Designer Con 2014 Recap

Designer Con is definitely the best show to attend if you collect designer toys etc... Admission to this show is $5 a day if purchased online or $7 at the door. This year the exhibit hall space grew and they added on a smaller room. The smaller room didn't have the lighting like the bigger area where it's nice and bright but they did get a lot of foot traffic since that is where everyone entered/exited. We've been attending Designer Con since they started and through it's different transformations when the show started as Qeeology then Vinyl Toy Network. We've seen this show grow a lot over the years and this year was by far the biggest it has ever been. This year they also added a Pajama party and anyone with a weekend pass could attend. Unfortunatly, we were not able to attend the party.

This year was extra awesome! There were so many artists there with their own booths such as MAD, Jesse Hernandez, Bigfoot, Bwana Spoons, Le Merde, Martin Ontiveros, Paul Kaiju & Mutant Vinyl Hardcore. We also have to mention that there were quite a few artists/companies that came out from Japan which made this year so much special such as Refreshment Toy / Popsoda, Cometdebris, Goccodo, RealxHead, Skull Toys / 9 Works, Uamou, Touma, Kenth Toy Works, Ukydaydreamer, Punk Drunkers & Blackbook Toy. (sorry if we missed anyone...) We hope that all of the artists/companies from Japan will return next year.

This year we saw quite a few toy prototypes that were being shown from Critical Hit (Skinner), MVH, Paul Kaiju and Toy Art Gallery (TAG). Of course we took pictures!

Finally, out of all the shows that we've attended this year, Designer Con was the best one that we've attended. A huge thank you to Ayleen & Ben who runs and organizes this show.

Below are some of the stuff given out at the show. 

Prints On Wood gave out 100 Jeff Soto Prints per day.

Designed by Chris Lee and Made by Button Lab. Pick up each one design at 4 diffferent booths.

ESC Toys Plush given out to the first 200 attendees each day.

We have tons of pictures to share with all of you from DCon. There were a few of us that took pictures throughout both days of the show and took pictures of a lot of the exhibitors that were there. Basically we have slideshows from 2 of our main cameras with a select number of photos from a 3rd camera. In total there are probably 1000 pics or more which is why it has taken us so long to get our pics up. We had to edit the pics etc... and upload them so you can see them on a slideshow instead of us trying to put each picture one by one here which will take quite a while to view this. There are going to be quite a few slideshows so you can choose what you want to see.

More Previews of Uamou & RxH Figures for NYCC

Uamou posted more preview pics of what both Uamou & RxH will have at NYCC!!! WHOA! Lots of good stuff!

RxH Releases for NYCC

RxH (Real x Head) will have their new Trooper figures at NYCC along with other RxH goodies that probably won't be shown until the show starts. RxH will be at the Onell Design Booth.

Skull Toys x RxH Collaboration Release for NYCC

Skull Toys x RxH will be releasing this collaboration figure at NYCC. Skull Toys designed the face/head using RxH's Bakenofugi body. These will be at the O'nell Design Booth. Skull Toys, RxH & Uamou will all be at the O'nell Design Booth.

Paul Kaiju x RxH Collaboration Jinxman

Paul Kaiju & RxH (Real x Head) collaboration figure Jinxman. WoW! Looks great! Paul posted these pics on his instagram.

RxH released the Jinxman in the pic above this past weekend.

Camouflage & Leopard Real Uamou Exclusives for NYCC

Uamou revealed their Camouflage & Leopard Real Uamou of exclusives they will have for NYCC. Real Uamou is a collaboration between Uamou & RxH (Real x Head). Uamou also announced that Mori from Real x Head & Yu from Skull Toys will also be in attendance. They will all be at the Onell Design Booth #102.

Preview Refreshment x RxH Chaosman (Lady) Collaboration

Preview Refreshment x RxH Chaosman (Lady) Collaboration.

Rock 'n' Roll Uamou Show at Toy Art Gallery

Toy Art Gallery presents the Rock 'n' roll Uamou Show featuring Uamou, RealxHead & Skull Toys. Opening Reception is June 1st at 7PM. The Show runs through June 23rd.

Medicom x RxH Scar Pheyden & Oni Osu

Medicom will also be releasing RxH's Oni Osu & Scar Pheyden on 12/9/12. Both are 5500yen. Doesnt look like these 2 will be available for international orders to order through the Rakuten Forwarding service.

Medicom x RxH Mutant Chaos Man

Medicom x RxH Mutant Chaos Man will be released on 12/9/12 for 5,500yen. International buyers can buy it from HERE.

Uamou for NYCC 2012

Uamou will be heading to NYCC and will be bring a ton of new goodies. Uamou will be sharing a booth with Onell. Also attending NYCC will be Uamou's brother who will be bringing YuuSyokuYa Boo's exclusive Manpuku Uamous and Uamou's father will be bringing hand-crafted, tribal Uamou masks.

Mori from RealxHead & Yu from Skull Toys will also be attending with lots of goodies for sale.

Up first, Uamou x RealxHead collaborated on a bigger figure this time and is called Real Uamou. NYCC attendees will have a special Pre-sale on the 2 versions below at the show. 

L-R: Monotone or Metallic Silver

Uamou will have these customs by Goto-San as seen above. 

Uamou will have these above for NYCC. The top row is exclusives for NYCC. I really like the floating Uamou inside the clear Uamou.

Refreshment x RxH Mutant Chaos for Super Festival 60

Refreshment x RxH will release a new version of their collaboration figure Mutant Chaos at Super Festival 60.

via Refreshment

New RxH Minis at Rotofugi

Rotofugi just got in a bunch of RxH mini figures.

• Bakenofuji with either Blue, Orange or Purple Mawashi for $16.95 each.

• Honesuke Glow with Grey/Black Robes or Glow with Grey/Purple Robes for $9.95 each.

• Mini Fortune Cat White/Blue w/Lightning Bolt, White/Green w/Red Eye, White/Pink w/Heart for $9.95 each.
• Mini Tanuki Lime Green & Tan, Black & White, Ivory & White for $13.95 each.

Buy them HERE. Don't sleep! These are bound to go quick!

The Toy Box: RealxHead's Chaos Q Bean

RealxHead's Chaos Q Bean. This clear rainbow style version was by Shef who is another artist from Japan. RealxHead released a lot of little Chaos Q Beans. There were a lot of different color releases. At one point I had over 30 but only kept a few choice pieces. These little guys are quite small and are about 2" tall. These have a hole at the bottom so you can also use this as a finger puppet.

The Toy Box: RxH Mini Tanuki

Today's toy from the Toy Box is RxH's (Real x Head) Mini Tanuki x3. These are Japanese Raccoon Dogs. 3.5 inches tall. Couldn't pass these up when they popped up at a U.S. retailer. It's definitely hard to get these unless you are living in Japan. The ones shown above are Brown with white eyes, Pink & Brown with yellow eyes.

From Wikipedia, The legendary Tanuki has eight special traits that bring good fortune. They are:

• a hat to be ready to protect against trouble or bad weather;
• big eyes to perceive the environment and help make good decisions;
• a sake bottle that represents virtue;
• a big tail that provides steadiness and strength until success is achieved;
• over-sized testicles that symbolize financial luck;
• a promissory note that represents trust or confidence;
• a big belly that symbolizes bold and calm decisiveness; and
• a friendly smile

The Toy Box: Real x Head's Bakenofuji

Today's Toy Box features, Real x Head's Bakenofuji.

These are on Glow in the dark vinyl. 3" tall. 

These are pretty hard to get here in the states and was lucky enough to grab these at the right time they went up for sale. These go for about $15 a piece. They are imported from Japan. 

These little sumo guys glow bright! They come in various other colors as well but if you want to catch them all you'll have to be in Japan specifically near the Real x Head store when they get released.

Paul Kaiju's El Diablo, El Bebe & Y El Robot Release

Paul Kaiju released a trio of new figures today. These are in association with RxH, Fig-lab and Lamour Supreme. "Necroman" El Diablo, "Biterman" El Bebe & "Cy'os" Y El Robot were released in his store at High Noon. Orange vinyl with metallic & pearly sprays. These sold out pretty quickly and sold for $85 each.  There was also a Green Grodygool up for sale as well for $60.

SDCC 2012 Super Magic Funtime Unit @ 5&A Dime

WOW! What can I say, Super Magic Funtime Unit was held at 5&A Dime. This event was put together by Lulubell featuring Grody Shogun, Paul Kaiju, Velocitron & Friends. Grody Shogun & Velocitron made it out from Japan.

The show was awesome and well put together. There were over 100 people at the event and people spilled into the streets. There was food and free drinks (if your of age that is). The only one issue was with the line order thing on how people were supposed to purchase. It was stated that when you got there you would pick your line order out of a hat/container etc... and that would tell you where you'd be in line.

At the last minute, not sure if this was because after all the tickets were picked that more people showed up that they decided to go the raffle route so basically if you had the lower numbers to get in first you were screwed until they called your number. They re-wrote numbers on sheets of paper and threw them in a bag and called out numbers one by one.

That was the only problem. I think they should've just left it the way it was before switching and that everyone who came later would have to wait since the people who picked the numbers out of the hat/container were there on time when the tickets were being picked.

Besides that, it was pretty cool to have a personal shopper help you get the items you want. There was a great selection of Grody, Velocitron, Paul Kaiju goodies. There were also customs by RealxHead, Pico Pico, Itokin Park & Skinner which all were great. Oh yeah and can't forget the yummy monster rice krispie treats that had gummy worms and eyeballs in them lol.

I hope Lulubell decides to do this again next year. The only suggestion is to figure out how they let people in etc...ahead of time and stick to it.

Check out a few pics from the show in the photo album slideshow below.

Preview Lamour Supreme's Necromon for SDCC

Lamour Supreme just posted this on twitter and says that there will be a limited amount of Necromon figures for SDCC.

Preview Monstrehero x RxH's Leechface for SDCC

Preview Monstrehero x RxH's Leechface for SDCC.