Monday, March 19, 2012

64 Colors Gumdrop Series 1 Release

Squibbles Ink x Rotofugi x 64 Colors Gumdrop Series 1 will be released this Friday, March 23rd @ 10AM Central HERE and other select retailers. Series 1 features 2 face designs (happy and surprised) in 6 different bright colors for a total of 12 variants. $5.95 each.

Stoked to get more Gumdrops!!!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Bwana Spoons' Frederick Fest @Super7

Super7 is celebrating their newest Monster Family member, Frederick The Beetle by Bwana Spoons with a little get together on March 24th at 11AM. Stop by Super7's store for Bwana Spoons' Frederick Fest and pick up Frederick for $35.

Bwana will be on hand in person to party it up with some original art, hand-painted customs and fun party games. So mark your calendars now and stop by to check out the debut release of the Fields of Green Frederick the Beetle and party it up with Bwana.
Well, how about that, an early event!!!

Lulubell x Amapro's Franjyu Dodoro US Exclusive Pre-order

Lulubell x Amapro's Franjyu Dodoro U.S. Exclusive will be up for Pre-order TODAY, Thursday, March 15th at 5PM Pacific. Pre-order it for $25 HERE. 5" tall. Cast in flesh colored vinyl with pink, purple & black spray detailing.

Toy Art Gallery x Secret Base SpongeBob X-RAY DX Release


Toy Art Gallery is the US Distributor for Secret Base's Spongebob X-RAY DX.
A collaboration between Nickelodeon and Secret Base, the SpongeBob X-RAY DX is 5 inches of Japanese soft vinyl with a full internal vinyl skeleton. This first release celebrates the duality of the ‘Bob with half the figure fully painted in the traditional SpongeBob colors and the other side left clear exposing the bones underneath.

The SpongeBob X-RAY DX set comes with one of five exclusive T-shirts (two Secret Base versions and three Secret Base x DOARAT versions) and retails for $185 each.

TAG is the exclusive U.S. distributor of the SpongeBob X-RAY DX and supplies are limited. Available online and in-store this Friday, March 16th at 12PM PST.
via TAG

Super7's Perfect Order, Nessie & Sutro Tower

Perfect Order (In-N-Out Anyone?) $25
Nessie Crewneck Sweatshirt $55

Sutro Tower Hooded Zip-up Sweatshirt $60

Super7 is set release a new T-shirt, Crewneck Sweatshirt & a Hooded Zip-Up Sweatshirt today, ( Thursday) March 15th at Noon Pacific HERE.

Don't forget to check out Super7 at Booth #369 this weekend at Wondercon which is held in Anaheim, CA this year.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Wondercon 2012- IDW Exclusives & Signing Schedule

IDW Publishing just released their Convention exclusives and Signing Schedule for Wondercon 2012. Check it out below!

CHECK OUT THESE CONVENTION EXCLUSIVES:
Wally Wood’s EC Stories Artist’s Edition: Exclusive Hardcover Variant- $150.00
John Romita’s Amazing Spider-Man: Exclusive Hardcover– Signed by Romita & Stan Lee, with a sketch by Romita! - $250.00
Smoke & Mirrors #1 Convention Variant Cover- $5.00
Locke & Key: Guide to Known Keys Convention Variant Cover- $5.00
Locke & Key Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom HC Convention Variant Cover  - $25.00
Road Rage #1 Convention Variant Cover- $5.00
We’ll also have some previous convention-edition material available!
The Art of Joe Jusko:Signed and numbered edition - $50.00
Locke & Key:Assorted brass-plated pewter keys - $25.00 or 5 for $100.00

Parker: The Martini Edition Variant Edition- $75.00
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ultimate Edition Vol. 1 Variant Edition- $50.00
Monstrous Collection of Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson Variant Edition- $50.00

Friday March 16th
2:00 – 3:00  TRANSFORMERS – Livio Ramondelli, John Barber, Flint Dille, Chris
                        Metzen
3:00 – 4:00 Smoke & Mirrors – Jon Armstrong, Mike Costa, Ryan Browne
                      (Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive Comic!)
4:30 – 5:30 Locke & Key, The Cape, Road RageJoe Hill, Jason Ciaramella,
                     Chris Ryall
(Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive Comics: Road Rage #1 & Locke & Key: The Guide to Known Keys!)
6:00 – 7:00 30 Days of Night – Steve Niles
                      (Check out the Exclusive Steve Niles & Bernie Wrightson Hardcover!)

Saturday March 17th
10:00 – 11:00 Smoke & Mirrors – Jon Armstrong, Mike Costa, Ryan Browne
                      (Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive Comic!)
11:00 – 12:00 Done to Death – Andrew Foley
12:00 – 3:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesKevin Eastman
3:00 – 4:00 Locke & Key, The Cape, Road RageJoe Hill, Jason Ciaramella,
                     Chris Ryall
(Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive Comics: Road Rage #1 & Locke & Key: The Guide to Known Keys!)
4:00 – 5:00 True Blood – Michael McMillian
5:00 – 6:00 Womanthology Launch Party - Featuring Renae DeLiz, Mariah Huehner & over a dozen other creators!
6:00 – 7:00 Star Trek, Angel Scott Tipton

Sunday March 18th
12:00 – 1:00 BajaBen Wagner
1:00 – 2:00 Locke & Key – Joe Hill
                     (Focus on Locke & Key Card Game from Cryptozoic!)
2:00 – 3:00 Smoke & Mirrors – Jon Armstrong, Mike Costa, Ryan Browne
                      (Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive Comic!)

Wondercon 2012 - Cartoon Network's Adventure Time Panel & Signing

Hey Adventure Time Fans! If you're going to Wondercon or thinking about it, you should go on Saturday. Cartoon Network will be having a Panel as well as an Adventure Time Signing on Saturday. Info below:

SATURDAY, MARCH 17

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Adventure Time Panel with Pendleton Ward, Jeremy Shada and Maria Bamford
Location:  204ABC
What could make WonderCon 2012 even more wonderful…how about a totally rhombus Adventure Time panel? Come find out what’s in store for our heroes Finn and Jake this season from executive producer and creator Pendleton Ward (Lumpy Space Princess), Jeremy Shada (Finn), Maria Bamford (Manfried, Slime Princess, Guardian Angel, Duchess of Nuts and others) and members of the Adventure Time crew. The panel features an in-depth look at how the show comes to life, exclusive clips and a Q&A with the audience.  So, come on grab your friends!

12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Adventure Time Signing
Location: Exhibit Floor Signing Tables, A1-3

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Chima Group's New Amedas, Wool + Blue Gnocchi

Chima Group released 2 new toys in the past few days. 1st we have a new Amedas is Baby Pink with light blue boots and the 2nd is a new Wool in Red with green scarf.

There is also a new color Gnocchi in Blue which you can get if you purchase 2 or more Sofubi toys.

As always you can purchase these cute and adorable toys HERE or if you have questions, just shoot Chima Group an email to see if the figure you're looking for will be back in stock. I see the new ones are no longer listed on their site but looks like they are making more Wools but not sure on Amedas.

Wondercon 2012 - Comixology x The Walking Dead Vol. 1 Digital Comic FREE

Stop by Comixology at Booth # 107 at Wondercon and pick up a special LE promotional postcard with a unique code to download The Walking Dead Vol.1 for FREE exclusively at Comixology.com. 5000 Digital Copies will be released. 1st come, 1st serve! Regular price is $8.99 for 140 pages. The Walking Dead Show is based on this comic.

Michael Skattum's Human Slayers 9 Eyes Demon Resin Toy

Michael Skattum's Human Slayers 9 Eyes Demon Resin Toy is available to purchase HERE for $80. Limited to 20. Only 16 available. This resin figure is 5.5" tall. Has articulated arms & head. It also has a removable head which reveals a surprise inside. The sculpt is pretty rad!

Troy Stith x Max Toy Co. Yuudoku Teaser

Recently Troy Stith revealed a teaser of Yuudoku that he is working on with Max Toy Co. and will be part of their Kaiju line. The only teaser so far is the shot of an eye. I love figures with a back story. This one definitely has one. I won't be posting the story here but you can read all about it over at Troy's blog HERE. Can't wait to see more of the figure revealed!!!

Wondercon 2012 - Kuso Vinyl x Rotobox Catchaman Celsius Exclusive

Kuso Vinyl announces another Wondercon 2012 release by Rotobox who is also releasing a new series Ganmetall Celsius Tribute Series and the first figure released is the Catchaman Celsius which will be released in Pearl White (200pcs) and Metallic Purple (100pcs). $60 each and will be available everyday during Wondercon at Booth # 287. If there are any left, they will go up online at Kuso Vinyl's online shop HERE after Wondercon.

via Kuso Vinyl

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Indy Toymaker Roundtable @ Wondercon 2012

Was checking out the programming for Wondercon and saw that on Friday, March 16th from 1:30-2:30, there will be a Indy Toymaker Roundtable.

1:30-2:30 Indy Toymaker Roundtable— Independent toymakers spill their secrets on how to successfully create and market awesome plush and vinyl toys. Learn from toy world luminaries Nitin Bhargava (Kidrobot), Dan Goodsell (Mr. Toast), Kerry Horvath and Darth Rimmer (Evil Ice Cream), Patrick Lam (Munky King), Kris Schantz (Happy Worker), and Doug Gauthier (Hey Soupface). Moderated by Wendy Bryan (I Heart Guts). Turn your sketches into something you can hold! Room 203 
via Wondercon

Super7's Insert Coin Collection Designer T-Shirts Full Release

Super7 released 2 of the 6 designs from their Insert Coin Collection Designer T-Shirt series a couple of weeks ago. Tomorrow, they will be releasing all 6 of their designs online. Top row - Pizza Man Fever, NES Sleeve, Arcade Rorschach and Bottom row - Kremlin Rocket, Bit Runner, Controller Family Tree. $25each and can be purchased HERE.

Wondercon 2012 - Super7 Strawberry Caramel Delight Foster

Super7 will be releasing their "Strawberry Caramel Delight" Foster as their Wondercon 2012 Exclusive this year. Foster can be yours for $25. Pick him up at Super7's Booth #369.