Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. – Andy Warhol. Toy2R proudly introduces the new 7″ Clear Qee Bear. Re-engineered with new arm articulation, the Qee can rotate its arms in a full 360 degree circle and point out at a full 90 degrees from its body, giving the figure a [...]

Dragatomi is hosting the latest Custom Qee Event to round out the fall segment of Toy2R’s 15th Anniversary DIY Qee Tour and what a lineup of artists!! Sac-Town is a short hop from the Bay Area but I don’t think I would miss this if it were in New Dehli! Artists, it might not be too late to get your custom Qee submitted and custom toy fans, can you even THINK of missing this event?? I should hope not! We will see you there.

It’s not often that I have the pleasure to introduce a completely new Toy2R platform. All the buzz has been about the two premiere signature versions of the new 5″ MiniQee platform by Toy2R, the Samurai Pumpkin Pure (B&W) and GID editions by Jon-Paul Kaiser. And while these two upcoming releases that have certainly earned the massive response they have been receiving recently, the release of this striking new platform has been somewhat overshadowed. While I will certainly be taking a good look at the amazing Samurai Pumpkin edition, I thought it was about time to put the superb new platform itself in the spotlight.

The invasion… umm…visiting delegation of robots from Smash Tokyo’s home planet has arrived! After a brief respite here at Apex HQ, they will be taking up tactical positions in stores throughout the world. As intermediaries in this contact between two worlds, we ask that you show your best face, welcome them with open arms and give the a taste of what life on this sweet planet is all about.

‘Banjo’ by Damien Sparkes — It could well be said that the very backbone of this beautiful genre of ours, known publicly as designer vinyl, urban vinyl, pop culture or sometimes just “those strange plastic collectible toys that people seem to be so crazy about”, is DIY. Let’s face it… if there were never any budding creative talents who decided they just had to…

DIY Shopwars is bringing together some of the Bay Area’s creative companies under one roof to compete for creative supremacy with a cause. Each company will customize a toy…