Eyegore is a prototype of a toy figure by The Pizz being produced by Munky King. Although its not particularly my style, I find that the prototype shows great craftsmanship and the sculpting detail is superb. Here is a quote from the Pizz about the figure:

“Eyegore was birthed in a painting displayed in the Laguna Art Museum’s “Kustom Kulture” exhibition. The piece was named ” A Salute To The Holy Trinity Of Von Dutch, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth and Robt. Wms”… back in 1992. The piece was named ”

Featuring a little chrome eyeball dude, he’s an amalgamation of the three hot-rod maestros’ various signature creations and stylistic calling cards, so we got Dutch’s Flying Eyeball and Roth’s Rat Fink and William’s Cootchy Cootie, with a heavy mix of the three’s cult-like Wehrmacht obsession and the overabundance of chromage…He also harkens to my creation for the Sympathy For The Record Industry’s “Eldridge Cleaver” charactor…same hob-nailed biker boots and WWI-era StahlHelm…

Ray Brown, who really brings out the amiably goofy aspect of this little guy… “

Eyegore (prototype) will be at SDCC 2007, so check it out!

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Maxim Zhestkov, a Russian industrial designer, has designed 2 upcoming figures for a new series to be called Quadrics. These figures are great additions to Kaching Brands lineup of awesome figures. Maxim’s figures are going to do well, if you ask me, because they are very unique and quite welll-designed. Not surprisingly, if you check out his website you’ll see that his design skills go beyond just toys and figures too. Definitely worth checking out.

The two figures are very obviously inspired by and cater to the video gamer in all of us. The first of the figures (001) has a big joystick on its back while the second carries a gamepad. Both figures are decent-sized standing more than 8″ tall. These will both have a sugg. retail price of $59 and be distributed by DKE Toys. The release is set for the first week of July.
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You saw the illustrations and you should have known that the prototypes would kick butt once they were made, but in case you didn’t, here they are! W00T…
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