At 11AM PST today, Le Merde will release this 9-inch clear purple Hujili’s Ghost. The figure is a mashup of Gargamel‘s Hedoran Smog Monster and Le Merde’s severed-for-life character, Hujili’s
It’s been almost two months since San Diego Comic-Con 2010, and my love affair with Ron English‘s Telegrinnies is still going strong. In fact, I’ve set plans in
On Sunday, September 19th, Super7 closed the doors to the Post Street shop it has inhabited in San Francisco’s Japantown since June of 2004. The store will re-open this
Nothing’s the matter (that I’m aware of). Le Merde’s fourth Super7 show was chockablock with neon resin and painted vinyl toys. Just last month, Mike was in San
Last year, Brian Flynn and I got to talking about kaiju toys. It seemed no matter what people (including me) wrote about Super7’s products, we were never quite on
Arbito’s oeuvre always works so well in San Francisco, where psychedelia never went out of style. He made his latest solo show, Far Out West just for us,
Arbito (aka Jesse Hibert) created an edition of 10 hand-painted Patty Power resin figures in translucent green with purple and blue for Friday night’s opening. He also brought
On Friday night, Bwana Spoons stopped by Super7 for the San Francisco leg of his WTF summer tour. Of course this could only mean one thing: pencil fight!
This weekend saw the opening of a custom toy show based around the imagery of Japanese toys. It Came From Skullbrain profiled the talent (much of it local)
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