Shin Tanaka - Spiky Baby Deluxe

Shin Tanaka, the creator of Spiky Baby and a host of other dope paper toys, has brought paper toys to a new level over the recent few years.  His concept of blind-boxed (or should I say blind-download) Spiky Baby series is clever and introduces collectability into the medium.  His next project Spiky Baby Deluxe has two goals -- to provide "Real Arts For Everyone" and "To Change the Game".  No real details yet but this new series will feature some of the top artists in the game today.  As a pure guess -- perhaps Spiky Baby Deluxe will be printed and distributed physically  in some means?  Would seem to meet both goals.  Why Speculate?  Because it's fun ;-)

Phoneticontrol - Galactic Bat

Here's a look at Phoneticontrol's Galactic Bat  -- a custom version of Shin Tanaka's Spiky Baby  Paper Toy. Galactic Bat brings a slightly quirky down-trodden cosmic touch to the world of Spiky Baby.  Pretty sure this is the first paper custom we've featured before on the 'pulse.  Shin's ingenious distribution and collabo approach is taking paper toys up several notches.  Hopefully Galactic Bat will make into an upcoming Spiky Baby Series.

T-Boy Hoody by Shin Tanaka

Paper Toy wizard Shin Tanaka's newest paper figure, T-Boy Hoody, builds on his T-Boy character by adding a fashion element into the mix. Accessories for paper figures -- right on ;-) If you'd like to take your shot at customizing T-Boy Hoody drop Shin some email with your request and a little bit of information about yourself.  While your'e visiting Shin's site, be sure to check out the growing collection of custom designs submitted from all over the world.

The Badger - Paper + Badge toy

From the mad genious behind the Brickboy paper toy, Sjors Trimbach, comes his latest creation -- the Badger.  The Badger is  a hybrid of two low cost designer goods -- a paper toy and a badge doubling as the face.  The first series will be released at the upcoming Pictoplasma Conference (10.11 - 10.14) in Berlin and features four designs (each limited to 25 pieces) from Kenn Munk, Christian Lindemann, Martijn van Sas, and Sjors Trimbach.  How do you get one of these quirky collectibles?

• Easy: go to the Pictoplasma conference and buy it directly from Sjors.
• Personal: make friends with the designers and try to get numbers 1-10 from them
• Fun: win a full set in the HOW BAD IS THE BADGER?! contest!

The person who best describes "how much crap this new thing is wins a full set of all 4 designs".
Go wild, get personal, insult, curse and freak out. How bad can you get? HOW BAD IS THE BADGER?!
Enter now at the Toydigger Forum.

Paul Shih's Big-Foot

Paper toys are cool -- download 'em, print 'em, build 'em -- all for free.   And... the template's right there for customizing. Paul Shih has created a new one to add to your collection -- Big-Foot.  Paul would love to have people build 'em and send him photos of their creations. Get it here.