DTA (Designer Toy Awards) : 2012 Event Portfolio

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Feature Artists You Should Get to Know BetterFeatured Artists: Andrew Bell, Avatar666, Jayson Weidel, Brandi Milne

There is always more going on with the site and after a busy few weeks of traveling to NYCC and DCon we're trying to fall back into a routine. First on the list, as ever, is our weekly (more like bi-monthly, I know) Featured Artist segment.... [ read more ]

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Dia Del Helado Muerto: Ice Scream Man Show at Clutter Magazine GalleryI Scream Kaiju by Mark Nagata & Paisaju Muerto by Trust Pigs

Earlier this morning Trust Pigs dropped in his and Mark Nagata's custom Ice Scream Man for the upcoming Día del Helado Muerto show opening November 10th at 6pm. This show features customs using the Ice Scream Man platform which... [ read more ]

  • Posted: over 11 years ago
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Super limited run of Trampt shirts & hats now onlineWe like making stuff and we hope you like buying it

My wife aka (Short Army) and I were playing around with this concept a while back of 'It's Not a Toy' when talking to friends about why exactly we have soooooo many toys on our shelves. She she doodled up some concepts and produced what is now some stickers and our new Glow-in-the-dark tshirt. We designed these pretty much for fun, and we probably won't do another run so you better act quick if you want one of these less than 50 available shirts.... [ read more ]

  • Posted: over 11 years ago
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Four new featured artists you should get to know betterFeatured Artists: Scott Tolleson, Josh Pearce, Dave Perillo, and Jason Limon

So after some code updates, and other goings on at Trampt we're going to get right back into the swing of things and we'll post up a bunch of news today starting with our much overdue Featured ... [ read more ]

  • Posted: over 11 years ago
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Custom Strolls & Stealth OMFG! NYCC ExclusivesStealth OMFG! available at Big Kev's Geek Stuff & Onell Design

John Stokes will be flying out to the East coast this week for NYCC to hang-out, cover the event, and be his all-around awesome self. He'll be bringing a variety of hand-painted OMFG! Strolls, and you might be lucky enough to find another hand-painted version in at Designer Toy Awards lucky bags. Outside of John's customs there will be an official OMFG! Stealth release dropping at Onell Design's booth #3216 and Big Kev's Geek Stuff booth #3261. This is the second release of color changing OMFG! and they'll be $10 for the set of 5. October Toys will also be releasing a small amount online octobertoys.com during the Con.... [ read more ]

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Carson Catlin's 'NYB' will be up in nyc for the DTA awardsExclusive Raffy custom for the DTA Ceremony

If there is one person with a blade that I don't want to mess with with it would have to be Westley ... but a close second would be Carson Catlin. The man knows his way around an exacto blade crafting a variety of amazing subtractive, reticulated customs over the last few months. He's done up a great 7" Raffy custom titled 'NYB' for sale at the Designer Toy Awards ceremoney for $250. The figure has a painted silver exterior and the red interior can be viewed through the reticulation. If you want to pick this up you'll have to attend the ceremony October 13th at Providence NYC when the doors open at 8pm. I really hope everyone got my Princess Bride reference or I'll be sad.... [ read more ]

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DTA Nominee Restore is dropping an exclusive at the showDebris Japan Sol Edition exclusive at the DTA Ceremony 10/13

With his Debris Japan figure nominated for 'Best Sofubi' at this years Designer Toy Awards, it seems that Restore has produced a special 'Sol Edition Japan Debris' for sale at the ceremony. This hand-painted Japan Debris figure is cast in glow-in-the-dark vinyl, styled with hand applied cracked paint, includes a real cloth headband and fundoshi (underwear), and a paper talisman attached that reads 'reincarnation'. This edition is limited to 10 pieces and will retail for $110 ... it's in my 'Want' list so we'll see what happens on Saturday.... [ read more ]

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Special Greasebat edition for the Designer Toy AwardsGlow Edition Greasebat from Jeff Lamm & Monster Worship

Another day, another Jeff Lamm post. Today we found out that Jeff has created a super limited Greasebat run for next weeks Designer Toy Awards. The 'Glow Edition' Greasebat will be available exclusively at the DTA Ceremony as an edition of 7 for $75 each. The figure has an espresso brown body with glow-in-the-dark arms and head.... [ read more ]

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Designer Toy Awards VIP badge now availableEarly Access, Goodie Bag and other cool stuff

So out pals over at Clutter Magazine have put up some VIP badges for sale to get you a variety of goodies at the 2012 Designer Toy Awards. I'm sure you guys were following all the voting excitement for 2+ months as I spammed your twitter & facebook feeds to vote for us ... now you can get early access to see if that worked or not. While admission is free, this VIP pass will grant you early access to mingle with the nominees and other artists, guaranteed goodie bag worth $70, ability to buy exclusive releases first, and load of other things. Order online over at cluttermagazine.com for $49.99 and you can pick up the Clutter booth #3004 or at the door of the DTA ceremony. Just bring your order number and photo ID.... [ read more ]

  • Posted: over 11 years ago
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Metallic Silver Pandara by Paul ShihExclusive release at the Designer Toy Awards

Paul Shih has a lot going on in New York next week. He'll have 'Sunshine Bevil' dropping at the Myplasticheart booth #3313 for NYCC, he's nominated for 'Best Self-produced' for his Sushi Kaiju figure, and now he'll be releasing a limited edition 'Metallic Silver Pandara' at the 2012 Designer Toy Awards. There will only be 5 made, and 3 will be made available at the ceremony with the other 2 being released by Paul in late October. They'll retail for $55 so good luck trying to pick up this hand-created, hand-painted Pandara edition.... [ read more ]

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