"Soft Touch" Headphonie out now

Out now is the "Soft Touch" version of these Mini Speakers where the figure is painted with a soft material. Feels nice to touch, and has a cool black look. They are 3" tall and are ready for purchase...these just like these others are $30 and you can get them HERE!

Created by Eran Weinberg, the Headphonies are toy shaped portable mini speakers that are compatible with all iPod variations, and will also work with other MP3 and CD players, as well as computers and even certain cell phones. The speakers stand at only 3" tall, and the sound quality will really surprise you...these sound really good! Check out my interview/review and older posts on this product!

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Huck Gee -Colonial Life Cpl. E.E. Lensman

Colonial Life - Cpl. E.E. Lensman
Colonial Life - UTCMC - ZOR Dread Squad

Coming this Friday, January 30th, 2009 at Noon PST, we're releasing the 3rd figure in the Colonial Life series, Corporal E. E. Lensman. The long range, planetary orbit assisted, head shot specialist of the UTCMC "ZOR" Dread Squad. Each is signed and numbered and comes with shown accessories. Due to the nature of the materials, some differences should be expected in each figure. 10 custom hand painted E.E. Lensman Munnys in this set, $750 per figure.

Limit one figure per customer.
Huck's Ebay Store (Noon PST, Friday 01/30)

More pics of CPL Lensman and the rest of the UTCMC Dread Squad available here: Huck's Flickr

Sgt. Vasquez Print Coming Soon!
Possibly, maybe, more than likely... not.

Also this Friday, we may or may not be releasing the first print from the Colonial Life series. It possibly, maybe, more than likely features Sgt. Vasquez, pretty girls, and a giant mech. It may or may not also be released at Noon PST this Friday, and possibly may or may not be a limited run printed on archival quality 225gms cotton rag fine watercolor paper. Indeed, we may or may not have attached a photo of the finished print below. But more than likely we haven't... probably.

Just to point out you can view all of Huck's old releases HERE...pretty cool to see them all in one area!

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“Name Me, Win Me” Luchadork naming contest!!!!

The guys over at Blockhead Brigade have been super busy since we first met at Vinyl Toy Network, and have made huge improvements to their initial sculpt. In the coming few weeks these guys are going to be jetset for New York Comic Con, showing off their prototypes to all people in the designer toy industry, and hoping to get some feedback, but before then they need your help! Now that they are happy with where they are at with their figure it is up to the loyal readers of SpankyStokes.com to help them out with a name for their figure, and if your entry is picked you will win a custom 5”MAD*l designed by the guys over at Blockhead Brigade.

The contest is simple, just leave a comment at the bottom of this post with the name you feel is most suitable for the “Purple Nameless Luchadork”, and the guys over at Blockhead Brigade will pick the winner. Please make sure to leave a valid e-mail address, so you can be contacted if you are the lucky winner.

This contest will run until the last day of NYCC, February 8, so act fast because going to the con without a name for their toy could be disastrous, you my loyal viewers are their only hope! Also please CLICK THROUGH for an interview with the guys from Blockhead Brigade for some insight to what they are all about!
1. Hey guys, tell us a little about who you are and where you are from.
We are just four Northern Californian kids in our 20s that decided to venture out to try our hand at delivering some kick ass toys to the masses.

2. So who came up with the name Blockhead Brigade and is the name symbolic in any way?
Actually, we had a different name before finally deciding on Blockhead Brigade. What are the chances that Kidrobot.com was already taken?!?! The truth is really attributed to our affinity for “old-timey” insults. There’s something timeless about being called a blockhead, potatohead, or macaroni ears. Macaroni Ears Brigade just didn’t have that ring to it, so we decided to go with Blockhead Brigade instead.

3. Is there anyone who really inspires you in the vinyl toy and/or art world, and do you have any of their pieces in your personal collection?
There are a lot of people doing incredible things in the vinyl scene and we are constantly amazed at how far the creative envelop is being pushed. We enjoy designers/artists such as UNKL, Kathie Olivias, MAD, Julie West, House of Liu, Joe Ledbetter, and Bunka's Chaos Monkey to name a few. We own at least one piece from their collections.

4. Why Luchadores and what is up with the name Luchadorks?
If this doesn’t inspire you, nothing will!

We all consider ourselves to be big dorks, so Luchadorks is really just an extension of our personalities. It also rolls off the tongue pretty easily.

5. What do you guys do in your spare time?
We haven't had any spare time as of late because of our schedule with the NYCC coming up and with all of our prepping for it. So any spare time nowadays means rest and relaxation. Drinking is a favorite past time, but I think our livers have officially given up on us, so now we eat yogurt and watch Perfect Strangers.

6. What is next for you guys, and how close are you to getting these toys produced?
The next coming months will be interesting. The direction that we take to produce these toys may be dictated by how much interest we can generate with our designs. We know that we want these things made, but we really haven't thought about the direction to take as of yet. If things go well, hopefully the Luchadorks will eventually make their way to your home and into your hearts.

7. What do we have to look forward to from Blockhead Brigade in the future?
We always are kicking ideas around. We are continuously creating new characters for the Luchadorks line. We also have a second line called Yokaira being developed. Some of you may have seen it on SpankyStokes.com’s live feed of the VTN this past December. Hopefully we can get some solid prototypes to unveil in the next coming months. So this year is going to be a busy one for us.

Seven Quickfire Questions:

1. What is your fullname and/or nickname?
Peter Vu. Peet for short.
2. Where were you born?
San Jose, California
3. Who taught you the most in life? Everyone you meet teaches you something along the way, but I'd have to say my Mom and my Pops.
4. Who is your current favorite band? I’d have to say The Smiths. Johnny Marr kicks ass and Morrissey cannot be beat.
5. What's your favorite movie?
Gymkata. Say what you will, but a gymnast turned top secret American weapon?!?! Only in America.
6. What's your favorite food? Vietnamese food. Super flavorful and smelly as all hell.
7. Who would win in a fight, pirates or ninjas? Man. Although pirates have such a cool get up - parrots on the shoulder, peglegs, hooks, eyepatches, I'd have to go with Ninjas though. Pirates are too busy drinking and gettin' busy with their wenches. Not to mention they are preoccupied with the false hopes of buried treasure. Ninjas would win because they are always focused and have objectives to complete - like killing people. Now if you said Ninjas vs. Luchadorks, now that would be interesting . . .

Thanks for reading everyone and GOOD LUCK!
- [o_o] BRIGADE

Blockhead Brigade reserves the right to the chosen name of the contest, once chosen it is no longer intellectual property of the winner but that of Blockhead Brigade. Any information, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques provided by, or obtained from, the contestant on this web-site shall be deemed to be non-confidential and shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without limitation.

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KUSO Toys at NYCC and Scapegoat signing!

It is really a bummer to find out about this, but it just gives us all something to look forward to in the future, and hopefully in the near future like SDCC? It is always tough to deal with things when they are completely out of your own control and that is what Kuso has to deal with this year at NYCC!

Info from The Kuso team:

"Kuso Designer Toys LLC is regretably to announce that due to unexpected factory production delay caused by the vast economic downturn, its figures are unable to be released on time at the NYCC show. Instead, these figures are going to be released at a later time on Kuso's website (kusovinyl.com). Kuso will offer coupons of pre-order for these figures at its show booth for those that already planned the purchases. News and updates of these figures will be released at the Kuso booth during NYCC. Kuso sincerely offer its apologies to its valued customers. At the Show booth, however, we are going to still host the drawing for the figures to give away. When we have the figures ready, the winners would get them in mail. Also as a token of apology, Kuso is going to give away freebies at the show booth."

But...on a lighter note, Kuso is pleased to announce a special raffle event of the very much sought after "Criminal Billy Scapegoat" figure by Jure Gavran. This is going to be the first ever release of this version and there is only 1 figure available for the free raffle. So please get in line early. The drawing is going to be held at 3PM on Friday, Feb. 7th. The tickets will be handed out from 11:30AM to 2:30PM on Friday.

After the raffle, Jure is going to host a signing event from 3PM to 4PM on Friday. Please bring your own "Immigrant Billy Scapegoat's" ready for signing.

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