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Ilanena, Fig-lab and the talented group of international artists who participated in the Dai Kaiju Card Monster Custom Toy Show last month have all agreed to donate 100% of the proceeds from the Show sales to relief for the victims of the disaster in the Tohoku region of Japan. Details are here fig-lab.com/daikaiju

IMG_0222, originally uploaded by datadub. A Sneak peak at my custom for the Alien Argus show.More pics here

Some hot shaky-cam action of the Ilanena Dai Kaiju Card Monsters Custom Show shot by Patrick Macias, narrated by Matt Alt and featuring yours truly.

Toy Art Gallery is proud to present Mark Nagata’s Alien Argus Custom Group Show! TAG, Mark Nagata and Fig-lab have gathered together over 70 of the best Kaiju and toy artists in the world to customize Toy Art Gallery and Maxtoy Company’s first collaborative figure project Participating artists include:Abe Lincoln Jr.AlimanaArbitoArt DenkaBaikin/ShirahamaBen MininbergBert GatchalianBLObPUSBob CongeBuff MonsterCarlos Enriquez…

Taking its cues from the spate of high-end superhero flicks pouring out of Hollywood, The Ultraman franchise has been upping its game with the last couple of Ultraman Movies.  Since the beginning, most Ultraman series have been presented as a standalone takes on the overall series template – then they are slowly crossed over, sliced…

To celebrate its 10 year anniversary, Tokyo-based Figure Label ILANENA is having a special Exhibition in Nakano at the alternative cafe!! Every release-to-date of ILANENA’s iconic Dai Kaiju Card Monsters – encompassing a mind-boggling 73 unique sets – will be on display. Additionally there will be a Custom Show featuring Daiju Kaiju Card Monster sets…

Fireman from Inspire japan This 7 inch Figure of the classic 70’s Tsuburaya Hero Fireman is scheduled to be released at the next Superfestival in January. The Inspire company continues to release these classic Tokusatu heros in the size I like to call the Bandai Modern Standard. Every since the King Zaurus series by Popy in…

SPACE CHAOS, originally uploaded by datadub. Coming soon – from all your favorite deviants!

Another design festa has come on and gone. This was my 4th design festa from “the other side side of the table” as it were and as is the tradition now – I shared the experience and the booth with my good friends at Art Denka & Goccodo. New insights were gained (mini-booths rule- full…

SuperFestival 54 has come and gone but it was definitely a BLAST! The long heat wave of summer had finally broken, and there seemed to be a better than average sized-crowd of folks in the house. Superfestival is by far my favorite toy event in Japan. Kaiju Korner has a really good blog entry about…

Like Twangy Guitar? Like Fat Beats? Like Noise, Mecha and pretty Girls? This new video by Chuck Elketrik of the classic Amon Tobin track “Esther” has it ALL!