Game of Thrones Lord Tyrion Lannister 22cm figure by ThreeZero

Features My favorite character from Game of Thrones- Tyrion Lannister- gets the 1:6-scale treatment from ThreeZero. Impeccable likeness.  Colors may not be final or accurate. Definitely dangerous, do not give to children. Super choking hazard! - 22cm custom designed action figure body - Head sculpt with realistic likeness of actor Peter Dinklage - Exchangeable hands - Tailored cloth costume: Leathers. Trousers. Doublet. Jerkin. - Included: Boots, Goblet, Book

Buy -Game of Thrones Lord Tyrion Lannister 22cm figure by ThreeZero here.

Goldfish by Michihiro Matsuoka

I don't know how long these have been around, if they're new or if they are even available for purchase.  But they're amazing pieces of art and everyone needs to see them.  The detailing is incredible.  The pieces look like a police squad from a future where goldfish rule the seas.  The pieces are made from resin, acrylic paint and brass tubing.

Michihiro Matsuoka's site (it's in Japanese)

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Radioactive Uppercut x Monsterforge edition of 8-Ball COMING SOON!

Plans are being made for a very limited run of 8-Ball, hand painted by Charles Marsh, the Monsterforge.

No specific details have been given on the exact deco scheme or release date, but from the teaser here, it looks like they will be painted over green japanese vinyl.  Look for more updates coming from both Radioactive Uppercut and Monsterforge soon.

New Guardians of the Galaxy Dorbz by Vinyl Sugar and Funko

 OK so I sort of missed this development at Toy Fair because I wasn't walking the show floor, but I think Funko has either developed a new line called Vinyl Sugar... or they are exclusively distributing this line. Anyway, Vinyl Sugar now has a series called Dorbz (short for "adorable" I'd imagine) and the first license is Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. These are 3" tall figures which look they must retail for $10 each, based on the wholesale prices they were giving to us. How these will stack up against Funko's absurdly popular POP! line of figures remains to be seen... find these at your favorite toy retailer. Not my shop, because price point is too low. But I'm sure your local Funko hookup will have these in stock soon.

Nohwitz is Coming!

Rocketboy's Nohwitz was selected by "Bold Machines: The Innovation Workshop at Stratasys" to be part of their 2015 program! For the last 6 months, Rocketboy has been collaborating with the Bold Machines team to design, develop and produce Nohwitz into a designer figure. 

Nohwitz, Rocketboy's Cubicle Creature, is based off of the office know-it-all that absolutely knows nothing. Although his main design incorporates a blue skin tone with fangs and hands, he is constructed, using 3D technology, so that he can assemble into a variety of different versions. Designed with snap on features, he comes with three different hand options (hands/tentacles/hooves) and three different tooth options (molars/fangs and tusks).

Final preparations for Nohwitz's early May debut have started.  

Those preparations include a limited Nohwitz release, hand-painted by Rocketboy (colorway picture attached) and a group custom show with a collection of talented artists from North America participating. Some Nohwitz blanks may also hit the market. 

More details and specifics will be announced as May approaches!

Bold Machines, run by former MakerBot CEO, Bre Pettis, is a Brooklyn-based 3D Printing & Business accelerator working with the next generation of artists, architects, designers and innovators. Bold Machines empowers creative explorers and provides a showcase for designs produced on MakerBot, Stratasys and SolidScape 3D Printers.

Super7 x Secret Base Green Slime Soft Vinyl Alien

Super7 and Secret Base are dropping a green version of their 4" soft vinyl Xenomorph figure this Friday. This looks sick. No price is listed but the black version released back in October was $50, so you can expect about the same for this one.

Super7 Blog

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PREORDER TOUMA 1.5-INCH PICO MAO CAT PHOTON

• preorder arrives Q2 2015
• Designed by Japanese artist Touma
• Soft vinyl
• Made in Japan
• 2 Parts
• Size: 3.7cm/1.5"

Buy Touma 6-inch KnuckleBear PHOTON here

Constant Companions by Rocketboy

Rocketboy Customs recently completed a custom Chris Ryniak Triple Crown figure, titled Constant Companions. The design is based on the balance of morality and profit, featuring a head for politics, corporate greed and daily decisions. Made for a show at Galerie F in Chicago, For the Love of Toys, which opens on April 10th. Be sure to check out more customs and pieces as they get released.

 - Mark-Anthony

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Game of Thrones Eddard "Ned" Stark 32cm 1:6-scale figure by ThreeZero

Features Ned Stark gets the 1:6-scale treatment from ThreeZero. Figure looks amazing. No money due at the time of your preorder.  Choose CASH as your form pf payment. Once 3A asks me for my payment in Q4 2014, I will invoice you through paypal. Please have the money ready within 1 week of our invoice or your order will be cancelled and the item will be added back into our available inventory. Colors may not be final or accurate. Definitely dangerous, do not give to children. Super choking hazard! 1/6th scale Game of Thrones Eddard Stark collectible details: - 32cm custom designed action figure body - Head sculpt with realistic likeness - Exchangeable hands - Tailored cloth costume : Trousers, Cloak, Gloved hands, Sword and dirk, Boots, Gambeson, Peasecod, Belt with sheathes

Pre-order Game of Thrones Eddard "Ned" Stark 32cm 1:6-scale figure by ThreeZero here.

New Sculpture by Matt Angry Artist Anderson

Matt's newest piece is this untitled 28" fine art sculpture using the magic of dragons tears and epoxy clay. Painted with the hatred of the color spectrum, and fitted with color changing fiber optics flowers for that extra flare. This original sculpture has a movable ball and joint head with removable Chinese water deer skull set on a magnet and pin system.

It is available for purchase by contacting Anderson.artdesign@yahoo.com for $1300 plus shipping.

Instagram: @Angry_Artist
Facebook.com/Matt.Acustoms

BIZARRE AND AWESOME: Fright Show Fighter iOS & PC game on Kickstarter

So my contact Gus Fink just hit me up to let me know that his new iOS game FRIGHT SHOW FIGHTER is up and live on Kickstarter. The artwork in this game is right up my alley: creepy, sketchy and weird as fuck! Can't wait to play it!!!! Check the video below or just click here to back it. All backers get access to the game in its unlocked version once it goes live... demo will be on iOS first, but they are working on PC version as well.

Breaking Bad Heisenberg 1:6-scale figure by ThreeZero

Features 1/6th scale Breaking Bad Heisenberg collectible - officially licensed. Produced by Three Zero.

• - 12 inches tall articulated figure featuring tailored
  - Clothing
  - Head sculpt with realistic likeness
  - Exchangeable hands for holding gun
  - Tailored cloth costume :
  - Glasses
  - Sunglasses
  - Pork-pie hat
  - Black windbreaker
  - Pistol
  - Five stacks of blood money

Pre-order Breaking Bad Heisenberg 1:6-scale figure by ThreeZero now.

Thomas and Friends Blind Bag Minis

I'm a big fan of blind bag/box/whatever toys. They trigger whatever chemical in my brain that also responds to tearing open a fresh Magic booster pack. The down side to most blind packaged toys is the price. $4 or $5 (and up) just to pull the same figure I pulled twice already? Nah.

That's why I was a big collector of the Zerboz super hero micro figures. At a buck a pop, I could grab a handful and feed the need. These Thomas and Friends minis are definitely next on my collect list. My son is a huge Thomas fan and it has slowly infected me as well. And these are just $1.49 a piece and available at Walmart. With over 70 different designs like metallic colorways and superhero engines there's plenty to keep a collector hunting.

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SCARECROWOVEN x ALAVAKA

DHP has teamed up with illustrator extraordinaire, Scarecrowoven to give you some awesome Alavaka packages. Both Scarecrowoven and Devils Head Productions did painted colorways of Alavaka on red and milky white marbled vinyl. An AMAZING Alavaka 5 color 24x36 silkscreen print featuring glow in the dark ink and 7 color silkscreen tshirts are among the other goodies that will be part of the collaboration packages available March 20th in both the DHP webstore  and Scarecrowoven's webstore. Get ready for AWESOMENESS!

'The Forager' - alto - Arts Unknown Production Piece

Following the sad demise of Arts Unknown, Chris Dobson (alto) has revealed one of the designs that he had in the works with them.

Entitled 'The Forager', it was one of a series of pieces that were planned for production.

Now in search of a new home, any interested parties should contact Chris, if they can take this Beleaguered Beetle and his Praying Mantis companion, under their wing...

TOYSREVIL: Revealed: 1/6 Hellboy Mignola french resin statue from Fariboles Productions

SO BAD ASS! Read Andy's post here:

TOYSREVIL: Revealed: 1/6 Hellboy Mignola french resin statue from Fariboles Productions

Critters Resin and Rubber Figures by Eric Nilla and Friends

<terrible pun> These Critters are a handful </terrible pun>

This movie terrified me as a kid.  But I can't help wanting to own one of these little guys.  Sculpted by Zectron and painted by Joe Whiteford, these Critters were cast by Eric Nilla and are available for pre-order from today (3-13) until Sunday at Noon for $25 plus shipping.

Pre-order resin

And if resin's not your thing you can get the same sculpt in black sparkly rubber for only $12!  Killer.

Pre-order rubber

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Tenacious Toys blog hits ONE MILLION pageviews after 5 years of blogging

 

Dear readers,

THANK YOU so much for reading the Tenacious Blog! I just noticed that we have passed a very important milestone: 1,000,000 pageviews! Thank you all so much for coming back and reading all the great posts our team has put together for you over the past 5 years. We hope to continue this trend for a long, long, long time. As you can see, we are now publishing more "useful" posts which offer critique, criticism, reviews, and honest and blunt assessments of various issues in this tiny art toy industry. 

I have never personally felt comfortable raising hot button issues when I write blog posts, mostly because as the Supreme Overlord of Tenacious Toys, I want to remain everyone's friend. I will continue to occasionally publish my signature EVERYTHING IS AWESOME posts which promote the various works of the artists and companies that I'd like to encourage and help.

However, we now have a roster of talented and opinionated writers who like to call out the issues as they see them. I have encouraged them to simply be honest and fair in their reporting, and let the chips fall where they may. You might have seen some of those posts popping up here in the past.

On that note: if any of you have created toys or collectibles which you would like reviewed, please feel free to contact any of our bloggers to set up a review post. I do not personally need samples of any more toys. They're everywhere in my small apartment and if I have to put one more talented artist's work back into a box and into storage, I'm going to cry. So please, contact one of our bloggers and send samples directly to them for review. Our blog posts are sent out automatically to our Twitter, Facebook and Google+ accounts, as well as wrapped into emails that are sent out to subscribers each morning. Total reach is 20,000+ people.

Which brings me to our staff: we would be more than happy to welcome in any guest bloggers who feel like they have something to say. Please email me personally if you are interested in writing for this blog. I want to make it the most useful and most community-driven art toy blog out there. My opinion alone will not make this blog great. Yours will.

- Benny Kline