Chinese New Year Android Figures

    Just in time to celebrate the Year of the Dragon!  Check out these Chinese New Year Android figures, ready to bring you good luck all throughout 2012.  You get all 3 of them for $29 and they go on sale Wednesday, January 25th at 11am EST.  There will also be a second batch that goes on sale at 11pm that same day.  These are very very limited as they were primarily for sale in Asia.  Click here to get yours.

Toy Hunters Needs Your Help

    The Travel Channel just recently aired the pilot for a show called Toy Hunters, which is kinda like if American Pickers only went on the search for action figures.  It's kinda cool to see a show centered around toy collectors and that is why we need your help to keep it going.  The Travel Channel wants to hear from viewers whether or not the show should continue.  Here is a link you can use to leave comments about the show so that the executives at the network can see that it will have a solid following:

http://www.travelchannel.com/about/viewer-relations

    Maybe the nice folks at the Travel Channel will give me my own show.  Here's the premise:  They pay to fly my wife and I all over the world and we go to the factories, the toy companies, and the stores to get a complete view of collectible culture.  We'll go to the factories in China and the amazing toy mall in Japan.  We'll examine how people are taking the creation of toys into their own hands and producing figures in their basement.  Then I write a book about it.  Then Anthony Bourdain has us on his show.  I literally just created an empire with one paragraph.  Travel Channel, give me a call, I'm ready to get this going.

DC's The New 52 Batman Figure Revealed

    Guess what?  On May 2nd there will be a new Batman figure to buy!!!  Based on the design from the Dc Comics New 52 this is the first release from the revamped Justice League and it certainly won't be the last.  Just look behind him and you can make out 5 more figures that are due to follow.  These are being made by DC Direct, so they won't suck.  

Matt Groening Figure From Kidrobot

        How many creators of an iconic television series actually have their own action figure?  I would dare say not many, but you can now add Simpsons guru Matt Groening to that short list.  Kidrobot will unleash the cartoon genius on February 9th in 6 inches of vinyl.  He's gonna sell for $50, which is probably about the budget he had when the Simpsons shorts aired on The Tracey Ullman Show.

Shawnimals + January 23rd = New Stuff!!!

   I went with my wife to a Chinese New Year celebration at a casino once.  It involved a room with vendors set up all around the perimeter (which is my favorite type of room) and a stage where various act would perform.  Being that I don't speak Chinese the talents of the comedians were lost on me, but I did quite enjoy the man and woman who sang various songs from Disney films. And the monk who did some pretty incredible Kung Fu.  It was a new experience to say the least, but if it was available in television form I would be addicted in a heart beat.  Screw American Idol, Chinese variety show is where its at!
   So as you can see, I like Chinese New Year.  I like it a lot.  I like the fire crackers, the parades, the food, and now I like the toys!  Shawnimals has created these special pork dumplings to celebrate the year of the dragon.  There is only 60 of the gold and 60 of the yellow and they are blind boxed so whichever one you end up with is the one fate destined for you.  They're only $12 and available Monday, January 23rd at 1pm CDT by clicking here.   They will also be available through myplasticheart's website and in their New York store the day after.

   Now Shawnimals wouldn't leave you hanging for Valentine's Day would he?  Of course not!  Presenting the Buffalump plush and card set.  For only $20 you get two little plushies and a Valentine's card.  Only 50 pieces will be available and they are numbered on the tag.  Click here on Monday, January 23rd at 1pm CDT to claim yours.

I'm Starting My Christmas List Early

    I've been a pretty decent lad so far this year and I don't plan on doing anything terribly heinous before Santa's next visit, so I've gone ahead and made myself an ambitious little Christmas list.  I was browsing around ye olde internet when this beauty caught my eye.  It's the Allied Victory Sidecar Motorcycle from the king of expensive man toys Hammacher Schlemmer.  I've always wanted a bike with a sidecar that my wife could ride in, even though she says she won't because she doesn't want to "look dumb."  Even the promise of matching helmets with metal spikes in the middle has not as of yet been able to persuade her as to how awesome this would be.  I would have children just so we could pull up to parent teacher night in this thing.  I'm a simple man with simple dreams.  I want to pet a tiger and I want this bike.  It costs $10,000 though, so I better go and help out some orphans or donate a lot of blood to keep my karma points out of the negative.

   

    The rest of the stuff I want is pretty much to accessorize the motorcycle and it all comes from one company: Hell Fire Canyon Club.   First up is this sick Mickey Mouse figure from David Flores.  I figure I can put this next to the tv to remind myself how bad ass I am when I'm not riding the motorcycle.

    And since we're already on their website how about a few shirts.   I could wear these while riding the motorcycle to complete my "terrorizing suburbia" look.  2012 is gonna be my year!

    Ok, I know this wasn't entirely toy related, but sometimes you just have to deviate a little bit and talk about other stuff you like too.  That way I'm letting you get to know me a little better and it expands the awesome relationship we already have.  This is starting to get my a little emotional.

More Info About Kidrobot's FatCap Series 3

    The new series of FatCaps from Kidrobot release next week and we finally have a peak at all the different figures and their blind box ratios.  We can also see that Jon-Paul Kaiser, Kronk, and Queen Andrea all have mystery figures in the set to go along with their standard designs.  And if you buy an entire case of them, you get this special figure from Sket-One for free.  

    I'm more of a Dunny person myself, but I really like a lot of the artists in this series and the designs are by far the best FatCaps have ever had.  I may have to cave and buy a few.  Or a lot.