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Jul 25, 2008
Beasts of Burden opens Tonight (7.25)
Organized by Subtext and Cardboard Spaceship, Beasts of Burden opens tonight (7.25) @ Subtext (Beech and Kettner). The group custom show is the debut of AdFunture’s Yoka platform and features pieces from 30+ artists – a great mix of illustrators, painters, and toy designers. This is a two-night only show – tonight and tomorrow.
Subtext
680 West Beech Street #1
San Diego, CA 92101
James Jean @ Giant Robot
LA standout artist James Jean signed for fans @ the Giant Robot booth. Not surprisingly, he drew a crowd – the line wound around the booth. James signed prints, issues of GR 54 featuring his cover story and several books and other items people brought with them.
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Brandt Peters Serv-O-Matic
Here’s a quick followup to yesterday’s post on Brand Peters' upcoming mini figs from MINDstyle. The series is called Serv-O-Matic and it appears that at least one of the designs will be produced as a larger figure as well. Portraying a reto-vision of automation, each design features a common lower carriage complete with faux wind-up mechanism and little mechanized feet. The figures on display are hand-painted paint masters. Very cool. After the jump – individual close-up pics of several of the figures.
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MAD @ ToyQube
MAD signed and doodled on ToyQube’s exclusive 10” GID Blue MAD*Ls at the company’s booth today. The MAD*L is back on track with the new 10” form, the TQ Ninja MAD*L and the recent drop of Phase:3. The future is shaping up nicely too – MAD was showing off his new exclusive with Mechanized (November) as well as an Andrew Bell design done for Frozen Empire (December). Great stuff. More pics after the jump.
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Luke Chueh’s Black in White
Luke Chueh’s Black in White is undoubtedly on collectors’ minds – especially with the debut of a prototype at Munky King booth. The key reveal is that the outer white bunny is in fact a removable cloth suit complete with bunny head. Nice.
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Itokin Park @ Super7
Kazuhiko Ito (Itokin Park) will sign at 4 PM in Super7’s booth. Along with the S7 SDCC exclusive Himalan, Kazuhiko is also offering 5 Mikazukin SP’s (“specials”, customs). Kazuhiko is shown above with one of his fans.
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Joe Ledbetter – Lava Unicornasaurus
Kidrobot dropped Joe Ledbetter’s SDCC exclusive Lava Unicornasaurus today (7.25.08) at their booth with a signing from 11 AM to 2 PM. The Lava is limited to 350 pieces at a rather reasonable $65. The figure looks very nice. Didn’t get to the signing until about 1 PM (too much partying…). Supplies lasted through at least 1:30 or so. A different tack with exclusives by using larger run sizes – service all (or most) versus drop a super-rare piece. Plenty more pics after the jump.
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Seen: Munky King x Vinyl Pulse - VinylKings
Thursday night’s come and gone (mostly!) and with it a lot of SDCC parties. We were stoked to work with Munky King on our own bash – VinylKings @ Basic Bar + Urban Kitchen. Seven dope artists worked their butts off in an amazing live painting sessions. In about five – six hours they transformed 4’ x 4’ wood boards into incredible paintings. Props to 2H, Angry Woebots, Jesse Hernandez, Jason Han, Peekaboo Monster, Scott Belcastro, Yoskay Yamamoto. The large crowd enjoyed the process and the final result – you will too. The pieces are great – check ‘em after the jump. Thanks to everyone that come out – much appreciated.
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Buff Monster Signing @ MINDstyle (7.26.08)
Heading into the weekend each day is going to be packed with signings and events. It can be hard to keep it straight and figure out where to go next. If you’re feeling the need for some pink, don’t miss Buff Monster’s last SDCC signing on Saturday from 2:30 to 3:30 PM (7.26.08) @ the MINDstyle booth (#4249). Drop by and check out the new SDCC exclusive S2 Revenge figures.
