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Shepard Fairey’s Mr. Spray is in the Shop!

Shepard Fairey’s first original toy in 11 years (blogged here) is now available in our San Francisco store and online. Both colorways are already sold out through STRANGEco, so here’s your final shot at owning a piece of street art history. Mr. Spray is made of rotocast vinyl and stands 11 inches tall. He comes in illustrated card box packaging with an OBEY mini stencil. These are some of the last Mr. Sprays out of an edition of 348 pieces each. Don’t sleep!

Glitter Big Sal, Tokoichi Seiyu, Mini Deathra and Pocket Zag in Store Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Saturday, around 1PM, we’ll have a quartet of new goodies from Super7 in the online shop. Sure to sell out quick is the new Monster Family Smoke Glitter Big Sal by Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters. The new colorway of Big Sal is 4 inches of dark grey glitter with black and grey stripes. Tokoichi Seiyu is the latest collaboration between Gargamel and Cometdebris with six colors on light blue vinyl. Mini Deathra, the winged cyclops, is back in red vinyl with blue sprays. Finally, good things come in small packages, like this Pocket Zagaron in clear red vinyl with green sprays. Check the shop tomorrow afternoon for the new releases!

Touma’s Little Trickers Now In Stock

We’re big fans of Touma, so we were happy to finally get in the Little Trickers mini-figure series from Play Imaginative. The set features familiar characters with some new spins, including collabs with Joe Ledbetter and Dalek:

• Skuttle OG
• Skuttle Camouflage
• Hellhound Red Tattoo
• Aniballoon Graff Bear
• Aniballoon Pink Moon Bear
• Squeezel OG
• Squeezel Electric Bone
• Squeezel by Dalek
• Grabbit OG
• Grabbit Camouflage
• Grabbit by Joe Ledbetter
• Gan Gan OG
• Gan Gan Drop
• Bonga Konga B-Boy Black
• Knuckle Jr.
• Mao Cat

A full case includes all 16 figures and both chases. You can also get individual figures here.

Jeff Koons’ Fabricator is Latest Casualty of the Recession

A sad day for people who like gigantic art multiples. @theartmarket tipped us off to this story about art fabricator’s Carlson & Co. becoming the next casualty of the economy’s effect on the contemporary art market.

The company, based in San Fernando, California, was founded in 1971. It became one of the best-known resources for artists seeking to produce complicated, large-scale and frequently costly artworks. “Many artists trying to make work that involves high-tech and precise execution would go to Carlson and they could often figure things out that no one else could,” said New York art adviser Allan Schwartzman. The firm fabricated some of the most technically challenging artworks created during the six-year rise of contemporary art prices which began in 2002.

Carlson is perhaps best known for Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog sculptures which are valued in excess of $20 million. The firm was in the process of constructing a $25 million “70-foot-long replica of a 1943 steam locomotive, designed to dangle from a crane, outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art” when it closed.

Today’s Toy Sequels

Today’s mail brought even more toy goodness. Sequels aren’t always awesome, and that’s pretty much a fact. However, these two series have upped the ante for their second coming. Uglydoll Action Figures Series 2 and Droplets Series 2 both feature new characters and new colors. But where they really get the props is in the packaging. Unlike blind-boxed UAF series 1, UAF series 2 are all individually window-boxed. (As an additional eco-friendly bonus, the windows are made with recycled PET.) And speaking of the environment, Droplets come in reusable cloth pouches inside recyclable cardboard boxes. Good job, guys. Both new series will be available in the Neon Monster shop in San Francisco and online shortly!

Box o’ Super7!

Look what the mailman brought in. A nice box of Super7 toys! The transparent pink of the Ooze Bat and the Terror Zombies fits right in around here. On our shelves and up online soon!

Out of Sight Out of Mind with Mr Clement

The intriguing and elusive Mr Clement presents a solo show of Lapin entitled Loin des Yeux, Loin du Coeur (”Out of Sight, Out of Mind”) at ARTOYZ in Paris opening April 22nd. The show celebrates the 10th birthday of Lapin and will include “a series of Petit Lapin sculptures inspired by some Spanish sculptures in the 17th century and some unpublished drawings from my latest graphic novel and paintings, etc.” Special edition Lapin figures, French kisses and “10,000 bottles free beer” are also available to the lucky people who attend the opening. Anybody got an extra plane ticket? Petite AstroLapin is currently on sale here.

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Amanda Visell’s Tic Toc Apocalypse Toys

We had a little fun this morning unboxing a few of Amanda Visell’s mini-figures. Luckily for us, “the creatures, demigods, and harbingers of doom” know they’re among friends, so we’ve (at least temporarily) staved off the impending Tic Toc Apocalypse. Although I’ve got a few issues with excessive packaging in this series (if you’ve opened one of the Poopicorns, you know what I’m talking about), I think this is one of the better-executed artist-driven mini-series I’ve seen from Kidrobot lately. If you liked Joe Ledbetter’s Finders Keepers series, this has a similar vibe.

It’s definitely a very brown series. In house we’ve got collectors who swear by pink, black and green. I’ve met a blue guy. I’ve yet to meet anybody who feels brown is a dealbreaker in a good way. But looking past the color theory…BATS AND GNOMES! It’s also very authentic to the ever-expanding Amanda Visell universe. And it’s fun to have the different characters interact. As in, “Hey look at that Gnome riding a Centaur!” (Maybe I should Tweet that?)

Another little in-house game we’re playing this morning is to see if we can steal KFC’s trending thunder by using “double down” in as many posts as possible. (Jeremy kicked it off here.) I’d like to offer you the opportunity to “double down” your discount on a case of Amanda Visell’s Tic Toc Apocalypse. We always offer full Kidrobot cases at 10% off, but right now you can double down by using our “SXSW” coupon code for an additional 10% off. That’s 20% off! Stash those extra dollars for when the real apocalypse arrives, OK? (Zombies only take cash.) Browse our selection of Amanda Visell mini-figures and the new Zebracorn Dunnys here.

Mini King Ken Complete Sets (With Chases) Available Now!

We’ve got a few COMPLETE sets of James Jarvis‘ iconic King Ken figures in mini-form from STRANGEco. The set includes all 7 toys:

• Grey 1:4
• Orange 1:4
• Purple 1:6
• Blue 1:6
• Green 1:8
• White 1:24
• Listen to Metal 1:?

Each mini King Ken is still sealed in its original box so you can experience the joy of opening ‘em blind. The full sets are $75 here.

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Kozik Smorkin’ Labbit Series 4: Complete Sets!

Frank Kozik brought us several COMPLETE SETS of Smorkin’ Labbit Series 4 when he came out to sign with us at Wondercon. That’s right…Monocle, Stabby, Airplane, Ball & Chain, the whole shebang and even the elusive second chase can all be yours…straight from Frank’s studio. You get the fun of opening blind boxes with the safety of knowing you can achieve completion. Best of both worlds?

Entirety of Series 4 Smorkin’ Labbits in a case w/ open boxes (and empty boxes where dupes would have been) for $150. Look for the link to go live around 9PM PST with the other Labbits here. If you are the type who likes surprises, we’ve got sealed cases of Series 4 at a 10% discount for $110 (25 boxes) here and individual blind-boxed Labbits for $4.94 here.

[The Labbits are now live! You know what I mean... There are 8 complete sets. Get 1 here!]

By the way, scrolling through this Kidrobot forum thread on Labbits, I saw some SICK Labbit collections. Wow. They look great as groups. I’m talking to you: Danimalx and Igor1080!