*ON SITE* Amanda Visell Dunny Signing SF

Amanda Visell hit up Kidrobot SF on the second stop of her multi-city Wood Donkey Dunny tour. Via her tweets, I gleaned that she spent the day on a toy jaunt pausing to take in local scenic vinyl from STRANGEco and Super7. Back on Haight Street, a small queue was forming. Many kids were in attendance, some as young as stroller-age.

Fans brought plenty of Visell paraphernalia for autographing, and Amanda was happy to chat, sign and doodle. I snuck a Qee into Kidrobot, choosing the dog shape, in deference to the artist's pet of choice. The animal of the night, however, was the donkey. Most collectors bought the 8-inch wood-patterned Donkey Dunny, and some picked up the matching mousepads. Speaking of donkeys though: tonight I was a mule. Amanda kindly personalized "my" Donkey Dunny for my buddy Kyle, who is a big fan. She gave me a quick lowdown on an upcoming collaboration, wisdom on dealing with crowds and a signature on my Vivisect Playset mini-figure. Nice meeting you, Amanda. Next stop for the Wood Donkey Dunny tour = Dallas.
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Gunnzo and the "Wood Donkey"

Tomorrow, August 20th, is the release of the new Wood Donkey Dunny by Amanda Visell! With a production run of only 1500, priced at $75.00 each, this 8 inch figure even includes a bonus tree stump and axe!

Gunnzo in San Diego is going to have a handful of these on hand, and will be releasing the Wood Donkey Dunny at 11:00AM tomorrow, and will be open until 7:00PM. Don't miss out on the axe wielding, tree chopping fun!

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"May the force be with you" Art Asylum Boston X SpankyStokes.com print giveaway contest

SpankyStokes.com has teamed up with Art Asylum Boston for an awesome contest. We will be giving away a free complete set of (3) original 1/50 edition run size David Flores prints including: Dark Lord, White Rebel, & Bounty Hunter! Each one of these amazing art pieces is a 5 color screen print, and they all measure 18" x 24" and each one is signed / numbered by the artist (this will be a matching number set)! This is to celebrate the launching of Art Asylum Boston's new site as well as their upcoming show "Inspiration from Above, The ART Strikes back"

Now the real important part... how does one enter to win these prints, SIMPLE!! All you need to do is sign up on the SpankyStokes.com mailing list! In the upper left hand corner of this site, enter your pertinent info and that's it! This contest will run up until Sunday, August 16th, at 5:00pm PST where we will pick a winner at random from all that signed up!

A huge thanks to Art Asylum Boston for putting together such an amazing contest, and also to David Flores for always rocking some great work. Good luck to everyone that enters and "May the force be with you!"

WE HAVE A WINNER

After many long hours of debate on ways to pick the winner, the old put all the entries into a hat and draw a winner prevailed. We had almost 200 entries (192 to be exact) in this awesome contest sponsored by Art Asylum Boston, and the winner of the amazing print set was W&J, who wished to remain anonymous, and we respect that :-) Congrats guys, and enjoy those amazing prints!

I would like to thank everyone so much for participating in this contest, it was by far the best received one on this site, and because of this Art Asylum Boston has other great contests lined up in the coming months. Keep an eye on their site and on SpankyStokes.com for more details as the time draws nearer!

Disclaimer: Please note that we do not intend to spam you or send unwanted emails, we are just doing this to let you be the first to know about upcoming contests, giveaways, and other info that you as loyal readers of this site care about! Also, all sign ups for this contest will be given to Art Asylum Boston for the same purpose of letting you all know about great stuff happening in their neck of the woods!

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Frank Mysterio Super Sale!!!!

A unique opportunity has come up that is going to allow you all as collectors and fans of custom vinyl figures to get own some awesome custom pieces by Frank Mysterio! Some things have come up in Frank's life and he is in need of some money, and he really does not want to sell any of these things, but when family comes up, that definitely trumps a vinyl collection any day. Please check out his Flicker sites HERE and HERE and if you see anything you like or would like to add to your collection drop Frank an email at disenodgi@gmail.com, let him know what you would like and you guys can work out a deal, and please try to make reasonable offers as he is in need of money!

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"Polluted Youth" new resin figure from 2PetalRose

The boys over at 2PetalRose just sent over a great shot of an initial sculpt of their new resin figure coming soon titled "Polluted Youth"! This cool looking figure still holds true to what their past designs have been kinda an urban apocalyptic feel, but this time around their new figure is sporting a hoodie and ball cap, so not as "serious" as their past figures. This looks really promising, and for more info when it comes up, hit up their site HERE!

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MONSTREHERO • San Diego Comic Con 2009

Cliff and Sean from MONSTREHERO took the trip and made it to Comic Con 2009 to show off all their goods! They had a couple new resin figures that debut at the con including DUMPSTERBOT and awesome resin dumpster that had ball jointed articulated arms, and a lid that actually opened and closed where you can store all the extra body parts from your Victims, as well as SKULLMINION, a rad square headed "lucha" type figure made of resin with articulated arms as well! They also had some sweet new t-shirts that spelled out MONSTREHERO in a guts pattern, really sweet! Be sure to CLICK THROUGH for more pictures and please watch the video and enjoy! Also all their leftovers from SDCC are available in their store HERE, so go pick up some goods!

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*Review* Oh-No Sushi by Andrew Bell

While at San Diego Comic Con 2009 I was fortunate enough to pick up these awesome sushi figures created by Andrew Bell! The blue version of the toy titled "O-No Sushi" is the premiere edition of this fine food product and this awesome exclusive piece was limited to only 150 pieces and retailed for $30! The standard "O-No Sushi" red edition, based directly off of Andrew Bell's popular "Never Look Back" art print, will be available at fine toy and culture retailers both on-line and off beginning this August, and this will cost $25, which is a steal for what you get! This figure is amazing from the paint to the packaging, this figure has it all, and is a definite recommended buy, and at the listed price point you can't go wrong!

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