tokidoki tour bus

so imagine if you were in a rock band, who would you get to design and decorate your tour bus?well, if you're +44, you'd ask Simone Legno of tokidoki = go read details and see more pix here [info+images via]*neato*

separated at reel birth: transfomers international poster

witness the International poster (image-left) for Transformers (hi-res version on AICN) - and while i do agree it looks loads like Deep Impact's (as mentioned on AICN), it too reminded me of The Sinking Of Japan's (wiki): VS or basically all disaster-flicks are bathed in blue and golden-hues, with cracking rock-surface text ... or even of the invasion of giant transforming robots ... *heh* ...

house of liu display boxes

Andy Woo of Crazy Label teases us with Veggiesomething's Mei Mei and Di Di from House of Liu's display boxes and yes, they look yummy indeed! [images via]seriously tho, most times, the display box is just as "important" as the figure itself, for without the benefit of seeing the actual product itself on display, folk's first impression would be of the display box, innit? and im sure there's a

myspace, my headache

horkay, i've just about given up try to "customize" my myspace page (dammit what buttons should i be pushing anyways?) ~ truly quite crippled without adequate knowledge of html and cyberwhazzits in this day and age (thankgawd fer pushbutton-blogs, innit? *heh*) ... but at least i came away with an icon?honestly, i don't really know why i bother sometimes ... *bleh*

new playtimes issue 21

newindainbox: a new masthead logo. a new bi-monthly release schedule. new paper stock for a more vibrant image quality. a revamped content structure, featuring more in-depth articles, interviews, an illustration section and more than you can shake a toybeatingstick at (also to note: a new design-revamped website).and new cover art from Frank Kozik and Devilrobots X Touma:and it all starts with

let fatbears taste your sweet memory

this is probably "old news" by now, but seeing these FATBEAR USB-thumb-drives on Furi Furi's website (with a cryptic "let me taste your sweet memory.") got me intrigued and this is what i've found so far on Endgadget:apparently, these thumb-drives start to grow when you "feed" them more than 256MB worth of data! how fat it gets before it explodes, i know not, but the premise is cute enuff, i

kaws vs pipo

i lurve that immediately after Original-Fake launches an image of a possible "new" KAWS character, the web was quick to draw the similarity to that of the Tokyo Police mascot, PiPo (named after the sound of the police siren - *cute*) and after a quick online search yielded this result:"hack", "homage" or "creative adaptation"? *you decide*info: via/viaimage: via/via/viascary how the www works -

2006 year-end online contests

a quiet christmas and year-end tis not meant to be, what with these competition deadlines looming::: Show Us Your UNKL Photo Contest [via] ::- what to do: take and send a picture of your fav UNKL-toy doing whatever you want.- prize: a 12" UNKL HazMaPo toy- email leah@unklbrand.com (one picture per email pls)- deadline 31st Dec 2006 (@ 11.59pm)- status: doable :):: Design Submission for Mephist

optimus prime face revealed (sort of)

partially shoruded in silhouetted-shadows, Optimus Prime stands tall with possibly an Energon Matrix cube glowing in his gut his headlights flashing (???) on the cover of EMPIRE magazine [via] and from this image @ tfw2005boards, fanboys seems somewhat temporarily placated by the original-G1-face/head design of Optimus Prime.giving-in to fanboys' pleas? or part of the original plan? the way i

the evolution and pathway of a vinyl art toy

(A) Regular Edition / (B) Colorway Variant / (C) Mono Version (or Clear Edition)(D) Black Version / (E) GID Edition and/or (F) a Platform Toy?there's also the Plushed and/or Flocked (tho not as popular it seems)-Versions, innit?and don't forget different sizes: the Maxi and the Mini-versions:hey, im not knocking them (lurve 'em all!) ~ but is that all there is to be? ... *heh* :p

separated@designbirth: bummed and boxed out

... just realized that the Mini-Goon box and my Angryboxxx look quite similar-ish ......so much for "in-development"...now im pretty much bummed-out as it is...*ggggrrrrrr*

more spiderman 3 and green goblin images

sweet Spiderman 3 movie-images scanned from Premiere magazine (used to read them religiously years ago but has since lost faith :p) found here [via]and little info-titbits like: "Harry Osborn is referred to as the "New Goblin" and his glider is called the "Sky Stick." Venom is confirmed again as being from outer space, plus Sandman will be a sympathetic villain longing for Peter Parker's

the fantasticar

my memory of the Fantastic Four's Fantasticar has always been restricted to the flying bath-tub (which unfortunately, goes hand-in-hand with H.E.R.B.I.E. the robot *urgh*):but this new design for the Fantastic Four 2-movie spun it all around on it's head [info via]: "In the movie, the Fantasticar is powered by a proton accelerator, can hover, fly at 500 mph and break into separate flying machines

transformer toy prototypes

possible prototype Transformer-movie toys revealed online [via/via]: no, the images you see above are not made-in-china bootleg-toys (*heh*) = they are "apparently" prototypes toys (with no paint-apps) for the upcoming Transformers-movie (scheduled to release 2nd June 2007) = which i personally think reinforces (and reminds us) that tis all "plastic toys" at the end of the day, dunnit? *LOL* the

2 new spiderman 3 movie posters

a coupla new Spiderman 3 movie posters unveiled @ SuperheroHype, with one being the Regular Colored Spiderman Black (Venom) and Red uniforms and a Green-Tinged/Hued version (presumably to symbolize the menace of the new Green Goblin):personally not as powerful as say the simple iconic Spiderman-logo (lenticular) poster released earlier, but that's just me :pthe movie synopsis so far:"Peter Parker

tony stark talks and iron man redesigns

[above two-images-right via]Robert Downey Jr. talks a little about being Iron Man (when who he really wants to be is Sgt. Rock ;p) on SuperheroHype and im really trying to build-up momentum and interest for this comicbook-adapted-movie, while acknowledging the fact that it will be the Iron Man Armour (more than anything else) that will make or break this movie for me (at this point in time

my proposed fluffybadbad display box design

okay, this is just me muckin' about and poking my nose around with a "proposed" display-box design (that's been swirling about in my fetid-mind that i hadda exorcise) for FluffyBadBad, seeing that the final production plush is up and ready, innit? [via]the outside of the box shows a strong-box holding the fluffy-critter, more grafitti should be added and box maybe a bit more grimey. there's a

tamo wallpaper

:: DESIGN ::download yer free (Bape-print inspired) TAMO-wallpaper @ Alfredo Mejia's (creator of Tamo) whose had a new website design-over, btw = *nice*

run michael run

looking at all these promo images leading to the Michael Lau X Nike launch just reminds me of the (local army) compulsory 2.4-kilometre-runs; which i deplored to my utmost consciousness (and obviously have a hard time to pass each time dammit)above image is of the upcoming "Michael Lau meets Steve Pre-Fontaine" Nike Catalog ~ available from 16th October @ Nike Central flagship store in HongKong.

mimobot X star wars

new in da inbox: Mimoco does Star Wars!Darth Vader is the first Mimobot out of the Imperial-stargate, with three other "secret" SW-character-bots yet to be revealed. below is my own interpretation of what those characters could be like (apologies for the dodgy Yoda-looking-like-bride-of-frankenstein tho :p)*muahahaha*