Mimobot Halloween Sale

20% off Mimobots!!!!!!!  It ends tomorrow so go and buy them nooooooooooowwww!!!!!!!!  Just click the picture!!!!!!!!

Toy Art Gallery at DesignerCon

  

  Toy Art Gallery will be holding down the fort at DesignerCon this weekend at booth #400 and they're bringing lots of exclusive stuff with them.  We already told you about the Strife and Sire figure from Nathan Hamill yesterday (while we were in the midst of a hurricane mind you.  we're like CNN, reporting live from the heart of the storm.) But they'll also have the metallic Uamous you see above, crazy work from Paul Kaiju, and the uber white edition Deathshead from David Flores.  They'll also have in tow some of their life-size toys that I would smack a baby to own.  I don't even know where I would put a 4 foot tall toy, but I can guarantee you that is a problem I would love to have.

Nathan Hamill's Strife and Sire Dead of Night Edition at DesignerCon

    I got to see the original version of this figure while I was creeping around New York Comic Con and it is pretty cool in person.  Things often look good on the internet, only to disappoint you in real life.  Kinda like Facebook pictures.  Girls you know in real life will add you on Facebook and confuse the hell out of you because they use all these weird angles and soft lighting (and Photoshop) and if you didn't actually know their last names you would have no idea who it was that sent you the friend request in the first place.  I'll never understand how anyone can date people they don't know from the internet, because how do you recognize them when you meet them at Applebee's to share the 2 for $20 deal?  You might be sitting with someone who was lonely and wanted a free meal and was scamming you.  Do you think that's a thing?  People just hanging out in restaurants, waiting for people to look like they're meeting someone they haven't met in real life yet, and then pretending to be that person?  I may never pay for meals again now that I've invented this.

    This is Strife and Sire from Nathan Hamill and this black in red colorway is an exclusive for Toy Art  Gallery in Los Angeles.  It will also be available at DesignerCon if you happen to be lucky enough to be going.  Get it at booth #400 for $50.  Only 100 of these were made.

Dunny Apocalypse Series Releases November 8th

    Not only is November 8th the release date for the new Dunny Apocalypse series, but it's also my wedding anniversary.  How did Kidrobot know?  Looks like I'll have to make a quick pit stop at my local toy store before I take my wife out for dinner.  Do you think she'd mind?  

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.