After being mesmerised by the Doktor A Spit & Polish Soopa Coin-Up I got a bit excited by the possibility of seeing even more awesome Soopa Coin-Up customs at the upcoming Soopa Show in New York. The best thing is there is a small chance I may actually be able to attend the show. Make sure you check out the Soopa Coin-Up website and a great interview with the creator Erick Scarecrow.

“I C You Can’t Spell” by Lunartik JOnes [View Auction]
Custom Munny + Lunartik in a cup of tea.

Lunartik was inspired by a miss spelling on the Munnyshot flyer…
I wonder who spelt my name wrong! hehe

TOY SPEC:
- Lunartik Custom Munny with spoon in hand.
- Munny melting in blood red tea.
- Signed by Matt JOnes + Sket One !
- Sket’s signature on the back of the munny’s head!=20
- Ships in a box + Free plug Stickers.

Spin on it

DIY Calamari
Opens 15 Nov 2007
Bodhi Gallery
214 Brick Lane
London [map]

About The Show: Behold, the greatest and only plastic octopus themed artistic event the world has ever seen! Because we are self indulgent narcissists, we thought it only fair to try and milk the release of our beloved Lefty toy for all its worth, and what better a way to do that than invite 30 of our favorite artists and closest friends to play pimp-my-lefty and then exhibit the finished pieces for the world to see. Artists include Jeremyville, Julie west, Jeremiah Ketner, DGPH, Mike Burnett, Mr Jago and many more

Spit & Polish was something all custom toy fans have been dreaming about for a very long time. Doktor A finally got the solo show he deserves and boy did he live up to the expectation with some magnificent custom pieces. The highlight of show for me is the custom Soopa Coin Op Bros titled “The Secret History of Video Games: Pac Gentleman”.

This is what Doktor A had to say about the piece;
“When this game was first released in 1880 it was so hugely popular in taverns and inns that the bank of England was forced to mint more threepenny bits to keep up with demand. The game was created by messrs Nam & Nam and Co. as a novelty pastime for the masses. Outdoing the previous top public house game of Shove Ha’penny. “

Check out the rest of the customs below and any custom toy artists out there take note. The show runs until Nov 31st at Cardboard Spaceship in California, USA.

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Help to raise money for KIKA Charity (Childeren cancer free) by bidding on a custom Dunny. The auction ends on November 15th so get bidding at the Dunny.nl website.

Custom Toy Lab and Crazy Label have teamed up to give away some Blank DIY TAMO Toys. Download the TAMO template and design a Halloween TAMO. The 10 best designs will be chosen by Custom Toy Lab, Crazy Label, Vinyl Pulse, Toysrevil, Toy Break and UrbanRetro. The 10 artists behind the 10 winning designs will all receive 5 blank DIY TAMO toys each.

Go to Custom Toy Lab for the fill information and to enter the competition.

Competition Ends Midnight 31 October. Winners will be announced upto 7 days after that.

Indulge yourself at the gallery of hand transformed PEZ by Atypyk and bask at the delightful results. I love the fact that modifications are very subtle and refined.

Toy Karma took place on Sept 8th 2007 and it was filled with a lot of kaiju awesomeness. The show presented United States, Japan and Global artists who are inspired by Classic Japanese Toys and was curated by Mark Nagata
Photos via Geozilla @ Flickr. View more show images via Wing Clipper @ Flickr, iccdp @ Flickr and toybot studios @ Flickr

Raz Liebreich recently graduated with a degree in industrial design and his last assignment was dolls. This is the result, and if you ask me, probably a well deserved degree! Congrats Raz!
[via Plastic and Plush]

The Shiitake Parade Rocked ToyQube where a huge load of custom Shiitakes were displayed to celebrating the release of series 1 of the Shiitakes by Erick Scarecrow and ESC-Toys. It wasn’t only the Shiitakes that filled the toy store either as people also flocked to the retailer to get a glimpse of the great designs done by a a large number of artists including ToysRevil, who really knocked my socks, if not many other viewers. Some of the other artists there were spookyAMD, Dizign, and Manny Galan (of Dookie Poo fame)!

Erick himself was there of course to greet his many fans and custom artists.

In addition, many of the customs went on sale at ToyQube following the show which you can find here

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