If you head on over to TFAW.com right now, you can save yourself 10% on Dark Horse's Eric So Sin City Marv vinyl figure that was released earlier this month, paying only $135 instead of the usual $150. Limited to 950 pieces for worldwide distribution, this figure also includes a hand-numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by Frank Miller and Eric So.
Dark Horse: Eric So Sin City Marv Vinyl Figure
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Kotobukiya: Amagi Brilliant Park Isuzu Sento Ani*Statue Pre-Order
Available to pre-order now is Kotobukiya's Amagi Brilliant Park Isuzu Sento Ani*Statue. Priced at $94.99 and scheduled to ship in July, Isuzu rests on her cloud-shaped base alongside a bonus Moffle, complete with balloon!
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Name That…Purple Thing
Some things just look rude taken out of context. ![]()
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Kotobukiya: Cardfight!! Vanguard Omniscience Regalia Minerva Ani*Statue
Following on from yesterday's pre-order announcement for their Amagi Brilliant Park Isuzu Sento Ani*Statue, Kotobukiya have just released a whack of images for their forthcoming Cardfight!! Vanguard Omniscience Regalia Minerva Ani*Statue, which is scheduled to ship in August.
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Reclaim the throne with empty's Chara-Forme Chrom
Fire Emblem: Awakening continues it's merchandising tie-in's with this deformed version of the game's protagonist, Chrom. This little guy is prepared to marry whoever you decide to have him chat up for hours on end. Part of the Nendoroid competition market, it's as close to a figure of Falchion's master we've seen in a while. Maybe we'll see the most popular characters of the game each in completely different lines (figma Lucina, Max Factory Tharja...).
The armor and sword (Falchion, sword of the immortals/heroes/beach bums) have a great sculpt, and focused detail, especially packed into the small form factor. The Chara-Forme line doesn't go for exact representation (if so, you wouldn't see feet on him...am I right?); but for an aim-for-the-cute toy, this has a surprising amount of character retention. That serious business face says it all for the alternate-Exalted Lord. He stands around 4 inches tall, and empty is claiming a May 2015 release. MSRP of ¥3,800, and you can start planning which abilities his children will have (hint, they'll be super-deformed).
[Pre-Order Hobby Search | J-List | AmiAmi | Big In Japan | HLJ]
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Quadcopters straddle the line between drones and toys
Quadcopters like the one that crashed at the White House on Monday are among the most popular remote-controlled aircraft being sold today. But are they drones or sophisticated toys?
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Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Themes Singles 2015 New & Variants
The first case of singles for 2015 are out – continuing the Themes concept … it’s a nice upgrade, extending the graphic to full size makes much more sense and it’s nicely dynamic looking. It is CASE P – continuing the new tradition of not starting on CASE A until a few cases have been […]
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Mattel Disney Pixar CARS: Themes Singles 2015 First Case
The remaining singles in the first case of 2015 singles (CASE P). Radiator Springs Theme brings back common townie re-releases. No changes from this current era (2013 to today) … though it should be noted that Mater in 2014 lost his raised & painted eyebrows, now just a flat windshield with “painted” brown eyebrows. The […]
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MaloApril shows off a pretty zombie and a rocker chick
MaloApril recently finished up two custom Dunnys as a commission and, as always, I find myself super jealous of anyone owning her pieces.
The first is a zombie with fantastic eyes (I love the lashes) and decked out with a skull tee. She's got some blood splatter going on, and generally looks expressive and fab. The second figure is a rocker chick who looks to be an AC/DC fan. This second one has a great purple motif to her, and a little bit of extra sculpted hair, plus a flower.
Great work from April, as usual. You can follow her on Instagram to see her wonderful creations as they come to life. See images of the customs I mentioned in the gallery below.
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set database: LEGO 1295 water rider
set database: LEGO 1295 water rider
image courtesy of shopping
image courtesy of brickset
image courtesy of modelteam.se
image courtesy of peeron
set number: 1295set name: water rider
theme: town, kabaya promotional
year: 2000
pieces: 24
price: us$na
minifig: 1
nice town set.
kabaya promotional set.
come with an airboat.
minifig included a rider minifig.
great playability.
overall design is great.
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10 DIY Valentines for Kids
Do you have hearts in your eyes yet? Valentine’s Day is so much more exciting when you have kiddos to celebrate it with. Suddenly, all those sappy, silly cliches are totally fun. I actually embrace the hearts and the pink and red explosion. It’s all part of the kid-friendly version of the holiday. I don’t […]
The post 10 DIY Valentines for Kids appeared first on Small for Big.
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Marble Madness Lucky Bags
On Wednesday January 28th 2015 at 4PM ET, the Disarticulators will be releasing their Marble Madness Lucky Bags. The release is set to feature a number of one-off marbled figures spanning the past two and a half years of Disarticulator releases, including guaranteed large (Rotten Tomato) and medium (Leucotomy Ball) sized figures as well as two […]
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Custom-Feature: Bone Bunny Dissected Labbit from JonPaul Kaiser
"It's a Bone Bunny by Frank Kozik that I painted up last year, with a besuited gentleman Labbit on the outside, complete with monocle, with the inside showing a more hellish affair, with lost souls weaving through his skeleton. The photography is again by Justin Allfree." -shared JonPaul Kaiser
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Custom-Feature: Revenge Version Transformers by Bowo Baghaskara
Indonesia-based customizer Bowo Baghaskara shares with us his latest custom toys (yes, "plural") with the REVENGE Versions of Sound of Revenge, Grim, Screamous, Jazz Black Revenge, Screamous Black Version, Jazz - with all these figures based on the 3" tall Transformers series one by The Loyal Subjects. Check out more images here.
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Custom-Feature: "Lord Winston Fancycrasher" by Crux
Joaquin Delgado AKA "Crux" shares their latest work, which was "inspired by a vintage tie we found at our local thrift shop. Threads provided by my lovely wife Claraphi." Based on the 4" Bub Platform with details sculpted using Super Sculpy polymer clay, and finished with acrylic paint. Click Here for more images on the TOYSREVIL Facebook!![]()
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Mattel CEO Bryan Stockton parts ways with company
Various news sources have reported that Mattel's CEO, Bryan Stockton, has resigned following another disappointing holiday season.
While much of the news focuses around Barbie sales (with the usual references to feminist rants against the once-popular doll), there are a few other shout-outs to brands like Monster High, Mega Bloks, and so forth.
Unfortunately, Yahoo Finance notes that "[Mattel] did not provide a breakdown on sales of Barbie or other products" which means that we don't have any visibility into the actual performance of the individual lines. However, judging from the quality of stuff going in retail in recent years, I can't imagine that many of the lines are doing that well.
According to a Toyark excerpt taken from the Wallstreet Journal:
Mr. Stockton took the CEO job three years ago and has presided over a long run of weak results. People inside the company and at customers attributed the slide to a growing focus on the numbers and overseas expansion at the expense of the company’s creative side. The company’s executives became entangled in a culture that valued endless meetings and long PowerPoint presentations. Meanwhile, smaller competitors like VTech Holdings Ltd. were taking shelf space and Lego A/S was challenging Mattel’s position as the largest toy company.
Granted, things like holiday sales (which are a big thing for Mattel corporate) likely have little impact on divisions like Matty Collector which itself has seen a number of setbacks last year including the loss of luminary Scott Neitlich and the cancellation of yet another club when MOTU Minis failed to meet its target. This is in addition to Matty losing its bread & butter this coming year when Club Eternia finally comes to a close.
Does this mean the end for Mattel? Probably not, but it might be a wake-up call for the company and, as it re-focuses its efforts, we may see some changes in coming years.
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Mattel (Mat) Stock Price Target Slashed Today at MKM Partners
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#LookBack AUGUST 2014
And while convention season had started in July, things push forward in the final quarter of the year in August, with promos in anticipation for September's STGCC and some Popcon Asia 2014 news.
August is likened to a month of "catching breath" - the "last breath" of 2014, actually - in anticipation of more events to come, every other month until the end of the year.
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Jakks Pacific Renews Agreement with Black+Decker for New Line of Toy Power Tools
Jakks Pacific Inc. has renewed a licensing agreement with Black+Decker for multiple role-play toy categories in the Black+Decker Junior line. The new agreement grants Jakks Pacific the rights to manufacture and distribute Black+Decker Junior toys in North America and Latin America. “Children love to emulate their parents, and our line for Black+Decker truly allows kids [...]
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QTransformers Animation Episode 4 Up On YouTube - 'Mystery Of Stage Bosses'
DLE has posted the fourth episode of the QTransformers animation to YouTube! Titled "Mystery Of Stage Bosses," it seems (to we non-speakers of Japanese) to feature a discussion on the weird, slightly dull stage bosses of Transformers: Mystery of Convoy and its QTransformers smartphone remake. Keep reading to see the video and be confused!
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