Brian Flynn has been doing amazing things with the Super 7 line, with Stomp being my all-time favorite, and a new colorway is due to drop Saturday, July 25th, at the Super7 store (and at your favorite vinyl distributor). $50 bucks gets you a clear red vinyl Mammoth Kaiju, pissed to hell and spayed in metallic green, black, and gold. Do it.
After the simply unattainable Kozik clockwork orange Ludwig, I have to post something a little bit more in my price range.
Hows about the new colorway for Brian Flynn’s Super7 (Snakes of Infinity) Kaiju, (Blood Rage) Squirm? This time, he’s a clear rotocast with red accents on his eyes and tentacles with brown painted boots, drops this Saturday online and at the San Fran store for an oh-so-do-able $50.
And while I’m on a kaiju fix, Hero Design Studio got a few new awesome Kaiju For Grownups in:
I’m snatching up the Green Usagi-gon, which would go well with Kozik’s newest Kaiju, the Salary Ika I’ve talked about, finally on sale from wonderwall for ~$80
Tags: Brian Flynn, Buffalo NY, Frank Kozik, Kaiju, Salari Ika, Super7, Usagi-gon, Vinyl
Courtesy of Skullbrain, Frank Kozik teases our wallets with a first look at his latest Kaiju, Salari Ika. From proto to the finest Japanese vinyl, expect this 22cm corporate squidman to drop its red tape in the next month or so, possibly Wonderwall.
SkullBrain via ToysREvil
Tags: Frank Kozik, Kaiju, Salari Ika, Toys
The Le French Dunny’s were released yesterday from Kidrobot, and toy shops all over the States held trading parties to celebrate. Hero’s Party was a blast, natch. We had french food (French Fries, Croissants, and French Toast, FTW!), beer, wine, and a store packed full of people hovering over the boxes, bartering and buying from one another; the atmosphere was one of a kind.
I rounded up 18 Dunny’s total, including the two rare chases, thanks to luck and the awesomeness that is Beth and Mark. Of course, Mark was up to his usual trickeries and greed for his own collection, and I was finding ways to manipulate points and punches and free tickets for the raffle. Turns out my luck was well enough, because I won the $50 hero gift card, which I promptly spent.
I managed to score a good amount of the ones I wanted, and now that I have the two chases, I feel like I could possibly complete this set. It really sucks that the most common pull was the Mist. I feel like it’s a garbage toy because the design was simply a different colorway from a previous series, nothing new, nothing to terribly attractive. I have an army of them now (five!), and I’m sure I’ll get more.
I don’t mind too much that the SecretLab was common as well.. at least it has a white cockandballs painted on the underside.
Since it was a trading party, I also brought my Be@rbrick 2007 Wondercon Transformers pack to trade with Mark. He gave me a Stomp Super7 Kaiju for it, and I feel great about it. When I bought the Be@rbricks, it was an attempt to build a connection between Mike’s love for Transformers, and my love for the art toy collection. Obviously it didn’t work; Mikes’ out of the picture, and I’m moving on.
Cloverfield is an awesome movie, granted a bit gimmicky and filled with blatant 9/11 backlashes and iconic disaster shots (read: Statue of Liberty decapitated. Empire State building destroyed), but essentially a success in what it was trying to achieve.
Cloverfield is a American Kaiju film. Kaiju is Japanese for “strange beast,” and can best describe the Godzilla movies and even the baddies from the original Power Rangers series. However, Godzilla is Japanese, and plays on their culture; it feels cheesy to us. When Godzilla was remade in 2001, it was a mess. I remember going to the theater for it and thinking it was cute and easy to grasp, not what would expect to feel after such a film. The film bombed, and the sequel was canned(you see an egg hatch at the end, supposedly paving way for a Son of Zilla that thank god never happened). We learned that another giant Japanese destructo monster movie just won’t cut it in the US. JJ Abrams, producer of that “Lost” series you probably never heard of, knew this and spent years planning the next attack.
With the help of viral sites and ambigious trailers, Cloverfield immediately gained a mysterious appeal. What was it? A monster? Aliens? Voltron? Nobody knew, and the details were magnificently leaked to build up a anticipation that gave the movie the best January open ever in 11 years. The weekend over, some blogs are shouting conspiracy and the inappropriate use of 9/11 and “why Manhattan?” After taking Angel and Eli and his partner Mike to the show, they spent the whole car ride home picking it apart and calling it the worst movie ever, and a waste of money and a giant 9/11 scare flick. I think I need new friends, but whatever. Cloverfield, as much as unofficially was never meant to bring back the past, did mean to stir up the stir up enough feeling to set the mood.
Tags: Angel, Cloverfield, JJ Abrams, Kaiju, Lost, Michael BonvillianKozik is back working with Wonderwall (maybe) to produce another Kaiju (think Godzilla/power ranger type Japanese monsters, but less gay), and he’s packing papers.
Salari Ika is much like Kozik’s previous Kaiju, Ika Gila, but he’s ditched the body in favor of a suit with a briefcase prop. This is going to be one slick toy, and Kozik says he is going to make the colorways “Corporate” like “Exxon, IBM, Halliwood-Burton, Krupp, GMBH, GE, etc.”
No clue yet on when this toy will slither from protomold to distributor, and it may not even be a WonderWall release. Either way, expect at least one to appear on my desk as soon as it drops.
