Category: vinyl

During yesterday’s segment, we profiled designer toy companies for our report on blind boxes. Today, it’s all about the end users of blind boxes: the fans. Toy fans

The designer toy scene was born in the mid-late 1990s in Hong Kong (Michael Lau), Japan (Bounty Hunter), the UK (James Jarvis) and the USA (Kaws). A culture

Wondercon isn’t about toys; it’s about comics: superheroes, Star Wars, cosplayers and comics. Semantics aside, Comic-Con has more toys. That said, ToyCyte scoured Wondercon in San Francisco’s Moscone

You know how you occasionally see a toy and imagine a whole vignette unfolding behind it? That’s kind of how I felt the minute I saw Jamungo’s TUF-FLUCK

Vinyl Toy Network Winter 2008 was a lot of fun and a great opportunity to chat with artists, toy companies, shops, fans and collectors. People were lined up

Yes, I got strange looks, but then again, this is the Bay Area: anything goes. I took the Yeti to the voting booth. GAMA-GO ended up using these

Toys Are Us: A Revolution In Plastic is a documentary on the vivid world of vinyl toys, the people who make them and the collectors who love them.

Every year, fanboys and fangirls of varying stripes descend on San Diego for Comic-Con. Although the event has extensive programming, there’s one activity that unites the collectors with

A writer’s dream is to write about a topic of true interest…and get paid to do so. As a blogger for ToyCyte, I get to play with words