DesignerToysUK reviews Art Hustle, SuckPax and My Dad's Record Collection

Check out what happens when we send some art cards to the UK to be reviewed by Dan Byrne, without giving him ANY background whatsoever about the Sidekick Lab product line! He's a little confused by some of the more esoteric cards, but that's to be expected. Great video. Much respect to DesignerToysUK. Check out their new Facebook page too!

First Annual 2nd Avenue Trading Card Convention and Swap Meet/brothel

The other night we went down to Toy Tokyo Underground in downtown NYC to the 1st Annual 2nd Ave Trading Card Convention, which was basically a chance for all of us artists, card nerds and toy store owners to get together, party, trade cards, drink beer, draw naughty things in inappropriate places, and generally revel in all that is good and right with the world. It was crazy fun!

Check the video. You'll see Tom of Sidekick Labs (they made the Art Hustle cards), Simeon (the gigantic dude who came up with the Art Hustle concept and brought it to reality), the Sucklord, Phetus and a whole motley crew of NYC crazies, including NEMO, Mr. Den, Rolo, Lowell, Kid Lew, King Abnon and Tony Depew.

Simeon dropped the bomb on us that Tenacious Toys would have a card in Art Hustle Series 3. Made our whole month! I picked up some of the Suckadelic SuckPax Series 2 cards, traded some of our NYCC Travis Louie cards, and met Jared, a super fan (and a customer) who flew in from Texas! A great night. I took a million pictures and I haven't even uploaded them yet because we've been dealing with a tsunami of ThreeA orders this week.

THE 1ST ANNUAL SECOND AVE TRADING CARD CONVENTION & SWAP MEET

 NOVEMBER 5 AT TOY TOKYO UNDERGROUND

SUCKPAX: Action Art Cards Series 2 is about to Drop!

On November 5, 2010, the long-awaited follow up to the ground-breaking indie Trading Card Series from SUCKADELIC hits the streets.

TOY TOKYO UNDERGROUND
91 Second Avenue NYC
7-11 PM

 

Conceived and Designed by the SUPER SUCKLORD, Suckpax takes the
art of the simple trading cards and flips it on it's head, stuffing each
box with irony, challenge, and incredible underground art. Engineered and
produced by Sidekick Lab, Suckpax features the Old-School wax wrappers of
yore as well as that shitty card stock we all grew up on before trading
cards got slick. Featuring original one-of-kind sketch cards and multiple
high-concept special inserts, Suckpax is truly Modern art in Vintage
packaging.

Series two takes it to the next level with special features such as:

• Original Sketch Card art by some of the Toy Scene's hottest losers
• Secret-messages readable only with the special Mail-away decoder card
• Lenticular Cards featuring awesome animated Suck-Action
• Costume cards featuring real material from one of the Suckadelic
Supervillain Girl's actual costume!

•"Real" fake Gum

Plus many more Surprise bonus features for you to discover

Available Nov 5 at Suckadelic.comor Sidekick Lab (see below for full
stats)

Join us for an exciting release party Friday November 5 in New York City!

Suckpax 2 will release at the FIRST ANNUAL SECOND AVENUE TRADING CARD
CONVENTION And SWAP MEET at TOY TOKYO UNDERGROUND.

The Second Avenue Trading Card convention is a new yearly event
showcasing the ongoing releases from the new urban art trading card
scene. In addition to the fabled Suckpax 2 drop, this year's convention
will feature an exclusive card giveaway from the seminal artist cards
series THE ART HUSTLE as well as a show and Auction of TOPPS STAR WARS
GALAXY 5 die cut sketch cards and large scale artworks.

The ART HUSTLE is a boutique set of artist and art-based trading cards
exhibiting an international group of 75 artists working in street art, toy
art, kaiju, sketch, illustration, painting, aerosol art, poster art,
tattoo art, digital art, collage, sculpture, photography and more.*

STAR WARS GALAXY 5 is the latest installment of the venerable TOPPS
trading card company's take on official Star Wars art. This show features
sketch card work by some of today's illest underground artists, curated by
the Super-Sucklord. Featured on these offbeat custom cut cards are
luminaries such as Buff Monster, TOUMA, and Plasticgod. (see below for
full list)
Artists' cards will be showcased, as well as select Large-Scale works based on the series. 

It's a must-see show for any Star Wars fan.

Join us on November 5, 2010 at
TOY TOKYO UNDERGROUND
91 Second Avenue NYC
7-11 PM
Beer Provided by Beerlao

NYCC Exclusive Travis Louie Art Hustle card now available

Click thru to buy our NYCC show special: 1 Art Hustle card pack with a FREE Travis Louie foil-stamped NYCC Exclusive card by my friends at Sidekick Labs. Only $3.50!

Thanks to Tom and Simeon of The Art Hustle, who were present at our booth for much of the con!

NYCC 2010 Exclusive Travis Louie Art Hustle card at Tenacious booth

We are SUPER stoked to offer NYCC attendees a very special Exclusive at our booth: one FREE NYCC Exclusive foil-stamped Travis Louie Art Hustle card with the purchase of an Art Hustle pack! Art Hustle packs are just $3.50, making this possibly one of the most affordable NYCC Exclusives out there! You must buy the pack at our booth to qualify. 

Here are some behind-the-scenes photos from Sidekick Lab showing the creation of the special Travis Louie cards using their fancy-pants foil stamping machine:

The Travis Louie card does not appear in the regular Art Hustle packs so this is a very special and sought-after card. Sidekick Lab made us 180 of these foil-stamped NYCC cards so you'll definitely want to stop by our booth early to make sure you get one.

What is the Art Hustle series all about?

The Art Hustle is a boutique set of artist and art-based trading cards exhibiting an international group of 75 artists working in street art, toy art, kaiju, sketch, illustration, painting, aerosol art, poster art, tattoo art, digital art, collage, sculpture, photography and more.

Inspired by trading cards produced from the 1960’s through the 80’s, the set offers up some vintage-inspired flavor including chipboard card stock and the much-loved wax paper wrapper. Cards also come with interesting facts on the backs that you don’t want to miss.

Find out more by checking out the Art Hustle site here or the Sidekick Lab blog here.

NEMO's Art Hustle cards- behind the scenes

Sunday October 10th with be a big day for Art Hustle fans at our NYCC Booth (#2878):

1PM- Sidekick Labs present to sign their Art Hustle cards

2PM- NEMO will be signing sketchbooks, toys and of course Art Hustle cards!

We're going to have a NYCC Exclusive special foil-stamped Art Hustle card that does not normally appear in the regular packs, available ONLY at the Tenacious Toys booth! More info on that card soon.

We'll also be showcasing a number of NEMO sculpts in our glass cases, and he will be bouncing back and forth between our booth and the Elite Gudz booth all weekend, so keep an eye out for him!

July 25 update: JLED Pico & Wilshire, Steampunk Eos, 2010 Dunny series & more

COMING SOON:

- Kidrobot's 2010 Dunny series is set to drop on August 19th. We ordered 2 cartons (8 cases) and we offer free US shipping on cases. Can't presell them but we'll send out another update when they arrive.

- We are expecting a lot of great stuff from Toy2R soon: The 2.5-inch Qee Artist series, which we'll open up and sell open-box, the 2.5-inch Skelanimals Qee Artist series (which we'll also open), Horvath's Roller the Reindeer and that "vintage"-style all-black Bossy Series set. Preorders will get set up for those once the distributor lets me know they're ready to ship to us.

- Dark Horse is collaborating with Toy2R once again to bring us, in my opinion, the coolest Domo Qees yet: the 7-inch Wood Domo Qee and the 7-inch glow in the dark Domo Qee, both of which can be seen here on our blog.


PREORDERS:

- Joe Ledbetter Pico and Wilshire sabertooth tiger/woolly mammoth set by The Loyal Subjects.

- Jamungo K11 Gohst and SPOT white retailer-colorway set

- Jun Planning Pullip Steampunk Eos 12-inch steampunk doll, the first of a series of 4 steampunk-style 12-inch dolls

IN STOCK NOW:

- RAJE Toys' Dr. Brain 7-inch figure

- The Art Hustle artist trading card series in stock. We are selling by the 7-card pack.

- DIY Celsius by Kuso Toys back in stock: $35 each, comes with those big beautiful wings to customize!

- MIST Lucius 6-inch vinyl figures by Artoys, both the regular yellow and the US blue versions. 6 inches tall, these 2-piece MIST characters are just incredibly cool to look at. $59.95 each.

- Steve Talkowski's first vinyl toy, Sketchbot, in stock now for $35 each.

- Foox Organ Donors open-box mini figures

The Art Hustle art card project teaser video

SNEAK PEEK: Closer look at Art Hustle cards

I was fortunate to recently meet up with Simeon Lipton, creator of upcoming Art Hustle art cards, and I scored some prototype cards from the series:

Above pictured are the following cards (double click on the image to see a bigger version):

Kozik, Dehara, Bill McMullen, Ron English, TOOFLY, Buff Monster, Tara McPherson & Alex Pardee.

The Art Hustle is a set of artist and art-based trading cards, and exhibits an international group of 75 artists working in street art, toy art, kaiju, sketch, illustration, painting, aerosol art, poster art, tattoo art, digital art, collage, sculpture, photography and more.

Inspired by trading cards produced from the 1960's through the 80's, the set offers up some vintage-inspired flavor including chipboard card stock and the much-loved wax paper wrapper.

The Art Hustle is a new frontier in Art and Trading Cards, and a hell of a lot of fun. Boxes are limited.

ToyStreet: the first annual ToyStreet Designer Toy event in NYC

We both had a great time at Cookies N Cream's ToyStreet this past weekend! There were bands playing, lots of shops and manufacturers had set up booths and we got to hang out with a buncha toy peoples! Good times!

If you missed out on ToyStreet, here are a few notable sneak peeks that we saw there:

Argonaut Resins showed for the first time their beautiful resin Tuttz sculpt (below) which they will be casting in a variety of colors. I think Tenacious Toys will be able to get a colorway all to ourselves. Sweet!

Below, Frankie Velez shows off Miguel Paredes' awesome PULGHA sculpt.

Look for this toy coming soon.

We got a sneak preview of the upcoming artist card series called The Art Hustle, which features art cards by and about some of the hottest names in underground art! Check their website for more info.

There are lots more pictures from ToyStreet on my Flickr page, so click thru to check them all out!