Who's da BOMB?! Custom Bomb Show-Off project

OK, this project is evolving before our very eyes!

We were able to obtain a couple more batches of Bombs to fulfill the requests of roughly the first 100 people who responded to our offer. Those Bombs will ship out to us next week some time and we'll forward them onto those of you we've already been in touch with. We have worked diligently all day yesterday to respond to each and every email we got, whether or not we have a free Bomb for you.

(It should be mentioned that our offer was picked up by several non-designer-toy-related "freebies" websites and that generated a deluge of emails from people outside our toy community requesting free Bombs. We were not able to grant any of those people a free Bomb simply because we are totally out of Bombs and our distributor is as well.)

I reached out to the good folks at Delicious Drips yesterday for their help. They are actually far more entrenched in the DIY/custom toy scene than we are and because they are awesome, they volunteered their help in several ways by co-sponsoring the Custom Bomb project (which we have given a real name: "Who's da BOMB?!").

Delicious Drips has a wonderful community-driven Custom Toy Submission section which is brand-new.

You can sign up and submit your custom toy to be voted on by the community.

Why is this cool? Because once you have finished your custom Bomb, not only will you email images to us at Tenacious Toys but you can also upload the image to Delicious Drips and have your custom Bomb voted on!

Because that will be a time-sensitive endeavor, we have set a hard date for submissions: August 31st.

The 3 winners with the most votes on their Custom Bombs will receive one of 3 REALLY awesome prizes which we will announce in the flyer, which I will work on this weekend! Honestly these are actually quite valuable prizes so I need to personally thank Lief from Delicious Drips for very generously volunteering to co-sponsor the Who's da BOMB?! project. It's really taken the whole concept to the next level.

If you are one of the hundreds of people who was not able to get a free Bomb from us, you can use a special coupon code for $2.00 off the purchase of a 1.5" Toy2R Mini Bomb from Delicious Drips: whodabomb is the code you should use.

Keep checking back here for the flyer which I will hopefully be able to finish by the end of this weekend.

Thanks everyone for your interest in what is shaping up to be quite an extensive Custom show!

100+ pieces? That's just nuts. Really nuts...

Custom Toy2R Mini Bomb Show-Off: Out of Bombs!

The response to our last post was absolutely, completely overwhelming! We have already packed up 3 dozen Bombs, everything we had in stock, and shipped them off to the first responders.

We have also contacted Toy2RUSA to get more of them for the rest of you. Seems the US distributor has fewer than we thought so regrettably we are going to cut off the requests at this point, unless there's some hidden stash of Mini Bombs somewhere. Once we get the next batch, we will of course ship every last Bomb we have to as many of you as possible, in the order that you requested them.

Thanks everyone SO MUCH for the incredibly positive responses!

We are very much looking forward to seeing these customs!

Custom Toy2R Mini Bomb Show-Off

We have a fun little custom project we want to tell you about:

Lately we've been sending a few customizers some figures to work on and we were very taken with the customs they produced.

An Italian artist that goes by the name Willow sent us this picture of a custom 1.5" Mini Bomb we sent him:...and that got us to thinking: these Mini Bombs are so small, ANYONE can finish one in an hour or so. The shape is really simple and lends itself to creative customization. Each Mini Bomb also comes with a disc-shaped base which can also be painted or customized.

So, here's the deal: email us with your shipping address if you want one of these Mini Bombs to customize. All we ask is that when you are finished, you email us a nice big picture of your Custom Bomb.

I've already been in touch with Toy2R and they said they'd post up pics of all the customs on www.Qee4All.com! I'll also post up the pics in an album on Facebook and link to your website if you have one.

AND, if you want us to, you can mail the Custom Bomb back to us and we can sell your custom on our website for whatever price you want to ask for it. We won't take a commission out of the sale price, just the wholesale cost of the Bomb and anything we spend on shipping. And we'll Paypal the rest of the money to you.

We're calling this project the Custom Bomb Show-Off because it's not really an official custom toy show, it's basically just a low-cost way for you to show off your customizing skillz and maybe get some recognition.

Dok A Mechtorians: 2 more full sets left!

Click here to order! After these 2 sets sell, we will have no more Stephan LePodds!

Sam Flores 10" Dragon Boy arrives September

Sam Flores is at it again: in September we can look forward to his next full-size vinyl piece called Dragon Boy. Apparently Sam has been spending lots of time in Asia and it's rubbed off on him! This 3-piece toy really shows that Asian influence and I for one LOVE IT!

As with Sam's previous full-size piece from Upper Playground (Fatima), and the Tiger Baby series, this one I believe will be released in multiple colorways. I think we are getting an orange version, not sure if that's the one pictured above of some variation on it... With the Fatimas there was a UP colorway and a Ningyoushi colorway and we were able to get both in our store. Will try to collect as many as possible for you guys...

Anyway, this is a spectacular piece. Retail will be just north of $100, I think, but it will be well worth it. Definitely email us if you are interested.

Incoming toys: Horvath, Dr. Bomb, Wood Qees, Mimobots, Yummy Donuts & more!

All of the following are on the way:

David Horvath 4" Minty Green by Toy2R.

We got the last 3! Will be here in a week or so. $18.95 each, preorder here.

Frank Kozik 10" Dr. Bomb rare Asia Exclusive "Arctic Rescue" edition. Made for a company in Asia (see flier), only 18 will make it to the US and we're getting some cuz we're so cool. Should be priced the same as all other previous Dr. Bombs, hopefully. Once we get our number nailed down, we'll accept preorders.

2.5" blind-boxed Wood Qees. 12 different qees: 6 standard qee shapes (Mon, Bunnee, Dog, Cat, Bear, Toyer) in 2 color variations each. REALLY cool realistic wood grain finish that took a LOT of work. These are already SOLD OUT in Asia. (Of course Toy2R set a shipment aside to come to the US which is why we are going to be able get a "sold out" item.) Will have preorders available as soon as our order is nailed down. Will be in our Toy2R section of course.

We are getting a few more HALO Master Chief 2GB mimobot USB drives, the last 5 that our distributor had in stock. Will be $24.95 each. This style is running low and was the most popular style from the HALO series. We currently have one lonesome 1GB Master Chief in stock right now.

Coming in early July are these delicious Yummy Donut 12" plushes by Heidi Kenney and Kidrobot. Will be for sale as soon as we get em! No preorders as per KR's rules. They're $25 each and we're getting both the Pink Donut and the Chocolate Donut versions. Once we get em they'll be in our Kidrobot section.

Gloomy Cosplay Plushes imported from Japan! I've seen a lot of Gloomy crossover plushes but never anything as interesting as this concept: Pity doing cosplay by dressing up as Gloomy? So weird, when you think about it.. especially when the "Gloomy costume" starts EATING Pity. Just like you knew it would. Silly Pity. Arriving in fall, around September. We have to import these from overseas ourselves so it's a bit more complex than just placing a regular order with an American company but I am sure they'll be worth it. 3 designs, each 25cm (10 inches) tall. Will be for sale in our Plush section.

Some news on the much-anticipated 7.5" David Horvath Crown Turtle: slight delay in production, and a price increase. The new price is $50. We still have preorders available here. Those of you lucky enough to have already preordered yours, we will honor your lower price cuz that's the right thing to do, even though we won't make any money on those preorders.

Coming late June is the latest and most bad-ass series of Star Wars Mimobot USB Drives: Series 4! Featuring Darth Maul, Clone Captain Rex and Darth Vader in 2 different variations, this series is gonna sell fast!

We have preorders up right now for all 3 SW Ser. 4 Mimobots.

2GB Mimos are $24.95, 4GB Mimos are $34.95 and 8GB Mimos are $49.95.

Free Mechtorians Sentry Wheel 3.5" figure with any $25+ order

This week only, with every $25+ order, we are including a free Sentry Wheel 3.5" figure from Doktor A's Mechtorians mini figure series.

Your choice of free Series 5 Dunny with every order till 6/12

Choose from:

• REACH
  
• TOOFLY
  
• Dirty Donny
  
• Sneaky Raccoon
  
• MAD Agent
  
• Amanda Visell
  
• Mishka NYC
  
• LeDoux
  
• Aya Kakeda
  
• JK5

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