NYC events coming up this week...

Thurs May 7, 2009

6-9PM

Tristan Eaton at Jonathan Levine Gallery

Launch of Billy Bananas toy

Jonathan Levine Gallery

529 West 20th Street, 9E

New York, NY 10011

212-243-3822

Friday May 8, 2009

8PM

ToyQube

Kicktoys BEit Dude release party

37-06 Prince Street.

Flushing, NY 11354 

Lunartik in a cup of tea figures from the UK

LUNARTIK IN A CUP OF TEA

Matt "Lunartik" Jones' new line of toys from the UK are these adorable Lunartik in a cup of tea figures, to be released in June 2009.  Here's the info:

Lunartik JOnes and the team are pleased to announce the first series of designer toys brought directly to the market by Lunartik Limited. Amongst other things the Lunartik team is fueled by tea and the love of all things English, and is dedicated to bringing perfection and attention to detail to every toy produced. Each cuppa stands 6.5” tall & comes complete with it's own cup & saucer, shiny metal spoon & 2 sugar cubes.

Series 1 contains the following figures:
White Tea - The Classic Brew
Rosie Lee - Afternoon Delight
Ice T - Seriously Cool
Milky - Full Fat DIY

There is also a special 200 piece Limited Edition Green Tea distributed exclusively by Highland Toys.

And you can preorder a special Earl colorway figure (seen above) direct from Lunartik. 

The Earl colorway is limited to 200 pieces and comes signed and numbered.

Definitely email us if you want us to import some of these to the US- we have access to the 4 regular non-exclusive figures.

Luckies Zipper Pulls/Keychains by Friends With You

Kidrobot certainly doesn't need the help of our little blog to promote their products, but I just had to post this up in case anyone missed it- we've been supporting Friends With You for a long time, stocking their Wish Come True mini figs, FWY Mimobots and Mr. TTT Plushes, amongst other toys... and on May 7, Kidrobot will be releasing a new line of 29 different Friends With You Luckies zipper pulls! I really like these- simple and fun. Nifty.

Interesting new jellyfish plushes from Jellyface in Italy

JELLYFACE is a jellyfishes’ family who, due to the sea pollution, is forced to flee from the ocean. They decide to move to the mainland to find a new home. To carry out this adventure each JELLYFACE has to choose a camouflage made by different materials according to its personality. Each JELLYFACE has its own characteristics and dreams to realize. You can decide to keep them with you at home, but be careful... they can be dangerous...Find out more information about the 4 characters: JELLYWOOD, JELLYMUCI, JELLYBONE, JELLYFUR and the first special edition JELLYTANGLE at www.jellyface.net.

Anyone interested in Jellyface plushes should email us!

FREE Billy Bronze Pink figure with every order May 1-8

The economy seems to be leveling out but that doesn't mean that we're out of the woods yet.

In light of the current economic situation, last month we gave away a bunch of tokidoki Moofia figures, as well as the Sir Shilling figures from Doktor A's Mechtorians series. This month we wanted to continue our giveaways so you continue to get more bang for your buck.

From May 1st through May 8th, we will be including a FREE 3" Ningyoushi Get Small Series Sam Flores Billy Bronze Pink Book Edition figure with every order, no matter how small!

This figure is a color variant of one of the Get Small SF series of 3-inch toys by Ningyoushi. The artist, Sam Flores, released a book a little while after the SF series dropped, and Ning released a special Pink version of his Billy Bronze figure to coincide with the book release. We bought a bunch and we still have some, so hopefully if you are not familiar with Sam Flores' amazing artwork, this mini figure can serve as a bit of an introduction.

We really appreciate all the business you guys gave us during April.

Other news:

-tokidoki Dream pillowcases restocked

-a bunch of new Toy2R toys are on the way

-tokidoki Frenzies release date pushed back to June (we wrote about this before but a lot of you were asking recently)

-new extremely low Fedex International rates are now in effect

-orders over $100 ship free within the US

Custom Steampunk USB drive

Thanks Engadget for the coverage of this hella cool, rusty-ass steampunk style USB drive...

For less hazardous USB drives, check out the Mimobots in our store!

NEW LOWER Fedex International rates!

Recently Fedex has developed a new international shipping system which gives us much lower rates for international shipments. On top of that, I have personally renegotiated the discounts we get on our Fedex International Contract to give us substantial savings on the new International service!

In real terms, here is an example: I just shipped a Horvath 5" Bossy Bear (+ a free tokidoki Moofia) to a customer in Singapore using Fedex Express Priority for $15.00!

That is WAY, WAY lower than the rates we were getting before. Of course we are passing the savings on to you. Since we have a live shopping cart that talks to the Fedex servers to get rates, our international buyers will now see several different low-priced Fedex options as shipping choices during checkout.

Happy shopping!

Oh and don't forget, we are still throwing in a free Mechtorians Sir Shilling Copperpenny with every $30+ order for another 3 days, till April 30th, so get your orders in now!

FREE Mechtorian Sir Shilling Copperpenny with any $30+ order

Bankers are a tightfisted bunch these days. Believe me, I've spoken to several. One banker, however, is breaking the mold: Sir Shilling Copperpenny, the steampunk banker from Doktor A's Mechtorians series of 3.5" mini figures!
Sir Shilling is requesting the privilege of gracing your toy shelf with his presence. All he asks is that you spend $30 or more at Tenacious Toys, and he will pack himself along with the other toys in your order! Act fast though- his generous offer ends April 30th!