Exclusive Anar-Qee Custom Mini Qee Series by Matt Anderson

"Time of Death" custom Mini Qee by Matt Anderson

After stumbling across Matt Anderson somewhere online, and working with him on the Toy2R 2011 Preview Party Mini Qee custom show, we were super impressed with his unique, technical, electrified neo-steampunk style (I think I just made up the term neo-steampunk). 

He's always been excited to get more of his work out there, and we are equally excited to see what he makes, so we orchestrated a Tenacious Toys x Matt Anderson exclusive custom series as quickly as possible... and here's what Matt made for us: a 4-piece series using a variety of Toy2R 5-inch Mini Qees as platforms for his unique style of customization! Matt dubbed this series the "Anar-Qee" series. We're just incredibly impressed with the quality of work!

"Face Off" custom Mini Qee by Matt Anderson

"Onikuma" custom Mini Qee by Matt Anderson

"The Flasher" custom Mini Qee by Matt Anderson

 Matt is sending these customs our way soon. When we get 'em, we'll put them up for sale in our newly created Matt Anderson page on our website. Each one-of-a-kind piece will retail for $225. For now, you can check out all the pictures, including some WIP shots, here. 

Also make sure you are following Matt on Twitter and Facebook. Soon he's gonna be super famous and you'll get to tell all your toy nerd friends "Oh, yeah, Matt Anderson? Yeah I know him, I've been following his work for 2 years already. Get with it, son."

Next Toy2R 5-inch Mini Qee design revealed: classic Bear

Toy2R's iconic Bear is revealed as the next figure in the 5" Mini Qee Collection.

Just when you thought there wasn't anything new for designer toys, Toy2R ignites the fuse as the Year of Qee begins with the launch of the Mini Qee Collection. Dropping next month with an SRP of $15, the Mini Qees will change the designer toy genre forever...

Keep your ears and eyes open for more details about the launch...February is going to be Qee!!

Seriously, we're intimately involved in this launch so definitely keep checking our blog in the upcoming weeks for more info.

Jon-Paul Kaiser production toys now in stock

Jon-Paul Kaiser has made the quantum leap from painting custom toys (in his signature black-and-white style) to having giant companies manufacture his own designs! We've watched JPK gain notoriety online and we've been cheering him from the sidelines all along. Above is the JPK 5-inch Samurai Pumpkin figure ($26.95), and below is the 2.5-inch Great Khan Qee ($9.95) which appears in Designer Collection Series 6 from Toy2R. 

Congrats JPK! We're stoked that we can support you by stocking your toys at Tenacious Toys!

Toy2R's Designer Collection Series 6 restocked, open box

We are pleased to offer the FULL selection of 2.5-inch Designer Collection Series 6 Qees from Toy2R. They sold so well, we restocked! And, as usual, we popped those bad boys open to find out wht's inside the blind boxes. Toy2R CRAMMED this series full of variant colorways and chases, and we scored at least one of each! So click through to our site to buy them all, or continue reading to learn more about this series:

Qee Designer Collection Series 6 is composed of the following:

- 3 different DOINK Qees (that's the drippy MonQee: Orange/White, Blue White variant & Red/GID variant)
- Daniel Jarrett (That's the MonQee with the blue suit)
- DrilOne (the skull-head one with green body- head glows in the dark!)
- Raymond Choy (that's the owner of Toy2R! his Qee is the black and white dog)
- Peskimo (Green/Yellow is the regular figure, Red/Yellow is the variant)
- Jon Paul Kaiser (easy to spot, all of his customs are black and white, and this production toy is no different)
- Charlie Mewshaw (that's the pink BoxeeQ, which has a GID variant)
- Lisa Petrucci (hers is the red BunneeQ)
- Frank Kozik, whose Qees in this series are tiny 2.5-inch versions of his AWESOME Toyer-Z and Toyer Emeny figures
- Cameron Tiede (blue and yellow BoxeeQ)
- finally there are 3 country-themed chase figures (unpictured above) correlating to the flags of China, the US and France. They look sorta like Luchadores to me...

Pretty darn cool series, I must say. Definitely quite varied in the styles, and colorful to boot! I like how Toy2R has finally started mixing it up with some emerging artists. Only good things can come of that. Helps the community as a whole, and keeps things fresh for us collectors.

Toy2R 2.5" Qee Designer Collection Series 6 checklist, stickers!

Toy2R 2.5-inch Qee Artist Series 6 checklist of figures (located on the awesome Collect3d site), their ratios and the artists that created them!

Also check out the following image that Toy2R just sent to us: included with each figure is a DIY Qee sticker! Stick it anywhere, or draw on it and send the image to Toy2R for review and possible inclusion in future series. Look carefully at the 2 Qees in this image- they are variant colorways of the DOINK and Peskimo Qees:

Our cases of Artist Series 6 Qees is on the way to us now, keep a close eye on our Qee section where we'll be selling these open-box.