Toy links
Creating your own vinyl toy.
“The cost of making a figure can be as expensive or as cheap as you make it … The cheapest production costs for soft vinyl figures are similar to the cost of putting out a limited CD independently …”
The Iron Mobile.
A scratch-build inspired by a vehicle that appeared in a single panel of Marvel Adventures Iron Man # 4.
Take-G’s wooden toys.
Fantastic handicraft by Nakagawa Takeji. Prices range from US$60 to US$6000.
Larry Hama on writing filecards. [via]
He wrote the majority of the bios for the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toys.
Mego Super-Heroes ad from 1973.
“Imagine what the gang’ll think when they walk into your room and see SUPERMAN and BATMAN holding up volumes on your library shelf—super-hero bookends!” Yeah, nothing says cool more than bookends.
Man meets bear.
Someone has clearly not seen Grizzly Man.
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Toy links
Saint Seiya Gallery.
A gallery of Saint Seiya action figures past and present. The site is primarily in Spanish but there are a lot of English translations throughout the site. Don’t miss the Da Vinci Myth Code section where efforts are undertaken to decode the hidden meaning of the Greek text on the Myth Cloth packaging.
Toy production: painting and shipping. [via]
Part two of Symbiote Studios’ look at the figure production process. (Part one.)
Polywen’s Lego Mecha.
Check out the Bat-Mecha.
Transformers Minerva custom.
A repaint of the Transformers Movie Deluxe figure Arcee by pisuwo.
Joy of toys.
We have exactly the same look on our faces when we have an action figure in our hands.
Prowl.
It’s nice to see Transformers characters other than Optimus Prime get the cosplay treatment. More: 1, 2, 3.
Japan beefs up the SDF.
Okay, not really. But there are signs this will come true one day.
Gargamel Microman
A photo by khunter.
Messrs. Rotten, Vicious, Jones and Cook.
Kubrick figures due March 2008.