I was very fortunate to be contacted by Jonathan Ma of
Kuso Vinyl, asking if I would do a story on this hot new vinyl figure with a release date of early 2009. I said "Heck yes!!!", because I have been seeing this pop up on other sites, I was all in! After a few e-mail's back and forth Jonathan some great info, and some great shots of the upcoming Celsius release. Check out what he had to say below!
Info and Story of Celsius(designed by
Rotobox):
The expected release date is around Jan 2009 with 600 pcs of original color (black). We will also have NYCC exclusive (Camo colorway...revealed at a later date) around 150 pcs. Each original colorway figure comes with 2 guns and a mini comic book (refer to attachment), one more gun added for NYCC exclusive colorway. The final box design will be very similar to the pictures up on ToysRevil. The size of Celsius is 7 inches. The wingspan is around 8 inches. It's made out of vinyl. Price is undetermined at this point.
Created for the sole purpose of serving the evil Gunryu Empire lead by Emperor Nyan Nyan, Celsius was stolen by a small renegade squad known as S3uck (SSSUCK - Super Secret Squad Unit Combat Korps, pronounced as Suck) and has helped him understand the true intentions of the empire. Now fully aware of the evil doings of the empire, Celsius vowed to fight for justice and freedom and spread the message that "co-existence" is a vital role in our world.
I am super excited for the release of this figure, not only is this sculpt rad, but the story behind it makes it that much more amazing. Call me a nerd(I'm alright with it) but this really reminds me of a futuristic version of
PIT the character from
Kid Icarus game on Nintendo. Who in the future had his actual wings removed and had them replaced with metal/robotic ones...anyways, keep checking back here because I hear this company is releasing 3 other toys soon, and I will have all the info for you!
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Kuso company statement:
Kuso Designer Toys LLC is dedicated to support artists and designers with manufacturing needs. Whether it is vinyl toys, apparel, accessories, Kuso can help in turning your design into high quality products. The two guys that started Kuso are also passionate toy collectors. They were once in line get artists' autographs just like everyone else. Now they enjoy seeing innovations first hand, which is the very reason they aim to support the vast artists. Kuso keeps a close relationship with their designers all over, from eastern vinyl to western. Artists needs more time working on their artworks, the last thing they need to worry about is production. Kuso understands that important factor, and aims to fully support artists with their every production need. So do it the Kuso way!
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As posted before, I found some more pics rummaging through the internet on all kinds of foreign toy blogs...look what I found!!!! These pictures do Robo-Mickey more justice, and I am still super curious on what this looks like in person, and how is it going to really transform!
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Not only are their the original colorways of these sweet figures, but now
Stangeco and J
ulie West are releasing the "Spring version" of the popular Bumble & Tweet figures!
A little about
Julie:
Julie West was born in the United States, and many of the same designer, Julie West is very fond of painting from an early age, and began to study fine arts-related courses, and later graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, works in the figure are from the geometric lines formed in most of her paintings and she transitions it over seamlessly in these new figures!
Strangeco Bumble &Tweet Spring Editions, and the Strangeco role of the two co-issued by Bumble & Tweet Spring Editions, these stand 6"and are made of PVC, the work of the entity to retain the characteristics of the original paintings, Bumble & Tweet.
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So it appears that Phalanx Studio is working on a cast of a satirical sculpture of Pinocchio...this called Bianocchio! If you go to their site, you can see more pictures and try to decipher what is going on(it's in Chinese I believe). Even though I can not really read about it, I like the concept of the naughty boy with a case box full of money.
From the Phalanx Creative site:
BIANNOCCHIO /Small puppet BIANNOCCHIO / flat if the autumn. Formosa lonely old carpenter, for some obtained as a wood carving will sing, dance will be little puppet, and take the name of BIANNOCCHIO, hope BIANNOCCHIO a disobedient child, you can accompany the lonely old Fu Er Mosha. Unfortunately, BIANNOCCHIO very naughty, not only to sell the old Formosa to buy him in literacy textbooks, but also go to school to see a puppet show performances. Came close to being as a puppet troupe Banzhu burning wood. Then in the cunning of the fox and cat tricks, he did not listen to the advice of Mr. cricket, left in the hands of bandits to kill. Finally, the cheated, "playing", was turned into a donkey to sell. Along the way he's been a beautiful fairy, but do not listen to the advice of the result, the road ahead more difficult. Finally, a small puppet BIANNOCCHIO how to break bad luck and all the difficulties and return to dear old dad around Formosa, and learn to be honest, courageous, selfless, and become a real boy then?
Like I said before please visit
their site to see what they are up to, they have all kinds of other projects in the works, and it is really neat to see companies like this design great things from great ideas!
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