If you’ve been looking to upgrade your LEGO collection with a handsome young gent to visit that “Grandma’s House” set you built, you’re in luck. LEGO has recently launched the new Minifigure Series 7 featuring 16 new designs —including “Grandma Visitor” — yaye! There’s plenty more, from the frightful to the straight up nerdly (shocker). […]

The iconic British label Fred Perry has spurred many a youth movement in its day, starting off as simply a tennis label which was then unknowingly adopted by — and in many ways ended up defining — the mods. The 2tones came after, and soon the label was appropriated by a seemingly incongruous gamut of […]

Kidrobot’s often customized Labbit figure gets another rendition by San Francisco artist Frank Kozik, who takes the 10” smorkin’ vinyl toy and decks it out in some decidedly S&M-oriented attire. Outfitting the poor freak in studded collar with chain, leather chaps and gimp mask — with zippered hole for cigarette smoking, and another anal zipper […]

Besides impeccable clothing and footwear, mastermind Japan’s not afraid to get into the plushy toy game. This Skull Kid plush toy takes mastermind Japan’s signature skull & bones and manifests it in ultra-cute format. If you didn’t attend the runway show of mastermind Japan at VERSUS TOKYO back in October to get it free, you […]

Bizarre blends and mash-ups created out of Stephen Ives’ mind, Strange Toy Remixes are fantastical, creative and some border on grotesque. From the reinvention of the face Mr. Potato Head into Saddam Hussein to the epic comic rewriting of the story of Pooh Bear to Ives’ own line of Lego prostitutes, Ives’ inversion of cultural […]

Available now for pre-order, high-end toy manufacturer ThreeA‘s BBICN WWR Punter Bot Sniper is set to release at the end of May. Like most of artist Ashley Wood’s highly coveted creations, the Punter Bot Sniper comes equipped with real fabric clothing, textured details, camo accessories and copious weaponry — including a larger than life machine […]

Artist David Flores takes his signature “stained-glass” painting techniques and applies it to Disney’s favorite mouse, Mickey. Flores created a visually striking 10” statue of Mickey but with the minor change of replacing Mickey’s head with that of totenkopf symbol. The totenkopf is a German symbol of death, and makes the usually jolly Mickey Mouse […]

Artist Joe Black’s “Made in China”, an amazingly intricate and creative work of art, should be considered a metaphorical piece. With thousands of toy soldiers making up photographer Robert Capra’s 1938 LIFE magazine portrait of a Chinese solider, it conveys visually how each individual soldier is part of a collective that contributes to the military […]