Horror in the toy asile - circa 1979

I mentioned the 1979 Alien was based on a toy, but the back story warrants a recap for those who haven't heard it. In 79' Kenner released a 12" alien figure which looked like the movie alien, with inner jaw action, basically 12" of terror. Now, if you haven't asked yourself why they would make a nightmare inducing toy for kids based on a R-rated movie they haven't seen, then don't feel bad, Kenner didn't think that far ahead either.

Kids were terrified, Parents complained (before taking their kids to therapy), and Kenner pulled the toy from the shelves, but not before creating a TV ad, (and not to mention going down in history for making the best toy ever.)

This guy knows his Alien toys.
Watch the TV ad where the children play a game which consists of them trying to run from the alien. (as there were no Space Marine toys out at the time) The eventualy realize that nothing can the Alien, then run from the room in a desperate attempt to postpone the inevitable death that awaits at the Alien's horrible snapping jaws.

Kubrick Aliens 400%

These are great, the design is the same, & aside form the normal Kubrick articulation, they have removable domes, moving jaws, & extending inner jaws (controlled with a tab under the back of their head faithful to the 79' toy). 79's Skull detials are GID and the toy comes with a poster.
The movie colorway has blue lines and a dark dome, the 79' version is faithful to the toy.

Also notable is the fact that the 79' version comes in a box that is as close as you can get to a reproduction of the original box and still fit the Kubrick in it.



Also for sale is the 100% versions of each. Pretty amazing, as they have the same articulation as their 400% counterparts down to the inner jaw sliders. Even the 79's box is a reproduction.

Sakuragicho Rakugaki 08 cont.

Here's some more from 08' Sakuragicho.
See more in the previous post.

CRZ

CRZ set arrived. good stuff. Thanks for the discount Robert.
Looks like they opted for a whiter, more opaque vinyl for the GID version.
Wish they had used the normal stuff for a little more glow.

Mechtorians

I was staring at a toy blog from the Netherlands, and even without being able to read 90% of it, it's pretty damn good and gathers a lot of news that's left out of the main vinyl sites I normally check, Check it out: dunny.nl

There I saw a bit on Dok A's upcoming Mechtorians.
They're close, and the first round will be the pictured six. round two will fill out the remaining six designs. What was great was the quote from Dok A himself, or as dunny.nl puts it: Doktor A heeft het volgende gezegd:

‘Window boxed all the way. None of that chase nonsense here. Enough for everyone. No need for flippers to make a cut and no tearing out of hair trying to compleat your set… I have been listening to the forums…..‘

"Met dank aan Pepper!"... I think that means, Right On Dok A!

Nocturnal Video

Slapped together a few min of footage from Nocturnal.
Enjoy

KO & BP on Art Basel

Speaking with KO & BP about what they saw at Art Basel was encouraging, and as Kathie put it a little 'scary'.

Encouraging is the credit "low brow art" is finally getting, not to mention the influence it's having on other art.

Scary is the current Post-modern Chinese artists, now free to practice, and how directly they're sourcing other artist's material.