This week sure did drag on, but that's cool because today is FRIDAY and you know what that means... another
FREE GOODIE FRIDAY - awwwww yeah!!! So what do we have for you all... well, it's obvious by the photo above, but we are stoked to announce a very special giveaway thanks to Amy W. of
Kokma Toys as she has donated one of her handmade plush creations...
"Henry Cupcake Superstar"!!! Henry is delighted to have his own cupcake! This green Japanese monster stands 13" tall and holds a vanilla scented sparkled cupcake. Henry is free standing. He is super soft and cuddly... and the kicker... the novelty of this toy is that the cupcake is vanilla scented. So is that rad or what?!?! A contest worth playing for... I think so! Wanna know how to win, keep reading...
1. First up, give Kokma Toys a follow and Twitter HERE... while you are at it, give SpankyStokes.com a follow HERE... then send out this tweet "I just entered to win an adorable "Henry Cupcake Superstar" plush from @KokmaToys - Go to http://bit.ly/1tOrAy and enter now! #SSKOK" You can just copy and paste the above quoted text, without the
quotes of course, and make sure that it includes the #SSKOK tag as that is how we track you :-).
2. Next, head on over to the Kokma Toys Facebook page HERE, and 'LIKE' them, and then do the same for the SpankyStokes page HERE!
3. Finally, just leave a comment in this post telling us what you think the next scented flavor should be for a possible follow up to the Cupcake Superstar! This can be anything, Strawberry, Chocolate, Carmel... just have fun, and who knows... it could actually be picked and created!!! Only one comment please.
Now, each one of those steps is an entry... so if you do all of them, you get 5 entries!!! This contest will end
Sunday night 5/19/2013 at 10:00pm so you only have
a few days get your entries in, after all is said and done, 1 lucky winner will be chosen at random and will have this awesome plush figure sent out their way! Good luck to all that enter, and a big thanks goes out to
Kokma Toys for making this happen. Oh, and check out the
Kokma Toys online store... there is all kinds of great stuff available to purchase!
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As the days go on, the closer and closer we get to the release of
Kidrobot's next Dunny series, and just like previous years, it's so aptly called Dunny 2013! Today, we are getting a glimpse of some artwork created for this series by the super talented Kansas City based artist,
Scribe... most likely the box art, and hot damn does it look good! We spotted this over on the
Preview's website with the following copy "
Step up! Step up! Prepare to be amazed!! Dunny Series 2013 invites you to tour the tent, point & wonder, and behold a collection of freaks for the geek you didn't know you were. Artists from off the beaten path and the road less travelled lure you to embrace the strange and scary. Featuring 20 designs across 14 artists, each artist applies his or her custom style to bring fantastic, eccentric and sometimes downright frightening designs to homes and shelves throughout the world. Are you afraid of the Kraken? Does Batboy make you squirm? Can you keep up with the Daredevil? Don't lose your nerve now; witness all the demented glory these abominations are and bring them home to haunt your dreams..." It's obvious by the art and the verbage that this is somewhat of a theme series... a Sideshow, or a Freakshow! In any case, I for one am really excited for the release... how about you?
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Thanks to Jay P., a loyal SpankyStokes reader, he sent over some info about a release from the super talented artist, Leah W. and her creations known as
Little Lazies... and for all you kids who grew up in the 80's, this one's for you!!! This weekend appears to be My Pet Monster weekend over at Little Lazies, and she created a handful of custom My Pet Monster's made out of polymer clay... how adorable are they?!?! I love the aesthetic of these... super smooth, and cartoon like. These are going to be sold in a two day span... the first of which is right NOW, Saturday May 18th at 3PM EST and then tomorrow Sunday, May 19th at 5PM EST! They can be found
HERE... don't miss out!
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Continuing to pump out some of the coolest, most unique robot figures around,
Tesselate just sent over two new resin bots ready to hit the streets! "
Belonging to the IT series of the ED-IT DJ collaboration crew, these wild eyed guys are fresh from the factory floor. Once taken out of production (by humans) due to how intense and hyperactive they could be, they were reactivated after the passing of the 2068 Law of Awareness. The Z9900_k series primarily work at Accex Systems creating drum machines, and can sometimes be found on the stage before a ED-IT DJ production working as a 'hype crew'." Titled "Z9900_k1" (red) and "Z9900_k2" (blue), these hand cast, hand painted resin robots will release
HERE this coming Wednesday, May 22nd at 9pm (GMT UK time). There will only be 1 of each, and they stand just under 5" tall. Will you be lucky enough to snag 1?
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You may all remember the “Vita Nova” custom Dunny's from J★RYU that were at our booth during
D-Con 2012... well, the Artist Proof's of these fantastic custom Dunny's are up for grabs
HERE via the Silent Stage Gallery website! These customs feature J★RYU's filigree wood style and are part of his 'Forest Of Sorrow's' body of work! There are only a limited amount of these available, and each one comes with a custom stickered box... go grab one now!
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Well how about a peek at Clutter's next toy release for their upcoming 'Toy Mafia' get together, and as we previously showed you,
Mark Nagata has a really cool release and now we see a drop from
Ultimate Skull and Cobra with a run of 10 "
Roid Randy" figures! These stand approximately 6" tall, are hand-casted in solid resin, feature 4 points of articulation, and will be up for grabs for $65 a piece, exclusively at Clutter's May Toy Mafia Party next Saturday, May 25th! I dig the pink/black combos... Clutter's primary colors, of course! Remaining pieces, if any, will be available on the Clutter Webstore on Monday, May 27th at 12pm EST.
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Gary Ham just posted up a really great photo of a brand new Wooper Looper that he says is going to drop, Next Friday, May 24th! Although we can't see much other than the back of this particular colorway, we can see that he feature a super high-gloss pastel blue finish with touches of black and silver... a really nice looking color combo! We will post up more on this once we get word from Gary, and until then... marinate on the above photo.
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In just 8 days,
Huck Gee and the rest of the folks behind the upcoming handheld game "BattleTails" have been 100% funded via their
Kickstarter campaign... a HUGE congrats goes out to all of the parties involved!!! Now, they are shooting for a ton of stretch goals and are now striving to push the support to the $100-200k mark. The more they raise, the more awesome the game!
We mentioned
HERE that DJ Qbert would be involved with the soundtrack for this game... well, above is a quick sampling of DJ QBert's "Labyrinth"... a taste of what you can come to expect... really nice!!! Huck also just unveiled the full 11"x17" map of Kinausu and made it available as an optional add-on item for $60 (including shipping). It is limited to 100 prints, only available to backers of the Kickstarter. Speaking of... head on over
HERE now to back this project, you'll be glad you did!
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Not much is known about this project yet, but it seems that
Frank Kozik has created a brand new rendition of "Heathrow the Hedgehog" – which he's calling "Heathrow 2.0" — and these 3D renders are meant to be the prototype for a sofubi cast edition! They will be available in both 5" and 3" sizes... other than that, more info soon!
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Mark Nagata of
Max Toy Company just posted up to his twitter some really cool looking vinyl test shots of his upcoming "Eyezon 2.0" figure!!! Sculpted by
Handsome Taro M in Japan, this new vision of Eyezon is much more organic and monsterous... and I love it! Mark mentions that these photos are from Shimizu-san in Japan... meaning, we may just see a release very soon! The first release is tentatively still scheduled for May if all goes well... and this will be the size as the first Eyezon, about 10.5" tall.... awesome!!!!
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We have been posting up teasers for the past few weeks for this upcoming release, and now we have all the details for the second release of
Devils Head Productions "
ALAVAKA" figure! This particular release pays homage to the Secret Base kaiju spray New Year "
Mantises" from 2005. These are glow in the dark vinyl with either
neon pink, orange or
green sprays. The orange and green are common with the pink being the rare “chase” much like the ratios Secret Base did. Each one comes bagged with a header and will be shipped out randomly. You can not choose the color you want, but orders of two or more will at least have an orange and a green and possibly a pink if you’re lucky. Go and try your luck
HERE right now for just $49 a pop!
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Hey all you
Doktor A. fans... did you try to get the new Bella Delamere "
A Midnight Tryst" colorway from
Arts Unknown, only to find out that you had to be an exclusive member... well, now is you chance to secure one of these beautiful new figures as the folks over at Collect and Display have 150 pieces of this figure, and they are offering it up for grabs today!!! That's right, you can pick this up at 12'Oclock Midnight GMT tonight, May 17th, 2013
HERE for $98 each! So for those of you not knowing what time that is stateside... check the timezone converter
HERE, cross your fingers, and best of luck to all you Dok A. collectors out there!
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The nomination period is now over, and the
2013 Designer Toy Awards are now open for public voting... and you know what that means... go VOTE :-) There are a ton of categories, with a ton of deserving artists, toys, shops, and blogs out there to vote for... that being said, I have got to throw out a little shameless self promotion for my site. We took home the '
Best Blog' award in 2012, and hope to repeat it this year. So, with your help... we are pushing for all the support you showed last year! If you come to the site on a daily basis, if you are an artist and we have posted your work, if you enter our contests, if you have won our contests, or... if you just like what we do here at
SpankyStokes.com - then please vote for us
HERE on a daily basis. Voting is open now open until July 1st... and like mentioned above, you can vote every day! So go out, support those you folks who you love!
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Gargamel will be having a custom sofubi toy exhibition at
Super7 (1427 Haight St., San Francisco, CA 94117) on Sunday, May 26th, 2013 and it appears attendees be treated to some "new" designs. Pictured above, "Snown" is on the left and "Toxic Conifas" is on the right, both based on the same base figure with radically different faces. And if Swown's face resembles a Nike swoosh, it's because he was originally introduced as part of Nike's "Shoe Shine Show," for which Gargamel painted a pair of snowboots and made a unique Swown for each one (see below left). Normally, due to the Nike logo aspect, Gargamel can not release by Swown figure but special permission was received to do some for this event… And, according to the artist, there are no plans for a mass release Toxic Conifas at this point either. Which means that if you don't snag them at this show, your only other option to get one MIGHT be a Lucky Bag in the future…
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It's time for
Bwana Spoons's 4th International Globby Day Contest and the rules are simple as can be: log in or sign up for the
Grass Hut Message Board, go over to
THIS THREAD in the forum, and then post your own tribute to Globby… it can be a photo, drawing, sculpture, custom, whatever. You have until 5PM Pacific time on May 21st, 2013 to enter your submission, after which all the members on the message board will be able to vote for their favorite and a runner-up. The winner will receive, aside from bragging rights, a one-off resin "Takoyaki Cook" custom!
And what would Globby day be without a Globby release? The below pictured "Uh-Oh Globby" will be available alongside some customs at 12 Noon Pacific time today (May 17th, 2013) in the
Bwana Spoons online shop.
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