OMFG!!!!!!!

Ever wanted to get in on the ground floor of something big? NOW YOU CAN!!! Help support the OMFG! project! By kicking in monetary support for the production costs of this exciting new line of mini figure toys you can get exclusive items and the satisfaction of knowing you helped something AWESOME happen!



These are the OMFG! (Outlandish Mini Figure Guys) series one figures, created by the members of the October Toys Forum.

Check out the video below and then click the picture below that to show some love for the toys, the artists behind them, and for awesome things in general!





Click the pic to see how YOU can help make this happen! If you love me you'll do it! ;)

SNEAK ATTACK!!!!!

OH NOES! The Kawaiiju are back!!! Click the pic below to see how you can get in on it! Hurry! Time is limited!

From the ashes...

A few weeks ago my friend Billy's house burned to the ground. No one was hurt in the fire, but Billy lost almost all of his personal belongings. I don't know about you, but I can't imagine losing everything I own in just a few minutes. I take all my stuff for granted waaaay too often.

Billy had a massive toy collection that was impressive in ways I can't begin to describe-- and almost everything was mint in its original packaging too!. He had so many packaged Transformers, G.I Joes, and other stuff that his place looked like an insane-o toy store!

Ladies and gentlemen... I present to you... the results of a fire burning your toy collection to the ground:





AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

That's just a few of the G.I. Joes that actually sort of made it through the fire.

I posted these pictures over on the October Toys Forum just to show what can happen to your stuff in a fire, and the great guys and gals there not only sent their love, care, and prayers to Billy... they sent their toys to him as well-- they didn't even know the guy either! They're just honestly some of the kindest, most generous, caring people I have ever known. In the weeks after I posted those pics I was contacted by a handful of the posters there who wanted to share their toys with a fellow collector who had lost his collection. Boxes from as far away as Australia and Brazil kept my mail carrier busy! When a good chunk of packages arrived I decided I'd make someone's day!

I went to my nephew's house where Billy has been staying and completely surprised the crap out of Billy-- he literally had NO idea I was even coming to see him, so it really knocked him down when he saw what I had for him.


The box... I had to really work my butt off to fit all this awesome in one box. Wanna know what kind of box it was? It was a meat box. Meat boxes are cool. I guess.


Billy had never had any Sigma Six figures... he was QUITE impressed!


Bag-O-Goodies! These are some of Billy's first designer toys, so expect to see some cool customs coming from that bag. I'll break his legs if he doesn't make some.


WHOOOSH! PEW PEW PEW!!!


KALI MA! KALI MA! KALI MAAAAAA, SHAKTHI DEH!!!!!!


Billy in one of several speechless moments during the whole thing.


My nephew walked in at that moment... look at his "Whaaaaaa?" expression! Gotcha, dork!


This one hit the spot! Billy had this movie before the fire! Good call!


Mystery gift from Rio de Janeiro...


Success-- you managed to give him a G.I. Joe he never had! Yay! He was really blown away by that!


Lookit all that awesome stuff!!!! And my camera strap!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!


The October Toys Forum guys are THE BEST!!! Some guys even sent original art! YOWZA!


Remote control R2D2?


OH YEAAAAHHH!!! BEEP BOOP BEEP!!!!


Billy was totally blown away and he truly appreciates all of the wonderful things these guys sent and all the thoughts and prayers that everyone contributed. You guys went above and beyond to make things a lot better for him.

I want to thank all of the people who cared enough to share their time, toys, and art. You guys are some of the very best people in the world. I love all of you dudes and dudettes!

A BIG hand for the boys and girls of the best toy forum in the land!!!



And keep your eyes glued to this blog in the next week... I'm putting together a big blog post featuring some of Billy's fantastic artwork... including some never before seen pieces! YOWZA!

Monsters and Aliens and Crayons-- OH MY!!!

I got a really cool package in the mail today. (I love it when a store throws in extras like stickers and postcards!)



In a thread in the kaiju section of the Octorber Toys Forum (best forum EVAR!) someone mentioned a store called Monster Worship, and, while browsing for toys there, I came across a wonderful coloring book by artist Terence E. Hanley called Monsters and Aliens of America. I managed to snag the last one in stock at the time, but they have restocked, it appears! They have another of his coloring books that I'm probably going to eventually grab called Mothman, Aliens, & Flying Saucers



It's illustrated in a very classic style that makes me think back to the old coloring books I had when I was a kid. Have you guys seen coloring books these days? Most of the ones I've seen lately are just photographs that have been digitally wonked around with until they look like line drawings-- it's pretty sad. There used to be quite a bit of artistry in the making of coloring books



The way the creatures in the book are presented reminds of old episodes of In Search Of, a show that pretty much was responsible for 99% of the nightmares I had when I was a kid.



20 pages of fun critters and brief stories about each one. This is definitely one of those coloring books that will never be touched by a crayon, pencil, or brush-- the line work is just too perfectly beautiful to me to sully with any color. Not too shabby for 5 bucks, huh?



I looked up Terence E. Hanley, and he has a website for those who are interested in hearing more about him. Unfortunately it seems to be in its infancy with very few links or pages. Hopefully that will change. On the good side, it provides contact info for the artist!

If you like his stuff, let him know! Artists need to know they are appreciated! Sometimes we feel all alone, scratching away at our drawing boards like madmen!

Glowing Spacemen, Rabbit Skulls, and Cartoon LARP

The mailbox was VERY good to me today. I got 3 packages, and each one of them made me happy-- no dead skunks this time!

The first package was from Onell Design. I bought one of Matt's blind-bagged Glyos Randomizer figures... I wound up with the very one I wanted:



Woo hoo! Gotta love the glowy stuff! Matt's figures just keep getting more and more fun!

The next package was from my good friend George Gaspar, the founder of October Toys and an all around cool dude. He sent me one of his custom Skull Dunnies-- we traded customs-- I love trading customs! It's such a good feeling to get stuff that someone else made in trade for something I made... it just feels right.



AGH! How cool is this guy?



George made his own packaging for this small run of figures.



George sculpted a little Dunny skull that fits perfectly inside the transparent head of the Triclops Rain Dunny from the UK series.



He cast up a handful of them and sold them on the October Toys Forum a few days ago for $25 a piece. Needless to say, they disappeared in no time. There's a possibility that he may do another run of them, but there are no guarantees. Bug him if you want some! He deserves all the business I can throw his way!



The sculpt is absolutely gorgeous, and it has all the details that make me happy... he even sculpted the sutures and the foramens on the skull! He gave it a light wash that makes the resin look just like bone. A W E S O M E!



He did such a great job on this little dude... I am QUITE proud to have it in my collection.



I asked George if he'd autograph my Dunny's butt... he did more than that, he wrote a cool little thank you note. You're the man, George! If you guys agree with me that this Dunny rocks the house, let George know about it! He deserves all the praise he can get!



I'm growing a nice little collection of custom Dunnies! The one on the left was made by NiStuff and the one on the right is by Zro, both members of the October Toys Forum. It's so cool having something someone made with their hands... like I said before: it just feels right.



Might as well throw my little Ultra Dunny in there with the rest. I'm not the biggest Dunny fan on the planet, but I LOVE custom Dunnies!

The third package was from Mill Creek Entertainment. They're the guys who make those awesome, affordable boxed DVD sets of TV shows like Ultraman and The Greatest American Hero, and they used to make those 50 genre movie sets. I have bought so many Mill Creek DVD sets it's not even funny! I have the Martial Arts Classics 50 Movie MegaPack, and it has some of the most ridiculous movies ever made. If you have never seen The Impossible Kid featuring 2'9" martial artist Weng Weng, then you just haven't lived life to the fullest.

A while back I added the Mill Creek Entertainment page on Facebook to my "Like" list. They have these cool "Beat This Caption" contests every few weeks where they post an image from one of the featured DVD's and you have to come up with a caption for the image. The people who post there come up with some funny stuff, so I was shocked poopless when they sent me a message that I had won! I'm not particularly witty, but evidently what I had posted made someone chuckle. This particular contest was for the Dungeons and Dragons complete series DVD set. I loved that show when I was younger, so I was all kinda of happy! Here's the image and the caption I wrote:


"All the adventurers were impressed with the Dungeon Master's invisible basketball spinning trick until they learned that there was no invisible basketball..."


Like I said... not particularly witty, but hey... y'know.

I was shocked when I got the package from Mill Creek today--- that's pretty darn quick!



It's a nice set with an awesome illustration on the cover. I love the direction Mill Creek has taken of late, grabbing up more fun TV series instead of the old public domain movies they used to release. I have a crapload of the old horror and martial arts sets, so this is a nice change of pace.



27 episodes... I'm gonna have a lot of fun with that! For Christmas my friend Doug gave me the 2002 Masters of the Universe series that Mill Creek put out, and it was fantastic, so I expect this one will be of similar quality.



Mill Creek sets aren't fancy, but why be fancy when you can be awesome? This box set retails for $24.95, but I have seen several places sell it for a good bit less. Mill Creek's stuff is good quality at a good price. I reviewed the Ultraman set a while back, and I stand by my love for the affordable, fun DVD sets.

All in all... the mailbox was very kind today!

Creeped out Kawaiiju

This picture comes from October Toys Forum member theraker... looks like the other Kaiju creeped out little Krogor here!



Thanks for taking such a cool picture, theraker! If anyone else wants to take cool pics with their Kawaiiju, I'd love to feature them here for everyone to see!

Ho Ho HOH CRAP! Christmas is almost here!!!

Well, I finished up my latest batch of commissions just in time to get ready for Christmas. I haven't done one bit of shopping, and I'm just getting my ornaments underway. I'm trying to tidy up the place because we have company coming.

IFC again. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer tonight. Why do I watch these things, again? This one at least had an ending. I saw it coming a mile away, but yeah. Better than the dude staring into a vent. Henry is actually a pretty good movie; disturbing and depressing but ultimately honest and well-done. The movie's pretty low-budget, but the director did a great job with what was available. The scene where Henry is cutting up a body had unbelievably realistic sound effects-- having helped my dad clean countless deer I'm quite familiar with the sounds that go along with the process. I was quite impressed.

The October Toys Forum members seemed quite receptive of my Kawaiiju designs, which is a really good thing. I hope this is going to be a fun project! I had a minor brainstorm as I drove to town to mail packages today... something extra to add to the fun of the Kawaiiju packaging!

Here's the sketch I posted on the forum of ideas I had for possible figurines: