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Nov 20, 2009
Preview -- Touma's Customs @ mixi-bang! (11.21)
After the flight from Japan, Touma is in Pasadena for his solo show tomorrow -- Saturday November 21st (6 PM) @ mixi-bang! In addition to the exclusive Baby Knuckle Bear (previewed), he's brought an army of custom figures including Mao Cat, Kazumouse, Crazy Kazumouse, Danke Schoen, Harapeko Pekora, and Bokoboko Bokora (above). Hit the jump for a preview of more customs.
DesignerCon @ The Pasadena Convention Center
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
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Scooter & Jinx 24 Hr X-Box Challenge For Children In Need (11.22)
This Sunday, November 22nd beginning at 12PM GMT through Monday, November 23rd ending at Noon, toy store Scooter & Jinx will be on their Xbox 360’s for a full 24 hours and are looking for you help to keep them awake. This full day of games isn’t just for recreational purposes. This is all done for Children In Need and they set up a Just Giving Page, which is where you would go to send in your donations. Be sure to login onto your Xbox’s on the 22nd and add their gamer tag:TheCrackFoxx. Do what you can to keep these guys awake for this charitable cause. Be sure to spread the word through all social networks, ie; Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, or your own personal blogs.
Tim Biskup - Pink Voodoo Big Pollard (11.21)
Tim Biskup will be offering a series of 20 hand-painted Pink Voodoo Big Pollards at tomorrow's Flopdoodle x Switcheroo Holiday Party. As you can see each figure varies in the deco both sprays and deco. Dig the symbols and figures across. They are $300 each.
Switcheroo Workshop
543-B S. Raymond
Pasadena, CA 91108
Lou Pimentel’s Custom Tummy Figure “Rhiggz” for the Feed My Tummy Show @ Prototype (12.01)
Lou Pimentel is one of the amazingly talented artist taking part in the “Feed My Tummy” show, which is presented by 808 Orbit and is hosted by Prototype in Hawaii. Lou definitely put a lot of hard work onto this custom Tummy figure by Jouwe and it really shows. He is taking his artwork to another level with this custom. This will be on display with many other customs from artists around the world, including: Angry Woebots, Arkiv, Brent Nolasco, CKaweeks, Jonpaulkaiser, Kat Bunnegraff, Leecifer, Newkon, Pancho Abalos, Peekaboo, Phu, Scribe, Squidnik, and 2h. Opening night takes place on Tuesday, December 1st from 6-9PM.
Prototype
98-1005 Moanalua Road #868
Aiea, HI 96701
Follow Friday On TwitterPulse
Cannot believe tomorrow is Designer Con! In the midst of all that, we were still able to come up with a set of new twitters for you guys to check out. You are also able to check out past follow Fridays on TwitterPulse here. Hope you guys aren’t annoyed by suggesting to follow us… so don’t forget to follow us at @VinylPulse and @VPEast.
@Deph Location: Grand Terrace, CA
Web: http://www.icanthear.com
Bio: Owner of To Die For, Professional Artist full time, Toy Designer for fun, and graffiti artist for life. Welcome to my world. LOVE IT!!
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@Joshuajh Location: San Francisco
Web: http://www.joshuajh.blogspot.com/
Bio: Super7 Employee and Creator of the Vampire Rose
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@Cometdebris Location: Tokyo
Web: http://www.cometdebris.com/
Bio: Very well known in the kaiju industry and has many toy collaborations with Gargamel and Super7
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@Mark Ryden Location: West Coast
Web: http://www.markryden.com/
Bio: Here is where you will find the official news about Mark Ryden as reported by Mark and Porterhouse.
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@Travis Louie Location: New York
Web: http://www.travislouie.com/
Bio: Fine artist, non-sleeper, collector of fine writing instruments, friend of Carlotta
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First Look: Amanda Visell's What-Did-I-Eat-Ephunt
Amanda Visell's been busy, really busy. Sometimes, well pretty much all the time, we're just a bit nosey. We hit the mother lode tonight. Here's the very first look at Amanda's What-Did-I-Eat-Ephunt vinyls. If you think these look familiar, you've got a good memory. They are based on her limited-edition wood figures (25 pieces) of the same name from SDCC '07.
As you can see from these first painted test pulls, there are four editions in the works. Each 'phunt is themed and comes with a mini-phunt plus three specific 'food' accessories that plug smoothly into it's belly -- Amanda's obsessed with eating ya know. Themes ? Yup. Let's see there's nature (white), city (deep blue), music (brown) and apocalypse (light blue). Those aren't the final names -- snoops don't get the official list . Mix + match ? A toy can you play with ? You bet. Gotta catch 'em all (oops... ignore that).
This is the second vinyl self-produced through Switcheroo, the label Amanda owns with Michelle Vallgura. The first being Dragon Scout. There's no release date yet -- snoops don't get those either. Ok, now to put these back just the way they were...
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Random Nature @ DesignerCon (11.21)
Random Nature has been in overdrive mode for the last few weeks readying new product for sale + display at their DesignerCon (11.21) booth. First up, they'll have their new cute toy collector pins in mirrored acrylic designed by Abe Lincoln Jr Next up is the new Kozik Anarchy ring. To check out the proto of the ring (and not just the swanky box) you'll have to drop by Random Nature's booth.
The MAD and Kozik pieces we teased earlier should also be available at the show. Awaiting completely final pics.
DesignerCon @ The Pasadena Convention Center
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
Alimana – Spore Trooper + Insane Viral Video
Earlier today Kris ran a post about Gunnzo's DesignerCon booth and mentioned some of the figures they would be offering including Alimana’s Spore Trooper made in Mexico. And that was that. Until a late-night visit to our Facebook page and a link to a video promoting the toy. Let’s just say we're blown away. ‘Ursula y Espora 2.3’ is a slickly produced over-the-top b-movie style pseudo trailer directed by Carl W. Jones and quite likely the best viral video for a designer toy – ever.
Warning, the video is NOT WORK SAFE – there’s a spot of nudity and you should know that its a little graphic – in an exaggerated gore kind of way. Check it below (in English). Also check out the Spanish edition and the making-of video.
While the film itself is eye-catching, the Spore Trooper toy seems to live up to the hype. Based in Mexico, Alimana designs and produces original vinyl figures completely in Mexico. Riffing off Japanese monsters, the Spore Trooper features a clear dome and apparently removable brain. Check it out at Gunnzo’s booth – I’m going to make a point of it.
DesignerCon @ The Pasadena Convention Center
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
