JonPaul Kaiser show at Yoyamart on Oct 11

Our friend JonPaul Kaiser is going to leap across the pond in October and run wild in the streets of Manhattan. Be warned. October 11, Toy2R has foolishly invited JPK to invade Yoyamart, a fashion and style trendsetting boutique on Gansevoort Street, where he will not doubt blow every single mind that walks through the door. Literally.

No, sorry, I meant figuratively. JPK is a giant, amazingly sweet man who I am very proud to call a friend. His talents really need no introduction. He understands form and composition, and his steady hands have brought to life some of the most brilliant custom toys that ever sold in 3.5 milliseconds at our NYCC booth. I'm stoked to meet up with JPK again. We can all expect to see beautiful Toy2R production toys, as well as custom toys, by JPK at this show.

Oct. 11th, by the way, is the opening day/preview night of NYCC 2012, so any of you in town for the Con will be able to scoot easily over to Yoyamart, which is on the west side, reasonably close to the Javits Center. See y'all there.

SNEAK PEEK: RunDMB x JPK x Ume Toys "Project X"

It's called "Project X" because it has no name... but look at this thing! With sculpting like that, who needs a name anyway? This sculpt is based on a sketch by RunDMB (David Bishop) and JonPaul Kaiser, and cast into resin by Rich Page of Ume Toys.

Here's what Rich had to say:

At the tail end of last yeat I had a conversation about a possible sculpt/resin toy based on a sketch from David Bishop (@rundmb) and Jon Paul Kaiser (@jonpaulkaiser).

I've sculpted him up - a few tweaks to come that will include articulation for his arms and head (which will also be reshaped a little) - I took him down to KidRobot London last week and everyone seemed to like him a lot. We are thinking of a small run for ourselves and selected friends to custom and hope to put a little show on for the launch - after that a ltd run of resin blanks should be up for grabs (no prices yet).

NYCC Exclusive and Specials, signed production toys and customs

We came back from NYCC with so many cool products, it's taken us WEEKS just to sort through it all and start putting it up on our site in our NYCC section. We're far from finished, but here are a few of the cool things that we have available now:

• Tenacious Exclusive Molezilla
• 5" DIY Jumping Brains
• Ian Ziobrowksi Crook ED the Cop
• several customs by Nerviswr3k
• signed Bellicose Bunny vinyl figures by Nathan Hamill
• our show special: Go Hero Tentikills in Arch Villain Purple
• ThreeA stickers and sticker packs
• JonPaul Kaiser Captain Sturnbrau Pieces of Eight Edition
• Matt Anderson's 18" The Reaver custom Qee
• Kid Smoove, a 16" custom Qee by Nasty Neil
• a 16" custom Qee by OsirisOrion
• a whole collection of different pieces by Dust
• 2.5" Jason Freeny Skelanimals Qees with signed boxes
• custom pumpkies by Valerie Gudell
• Tenacious Exclusive Borrachos by Spanky Stokes

... there is much more, and there will be more items listed every day! Please come back and check our NYCC Exclusives section often!