turntable large enough for a person, so... cosplay! Of course. They recorded a TON of different cosplays right in our booth, so you can spin each cosplayer around and see their getup from every angle! Click here to visit their NYCC gallery!

Also, check out Benny's interview on the New York Times site about... you guessed it.... cosplay at NYCC:

NYCC Setup: Tenacious Collective Booth 208 on Wednesday

Suburban Vinyl, the Bigshot Toyworks space, the Tenacious space, and Furry Feline. Watch video below. More videos soon!

NYCC Setup: sneak peek behind the scenes at beginning of setup incl Funko booth

Watch video below, Funko booth on my left with guy in red shirt:

NYCC Booth 208: Tenacious Collective Signings, Guests and Live Art Schedule

There's a lot going on in our booth aside from Exclusives....

Below is a group schedule for the events in NYCC Booth 208:

Thursday
11AM: Jason Meents (PGx4tLoTNY)
Noon: John Grayson (SV)
2PM: Tavvon Reynolds (PGx4tLoTNY)
2PM: Sucklord (TT)
All day: Live painting with Kelly Denato, Lou Pimentel & ChrisRWK (SV)
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust) (PGx4tLoTNY)
All day: Guests Jon Schnepp & Holly Payne (BSTW)
All day: FREE digital spins of cosplays by ArqSpin

Friday
Noon: Mike Die (PGx4tLoTNY)
Noon: Leecifer & Brent Nolasco (SV)
2PM: Tony Tran (PGx4tLoTNY)
All day: Live painting with Kelly Denato, Lou Pimentel & ChrisRWK (SV)
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust) (PGx4tLoTNY)
All day: Guests Jon Schnepp & Holly Payne (BSTW)
All day: FREE digital spins of cosplays by ArqSpin

Saturday
11AM: Jacob JAMS (TT)
Noon: Jason Freeny (TT)
1PM: Jason Meents (PGx4tLoTNY)
1PM: ChrisRWK (SV)
3PM: Hon-Bun Leung (PGx4tLoTNY)
3PM: Joe Scarano
All day: Live painting with Kelly Denato, Lou Pimentel & ChrisRWK (SV)
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust) (PGx4tLoTNY)
All day: Guests Jon Schnepp & Holly Payne (BSTW)
All day: FREE digital spins of cosplays by ArqSpin

Sunday
Noon: Micky Fielder (Dad's Cartoons)  (PGx4tLoTNY)
1PM: Hon-Bun Leung (PGx4tLoTNY)
2PM: Jason Meents (PGx4tLoTNY)
All day: Live painting with Kelly Denato, Lou Pimentel & ChrisRWK (SV)
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust) (PGx4tLoTNY)
All day: Guests Jon Schnepp & Holly Payne (BSTW)
All day: FREE digital spins of cosplays by ArqSpin

Key:
(PGx4tLoTNY) = the table of Playful Gorilla and 4theLuvofToyzNY aka Cash Cannon
(TT) = the table of Tenacious Toys
(SV) = the table of Suburban Vinyl
(BSTW) the table of Bigshot Toyworks

NYCC Booth 208 - Tenacious Collective: Nugglife

NY native Ian Ziobrowski (Nugglife) is bringing the heat to Booth 208, with exclusive collectibles and apparel from his Nugglife label. Expect several different Nugglife Strain Tees (Death Star pictured above) to be on hand in your choice of sizes.

Ian has been hard at work in the NuggLab cranking out new resin figures of several characters in the Nugglife world, as well as a bunch of various sizes and styles of his famous Grow Rooms.

Also available will be the Nugglife characters as resin figures! Ian will have a grip of these on hand and you can mix n match and buy your own custom set:

Keep up with Nugglife on IG at @nugglife, and check out Ian's website and shop for tons more awesome artwork.

Playful Gorilla x 4theLuvofToyz NYCC Signings and Guests

 We can always count on Alex (Playful Gorilla) and Cash (4theLuvofToyzNY) to bring to NYCC the freshest talent. Here is their signing schedule:

Thursday
11AM: Jason Meents
2PM: Tavvon Reynolds
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust) 

Friday
Noon: Mike Die
2PM: Tony Tran
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust)

Saturday
1PM: Jason Meents
3PM: Hon-Bun Leung
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust)

Sunday
Noon: Micky Fielder (Dad's Cartoons)
1PM: Hon-Bun Leung
2PM: Jason Meents
All day: Xavier Alvarez (inprimewetrust)


And of course... Alex Rivera and Cash Cannon will be there on all days! 

Tenacious Toys NYCC 2015 Signing Schedule

Tenacious Toys NYCC 2015 Signing Schedule:

THURSDAY
2PM: Sucklord

SATURDAY
11AM: Jacob JAMS
Noon: Jason Freeny

Tenacious Toys NYCC Exclusives, Show Specials and Signings

 This post contains, more or less, all of the Tenacious Toys New York Comic Con offerings, including all of our Exclusives, all of the Show Specials, and our signings. Come to Booth 208 for the following Exclusive items:

• Big C Baby Fatts Stone Idol Edition
• ETC Toys Mini Grayskull
• Fizz Kids Character Backstory prints
• Forces of Dorkness Bluebacca
• Forces of Dorkness Gimp2-D2
• Jacob JAMS Blue Nurikabe
• Kid Ink Custom Hikari Groot
• Kid Ink Custom Oreion Space Alien by Magitarius
• Kid Ink Custom Ron English Dino Grenade
• Matt A x MaloApril Tricky Treater
• Matt Obscure Perez Oop Blue
• Mike Die x Melodreama FingerBot & SquareBot Blue Set
• Mr Munk assorted customs
• Mr Munk Custom 3" Dunnys
• Mr Munk Custom Androids
• NEMO x Dead Hand Toys Krampus
• Patrick Wong BEATS Series 6: MPC 3000 LE
• Pickman's Vinyls Holy Droids
• Pickman's Vinyls Officer Log
• Pickman's Vinyls Trial by Stone- Trophy Edition
• Rampage Toys x Skullheadbutt HAG X
• Renone Labs Fat Jason: Worst Exclusive Ever
• Sekure D Codename Hulk
• Sekure D Codename Jong Un
• Sekure D Kid Blob 1 & 2
• Sekure D Totem Fatcap
• Suckadelic SUCKLE Series 2 Blue 10pc Set
• Taylored Curiosities Blue Tenacious Coralites
• Tru Slithers Box Cutter
• Tru Slithers Castle Fiend
• Tru Slithers Castle Freak
• Tru Slithers Nosferatu
• UME Toys GeekWok in Blue Carbonite
• Wuz One Batty OOAK
• Wuz One Turk OOAK

We will also have for sale the following non-exclusive items:

• Scott Tolleson Uncle Argh Noir
• Nerviswr3k Inner Child Blue 
• Milbatallas by Entusiasta Gallery
• Jon-Paul Kaiser Pandaimyo Blue
• Jon-Paul Kaiser Star Wars: A New Hope custom Qees and Munnys
• 3A Night Fixer Jenkins
• 3A Paschas
• Barbie Collector 10th Anniversary Tokidoki Barbie Doll
• Jason Freeny Dissected Gingerbread Man Chalkboar, DIY, Gold, Silver and OG colors
• Jason Freeny Micro Anatomic OG, Mono and Black/Green colors
•  Fizz Kids complete set of 6 by Carbonation Toys
•  Coarse Omen keychains