New Monster Embryos from Taylored Curiosities

    Well, so far Hurricane Sandy has still allowed me to have electricity, so I'm trying to take advantage of it and do some posting.  All morning the news has depressed me with their horrible predictions, so it's nice to focus on something a little more positive and that doesn't involve sea water creeping into my house.

    If you still have power and internet access tonight you should order one of these Monster Embryos from Taylored Curiosities.  This time she cast them in black resin and made their eyes and umbilical cords glow in the dark.  That's kinda creepy.  Only 8 of these little in utero dudes exist and they will be on sale tonight at 9pm GMT time for £12.  Snatch one up by going to http://tayloredcuriosities.bigcartel.com.

Halloween Toys from Peter Kato

    My wife and I work so much that holidays come and go without much notice.  We walked into Target yesterday and the realization that Halloween is next week kinda smacked me in the face.  Maybe I'm just getting older and I'm consumed with other things, but I kinda miss getting into Halloween.  When you think about it, it's the perfect holiday.  You get to dress up like a mental patient and go to all of your neighbors and legally rob them.  No wonder so many people turn to a life of crime, they just want it to be Halloween forever with a payoff bigger than Tootsie Rolls.  

    Peter Kato has gotten himself into the spirit of ye olde pagan holiday and created some toys to celebrate the season.  Check out those Tako-Cubes dressed up as Skeletor.  I have one of his Tako-Cubes that he was gracious enough to give me and these little guys are tiny and awesome.  They only stand 2 and a 1/2 inches tall but once you have one you'll want an army of them.  These are $15 each.

    He's also got these Ninja-Robo Pumpkin Slashers.  The great thing about resin toys is they look edible. The bad thing about resin toys is when you try to eat one and realize they're not orange flavored.  These 3 inch figures are not for snacking and cost $25 each.

    You can also pick up two new versions of his popular Frightbite characters: a Candy Orange and Slimy Green version.  These guys are only $10

These guys are my favorite of the whole group.  They are Tako-Cube Pumpkins!  I'm overcome with the adorableness.  They are $15 each and you can get these and all of the other figures you've seen starting today by going to www.peterkatoshop.com.

Jon-Paul Kaiser x Outsmart Originals Tee Available Now!

    My wife decided that yesterday was a good time to debut her sweet Jon-Paul Kaiser x Outsmart Originals shirt.  Everywhere we went afterwards people kept asking where they could get one.  I'm not even kidding.  We couldn't go anywhere without someone stopping us to comment on her angry panda tee.  The best comment we received though, was when we went to see the classic American novelist Tom Wolfe at the Free Library in Philadelphia last night.  Yeah, in addition to collecting toys we're also uber book nerds too.  In fact, books may be the only thing we have more of.  So she gets up to the table to have one of our books signed and he studies the shirt for a minute before saying "I never thought about pandas having teeth, but of course they do."  This is the man that wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Bonfire of the Vanities waxing philosophical about the chompers of an endangered species.

    Now I can't guarantee you'll look as fetching as my wife or that world renowned literary figures will be struck by a grand epiphany, but I can guarantee you only have until October 29th to order one of these before they're retired.  Go right now to http://www.outsmartoriginals.com/ and get one before it's too late.

Jesse Hernandez x Pobber Toys Jaguar Knight First Colorway

    This guy looks siiiiiiick. Jesse Hernandez and Pobber Toys have teamed up to unleash this beast on the world. This is the Jaguar Knight and if you were in some epic battle you would not want to be the side he's pissed at. This guy stands 9 inches tall and will probably scare all of your other toys into leaving town. The aptly titled Shadow edition will be available for $115 November 8th at Noon Pacific time. Only 85 were made and they will be sold exclusively through http://pobber.com/. Oh, and they're offering free world wide shipping. This design may look familiar to you if you own Jesse's first 8 inch Dunny, but this is a far greater realization of that vision. Such a cool piece.

Dunny Apocalypse Series by Kidrobot

    I'm sure anyone who is interested has seen these by now, but who couldn't do with a little redundancy in their lives?   This is the horribly kept secret know as the Apocalypse Dunny Series from Kidrobot.  Every single time there's a new set of these guys the same Spanish website manages to release the mock ups of them before anyone else.  This time the individual artists "jumped the gun" by posting pictures.  I put that in quotation marks because I'm not a big believer in stuff being leaked without a marketing plan behind it to build hype.  Call me cynical, but unless the factories are releasing the info it would be pretty easy to trace the culprit.  

    But who really cares about that crap anyway?  These figures look amazing and I want them all.  This series features designs by familiar names such as Huck Gee, Mishka, Jon-Paul Kaiser, Joe Ledbetter, Kronk, and Jesse Hernandez, while sporting some killer designs from new Dunny artists Chris Ryniak, Hydro74, and Jermaine Rogers (seriously overdue if you ask me).  No official release date, but it's time to start bugging your local shops to make sure you get in on it cause word is they will be very limited.

Halo 4 Pop! Vinyl from Funko

    They are advertising the crap out of the new Halo 4 game.  No matter what show I watch at night there will inevitably be a commercial that makes me want to get it that much more.  You can't even watch Antiques Roadshow without seeing Master Chief slaughter his way through an alien race hell bent on doing the same to him.  Of course there would be other products to coincide with a huge game release and thankfully Funko was able to immortalize the characters in Pop! Vinyl form. 

    The detail on the Spartans looks pretty sick and I'm glad to see they included Cortana in the series.  A few weeks ago when we went to Comic Con I noted how they make tribute art for every other girl in every other video game, comic book, movie, etc. but you never see anything with her in it.  And I've never once seen anyone dress up as her either.  Maybe they're scared of being poisoned by all the blue paint, but come one people, she's the hottest hologram since Princess Leia (that made me sound really dorky).  You can snag these on November 8th.  

Frank Kozik at DesignerCon

    Frank Kozik is gearing up for next week's DesignerCon with a few releases that maybe would surprise a lot of you.  For one, I don't see any snarky rabbits dangling cigarettes from their mouths.  And for two, everything is hand made.  For starters, check out what he did to these Mike Egan Bones figures.  All of them are hand painted and looking like they're ready to jump start the apocalypse.  Or at least scare the crap out of your kids.  

    He's even bought a butt ton of equipment to start making his own resin figures.  Here we have Heathrow the Hedgehog looking as if he were edible.  Seriously, he looks orange flavored.  You may remember Heathrow from his previous incarnations created by Maqet, though it's been awhile since we've seen any of those and I'm sure there's a good story behind it.  A company just doesn't stop making it's best figure from a well known artist.  Makes you wonder.  Anyway, these are better because they were made by the man himself and if you're lucky may contain some of Edward Goralsky's shed fur.

    And if that wasn't enough, he also made this Sucklord figure as part of this whole Suck-Up thingy where different artists put their spin on his work.  Only 50 of these were made and they'll be $100 each.    I don't know the price of the other stuff because it's a secret or he just hasn't decided yet.  Either way, it's a mystery.