This just past NYC Toy Fair, Kidrobot let the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles climb back up out of the sewers and onto display shelves. Like the toxic ooze that made these turtles into the sword wielding assassins that they are, so comes a glow-in-the-dark series of Ooze Action toys. But these are modeled after the famed […]

Coarse Toys is an artist duo in a Hong Kong studio who have gained international recognition for their sculptures and lofty “themes of denial, betrayal and lies.” (Oh my!) In fact, their beautiful take on the buzzkill has been through these parts before, multiple times, perhaps best with the rabbit-suit wearing False Friends. Their most recent work is […]

Mondo (the gallery/shop based in Austin, TX dedicated to posters, prints and nerd-worshipping tchotchkes like this) have joined up with Retroband Toys to put out the first-ever limited-edition action figure of the overlord of zombie films, George Romero. By no coincidence, the figure was created in time with the Texas Frightmare Weekend‘s screening of Dawn of the Dead this past weekend, […]

If you’re not amped enough about the opening of The Amazing Spiderman 2 this weekend, you should probably start collecting action figures — stat. Perhaps you should also cut some popcorn holes into the face of your Spidey suit for when you go to the premiere — sans any self-respecting date. Well, maybe you think that you don’t […]

Manga geeks and toy collectors prepare for liftoff. If you’re familiar with the Kodansha series by Go Nagai and the Fuji anime TV series Mazinger Z from the 70’s (and you really had better be), not only is that evidence of your being a complete nerd knowledgeable niche-anime collector, but you are about to get some […]

Dutch artist Parra knows that we suck, so he has applied his iconic artwork to his new venture Tired Skateboards — a brand giving props to all you (us) aging skaters. To all the stubborn graybeards who end a session by putting down a half pack of cigarettes, or who prefer to think of a nosegrind as a Friday […]

Brought to you by the license-happy folks at the Back to the Future brand, this flux capacitor really works — at phone charging, that is, but not so much at time travel. Well, not unless you count inching forward slowly in dead-stop traffic. The capacitor has two USB ports so you can charge any USB device, works […]

Parenting skills and pretentious film references can finally co-exist. If your Netflix categories and babysitting endeavors just aren’t lining up, now there’s a solution out there for those little tykes who would’ve otherwise been traumatized by your buzzkill Criterion Collection picks. Because artist and pop-culture nerd Todd Spence has created the Bleak Movies Coloring Book, something that is appropriate […]