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Some monsters never leave your imagination... they just need a little more shelf space! PLANET-X is putting a wonderfully chunky spin on t...

Convention Designer Con (DCon) DKE Featured Las Vegas

DKE Toys Brings About 18 Exclusives to DesignerCon 2026... Online First!

DKE Toys' booth at DesignerCon 2025. Archival photo courtesy of DKE Toys. Get those calendars out, collectors! DKE Toys is heading bac...

BADMEAW Designer Toy PipiMIAO Pop-Up Unbox Wonderland

BADMEAW and PipiMIAO Enter Wonderland Together in Malaysia!

BADMEAW and PipiMIAO are joining forces for “In the Wonderland,” a pop-up event bringing the two character worlds together at CAW Experien...

Erosion Move Featured Grape Brain InstincToy Lottery SOOYASTUDIO

INSTINCTOY Adds Erosion Move, Ban Collaborations, and Confirms Candy Details!

INSTINCTOY has added several releases to its current lottery lineup, including a new Erosion Move, two Ban collaborations with SOOYASTUDIO ...

B.U.B. Designer Toy Featured Offshoot Reservation Soft Vinyl

Offshoot’s B.U.B. Gets Prices, Allocations, and Reservation Rules!

Offshoot Toys has shared pricing and reservation details for B.U.B., the imposing soft-vinyl figure designed and produced by Armando “Mon...

eri Halloween Hand-Painted mimi Sofubi

eri’s Hand-Painted Halloween mimi Shop Opens for a Limited Run!

eri’s Halloween mimi shop is a seasonal showcase for the artist’s hand-painted one-off sofubi. The release centers on mimi and warumimi, t...

Articulated Figure BC-1 Featured Molding Mule Sofubi Sohei Hey

Molding Mule Opens BC-1’s First International Sale!

Molding Mule ( Sohei Hey ) is opening the first international sale for BC-1, the artist’s articulated robot figure. The 22 cm painted soft-...

Articulated Figure Designer Toy Featured NOFUBI Sofubi The Worm

NOFUBI Unveils a Two-Foot Articulated Worm... A WORM!!!!

NOFUBI has unveiled The Worm, a towering two-foot soft-vinyl creature with an 11-part articulated body. Developed over roughly a year, thi...

Art Show Drilone Featured Halloween Sculpture Zoltron

Rust Never Looked This Good! DrilOne Weathers Zoltron’s 12" Pilot for Halloween 2026!!!

Now THIS is how you make a brand-new sculpture look like it has survived decades of questionable military operations! DrilOne has gotten h...

Ceramic Cute Featured Frog Houseware Sculpture

Jean Jullien’s 500-Piece Frog Vase... is as Adorable as it Sounds!

Art Toy Blitzkrieg Toys Bwana Spoons Creature Bazaar Draculazer Featured Paul Kaiju Rampage Toys Skinner Sofubi

The Frog Vase’s striped silhouette and expressive frog face. Photo via Home Studyo. Jean Jullien and Home Studyo have launched the Frog ...

Creature Bazaar’s Thursday Drop Brings Skinner, Paul Kaiju, and more Customs!!!

Stone Spirit Titan by Skinner, painted by Blitzkrieg Toys. Photo via Creature Bazaar. Creature Bazaar is turning Thursday, October 29, int...

BlackBook Toy Featured Ghost Halloween Monster Monster Farm Pumpkins Sofubi

Monster Farm × BlackBook Toy’s "Pumpkin Boo" Has a Winged Surprise!

2PetalRose Babu Custom Designer Toy (Art Toy) May Ann Licudine

Pumpkin Boo’s Halloween orange finish and Franken bucket. Photo via Blackbook Toy . Monster Farm and BlackBook Toy ar...

May Ann Licudine’s "Babu" Gets a Custom 2PetalRose Figure!

Designer Toy (Art Toy) Featured Grape Brain InstincToy Lottery Sofubi

Artist Shardula has reimagined a 2PetalRose toy as Babu , an original character created by the artist. The custom figure turns a familiar...

GRAPE BRAIN × INSTINCTOY Opens Erosion Nigiru Candy Lottery October 29

Big Boy Cheng ChknHead Collaboration Designer Toy (Art Toy) Featured Secret Fresh

GRAPE BRAIN and INSTINCTOY are adding a sweet new colorway to their Erosion Nigiru collaboration: Candy . The reveal trades darker, high-c...

ChknHead and Secret Fresh Introduce My Neighbor, Big Boy Chkn

Designer Toy (Art Toy) Duffle Featured Halloween Sculpture Spooky Woods

ChknHead and Secret Fresh are teaming up on My Neighbor, Big Boy Chkn , an art toy built around friendship, adventure, and the thrill of fi...

Spooky Woods Reveals a 100-Piece Duffle Sculpture for Halloween

Cryptid Designer Toy (Art Toy) Kickstarter Sofubi VELIKAN Wandering Planet Toys Wrestling

Spooky Woods is bringing a Halloween favorite into the art-toy world with Duffle Sculpture , a limited release capped at 100 pieces. Design...

Cryptid Combat Brings Cthulhu and Mothman Into the Wrestling Ring!

Wandering Planet Toys and horror artist Phil VELIKAN are sending Cthulhu and Mothman into the squared circle with Cryptid Combat , a soft-v...

5thTurtle Designer Con (DCon) Featured Las Vegas Palmstreet Plastic Pizza Resin Revise D

SPACE SKULLS & GRAFFITI CRITTERS! 5thTurtle and Revise D Bring Two Blind Box Series to DesignerCon Las Vegas!

Palmstreet and Plastic Pizza have some serious blind box goodness lined up for DesignerCon Las Vegas, with two very different artist-dri...

Featured Limited Edition Robot Soft Vinyl Sofubi

Sunday Morning, Shelf Ready... Ardhira Putra’s First Sofubi "Heartwave Robo" Arrives!

Designer Con (DCon) Featured Gloopy Goblin Las Vegas Limited Edition Monster

Sunday-morning robot energy, straight to the shelf! @ardhiraputra teams up with Heartware Store for Heartwave Robo, his first sofubi toy. ...

Three Kings & Henchman Draculas... Gloopy Goblin Heads to DesignerCon Las Vegas!

All hail the tiny royal troublemakers! @gloopy_goblin is bringing a ton of rad releases as micro-runs to @designercon in Las Vegas this No...

Art Toy cat Cute Featured Limited Edition Plush

Stripes, Scarves, and Double the Cat... Luyao × ELLE Weekend’s Limited Gift Set!

Blue-and-white stripes, a bright red scarf, and two versions of one very chill cat... @luyao.design2019 teams up with ELLE Weekend for a li...

Featured Halloween Last Resort Toys Skeleton Vinyl Toys

Grim and Glam... Last Resort Toys Drops Tiny-Run Rhinestone Reapers!

Death has apparently discovered the accessory drawer... @lastresorttoys is dropping Rhinestone Reapers , and those sparkling eyes bring a...

Featured Halloween Licensed Movie Pop Mart Vinyl Toys

MOLLY’s Halloween Horror Show... Chucky and IT XXL Bring Big Scares to POP MART!

Speaking of Pop Mart... Two horror icons are crashing MOLLY’s Halloween party, and they’re bringing some seriously big shelf presence! POP M...

Featured Kasing Lung LABUBU Pop Mart Video Youtube

After the Hype... POP MART Reports a 45–50% Q3 Revenue Decline...

The blind-box boom just hit a pretty serious speed bump... POP MART’s third-quarter revenue fell 45–50% year over year in 2026, according t...

Featured HongToys Japan Kaiju Mini Figures Sofubi Ultraman Vinyl Toys

HongToys Brings a Colorful Crew of Kaiju to Hobby Round 35!

Get ready for a monster party, folks! HongToys ( @hong.toys ) is bringing a colorful crew of five fantastic sofubi figures to Hobby Round 3...

Designer Con (DCon) Featured Las Vegas Lotus Dragon Palmstreet Resin Scott Tolleson

SMALLER DRAGON... BIGGER HUNT! Scott Tolleson’s Imperial Lotus Dragon Goes Blind Box for DesignerCon!

Oh man... Scott Tolleson is reaching back into his toy vault and bringing back one of his personal favorites in a completely new way! The ...

Alien Character Design Featured Fixed Temple Toys Monster Resin Teaser

All Hail the Grub Lord... Fixed Temple Toys and Andrew Kinzy Unleash Gonk!

All hail the Grub Lord! Fixed Temple Toys (@fixedtempletoys) and Andrew Kinzy (@andrewkinzy) have cooked up a wonderfully weird new creatu...

Character Design Featured Japan Sofubi Vinyl Toys

Very Berry, Very Grumpy... charabiner Introduces TOYKO’s First Sofubi Colorway!

Big pigtails, bold stripes, and a scowl that could stop traffic... meet TOYKO! Tokyo-based charabiner (@art.toyko) is introducing the first...

Featured Limited Edition Plush Sold Out

Hug the Hum... Bezzy Turns a Data Center Into a Sold-Out Plush with a Point!