'Zebra Face' Salt-n-Pepper Shaker by Kid Acne

Sometimes late night online shopping turns up goodies even with my peepers half open! The "Zebra Face" salt and pepper shakers from Kid Acne are radddd. The co-lab with Toykyo Productions is to celebrate Kid Acne's tenth anniversary of the book "Zebra Face". Spend your monies HERE. PSSST - while you are at it, spend some time on Kid Acne's site.

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"One Arm Wonder" custom PlaySam by Betso

Betso wow us all once again with his latest custom creation... this time it was on a Playsam Streamliner Classic for the upcoming "PLAYSAM 500" show which is being held at Super7 in San Francisco on April 28th 2012! Titled the "One Arm Wonder", Betso stylized this once all wooden car into a grungy looking, discarded nostalgic toy of yesteryear... and he did it with all the pizazz that we have come to expect from him when it comes to customs... I mean, he even added a turn key... come on, this custom is amazing! I feel like this should belong in a bin at a thrift shop... great stuff man! Be sure to make it out for this show... and remember that all sales proceeds will be donated to the World Childhood Foundation... so buy these customs up!

"PLAYSAM 500" opens on April 28th at Super7, 1427 Haight St. (@ Masonic), San Francisco, CA 94117. Participating artists include: Andrew Bell, Arbito, Clayton Bailey, Dacosta!, Super Cooper Berella, Beast Brothers, Betso, Kat Brunegraff, 64 Colors, Carson Catlin, DrilOne, Tristan Eaton, Brian Flynn, George Gaspar, Paul Greenwood, Gary Ham, Greglovestoast, Nathan Hamill, Jay222, Walter “Chauskoskis” Jacott, Jryu, Jeremiah Ketner, Paul Kaiju, Aya Kakeda, Frank Kozik, Josh Herbolsheimer, Travis Lampe, Matthew Langille, Josh Mayhem, Sarah Lunabee Miskelly, Frank Mysterio, Motorbot, Ritzy Periwinkle, Plaseebo, Patricio Oliver, Task One, Dave Pressler, Reactor 88, Jason “Aka Big Money” Rodan, Jermaine Rogers, Cris Rose, Scribe, Rsin Art, Ardabus Rubber, Skinner, Bwana Spoons, John “Spanky” Stokes, Steve Talkowski, Cameron Tiede, Scott Tolleson, Vise One, Angie Vtec, Ben Walker, Adam Washburn, The Air Rat, Julie West, Kevin Winnik, Nicholas Woodworth... and many others!

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Toy BreakEpisode 212 : Trombone Service

Sweet!!! Just like clockwork, George and Ayleen from Toy Break are back for another week of Toy Break, and this go around Ahren from Improbable Cast joins em for some Doctor Who goodies, Truffle, Amber O'Malley, PlaySam 500, Heavy Metal Qee and much more! So carve a few minutes outta yer day and give em' a watch!

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Noferin teases with a Jibibuts artist series!!!!

It's been a while since we have heard any news from the folks over at Noferin... but they just dropped a HUGE bomb on the designer toy scene as they recently announced that they will be releasing an artist series of their wooden Jibibuts figures. This series includes 12 incredible artists - whom we have no idea who is involved yet - but from the teaser image above, it's sure enough to get us excited! Look for more info to drop very soon!

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The Rusted Nail Gallery "Neo-Victorian Wasteland II" steampunk OPEN CALL art show!!!!!!!

The Rusted Nail Gallery presents "Neo-Victorian Wasteland II" a show featuring Custom Designer Vinyl, Metal & Wood Sculptures, Original Resin Figures, Paintings, and more done in the Steampunk/Neo-Victorian style. The show opens Friday May 11th along side of Mesa 2nd Friday Sci-Fi Friday event and Steampunk Street IV. Main street will be lined with Steampunk artists, vendors, music, and costumes... oh, and the best part... this is an open platform show meaning you can join!!!! The theme of coarse being Steampunk!!!! If you are interested in getting your work seen in a gallery setting, please contact therustednail@cox.net for more information or to be a part of this awesome event. Submission deadline is Thursday May 10th. For more info you can also visit their Facebook page HERE!

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Super7 x Brandiose - Rose Vampire Snapback

Super7 is proud to present a collaboration with Brandiose (and The Clink Room) featuring the Green Hell Rose Vampire on an official New Era Snapback. Born from the wild imaginations of Josh Herbolsheimer, the Rose Vampire Snapback is a black cap with a red visor, black undervisor and red, green, blue, white and black embroidery. Choose from two sizes: Small (7 - 7 1/2) or Large (7 5/8+). These are set to drop on Thursday, April 19th at Noon PST at the Super7 Store and The Clink Room for $35 each! I dig these cross over products... and think this could be the start of something really cool!

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Martin Hsu teases with his "Dragon Boy" paint master

Artist Martin Hsu has been doing a fantastic job at keep all of us up to date with the progress on the production of his upcoming 'Dragon Boy' figure, and today he sent over a nice little WIP shot that that just proves this project is moving right along! This small teaser shows of the Dragon Boy paint master... the main figure in which Martin painted to send off to the factory for them to replicate! Martin tells us that he'll be posting all the latest progress pics on the official Dragon Boy page on Facebook HERE, so stay in the loop! Still lots of work ahead, but slow and steady approaching the SDCC release!

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Hugh Rose's custom Munny for the Tenacious Toys x London Candy Company show!

While the upcoming "The Candy-Coated Custom Show" challenged customizers to make something themed with either candy and England, most have done the former. Finally, Hugh Rose steps in and does a strictly English themed one. And it is absolutely stunning! The title of this piece, "The Once and Future King," is a paraphrase of what is supposedly written on King Arthur's tomb… which is completely fitting as this custom 7" Munny is made to resemble both a knight's armor and the detailed decorations normally associated with a reliquary.

"The Candy-Coated Custom Show" organized by Tenacious Toys, opens on April 21st with a reception from 7 to 9PM at The London Candy Company, 1442 Lexington Ave. at 94th St., New York, NY 10128. The show will be available for viewing for two weeks after the opening night.

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"PLAYSAM 500" custom toy art show 4/28/2012

What has been in the works since before SDCC 2011, and is finally in the final stages of preparation, a show being organized by Paul Greenwood titled "PLAYSAM 500" just locked down it's final show date along with a seriously impressive lineup of artists! Going down on April 28th in San Francisco CA at Super7's shop/gallery space, the "PLAYSAM 500" is a custom toy art show featuring 59 artists from 5 different countries, all of whom have been tasked with customizing the iconic Playsam Streamliner Classic, designed by Ulf Hanses, and in the end being sold off to benefit the World Childhood Foundation.

Like mentioned above, the artists involved in this show are some heavy hitters, and the artist list so far is: Andrew Bell, Arbito, Clayton Bailey, Dacosta, Super Cooper Berella, Beast Brothers, Betso, Kat Brunegraff, 64 Colors,Carson Catlin, Alex Dril, Tristan Eaton, Brian Flynn, George Gaspar, Paul Greenwood, Gary Ham, Nathan Hamill, Jay222, Walter Chauskoskis Jacott, Jryu, Jeremiah Ketner, Paul Kaiju, Aya Kakeda, Kill, Frank Kozik, Josh Herbolsheimer, Travis Lampe, Matthew Langille, Josh Mayhem, Sarah Lunabee Miskelly, Frank Mysterio, Motorbot, Ritzy Periwinkle, Plaseebo, Patricio Oliver, Task One, Dave Pressler, Reactor 88, Jason “Aka Big Money” Rodan, Cris Rose, Donald Scribe Ross, Ardabus Rubber, Skinner, Bwana Spoons, John”Spanky”Stokes, Steve Talkowski, Cameron Tiede, Scott Tolleson, Vise One, Ben Walker, Adam Washburn, David Miller Weeks, Julie West, Nicholas Woodworth and may others! This promises to be a fun and very interesting show as the platform is a very stylized wooden car... and seeing what artists do with it should be a sight to see for sure! Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for more teasers... similar to the one above that Ryan Crippen aka Reactor-88 recently finished... sooooo cool! The show kicks off at 7pm... and keep your eyes on SS.com as we are going to try and post as many previews as possible!

Super7 Store
1427 Haight St (@ Masonic)
San Francisco, CA 94117

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UNKL dabbles in plush... with their UniPo's!!!!

The fellas over at UNKL are constantly exploring new mediums to display awesome creations, and their latest exploration of their UniPo figure is as a giant fabric plush! I really like the direction this is going, and I would totally rock one of these... that being said, I don't really know if I dig the cat face and ears as the figure itself would be epic with just the yellow dome/visor face as it would mimic their vinyl counterparts. This seems to be the very beginning stages, so I will keep you all up to date when I hear anymore news.

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Craola's "Cloud Theory" solo exhibit at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery!

Greg "Craola" Simkins has a new solo exhibit entitled "Cloud Theory" opening on April 21st and running through May 19th at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery, 170 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036.

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Mondo & Dan McCarthy's E.T. Poster for Alamo Drafthouse's "Summer of '82" event!

Pictured above is the regular (on the left, in blue) and variant (on the right, in yellow) editions of the screen printed poster for E.T. that Dan McCarthy designed and Mondo is releasing. It will be available at the Alamo Drafthouse's screening of the film on June 8th, with any remaining copies being available online at the Mondo web shop shortly thereafter. But, more importantly, this is part of the Alamo Drafthouse's "Summer of '82" event — which means if you live in the Austin, Texas area you should anticipate spending most of your Summer months at 320 E. 6th Street!

• May 9 – Vice Squad (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• May 11 – Conan the Barbarian (co-hosted by HitFix, tickets on sale April 17)
• May 18 – The Road Warrior (co-hosted by Film School Rejects, tickets on sale May 4)
• May 25 – Rocky III (co-hosted by Collider, tickets on sale May 11)
• June 1 – Poltergeist (co-hosted by Aint It Cool News, tickets on sale May 18)
• June 3 – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (co-hosted by Badass Digest, tickets on sale May 18)
• June 6 – Escape 2000 (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• June 8 – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestial (co-hosted by Slashfilm, tickets on sale May 25)
• June 20 – The Sword and the Sorcerer (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• June 22 – The Thing (co-hosted by Movies.com, tickets on sale June 8)
• July 1 – The Secret of NIMH (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• July 6 – Tron (co-hosted by FirstShowing.net, tickets on sale June 22)
• July 9 – Pink Floyd: The Wall (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• July 10 – Class of 1984 (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• July 13 – Friday the 13th: Part 3 in 3D (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• July 17 – Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• July 24 – Q: The Winged Serpent (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• July 28 – The Dark Crystal (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• August 12 – Fast Times at Ridgemont High (tickets sale date to-be-announced)
• August 25 – The Last Unicorn (tickets sale date to-be-announced)

First of all, this just proves that 1982 had a TON of great releases in it. But, I suspect, it also indicates we'll be seeing a lot more Mondo Posters for some of these flicks…

[Images and information from the /Film website.]

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Wanna win Super Mario Bros. prints by Fro? Trampt wants you to!

As we've previously announced, Trampt have been running various contests with some amazing prizes. The newest giveaway, called Operation: Spread The Word 2 (Electric Bugaloo), is for a set of four Mario themed propaganda-style posters by Fro (shown above). How do you win? Just spread the word! Join the site and post links to Trampt either on Twitter (include @trampt) or Facebook. Couldn't be easier. And while you are certainly welcome to keep hustling for them year round, this contest ends 12 Midnight EST on April 22nd.

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Shinbone Creative... turns great art into great toys!

Designers, do you want to make a run of toys and don't know where to start? Check out Shinbone Creative!!!!! Do you have a loose napkin sketch? A rough clay sculpture? A 3d speed model bashed together in ZBrush? Shinbone is reaching out to artists and designers to help get new projects off the ground. If you're an experienced designer, or you're a hard-core customizer and you're ready to take the next step, these are the guys who can get you rolling.

What does Shinbone do? They design and produce toys for toy companies. They license designs from artists and produce original art. They manufacture runs of toys for independent designers... and if you visit their site HERE you will recognize a ton of products not only from the designer toy world but from mass-market as well... they have experience at it all. They have an extensive FAQ section where they answer most all questions about the creation process, and if you have one that's not up there, feel free to ask away as they are here to help make you dream a reality. So what are you waiting for, if you are serious about getting your own toy created... head on over HERE now... Oh, and follow their updates on Twitter HERE! What does Shinbone do? Shinbone turns great art into great toys!

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Trust Pigs's custom "Clone Stripper" Star Wars action figure!

Much like my custom Sarlacc Pit Labbit, this is another piece from my recent solo art show at Dream in Plastic, which was entitled "I have a bad feeling about this." and featured only works inspired by Star Wars in some way. I don't think most people realize how much work actually went into making that backing board — which was crafted from scratch and hand cut-out with an x-acto knife — but also, due to the nature of a wall-hanging art show, folks didn't get to see the backside of it. And yes, I spent WAY too long writing up a backstory for the "Clone Stripper" figure, which is a Slave Princess Leia with a Clone Trooper mask. The piece is actually entitled "Clone-Tertainment" though, as I thought that was a funny little name. As of Saturday night, this piece had not been sold. You can view the entire show online HERE with ordering information, if you are interested.

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Sawdust Bear's Hiveblob for Supahcute's show at Leanna Lin's Wonderland!

Shing Yin Khor, aka Sawdust Bear, has finished the first pass of paints on her Hiveblob sculpture (which we previously saw unpainted HERE). I'm still in love with the look of it, especially that wooden base with the Bleakberries that the Hiveblob craves strewn about it. This piece will be on display at the Supahcute Dream Team Show from May 12th to June 24th at Leanna Lin's Wonderland, 5024 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041.

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KAWS's "The Nature of Need" solo show at Galerie Perrotin!

Opening on May 15th and running through June 30th at the newly opening Hong Kong Galerie Perrotin location, the one and only KAWS will be doing a solo art show entitled "The Nature of Need." Not much is known at this time, but our understanding is that it will feature for of his geometrical abstracts (like those pictured above).

[Images and information courtesy of the Arrested Motion blog.]

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Mutant Vinyl Hardcore x Fig-X's "Death Sludge Demon" Super Festival 59 exclusive!

Rich "LASH" Montanari Jr. is releasing, through his own Mutant Vinyl Hardcore, a very limited "Death Sludge Demon" colorway (shown above) for Super Festival 59 in Japan on April 30th. This 6.5" tall vinyl kaiju creation will be exclusively available from Mr. DataDub at the Fig-X/Fig-Lab booth. It will cost ¥9000 (approx. $112) and is a "micro run" edition, indicating that there are probably less than 10 of these amazing pieces in existence. Best of luck to all you lucky Super Festival attendees!

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Beastman's "Natural Progression"" at House Of Bricks Gallery!

Slick street artist Beastman follows up his amazing "Cosmic Nature" show with another in his native Australia, "Natural Progression" at House Of Bricks Gallery in Melbourne. In addition to displaying his evolving spray paint painting style, the show will feature the release of an exclusive print and an installation of previously unseen sketches, drawings, and other materials.

"Natural Progression" opens on Friday, April 27th and will run through May 6th at House Of Bricks Gallery, 40 Budd St., Collingwood (Melbourne), Australia.

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