Dead Kozik Bust Kickstarter from Kevin Gosselin

    I can't tell which is scarier:  the fact that I could buy this or the fact that I'm seriously contemplating buying this.  I'm a Kozik fan no question, but I never thought about putting his rotting mug on my grand piano before.  But Kevin Gosselin did and he created this in tribute to the godfather of rock posters and nicotine addicted bunnies.  And people couldn't be more excited.  His Kickstarter campaign to get this produced as a full fledged vinyl bust has taken off since its start a few days ago and it looks like this will become the must-have home decor item for toy nerds in 2013.  

    The first colorways of the bust will be in red and glow in the dark.  Both are exclusive to the Kickstarter campaign and will be made using the same factory that produces all of Kozik's famous busts of questionable world leaders.  The dead man himself is even doing all of the artwork for the boxes.  This may be the strangest vinyl toy ever produced of a guy who makes vinyl toys who is still alive but is depicted as being dead.  Ok, I'll guarantee it is.  

    You can support this campaign and get one of these to complete your serial killer-like shrine or you can donate as little as $10 and get a sticker pack to plaster his face all over your Nissan.  Check it out by clicking here.  

Brandy Edition Chester Runcorn from Doktor A and Kuso Vinyl

    Mustaches are everywhere these days.  The wife and I went into a bookstore last week and near the register they actually had an entire section of products dedicated to ye olde flavor saver.  Magnets, t-shirts, button, just about anything you could imagine.  And this was at a bookstore, which struck me as even weirder.  I should have known not to expect better when they let the Jersey Shore cast write books and people were actually excited to read them.

    This dapper gent is Chester Runcorn from Doktor A.  He's been released in many different colors before, all named after various libations that lead to the listening of jazz music and hedonism.  He's on sale now at www.kusovinyl.com and for a meager $65 he will fancy up your joint with his jaunty hat and English accent.  

The Return of Street Fighter x Kidrobot

    Once, when I was but a wee lad, I went to a video store (they used to exist I swear) and bought a used copy of Street Fighter for the Sega Genesis for only $20.  That's it, that's the end of the story.  Everything can't be amazing all the time, sometimes stories don't go anywhere at all or end happily.  I mean, I went home and played it a lot and was pretty happy about that.  Ok, so maybe my procuring of this game wasn't an Indiana Jones-caliber adventure with snake pits and what have you, but when you're 13 and you grew up in the middle of nowhere things like this were a bigger deal than maybe they should have been.  You don't know my pain!

    Kidrobot is continuing their relationship with the Street Fighter franchise with an all new set of figures. What's kinda neat about these is that they are sold in packs of 2, but you only know one of the figures you're going to get.  The other is a mystery opponent just like in the game.  These come out on March 28th and will sell for $17.95

    They also made some keychains.  They're blind packaged.  And for your keys.  They also make fabulous nose jewelry.  For your nose.  They're $4.95 and come out on the same day.

ToyConUK Mascot from The Hang Gang, A Little Stranger, and Unbox Industries

    Would anyone run from this guy if they saw him tearing up their town?  I mean, he's downright cute, so I think people would try to pet him.  Kinda like when tourists go to Yosemite National Park and they feed the bears from their cars.  "Look honey, the cute little bear likes Doritos too."  But they never realize that the bear likes Doritos so much that it will smash all your windows in and mangle your children to use as salsa.  The moral of the story is, no matter how cute something is, unless you're positive you can beat it in a fight don't try and snuggle it.  That same philosophy applies to women too, fyi.

    This prehistoric dinosaur bro is the mascot for the upcoming ToyConUK.  He was designed by The Hang Gang, sculpted by A Little Stranger and produced by Unbox Industries.  If you're lucky enough to be attending the event you can pick up one of them or you can get a DIY version in which you have to do all the work yourself and if you screw it up you have no one to blame.  Any left over after the event will go up for sale online, but since there's only 100 of the one you see here, you might wanna call up any English friends you have and beg for their help.  

Two New Preorders from Lulubell Toy Bodega

     Just saw these on Twitter so I thought you might be interested in them.  Lulubell Toy Bodega is offering up these blank Siccaluna bunnies as an open run preorder.  So if you want to order 500 of them you totally could, but you only have a week to do so and they're $8 each, so maybe shoot for 400 of them.  Don't wanna not be able to eat dinner.  Anyone who enjoys customizing toys should be all over these.  They're cheaper than Dunnys!

    They're also offering up this Devilman figure made by Siccaluna Koubou and painted up by Grody Shogun.  These are much more limited and they are available for preorder while supplies last.  And by supplies I mean the ones that are in a giant shipping crate making their way to Arizona as we speak.  $80 will guarantee you one.

Ultrus Balrog from Skinner on Sale Today

    This is the reason I don't have kids.  Kids are always wanting stuff like new shoes, and lunch, and books for school.  I want to buy stuff for me.  Maybe if kids were actually good at cleaning and being quiet I would have a few, but until they step up their game I'm gonna stick to being selfish.

    Since I don't have kids I can actually contemplate buying stuff like this.  It's the Ultrus Balrog from Skinner!!!!!  He combined two of my favorite things:  Lord of the Rings and freaky plastic things and the results are spectacular.  He only hand painted 10 of these suckers and he could have just left it at that.  But no, the Skin Man (that sounds creepy) went and laser engraved 10 Ring of Power replicas to go along with them!  Where did he get a laser?  I don't know, probably Craigslist, but that's not important.  The important thing is that these go on sale today at noon Pacific time at http://shopcriticalhit.com/collections/toys.  Starting now I will begin accepting donations so I can buy one.  You know you love me enough to help.

Prehistory Fossila from Super7

    Super7 is making a new line of figures known as Destroy All Kaiju that take us back to the days of gigantic monster figures from Japan.  Not only is this dude some crazy dinosaur, but he's also looking rather undead and menacing.  How do you kill something that is already half rotten?  Thankfully his arms are still stubby so if you make fun of him enough he might just go and hide somewhere, too embarrassed to wreak any more havoc on the world.  Sissy.

    You can buy one of these dudes on March 14th at noon Pacific time for $95 from www.super7store.com.