Preorder SprayeeQ 5-inch DIY Vinyl Spray Can Mini Qee by Toy2R

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PREORDER shipping July/August 201

The SprayeeQ by Toy2R has always been one of the rarest 5" Mini Qees. Very few artists have been able to get their hands on one in years past, and we always thought that was a shame. They're adorable little spray can platforms!

We looked around this year and couldn't find any of these these fantastic DIY figures by Toy2R on the market any longer... so we had Toy2R make a batch for us!

Shake em and they make a spray can sound! Grab a bunch and paint em up in your own style! We just added a 6-pack option at a reduced price.

• 5 inches tall
• vinyl
• DIY Mini Qee figure
• articulated at shoulders and neck
• produced by Toy2R for Tenacious Toys
• currently exclusive to Tenacious Toys
• limited run of 500 units for our shop
• polybagged (no box)

Preorder Jon-Paul Kaiser Captain Sturnbrau Pieces of Eight Silver Black Edition 5-inch Mini Qee vinyl figure

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PREORDER -shipping later this summer

designed by our buddy Jon-Paul Kaiser

5 inches tall

vinyl

special Pieces of Eight color variant

produced by Toy2R

window boxed

INCOMING: Jason Freeny 2.5-inch GID Visible Skelanimals ChungQee figure by Toy2R

We just ordered the remaining stock of these Jason Freeny Qee figures, so if you ever wanted one, now is the time to order. $12 each, and they will be arriving in our warehouse soon. Only 500 brought into the USA.

DOMO PI DAY: 2-inch Domos $3.14 today only!

Have you ever eaten Domo Pi? No?

Me neither. Weirdo.

Today only, in celebration of Pi Day, we are offering our 2-inch Domos at $3.14159265359 each!

OK, let's just make this easy: they're $3.14 each. SHOP FOR DOMO PI HERE! No code necessary.

RELOADED: Bomba Series 1 by MuerToys up now on Kickstarter

The Bomba figures, created by Matthew Ray, are very cute miniature resin bomb figures measuring 3.75" long. I see them as a natural progression of the cute weapons concepts of Frank Kozik (the Mini Bombs by Toy2R) and Mr. Shane Jessup (the blind-box keychain series by Kidrobot). And, I'm sure not coincidentally, they are shaped very much like a cartoony "Fat Man" bomb, which was the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

War sucks, and I love Japan, so I like the idea of shedding a bit of that stigma by flipping the bomb imagery around and repurposing it for something less morally offensive than nuclear war. To that end, the series includes several happy, brightly-colored designs.

At the same time, I feel one of the most effective designs in this series is the one that looks sad- it's called ShellShock, limited to just 100 pieces. This one reminds us of the horrors of war and the psychological battle that must rage inside one's head when carrying out a mission as heavy as the nuclear bombing missions. ShellShock is available at the $53 pledge level- it's handpainted, numbered and signed. 

ShellShock is just one of many designs available. See the rest here. There are lower-cost pledge levels such as a smaller $12 Mini Bomba keychain and a 3.75" DIY white Bomba for $18. All prices include domestic shipping. International backers have to pay a few bucks more.

I must say, examining these figures has gotten me to thinking more about these toys as a political and psychological statement, which gives them value above and beyond the aesthetic. They made me think. And that is something really valuable these days, especially with the big companies mentioned above pumping out vapid, superficial products with no deeper meaning.

These are ART toys, after all. I want to see the art in them. I want to feel something. I want the object to spur discussion. These Bomba figures do just that.

Click here to back Matt's vision and bring the Bomba figures to life!

Featured Product - May 20, 2013

Toy2R Spike DIY White Toyer 5 inch Qee

Following on the heels of their popular Qee figure comes this 5" vinyl spiked version from Toy2R. This is a DIY toy ready for customization. Pick one up for $20 in the Tenacious Toys online store today.

~Mr. N. Visible

Toy2R x Dark Horse 2-inch Series 5 Domos now available open box

 Domo Qee Series 5 now available open-box.

 Click here to see all of our Domo figures.

 Click here to just see the new Series 5 figures.

Dark Horse x Toy2R Domo Qee Series 5 is here!

Our carton of 2" Domo Qee Series 5 is now in the hands of the Tenacious Toys Blind Box Bitch, who is opening them and labeling them. Up for sale at end of week. Most common figures will be $8.99 each. If we get super rare chases they might be a little more. These will be for sale open-box on our super awesome Domo page. I'll probably steal better images from Trampt since Toy2R doesn't bother taking actual product shots.

Dark Horse x Toy2R Neon Domo Qee Series now in stock open box

We now have the FULL 15-piece 2-inch Neon Domo Qee Series in stock, open box. That means we've opened up all the blind boxes, shot some pictures (because the internet was low on pics of this series), and resealed and labeled each box. We are now selling identified figures here on our website. You can also check out the rest of our Domo offerings on our Domo page.

 

The Neon Domo Series of 2-inch figures is a bit confusing: there are actually 2 different types of figures in this series- traditional glow-in-the-dark figures, and blacklight-reactive figures. We went to the trouble of cataloging all 15 of the different figures and shooting pics. Feel free to use and share these images. Toy2R should have taken the shots, but they didn't, so we did.

Wilsooooon!

Uncle Argh Noirs released to public on Sep 19th

Missed out on backing our Kickstarter to fund the Uncle Argh Noir Exclusive Mini Qee? Well, fear not: the remaining stock of Argh Noirs will be available for purchase on our website on Wednesday, September 19th at 9AM EST.

I don't have a direct link yet, but I will put up the item on our homepage so you can just go to TenaciousToys.com and click right thru.

I wanted to wait till my international backers have received their Argh Noirs... last week I saw that backers in Europe had begun to receive theirs (thanks Instagram), so I thought this week was a good week to get them up for sale.

I also sent a really hella lame formal press release out to the bloggers to they could post about it as well. Spanky Stokes was complaining on Twitter that we always wait to send press releases too late... so I was like "Well, I better send a press release to make Spanky happy..." I think he was referring to NYCC-related press releases, but it's a good practice anyway so I sent it.

It'll be hilarious. Can't wait to see who posts the PR. Why do I feel like that is an old-skool way of releasing info?

The graphic in this post will be one side of our NYCC postcard, by the way. Oh, and if you wanna follow us, we are @tenacioustoys on both Twitter and Instagram.

Jon-Paul Kaiser and Tenacious Toys NYCC exclusive Pandaimyo

Thanks to Jon-Paul Kaiser's Artist Proofs, I was able to get my hands on the as-yet-unnamed Tenacious Toys NYCC exclusive Blue Pandaimyo. Next to the 3 other colorways i have to say this is one of my favorites, JPK will have some fantastic toys out this year and this is certainly a must own.

Priced at $28 and limited to 300 pieces, Blue Pandaimyo will be available at the Tenacious Toys NYCC Booth #3121 where JPK will be signing them, and they'll be sold online at same time.
 

-Kenton

UGLY Gallery show "Destroy You, New Bedford"

UGLY Gallery in New Bedford, MA is currently displaying "Destroy You, New Bedford", a collection of work by Ryan Maguire and MCA of Evil Design (he did the Toy2R Evil Ape).

From Evil Design's blog:

Destroy You began in 2005 at the Orchard Street Art Gallery located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In 2008 Destroy You, Boston was hosted by gallery Space242.

Now in 2012, we are proud to announce Destroy You New Bedford, a collection of life work made by artists MCA and Ryan Maguire, will be on exhibit at UGLYfrom August 9 – September 8, 2012

This Is Your Brain, custom Jumping Brains for SDCC

When you talk about extremely original customs, you really should say the name zombiemonkie (Mikie Graham). His designs are mind-blowing... check out these mini custom Jumping Brains (Toy2R & Emilio Garcia) designed for SDCC. Normally I will not eat brains and frogs, but these little fellas are looking delicious! Yes we're a little slow posting these, but the pieces are solid and worth mentioning even after the fact!

This Is Your Brain- 2 inch Mini Jumping Brains for Dragatomi's SDCC booth

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BlackMetalBeard custom Sturnbrau by Forces of Dorkness

Forces of Dorkness (Scott Kinnebrew) made this excellent 5 inch custom Captain Sturnbrau from Toy2R and Jon-Paul Kaiser. If they ever make an 8 inch version, Scott would love to do one of those as well!

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SNEAK PEEK: Scott Kinnebrew x Star Wars x Toy2R customs

Okay, I'm not sure what these are for, but Scott Kinnebrew teased us with this shot of two Star Wars-themed custom 8-inch Kit Kat Qees. Looks like Kabe from the Cantina on the left, and and Ewok (Logray??) on the right. Secondary or tertiary characters, to be sure, but honestly those are the ones that interest me the most. Bad ass. I guess we all have to wait and see if there will be more, or if there's some event or show happening that warranted two customs along the same theme... Scott likes to tease us, the bastard.

DAVEMARKART Want Some of This... Bitch?! custom 8-inch Toyer Qee

 Dave Webb (Davemarkart) has blessed our shop with another sick custom. Want Some of This... Bitch?! is based on an 8-inch DIY Toyer Qee by Toy2R. Heavy sculpting and bright paint makes this one really eye-catching! Dave is really progressing with his work... each piece is more sculptural and fully-formed than the last. See more pics and buy it here.

Scott Tolleson Mr. Pinkerton Mini Qees

Coming soon from Toy2R: more 5-inch Mini Qees by our buddy Scott Tolleson! Looks like there are variants of each colorway!

INCOMING: Voltaire Deady Bunee and Sleezter Bunee Mini Qees

We're really excited to continue our support of our favorite Goth (and minor local celebrity) Voltaire by stocking all 4 of his upcoming Toy2R Mini Qee releases: Deady Bunee (in both Color and Black/White colorways) and Sleezter Bunee (in both Color and Black/White colorways).

Deady Bunee and Sleezter Bunee are the next figures in Voltaire's popular collaboration with online role-playing game Adventure Quest.

Like the 8" Deady Bear Qee and the 5" Deady Big in Japan Mini Qee before them, all of these Bunee figures come with a game code for Adventure Quest. You can read more about that popular promotion here.

Deady and Sleezter Bunee Qees are just $28 each, no matter which colorway. You can preorder the Color versions on our site here, and as soon as we get word that they've arrived, we'll put up the Black/White versions for sale as well (FYI Black/White colorways are apparently short-packed in the cases, meaning a case of 12 Deadys will contain 8 Color figures and 4 Black/White figures).

Deady Invasion Disrupted! Sleezter Taking Over!

Voltaire's iconic Deady Bear has run into a small problem... An army of evil bunees bent on world destruction! Sleezter Bunny is coming! Our brave hero, Deady Bear, has disuised himself as "Deady Bunee" in hope of infiltrating the invading horde and thwarting their vile plan!
$28 each. Preorders available now at www.tenacioustoys.com

Uncle Argh NOIR Kickstarter update

Today we've added more high-level rewards ($175 and $500) to our Kickstarter campaign to fund our exclusive Scott Tolleson Uncle Argh NOIR Mini Qee. We're now about 66% funded, and with only a month left, we need YOUR support to make this project a reality. 

If the high-level rewards aren't your thing, we also have a $30 reward that gets you the Uncle Argh NOIR shipped to your door, no matter where you live. That's a bargain by any measure.

Click here to read more about this Kickstarter campaign, and to donate! No money is charged to your CC until May 1st. Join the Argyle Association today!