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Melt Down Tonight at SOYAL Gallery

Fire and Ice Eyezon by Mark Nagata & Custom Edward the Gator by Bwana Spoons

I love a toy show with a theme. I’m especially excited about Melt Down, the first group show at SOYAL, the Scottsdale gallery co-owned by Artizona artists Emmett Potter and Spencer Hibert. The show came about as a way to create a cool art space for desert-dwellers. “It’s hard to get people out to shows, because they just don’t want to leave the nice AC of their houses,” said Emmett. “We wanted to create an environment that would be comfortable and fun to be at for people that made the effort to come out.”

Bomb Pop Parade by Emmett Potter

The show’s title, Melt Down, is a double entendre: “We wanted the feel of a winter storm meets the brutal AZ heat,” Emmet said. “Plus we all kind of have a meltdown in the summer out here.” Here in the Bay Area, it’s not even that hot, but just looking at these images makes me feel cooler. (Time to take off my nerd glasses…)

Fire and Ice by The Sucklord

SOYAL is certain to be a new force in the Scottsdale art scene, and Emmett hopes Melt Down will provide a “broad range of what to expect from SOYAL in the future”.

Yeti Jr. by Andrew Hadle

As for the fantastic artist roster, Emmett puts it: “Spencer and I are really lucky to have so many super rad friends and artists that are in the show. It’s going to be a blast!” A blast of cold air?

Mini Wolves by Cupco

Ready for the lineup? Bwana Spoons, Le Merde, David Horvath, Sucklord, Martin Ontiveros, Koji Harmon, Andrew Hadle, Grease Bat, Brian Flynn, Josh Herbolsheimer, Oliver Hibert, Spencer Hibert, Jeremyville, COPE 2, Mark Nagata, Bigfoot, CUPCO, John Black, Naoshi, Kristin Bauer, Emmett Potter, Piper Ferguson, Tara Logson, MonstreHero, Miss Lotion, KILL, Grant Wiggins, Tripper Dungan, Steve Agin, Mykil Zep and Beak.

Snowbird Return Ceremony by Bigfoot

There are a lot of snowy treasures in this show for sure. The guys are all really stoked about this original handmade Cousin Flatwoodsey by David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim. It looks like Cousin’s riding Reverse Ugly on a Killer! (And that’s a sentence you need to really know your toys to understand…)

Cousin Flatwoodsey original handmade UGLYDOLL

I seriously wish I could teleport to this show, which kicks off at 7PM tonight as part of Scottsdale’s Art Walk.  There are over 30 artists working in multiple mediums all united under the Melt Down concept. Besides being among cool artwork, SOYAL is keeping it chilly with snowcones, ice sculptures, drinks and food. And oh yeah, the work will be available online here after 10PM tonight. Big ups to SOYAL and all of the artists involved in the show!

EKL Bear by Tara Logsdon & Matter Cruncher by Le Merde

If you’re reading this and you have a blog or a Facebook page or you Tweet or whatever, please spread the word about this show!

A Great Day for Monster Family and Pocket Monster Fans

Today is an awesome day for fans of Super7’s Monster Family, Gargamel’s Pocket Monsters, Arbito, Bwana Spoons, Martin Ontiveros and Le Merde. Announcements were just made that unite all of the preceding peeps under one umbrella of vinyl toy goodness. First up: our pal SpankyStokes posted an excellent interview with Arbito showing the first photos of the sculpt and test vinyl pulls for his upcoming Monster Family Patty Power. Not to play favorites, but Patty Power (the “boy with the girlie sounding name”) really does seem like a great choice out of Arbito’s gang to join the Monster Family. Hopefully, the Hobo, Sammy and The Seeker don’t beat him up for joining a “rival” gang. Although, notably, now that Patty’s been released from the prison  “body mobility of an armless Squidward,” he’ll be able to fight back with his new arms and legs.

Then, cruising over to Le Merde’s blog, we find an announcement for an upcoming Gargamel x Grass Hut Pocket Pak with vinyl minis by Le Merde, Martin and Bwana. The solid-black characters come as a 3-pack with a Bwana-designed header card and will be “available soon” at Grass Hut in PDX or Thrash Out in Tokyo, Japan. The Pocket Pak is definitely a release you will want to be stalking the Grass Hut blog for, whereas expect plenty of colorways of Arbito’s Patty Power to be released in the future through Super7 and affiliated retailers including Neon Monster!