seen@apw halloween custom toy show (oct 31)

Steve Talkowski popped by APW Gallery's HALLOWEEN CUSTOM TOY SHOW (circa Oct 31st) and has snapped delish pics of (primarily) Halloween-themed customs on a variety of platform toy-forms - which can be seen on his flickr-album. In addition, event launch-pics can be found on APWArts.com - while the customs are made available online here [all pics via].

toybreak episode 52+53 & the dumpkin

A TOYBREAK double-hitter with Episode#53: Huell Howser - featuring Anna Chambers' plush Doolie Boxes, Sucklord's Daemos and Sectara, and toy safety talk. While Episode#52: Fifty Two - takes a look at Mezco's Cinema of Fear Jason, Skeletrino from tokidoki, Steam Crow Art, blindboxes, tons of events, and the return of hate! .... meanwhile, Ayleen teaches folks a new Halloween-prank with The

balzac skullman - halloween 2008 version

While researching for Medicom Toy's Balzac Hello Kitty VCD [blogged] - I'd chanced upon this cool-lookin' BALZAC SKULLMAN - HALLOWEEN 2008 VERSION on Shocker World Wide [pics via] - featuring an ‘Amoeba’ Skullman design in vivd Orange (one of my fav colors, as evident in my blog-accents :p), to be made available at a SRP of US$44.44 (special Halloween Fair price). Check out the listing on the

halloween contest by vinyltoyfreaks x october toys

TRE-friends VinylToyFreaks are currently running a Halloween-contest with October Toys whereby a goodie-bag of Z.O.M.B.I.E.S. are up for grabs! A single winner will receive 4 sets of Z.O.M.B.I.E. figs (green, blue, white & GiD) and a set of Z.O.M.B.I.E. art cards.And all you haveta do is log unto http://vinyltoyfreaks.com/index.php?topic=1210.0 and post your fav zombie movie (and "why"). Contest

october yokas by adfunture

UPDATED: Both GID Halloween and red+white (puma) Racing Yokas are available for pre-orders @ Rotofugi (click on link) with a SRP of US$15-per for a late October-ship. Each Yoka stands 6.5cm / 2.5" and comes blister-carded, with Rotofugi the only place to procure the bears outside of Mainland China. Adfunture has mentioned that they will not sell these via their own international website.ORIGINAL

putrid pal halloween special & costume box contest

Michael Flemming aka Tweedlebop's PUTRID PAL is currently on Halloween Special @ Crazy Label - priced at US$20-per 5" tall Pal (usual price US$29) available in 4 colorways. And there's also currently a PUTRID PAL HALLOWEEN COSTUME BOX CONTEST [www] whereby you're to print out a PDF-box template and draw whatever you’d like to see the Putrid Pal wearing. Then take some photos of your masterpiece (

halloween night gamers by plaseebo customs

"Autumn finds the Night Gamers, Wilber and Orvil still enjoying evenings in Manhattan.  At 4 AM or so while navigating the streets a few feet above human eye level in early October they discovered the Halloween window display at Forbidden Planet on Broadway and 13th. They were ecstatic, zipping back and forth in front of the glass like giant bumble bees pausing for an instant in front of each one

dan goodsell's vampire toast @ san diego comic convention 2008

Further to the previous sneaky-peek, Dan Goodsell's plush VAMPIRE TOAST (with lush red cape) will be coming at you @ the San Diego Comic Convention 2008 (Booth #4831) - Limited to 1000-pcs @ US$10-per (with a 2-per-person limit) I reckon this would at the very least make a swell Halloween gift! (Just make sure you get one to keep for yourself, yo!) .. now I'm gonna go be a sad non-SDCC-attendee