Kronk"s Lovebirds

Kronk" Lovebirds are now available online and in store. Well done on another fantastic creation.

Otto Bjornik - "Revenge of the Wolves"

I received this mail and thought that you should all see the incredible work.

Dear friends and fellow toy lovers,

I've finally finished my 4th series, Revenge of the Wolves, which is a collaboration between me and my little sister. I did the design and customizing while she did the great task of sewing the clothes and making them fit. This was a project that I had been wanting to do since mid last year. And seeing it come to reality is in itself a great achievement for me. I can honestly say that this has been a labor of love that I can't wait to share with all of you. Here's the story:

"The rumbling in her babies' tummies is too much for Lyca to bear.  It has been days since they've last eaten, not since her husband was viciously killed while foraging for food.  Every night, Lyca and her little ones visit the bluffs where she and her husband first fell in love.  There, she wails for their loss and longingly calls out for him in the vast emptiness.  But the only sound that answers is the echo of her cubs' whimpers and the growling of their tummies.  

She must snap out of her grief and feed her starving babies.  With a mother's instincts and a widow's vindictiveness, Lyca vows to avenge her husband's murder.  She already got rid of the lumberjack.  All she has to do now is devise a plan to get that rabbit Lago once and for all."  

The toys will be sold in pairs. One wolf (7" munny or 3" dunny) will be paired to a red riding hood dunny(3"). But if you're interested in getting the entire set(as shown in the attached image), please feel free to contact me before the 24th as I'd prefer to keep them together. I'll start doing full reveals of the toys, including an 8" Lago, in my store starting Friday. They'll be available for purchase on the 24th at around 9pm EST. Each set will cost 200-500$ at www.bjornik.bigcartel.com. Hope to see you there.

Thanks for your time and may you have a wonderful day!:)

Best regards,

Björnik

KegO' BOOM By "The Given"

"Introducing South Africa's first locally produced and manufactured Designer Resin Toy, “Keg O’ Boom” from The Given.

Keg O’ Boom is the realisation of years worth of idea’s, planning and hard work from Cape Town artist and designer; The Given.

Keg O’ Boom is a Super Limited Edition resin figure which has been hand moulded and cast from The Given’s original sculpt.

No more than 50 pieces of this brilliant figure will see the light of day with 1 in every 5 being Rare Glow in the Dark Variants and

there is even rumour of one Ultra Rare hand painted figure.

The figure will be available during a pre-order period of 1 month for the surprisingly low amount of R150.

Once the pre-order period is over whatever figures have not been snapped up will be sold at a retail level at a price of R180.

We invite you to take part in making this project a success, so that hopefully we shall soon see South Africa’s Second locally produced and Manufactured Designer Resin Toy.

But you best hurry as we don’t expect these collector pieces to hang around for very long.


Check it all out http://www.thegiven.co.za/kegoboom

Kronks Love Birds.

FAKIR: DON'T EAT ME !!!

FAKIR: DON'T EAT ME !!!: "Don't Eat Me" custom on dunny 3" comissioned work Crédit photo : Kevin Joyeux

Steve's Birthday .

Last night we had our first Adults birthday design party with Abe Viljoen as the artist. It was Steve's 37th Birthday and his wife Debbie decided to have the party at our shop and it was great. Everyone got in to the spirit of the evening and created some great pieces. Well done to you all.
To book your next party visit our web site and book it online at  http://www.toitoy.co.za/

Puma & Toitoy

Well the day has arrived for the custom show to be packed up and board the plane to Dubai for "Sole DxB Show "
I am proud of all 12 artist that took part in this custom show.

MUNNYWORLD 2012 Custom Contest

In MUNNYWORLD you can do anything you want! Now is your chance to Make It Your Own and enter it in our worldwide competition taking place on our Kidrobot Facebook page, just click on the special Custom Contest tab. You can start uploading your creations May 1 through May 31. Enter any size MUNNYWORLD figure as many times as you would like. All winners, other than People’s Choice, will be chosen by a Kidrobot panel. Show us what you are made of and share it with the world, check out what other people are doing, vote for your favorite design and win some awesome prizes!

Here is a fantastic opportunity for some of our local artists to get involved.

Follow this link for more details. http://blog.kidrobot.com/munnyworld-2012-custom-contest/

Huck Gee Interview Part 2.

Here is the second part of the interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLRq-9Nmy0k

Atropa Dunny by Jason Limon.

In Jason Limon’s post-apocalyptic Earth, humans have ravaged the planet, and plant life has found a way to make a drastic shift to survive. Atropa comes to fruition, and in abundance, consumes the planet.

They commandeer the bodies of remaining people and animals, blending mammal and plant to create a new life form. Body becomes seed, leaves become wings, and memories live on flowering vines. Atropa is the new life form, and the only one that can survive.

The new era begins April 26 at Kidrobot stores, kidrobot.com, and select retailers and is limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide.

Atropa is a type of flowering plant, the name deriving from Atropos, the oldest of the three fates in Greek mythology that ended the life of each mortal by cutting their thread.

Acid flow custom by "The Given"

When local artist decides to do a custom wow does he ! This amazing Piece was launched at The Toffie festival on 31.3.2012.
Before it was revealed it was sold to a client of mine as  for his 40 Birthday present.                                    Happy Birthday Elton.

"This piece started out as some fun for myself, getting back to my roots in graffiti and letting it come out more heavily in my vinyl work. I was quite happy to be creating a toy with only myself to please, but I must admit I was even happier when it ended up selling before it was even finished! "


Follow Abe on his website www.thegiven.co.za and on Twitter @givencollective

Lovebirds Teal, Black, Purple & Orange Editions

If you missed out on the wedding edition then look what on their way.
In four alluring color editions – Teal, Black, Orange, and Purple – the Lovebirds by Kronk are the most affectionate animals to cozy up to vinyl. Packaged individually in an artist-designed box, each figure stands on its tail with its feet in the air, ready to connect with (or push away) any potential partners. Stellar on their own but perfectly complete when mated, the Lovebirds are both half and whole. Like yin and yang, macaroni and cheese, ice skaters and spandex – you will enjoy just one, and fall in love with two. Find a mate April 26 at Kidrobot stores, kidrobot.com, and select retailers worldwide.

Mr PeeNut has been released.

PeeNut has been released and is now available from Unbox Industries, follow this link to their website.

There are 3 colourways ( classic M.U.S.C.L.E pink, Lagoon blue & Clops purple ), 20cm tall, £25 / $45 ( plus shipping ) & limited to 200 pieces in total !!

http://unboxindustries.bigcartel.com/

April 9th is the opening date for nominations for " The Designer Toy Awards 2012

Clutter has just announced that nominations for the 2012 edition of the Designer Toy Awards will  use a two-tier process.  First, the public is invited to nominate  choices for the full list of award categories (after the jump), beginning on April 9th. Once that’s completed, nomination committees will cull the publicly nominated individuals, companies, toys, down to 10-15 nominees per award.   In my opinion, this is a definite improvement over last year’s system which resulted in voters having to choose between extremely large number of choices for some awards.    Look for announcement of the nominees at SDCC in July, followed by the DTA 2012 awards ceremony in October at NYCC.

2012 Designer Toy AWARD CATEGORIES

TOY OF THE YEAR
BRAND OF THE YEAR (Previously Manufacturer of the Year)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
BEST CUSTOMIZER
BEST MINI SERIES
BEST SELF-PRODUCED
BEST COLLABORATION
BEST LICENSED PRODUCT
BEST PLUSH DESIGN
BEST 1/6 SCALE
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
BEST BLOG
FAN FAVORITE
BEST ONLINE TOY STORE
BEST TOY STORE
BEST TOY FROM A COMIC
BEST DIY PLATFORM
BEST COLLECTION

Original post by Vinyl Pulse.

Huck Gee is interviewed by Ryan the Wheelbarrow.

San Francisco artist and toy designer Huck Gee rolled through Kidrobot’s Boulder headquarters to chat with KR’s Social Media Ambassador Ryan the wheelbarrow about his early influences of art, graffiti and toys, as well as his early days with Kidrobot. Take a load off and enjoy 10 minutes of keeping it real one of the biggest players in the toy game.
Follow this link to watch this interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6k_utsaBs

ToyCon hits the UK for the first time in 2013.

You read it right folks... the UK is finally getting their our designer toy convention, and it's about time if you ask me! The talent pool runs deep over there with not only artists, but with customizers, designers, shops, and everything else that would make for a great convention! That being said three Designer Toy fans Jonjo    Glynn, Ben Hart and Barry Darnell have announced the launch of the UKs first ever designer toy convention...  'ToyCon UK'. Taking place, a year from today, on Saturday, April 6th 2013 at Baden Powell house in Kensington, the event will bring together the UKs finest. Exhibitors already confirmed include: A Little Stranger, Cris Rose, Doktor A, Fugi.me, Hang Gang, Lunabee , Jon-Paul Kaiser, Matt "Lunartik" Jones, Mintyfresh, TADO, Triclops, The Tarantulas, Squink, Ume Toys, and Unbox Industries! So you may ask, how does this effect us over here, you know - across the pond... well, you have an entire year to start saving money for travel, that's how :-) and just like other conventions, they plan on having workshops, prize giveaways, live painting, show exclusives and a whole plethora of artist signings giving fans the chance to meet their favorites. If you are interested in exhibiting, you should email exhibitors@toyconuk.com for details, and if you want to stay up to date with all the happenings, follow ToyCon UK via Twitter, Facebook, and their official site! I'm really excited!!!!


Original post thanks to Spankystokes.

KaNo"s Android

KaNo has revealed his Android for series 3 to be released soon. Andrew Bell is getting ready to release Series 3 – this will be a artist base series. 

Kidrobot releases new size DIY Munny toys.

On Thursday 12th April Kidrobot will be releasing 4 new DIY platform toys,Standard Munny, Raffy, Trikky and Fommi will all be available in the all new 7 inch format. 
This has now given you a wider range of DIY toys to work on, 4" , 7". 8" , and 20" So all you designers lets see some more magic on these new toys.

Minikiki and Given Collective at Toffie pop festival

On Saturday 31st March Minikiki and Given Collective joined forces to do a custom shoe colab at the Toffie festival. The theme was nature verse robot. This attracted a large amount of interest and great fun. The shoes will be going on display at Toitoy and if you are a Size 10 and are keen on having them contact me with a bid for them as we will donate the money to a charity still to be decided on.

Koralie Arlequine 3" Dunny.

When Koralie does a Dunny she does a incredible job of it. Korali together with Kidrobot will be releasing he new Arlequine Dunny on April 12th 2012. This piece will be limited to 1500 and will be a Kidrobot exclusive store release only, it is set to sell at $14.95.