Kid Robot x Kozik: Glow in the Dark Labbits

Posted on October 17, 2007 Under Design

We know being alone in your room at night can sometimes be scary, but owning a night light is not worth the subsequent ribbing you'll receive from your friends for being afraid of the boogey man. Rather than spend the…

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Vinyltoys Templates

Posted on October 15, 2007 Under Design

Vinyltoys Templates is a website that compiles the plans (blueprints?) for a wide variety of vinyl toys from manufacturers that span the alphabet from All City Style to Woodentoy. There are currently about 40 templates up for your downloading and…

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tokidoki hits NYC

Posted on October 10, 2007 Under Life

What happens when you create a collaboration among three of the hottest names in designer toys? You get this. Tokidoki has teamed up with STRANGEco and NYC's YoyaMart to create tokidoki-land this Saturday, the 13th. The entire YoyaMart store will…

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Dunny Series 4

Posted on October 4, 2007 Under Life

Kidrobot's new Dunny's are awesome; If you haven't checked them out yet, go here, and if you don't even really care to check them out, go there anyway. Normally, I could care less about Dunny's (not for any good reason…

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Mist Dunny

Posted on September 25, 2007 Under Design

French graf artist Mist (known for his drippy style and evil eyes) paired up with Kidrobot to deliver this severely limited edition, mostly psychotic-looking, 20-inch Dunny. I love Dunnys, and I love monsters, so the fact that this beast looks…

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More Skeleton UniPo

Posted on September 24, 2007 Under Design

Well yay for you! The fourth series of UniPo was such a hit that the crew at UNKL have decided to make more; the silver skeleton will be produced in a run of 500 and will be found at various…

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Forbidden LEGO

Posted on September 17, 2007 Under Design

If you want to see LEGO models go acid and then make them to impress all your non-techy, too-cool-for-school friends, pick up a copy of Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against by former LEGO Mindstorms employees…

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UNKL: New Site!

Posted on September 17, 2007 Under Design

The new site of designer toy brand UNKL is up and running, and the new pages are rapturously stocked with all the characters we've come to obsess over plus a "whole crapload" of newbies. Blank UniPos, the new SUG and…

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Slobot // Slobart

Posted on September 12, 2007 Under Gadgetry

Mike Heisler, the artist behind the Slobot robots that we've gushed about here before, designed this Bart Qee figure for the Toy Tokyo leg of the Bart Simpson Qee show in NYC. The 10'' tall Bart comes equipped with positionable…

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Nike x Transformers

Posted on August 21, 2007 Under Life

"More than meets the eye" always brought to mind a gravelly robotic voice and various forms of vehicles racing across the screen at around six on a Saturday morning, right? Not anymore. In the newest addition to the designer toy…

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