Fair warning: I have been awake, at work, and writing for the past 22 hours. There is—forsooth!—no end in sight for me yet. So if I sound more retarded and/or mushmouthed than usual, well, you have my smiling apologies. Or something. And I say that affectionately. To you.

This week I thought I’d do something different. it’s the same old NF fair where I talk about whatever it is that I feel like talking about—in the weird toy/collectible world, that is—but in the interest of killing two nerds with one stone, I’ll share a little fan video I made for Koji Harmon/Cometdebris this week. Here’s some backstory. Ahem.

Somehow, I managed to find myself at this link. I think it was related to the k-hole of links that I was led down when Crook posted this, um, post. Softcore boobies abound. It was either that, or the fine folks at TTCT tweeted it. One or the other. Either way, I was not only impressed by the pretty girls (duh) but I thought it was a pretty cool idea to jumpcut a bunch of photos taken in sequence as a video. Nothing new, but still.

So, I set about making something similar—for fun—with my toys, and what better toy to start with than the ever-expressive, boundlessly fun Tokoji Seijin? That plan rapidly evolved into a movie that would include all of my Koji/Cometdebris (the creator of Tokoji Seijin) toys and that was that. The only thing left was to improvise a little ‘booth’ and figure out how to open iMovie.

The results are—I think—crude, but fun. Crude because you are literally looking at about 6 minutes worth of experience with making videos, but FUN because the toys are so happy and goofy, and the radical TRS-80 soundtrack doesn’t hurt, either. Upon sending it to Koji, I got a very unexpected—and actually sort of ridiculously embarassingly flattering—response:

Thanks for posting (and making) that video. Made me smile. Very cool. It wasn’t inspired by this, was it? This totally came to mind after watching.

I am a huge Eames fan, but I had never seen that video. As I have expressed countless times here, I am a YouNoob. But this video is just so totally amazingly awesome forever and ever that I just can’t believe that some dumb stop-motion thing I tried to do made him think of that. So it was a good day, that day. :) Thanks Koji!

Anyway. Enjoy. Hopefully something for everybody. Where everybody is a subset of folks who are already a) reading this, b) like toys, c) don’t skip my posts automatically. So yeah, at the very least it’s a warm lead going out to all dozen of you. That’s what friends are for!

The Vinyl Frontier is a documentary film by Daniel Zana that explores the world of vinyl toys. I remember last SDCC Daniel premiered the trailer for this film (see above), well a year later and he’s done with the movie getting a premiere at the San Diego Comic Con Film Festival. Here is a little of what Daniel had to say about making the film:

I started the film about 4 years ago with the desire to document an incredible art movement that I was just starting to get into myself. As I began collecting these toys, i wanted to know more about the process, the artists, the works inspiring the toys, the collectors, etc. So I set out and contacted as many interviewees as I could find to get a more accurate view about the vinyl toy world. The result is a feature length documentary film (my first) that features over 35 artists, collectors, scholars, and toy makers who shed some light on the fascinating and somewhat new mode of expression.

The film premieres Friday July 23rd at 5:55 pm at SDCC. For those of you that are not there (like me) but live in NYC (like me) There is going to be a screening at the ACE FEST, on Saturday, August 28th at Tribeca Cinemas. Daniel and a number of artists from the movie will be in attendance, so make sure you check it out!

The Secret Base section of our online store has been updated with a couple of great new items from the boys at SB. First up we have the Prism 1/1 Next Level Vinyl Skull Head. Look at that thing! It’s intense in person… serious conversation starter! Trust me you want that in your apartment.

These Next Level products are only being offered to fashion accounts and Мишка is THE ONLY STORE in the country carrying these pieces! The skull is a smokey black vinyl with a glitter effect that makes the skull look like a prism!

Next we have the Captain Goner Dog w/ GID body! This little guy comes blind bagged and every head is painted in a different color! How cool is that!? These are super limited, so act fast! Those of you who don’t like the convenience and ease of online shopping can also find them at our Brooklyn flagship.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

Super7 x Lamour Supreme Clear Red Mongolion

The newest Super7 x Lamour Supreme Mongolion release is now available in our Brooklyn, LA and Online stores. Other than Super7 and Super7 Florida we are the ONLY other retailer carrying it. See, we are special.

The inspiration for this one comes from a traditional Chinese color palate of green, red and gold, which also fits perfectly with this being a Lion and all! This is also the first Mongolion to be produced on clear red vinyl. Add him to your collection, he’ll compliment your Super7 Burning Anger Stomp quite nicely.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
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Мишка LA
1547 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
213-536-4234

I’ve been packratting Star Wars shit for a while now. I’ve had an email sitting open on my desktop with a few links, a few ideas, and, well, just miscellaneous Star Wars stuff. This probably has to do with the fact that Super 7—just this weekend, actually—recently released they’re long-actualizing Stormtrooper Super Shogun Warrior and I received mine last Friday. It is awesome. I love it; Everything I had hoped it would be and more.

Of course, I’m about 4 years too young to really ‘get’ the Super Shogun part of it. All I really know is that it’s a HUGE Stormtrooper with a Rocket Punch fist. I’m happy at that. Oh ya and it’s got wheels on it’s feet. Tasty.

But, aside from being a sweet raddition to my toy/stuff collection, it’s got me thinking: When’s the last time you heard about a totally cool Star Wars thing that was JUST about Star Wars? It seems like—at least in my recent experience—everything I hear about Star Wars is like a crazy crossover or flip of the pure stuff.

Which, don’t get me wrong: I’m totally into. But it’s weird, no? Like, Star Wars is such old news to us that we need to find ways to make it interesting. Like asking your wife to (please) make dinner using some other dude’s wife’s recipe. Or putting a sparkly case on you cellphone so you feel like it’s new. Neither of those are awesome examples, but you get what I mean.

In sort of a bizarro move, I think I might even have more ‘evidence’ to substantiate this claim than I have actual claim. That probably has something to do with the fact that I’ve been on back-to-back conference calls all day, but then again, it might not. Either way, Check out the following (super rad) stuff, and see if you can think of the last time something that was JUST Star Wars caught your attention.

Really incredible star wars-themed faux-propaganda by Brooklyn artist Cliff Chiang. See more on ufunk (all in French).

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You better not cross or get on this guy’s bad side or you’ll end up like this guy! Lamour Supreme and ourselves have gotten together with Killer J to produce a super limited colorway of their wildly popular Sarumon creature. Who by the way you shouldn’t mistake for Saruman or again you’ll just end up like this guy.

We modeled this colorway after a traditional Witchdoctor! Complete with a little leopard print loincloth, skeletal face and body paint and a shrunken head! He’s definitely going to be a conversation starter when you have people over and make all of your Kaiju pals jealous with envy when he’s sitting in your display case.

Here’s a close up of that shrunken head which in reality is probably bigger than the Sarumon’s own head. I guess this was giant whose head he shrunk down? No one fucks with the witchdoctor, no one… not even giants!

He’ll cost you $135, but there are only twelve of these guys available and the will be sold via lottery. To enter the lottery you need to email us here at bloglin@mishkanyc.com and put “Voodoo Sarumon” in the subject line of your email.

You can email us until Friday, when we’ll hold the drawing and notify the winners. Good luck my Kaiju fiends!

Contemporary artist Carlos Enriquez-Gonzalez is not a stranger to the Bloglin. We have posted his work on here multiple times, including an artist proof of his Vagina Tits Lips Monster, that proudly lives over in a display case at 350 Broadway.

Well Carlos is working on some new projects, including the 9ft tall MOTHER Lips Vagina Monster that is photographed above!

I feel like his work is becoming more and more impressive and more insane every time I see it. He is like a perverted Murakami, but better! I am so hoping that one of these makes it’s way to the United States so I can see one in person. His last 9ft tall Vagina Monster went up for sale at the Phillips Auction House in Chelsea and was an amazing thing to see.

You check out more photos of the 9ft Mother Lips Vagina Monster below you can also now follow Carlos on Twitter!

You know what one of my favorite things ever is? Meeting dudes who seem like super-scary, over-the-top, uber-intimidating icons of violence and blood-curdling menace and having them turn out to be total sweethearts. Yes, I’m looking at you John Prolly. Yes, I’m looking at you, Mine Friend the Burglar. And yes, I’m especially looking at you, Mike Sutfin.

Mike is no stranger to The Bloglin. I’ve rattled on and on about him here before…most notably for the awesome handpainted and FHP Bop Dragons he released a year or so ago. He was also the clearcut standout at the The Beast Within gallery show that was mentioned here a few years ago. Blogball/Hatelin aside, Mike has created artwork for a good amount of music over the years; music that you may have heard of/come to enjoy: 9 Shocks Terror, Capitalist Casualties, Lamb of God, Pinback, Punch in the Face, etc. (And: not to mention playing guitar in Charles Bronson and drums in the Killers [No, not THAT Killers]…both of which he contributed artwork to, too.).

(Note: If you decide to stop now because you cannot suffer a punctuation addict like myself, you will regret it. Power through. Work THROUGH the fear. Rough Draft For Life.)

So yeah. He’s back, and it’s total hardcore brutality! And to tie this slightly-further-down-the-page sentence in with that stuff at the beginning: he’s the most radical dude on the planet. Like homecoming King at the School of Hard Knocks nice. Success, fame, fortune, and happiness couldn’t happen to a cooler dude.

What’s he back with, you ask? Mike and the fine fellas at Reckless Toys debuted the images and actual sculpt for his upcoming toy—Mad Battle Man—at Comicon last year. Needless to say (but I’m gonna say it): the crowd went wild. The drawings and cast model for the toy were beyond belief: so complicated. So vile. So totally and amazingly intricate. So Sutfin.

Well, now that this year’s Comicon looms o’er the hill like a glassy-eyed blood moon, new photos of the MBM prototype have surfaced…photos of the thing in real, big-as-life, vinyl.

I’m speechless. Seriously: I’m such a Sutfan at heart that I’d like pretty much anything the guy did, but this is just too much. I don’t know if I expected details to fall out in the vinyl mold-making process or what, but from what I can see from Kirkland at TBS‘ photos, it’s picture-perfect. Amazing. The pullquote:

HIS FUCKING BRAIN IS HANGING OUT OF THE BACK OF HIS HEAD.

Both Joe at Kaiju Kronicle and Kirkland at Toybot Studios have great writeups of the toy, so I won’t rehash it, but I will share some other rare Sutfonian goodies with you.

Here is some artwork that Mike did when he was playing drums for the Killers’ (“I was thinking that you could write some kind of joke about how I played drums in the Killers before the Killers were the Killers. Ha!”). Also some tasty Cattle Decapitation Goodness. Yum.

The first colorway of the Mike Sutfin MxBxM will be available at Comicon at an as-yet-undisclosed location. Keep an eye on Joe’s Kaiju Chronicle for the head’s up, or follow Mike’s awesome radsploits at his blog, Battle On!

Pretty sure another dude we know—can’t remember his name…Love Maximum? Lust Great?—is doing some stuff with Reckless too. And damn if he isn’t in the overall Pantheon of nice, too. Heck: I wonder what the actual cross-corrollary index is for nice guys who are into Madballs AND New Era caps worldwide? Or do they all just hang out here? (Doing all I can to not make a Tobias/Never-Nude joke…more than you’ll never know.)

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My Pal the Crook wrote in his recap of the Coop show (at 350 Broadway) that Lamour Supreme and I were piggybacking on his show… But the reality is is that Coop begged us to put up our work along with his. If it were left to me, I would have left my bootleg pencil drawings in the confines of my messy office.

The above piece by Lamour Supreme, is the inked final used as the back header card for the NagNagNag’s Raw Power version of the Boryoku Genjin. Those of you wondering what the hell Boryoku Genjin means, well it loosely translates into “Violent Caveman.”

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Lamour and I first started working on header cards together with the release of our own Adfunture Bootleg Kaiju figure. I had this idea for the header card art and Lamour suggested that I draw it. But I was like, “huh? Why would I draw it? You should draw it.” But Lamour was insistent and convinced me to do the pencils and then he would go in and handle the inks.

Lamour is able to go over my pencils and create something really original and a little off. A perfect marriage of our styles. This piece above is for the pencil sketch of the inked lead image.

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This is the finished artwork for our very first Mishka x NagNagNag release. As soon as I saw the figure in person I got an idea for the header card artwork right away. I really wanted an image of the Violent Caveman severing a women in half with his toxic shit.

And well, as you can see above, my dream was realized! She not only  looks like she’s enjoying it, but business suit Jason looks like he enjoys watching it happen!

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This is the back of that header card. I created the back  composition referencing a bunch of old pulp horror comic. Lamour then took my ideas and applied all of the ink and colors, making this piece too hot to handle, to cold to hold.

This one has a very vintage Japanese Horror Manga vibe to it, both in style and color scheme.

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This is my original pencil sketch and the final header card for the second Violent Caveman release that Lamour and I worked on. This one wasn’t actually a Мишка collaboration though. NagNagNag just really wanted us to do the header card art for it. This ended being a Nag+3 (limited to just 3 pieces) that was based on Barom-1 villian Frankenruge.

You can really see here how Lamour takes my sketches and brings them to life. Had he started the illustration from scratch I don’t think these would have the same effect… But then again, maybe that’s just me.

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Hopefully by now you have all heard about our Coop “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell” show, opening this Friday, June 4th. The legendary COOP will be using our Brooklyn shop’s Gallery space to showcase his work with the NagNagNag’s Boryoku Genjin Kaiju figure.

And we couldn’t have a show based around the Boryoku Genjin Kaiju figure without actually having a special one released at the show itself now could we? If you’re still contemplating that to yourself, the answer is that we couldn’t…

We will be releasing a special edition of the Boryoku Genjin in both our NYC & LA stores. (Sorry, no online sales). The first version is limited to just 10 pieces worldwide.

This guy is called the 淫力魔人 or RAW POWER Boryoku Genjin. I am sure a few of you can figure out exactly why that is… at least I hope so? But that’s not all bwahahahahahaha!!!

Being just as devious and demented as his Boryoku Genjin creation, NagNagNag has decided to drive all you even further into a frenzy by making an alternate, or “secret” version! One that is, get this, is limited to only 3 pieces worldwide!

This version of the Boryoku Genjin is called the FIRE STARTER version. This one might be a bit more difficult for you all to figure out, but I believe in you!

Head after the jump for some detailed looks at the header card artwork accompanying the release. Collect Ugly Nag Toys!!!! Collect it N-O-W!!!!! (more…)