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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!

In animistic Shinto-ism everything has a spirit. I need to pick up a set of these amazing devices.

Its Chewie! Its Blue! They say its made from the same good stuff that regular jerky is made from…. but my guess is that its smoke-dried BRAAAAAINS! Do you dare to eat the ZOMBIE Jerky?? Available from this Rakuten shop (the site is in Japanese.) ゾンビ肉カタログ

Ichiban-boshi Chaos Custom Series 1, originally uploaded by datadub. So Ichiban-boshi is trying their hand at the airbrush. The results look pretty good. These customs were for sale of the Ichiban-boshi online shop last Sunday. They were priced at regular Japanese retail for these figures which I thought was pretty classy. Hopefully we will see…

Toxic Resin Art Show At Super 7., originally uploaded by LAMOURSupreme. This figure has been dubbed “Baby Huey” by Mr. LS – it was designed by LS, sculpted and cast by Kaz of Itokin Park. This version was painted up by L’amour Supreme for the Toxic Resin art show happening at Super 7.

on sale now at rotofugi! on sale now at rotofugi!

Its Obon – the summer time holiday – here in Japan – when thoughts turn to traditional ghosts, goblins and ghouls. So its the perfect time of year for and Exhibition of  Mizugi Shigeru – the godfather of the Japanese underworld.  This one starting today at the Matsuya Department store in Ginza looks like fun. I like how they…

Mirock Toy has launched its official web site including a blog and an online shop. Mirock (pronounced Mee-Roh-Koo)  leapt onto the the toy stage with a collaboration with Real x Head which debuted at San Diego Comic-con 2010. Sculpting in wood his wildly re-imagined sculpts of Real x Head’s core Mutant Zone characters – Head, Evil and Chaos were…

Couldn’t resist posting this. More Crossover Recap tomorrow. However here is a decent dose if you’re desperate. ToysREvil interviews Kirkland of ToybotStudios about SDCC2010. The interview is loaded with photos of SDCC and I would say over half are of Crossover… not that I’m counting… just saying.

MH x RxH!!, originally uploaded by monstrehero. More Crossover madness forcasted to spew from the gaping wormhole at Booth #4937. RxH’s neo-standard Chaosman get the MonstreHero treatment inside and out. Oh and a fortune kitty gets it as well. Sean and Cliff should be rift-side on Preview night. There mirrorworld Gangledoppers Clean and Siff of…

Fortune Cat Baby – Kurozake “DON”, originally uploaded by datadub. One sure sign of disruption in the space-time continuum are the presence of strange beasts – in particular One-eyed Fortune Cats. These 2 examples have already been sighted in Japan but have been determined to be present at the site of the anomaly in san…

Rumble Monsters x PopSoda Dynamite Monster Show Vol. 5 @ SDCC 2010, originally uploaded by Fiends Ain’t Family. Here at Fig-lab we are continuously the monitoring the event horizon of the impending vortex. As the opening of the rent in the fabric of space-time approaches more details are becoming discernable. Our instruments have detected a…

Mori Katsura aka Real x Head is coming to town packing the heat. There will be a heavy heavy load of old favorites, mutated originals and freakish curiosities spewing forth from the anomaly centered at booth #4937. The Global Figure Symposium will do its best to cull the crop and offer it forth. There will…

Skull Toys SDCC 2010 Marble 12 inch Dokurocks Suit, originally uploaded by Fiends Ain’t Family. Skulltoys Dokurocks Henshin style suits are back in style. This time its formal wear like a Tuxedo from Hell – luscious marbled black and white.These will be available from Thursday at GFS2010 – the CROSSOVER from Thursday.