Scott Kinnebrew pieces for Vinyl Thoughts show

Scott Kinnebrew is kicking ass and taking names. Here are a few (not even all!) of the pieces he submitted to the Vinyl Thoughts 2 show in Dallas. Click here to see more about this show. Click here or here to see and buy more pieces by Scott Kinnebrew.

MeSmithy dropping 2 new KayNids and a final Anubis on Friday

Our advertiser Megan Smithyman (MeSmithy) writes in to let us know about this upcoming Friday's release in her shop: two new KayNids and the last Anubis figure she'll be making for a while. The two KayNids are Demon Dog (red) and Moon Fox (blue). The release will be at 9pm EST on February 29th. Mark your calendars! If you'd like to keep up with MeSmithy and her awesome stitched customs, shoot her an email or DM her on Twitter and she'll add you to her email list.

Corporate Monsters Series 2 by DAVEMARKART in stock now

After the immediate sell-out of DAVEMARKART's Corporate Monsters Series 1, Dave set right to work creating  Series 2 for Tenacious Toys. Here they are, from left to right: the Corporate Death Dealer, the Corporate Bloodsucker, and Two-Faced. Corporate Monsters Series 2 is now for sale in our DAVEMARKART section! Dave outdid himself this time, with complex sculpts and even more detail... This is Dave's first crack at using Mini Munnys as a platform, and they came out great!

Coming soon: Misfit Monsters Dunny series by UNCLE Studio

 

Arriving any day now is this sweet 3" Dunny series by UNCLE Studio: the Misfit Monsters! This crazy series will be for sale on our new UNCLE Studio page on our site. Full reveal once they arrive.

In the meantime, you can follow UNCLE Studio here:

Website: www.unclestudio.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/unclestudios
Facebook: www.facebook.com/unclestudio
Store: www.unclestudio.storenvy.com

MeSmithy KayNid Anubis and Winter Kitsune

We'd like to welcome our newest advertiser, Megan Smithyman, to our blog! MeSmithy is an artist working in CA, utilizing stitched leather to create her unique custom toy designs. In my opinion, once you start incorporating old-school materials in a custom toy, it starts to make that transition from "toy" to objet d'art. It feels legit, for me, maybe because I frequently have to explain that these items are not in fact toys, per se, in the normal definition of the word. Still, a painted piece of plastic is seen, by many people, as a toy, no matter what you say. Throw some leather on there and I think most of those people wouldn't need so much convincing. Handcrafted leather items seem to hold more weight in traditional society, and I think MeSmithy's customs are a wonderful crossover type of product that help legitimize our obsessive toy collecting. 

Plus, I love Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Just sayin'.

Check out MeSmithy's website here. For some really unique custom art toys, keep wtaching MeSmithy's shop. The Anubis figure (top) is for sale, in addition to other pieces.

BadApplezInc | Doodle Buds Custom by NemO

BadApplezInc | Doodle Buds Custom by NemO | Online Store Powered by Storenvy

Uhh, a 3.5" custom Doodle Budz by NEMO for only $45? That's a steal!

Devillez custom 3-inch Kidrobot Bot by Don P

Don P sends us these images of a recent commission: a 3" Kidrobot Bot he calls Devillez:

I present you Devillez.....he is the devill under the bots. He likes to eat gold dipped in blood. He kills everyone that he doesn't like with his tail.

Sounds like one bad little dude. Check out Don P's shop here.

JC Rivera x TazX Oozie Huntmouth collab customs

Our friend JC Rivera has teamed up with TazX on these awesome Oozie Huntmouth custom pieces. I'm telling you, everything that JC touches turns to gold. The extra added gooey, monster-y flavor of TazX's style make these 2 pieces incredibly special. You can purchase them here in JC Rivera's shop. Don't sleep; I bet ya these will sell within a day or 2. JC says:

TazX and I worked  on a 3" Dunny and a mini munny. We wanted to combine our styles to see what would come up from it. We created some creatures that we called them Oozie Huntmouths.
These are Half Rusted Machines and Half creatures.

SNEEK PEAK: A final WIP shot of Jeff Beck's Lion-O custom

Three Thundercats customs by Jeff Beck will be for sale in our shop soon!

The Manly Art Blog: R5-A3 (3A Armstrong/1977 MPC R2-D2 Mash-Up)

The Manly Art Blog: R5-A3 (3A Armstrong/1977 MPC R2-D2 Mash-Up)

SNEEK PEAK: WIP shots of Jeff Beck's custom Thundercats Munnys

 Jeff Beck has sent over some updated work-in-progress shots of the Thundercats customs he's working on for our shop. The platforms for Mumm-ra, Lion-O and Panthro are different Kidrobot Munnyworld figures. Coming along! Can't wait to see the finished pieces!

Custom toys by DAVEMARKART

All one-of-a-kind pieces using Sculpey or Super Sculpey. All hand-painted using acrylics with a matte finish. Eyeballs get a clear coat to give them extra shine. Each of these approx 5" tall custom toys is made by Dave Webb aka DaveMarkArt. We will be arranging wityh Dave to sell these items in our store...

Hugh Rose custom Bearbrick and Coarse Toys Jaws

Hugh Rose shares with us images of this beautiful custom Bearbrick he executed for the Icons show at The Hang Gang in Leeds, UK. Hugh exhibited alongside JPK, Sourbones, Matt Lunartik JOnes, Mimic, Robotboy, Squink!, Map Map, A Little Stranger, Drilone, and many more. Definitely a killer show. Here's a slideshow from their Flickr:

Hugh's latest custom is this Coarse Toys Jaws figure, which seems to be a favorite platform for world-class toy customizers:

If you want to learn more about Hugh Rose, check the following links:

WEBSITE: http://www.hughrose.co.uk
SHOP: http://dredrwc.bigcartel.com
TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/dredrwc

New Thundercats customs by Jeff Beck

In our never-ending quest to seek out and work with cool artists, we ran across Jeff Beck. Or he ran across us. I can't remember.... anyway, Jeff does awesome character customs so when we were talking about what he should do for our site, I asked Jeff what he was into and he gave me a list of some comics, shows, cartoons.... and we decided upon the new Thundercats! Above are the work-in-progress shots he just sent us of his new Thundercats custom Munnys: Mum-Ra, Panthro and Lion-o, from left to right.

This is the back of Jeff's Lion-O custom, which will be flocked!

This is the back of the Panthro custom, in progress

Jeff started to experiment with the flocking on Lion-O's arm, and it looks AWESOME!

Once this series of customs is finished, they'll be for sale in our shop. I'll make a Jeff Beck page in our custom toy section so they'll be easy to find. Keep an eye on our blog for more updates on Jeff's Thundercat customs!