Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States of America. To honor and celebrate his historic achievement, Robert Bosch, Faculty at Oberlin went ahead and created a portrait of President-Elect Obama out of 44 complete sets of…
Continue Reading →Millions of film fans world wide witnessed the lovable trash-collecting robot Wall-E as he leapt off of the screen and into our hearts in this summer's Pixar hit. Npw the Johnny 5 lookalike has an astonishing reproduction. The folks at…
Continue Reading →Super one man design house Gavin Strange has caught our eye for his pumping fresh t-shirts, skateboards and these amazing little toys, Droplets. Droplets are little drops of high-gloss vinyl with personalities. They remind us of some character we created…
Continue Reading →October and November are going to be big months for Artoyz. The French website and magazine that both covers and sells designer toys is slated to unleash a slew of products under it's Artoyz Original label. The past Saturday they…
Continue Reading →The slot car craze may have fizzled out 40 years ago, but The World's Greatest Shelby Slot Car Racetrack might just get people excited again. This isn't the same cheap track you had when you were ten. Ohhh no, this…
Continue Reading →Jailbreak Toys, makers of the Barack Obama Action Figure, will present ART + ACTION = Obama 08 at Toy Tokyo's gallery: The Showroom NYC on October 17th. Contemporary artists, toy designers and graf writers like Mars-1, Peat Wollaeger, kaNO, Brin…
Continue Reading →Our blog-friends over at core77 did a great job of covering London's Design Festival while we were traveling, but we want to tell you about about the existance of Urban Gnomes making their debut at the festival. Vitamin Living has…
Continue Reading →Everything's going green these days, and the toy world is no exception. Perhaps appealing to our guilt at the amount of plastic we consume as toy fanatics, a growing crop of collectibles attempts to balance the extraneous and the ecological.…
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