Video coverage of Taipei Toy Festival by Plastic Culture TV

Sweet video coverage of this year's Taipei Toy Fest, which just wrapped up. Video by Plastic Culture TV, shared with me by Eric of Thunderpanda. Video stops briefly to speak with with CI Boys, FUNQ and Babekuhl...

Eric and Thunderpanda had a booth, and they sold out of the Perry the Sea Wanderer figures they brought to the show. Expect to see more Perrys from Thunderpanda soon (they're making 50 pieces). Also, their giant plush Lemi the Space Wanderers were very well received! 

Eric says he ran into the Baroness, Carlos of the Beast Brothers, Michelle Valigura and Amanda Visell. Sounds like some of our best and brightest artists were there to represent the Americas... 

Boy, I hope one day I can get over there to Taipei... looks like a lot of fun!

Jon Paul Kaiser 8-inch Olaf the Mute Qee

At right is the Toy2R 8" Olaf the Mute Qee designed by Jon-Paul Kaiser. I just saw this image for the first time in Kevin Winnik's Google Plus stream. Olaf is pictured next to the upcoming First Mate Nathaniel Vigo 5-inch Mini Qee. Nathaniel Vigo will be making his first public appearance at SDCC. Both pirates are crew members on the Whispering Corsair. There's a sweet Captain Sturnbrau figure coming as well, with a pirate hat, hook and pegleg. 

This Whispering Corsair series is shaping up to be AWESOME! 

Will be selling ALL of these JPK Qees so you'll know where to find 'em... Tenacious Toys!

This week: FREE Joe Ledbetter Trexi with any $40+ purchase

This week only (Monday the 11th thru Friday the 15th) we'll be throwing in a FREE 3" Joe Ledbetter "Cold Day in Hell" TQ variant Trexi with ALL orders of $40 or more. No limit to how many orders you can place. For every multiple of $40, you get another Trexi (place a $120 order and you get 3!). Go shopping at Tenacious Toys now!

Monster Invitational Group Show at FOE

Monster Invitational Group Show, July 8th - July 22nd, 2011

FOE has curated a group show paying homage to monsters. The idea of monsters is as old as civilization and what society defines as monstrous changes and morphs through time and culture. Depending on when and where you grew up, it’s likely some version of monster, urban myth or story shaped your fears and nightmares. No one escapes this rite of passage. Come out to see how 20 different artists from westernmass to Japan interpret their own unique fears, repulsions and pleasures. It may sound scary, but monsters are fun too, and fears confronted (or exercised) are fears conquered.

Artists Roster Includes : Stephen Blickenstaff, Michael Bracco/Spaghetti Kiss, Paddy Charles, Bob Conge/Plaseebo, Dream Rocket, Halfbad Toyz, Paul Kaiju, Jeff Lamm/Greasebat, Brian Mahony/Guumon, Ben Mininberg/Prometheus Rising Studio, Monster Worship, Mark Nagata/Max Toy Co, Michael Nordstrom, Osiris Orion, Ben Reigle, Todd Robertson, Splurrt, Eric Talbot, Velocitron, Dave Wach

Pieces from the show available for sale on FOE's website. Cheers to my buddy OsirisOrion for this video and general awesomeness. 

ThreeA WWRP Armstrong Mod7 preorders now SOLD OUT

Preorders for ThreeA's WWRP Armstrong Mod 7 now sold out

Well, they're gone, even before they got here. If ya haven't preordered your Armstrong Mod 7 figures from us yet, you missed out! We currently have ONE lonely preorder left for Armstrong Gerry, and a few left each for Floyd and Monet. Don't sleep, folks! If you haven't jumped on the 3A bandwagon yet, you're missing out on the best value for the money in designer toys today: 9 inches of highly articulated, highly detailed vinyl robot mayhem for only $45. Some perspective: an 8" Dunny is $80. An 8" Qee is $65 to $70. And these 9" Armstrongs are only $45. 

We've got a few other assorted ThreeA toys in stock as well, so click here to see everything in one spot.

Smash Tokyo Toys Atomic Bear Tank Mini Qee

Smash Tokyo Toys has revealed their design for the Atomic Bear Tank Mini Qee. This awesome 5" Qee is produced by Toy2R and I think it'll be released at SDCC. Not too much info currently available, but we love Toy2R as well as Smash Tokyo Toys, so we think this is a killer piece. 

Will share more info as it becomes available.

Bryan A. Collins Qee to the Moon Mini Qee custom

We have this sweet 5" custom Mini Qee Bear by Bryan A. Collins titled "Qee to the Moon"- see more pics and purchase the piece here. 

We've also got a full, thematic custom series coming soon from Bryan- he's working on it right now! Look for more news on that here on this blog. You can follow Bryan on his website, Twitter and  Facebook, and you can purchase his book here.

The FOLLOW Rabbits: The Creation of a Constellation Lepus

Edition of 25 silkscreen 2-color prints each hand painted with a different heavenly constellation. The series is titled "The Constellation Rabbits" and is based upon the FOLLOW RABBIT created originally as a fine art painting by David Foox and in celebration of 2011, The Year of the Rabbit. Click here to FOLLOW along... click here to buy.