Toy links
MagneForce Acroyear 2.
Scroll down and click on the photo to see a vintage-inspired upgrade kit for the Microman MagneForce figures. The kit will be sold at Wonder Festival Summer 2009.
The Art of Toy.
Click on the thumbnails to see some neat digirama.
Checkmate. Checkmate.
A photo by Matt Brooker.
Teamwork. Teamwork.
Photos by Justin Whitlock and Mick.
Bruce Lego.
More Lego mosaics by Stefan Sacherer. (See also.)
Booming sales in toyland.
“There’s a robot market now, but will there be one in a few years?” A Time article from 1984.
Louis Marx: the toy king.
“In 1928 Marx got the greatest idea in toydom’s history. Rounding a corner in Los Angeles one day, he stopped to watch a Filipino whittle away at a circular block of wood, attach it to a string and then bounce the block up and down the string, as his fellow-countrymen had been doing for as long as anyone could remember.” A Time article from 1955.
Vintage toys for profit and passion.
“… a £1,000 investment in a collection of Matchbox cars 50 years ago which were kept away from light, dust and grubby fingers, would now be worth at least £100,000. … ‘You do it for the passion, not profit. Toys bring back happy memories – and you can’t put a price on that.'”
Shi’ar coolness.
loosecollector’s customs of Korvus and Astra.
Archibald the robot.
An original creation by Sillof.
Brother Voodoo.
A fine custom by raynir.
Batman of Zur-En-Arrh.
A custom of Grant Morrison’s take on the Zur-En-Arrh Batman.
Ferret Ignited.
Gullwing powered up his Busou Shinki Light Armor Ferret Partio figure with parts from a Gouf Ignited kit.
The Fab Four (ver. Lego.)
Lego mosaics of The Beatles. (View large.)
Exo-Force Joint Robo. [via]
A very cool posable Lego MOC. (The frame.)
Kalayaan.
Randy Albert’s custom of Gio Paredes’ character.
Guardians of the Galaxy.
Scroll down for some neat da man customs of Charlie-27, Starhawk and Yondu.
Zero.
John Mallamas’ G.I. Joe-scaled custom of the Mega Man character.
Demitri Maximoff.
Renmauzo’s rendition of the Darkstalkers character.
Cobra-a-a-a!
“I wanted a sensual, sort of sophisticated Baroness figure for a video, and this is what I came up with.”