II LOVE: A Papertoy Magazine (Issue 1)

"YEBOMAYCU is an art poject in progress, that express itself through paper toy design. The theme of YM (read Yebo Maycu) is t-shirt, in this case, paper toy-shirt. YM project was born to have fun and to play with art and logic and to share it with others ..."

And one of the project-initiatives is "II LOVE" = a free downloadable PDF magazine about Paper Toys - with the current first issue featuring works and interviews with folks like; Marshall Alexander, Matt Hawkins, Brian Castleforte / NiceBunny, 3EyedBear, BoxPunx and paper-creations from Marko Zubak, initiator of YEBOMAYCU.

Running at 41 pages - go download your FREE Issue #1 @ www.yebomaycu.com :)

Matchbot by Marshall Alexander

MATCHBOT is a unique transforming papertoy created out of one piece - as created by Marshall Alexander for Marko Zubak's II Love PDF magazine.

Matchbot is cool, IMHO.

Download for FREE @ www.yebomaycu.com :)

House Of Liu Baby Di Di & Mei Mei DIY Customs Contest @ Outland Records, Amsterdam

A cool selection of customed House Of Liu figures currently on display @ Outland Records, Amsterdam [images via Meffi's flickr-set] - completed and submitted for the House Of Liu Baby Di Di & Mei Mei DIY Customs Contest - circa Feb 26th. Peep the custom-actuals and vote for your faves @ Dunny.nl (organizers of this shindig). *Neato*

Victim#2 by MONSTREHERO (March 4-drop)

"No matter how you slice, gash, tear, rip, slash or
bash it, VICTIM #2 is here to melt your faces off!"

MONSTREHERO's Victim#2 made it's prototype-debut during NYCC just and are now ready to be fully-unleashed in all it's 7 1/2 inches of unbridled resin glory in a multitude of colorways and tints (inclusive removable pile o' guts!) this coming March 4th @ 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific.
Satisfy your bloodlust @ monstrehero.bigcartel.com - with most pieces priced at a "recession-proof" US$60. Meanwhile, CLICK THRU to have a closer-peep at what is in store for Victim#2-fans!

Peep this massive 50-image set from MONSTREHERO of their upcoming VICTIM#2 [flickr-album]:


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Guy McKinley's KICHI Prototype

Just peeped these on Steve Talkowski's flickr and hadda swipe'em (sorry Steve!) ... all along, I'd imagined Guy McKinley's resin toy to debut at his Jet-Black & Featherlight show @ myplasticheart was the little birdie in the show-flyer ... but little did I know my toy-wish for a Dead Warrior Girl-figure not only came true (*I-wish to-win the-lottery I-wish to-win the-lottery*) - it came out looking quite simple insane-cool, IMHO!

The prototype of KICHI is currently shown (How big is she anyways?). Let's hope the figure goes into production soon, yeh? Meanwhile CLICK THRU for more images of Kichi and from the show itself :)


[KICHI images via Steve's flickr]

[All images via mph flickr-album]

1/1 Orange Octopus custom-Runcible by Cris Rose

Runcible love to build and repair things; he also loves to scavenge parts and build himself different bodies for different tasks - here we see one of Runcible's first attempts at making a body to double his productivity... with a second set of arms! With 7 limbs, 5 of them building at once, you can imagine good lubrication would be on his mind (hense a head full of oil). Released along with Rotund Edition A, "because, well, i couldn't have built them all on my own now, could i? ;)" - says Runcible-creator Cris Rose

"The ORANGE OCTOPUS (That's Bad At Maths)" is a 1/1 custom 7 limbed custom Runcible with a head full of oil and Rotund Edition A parts in his hands, and will be available @ crisrose.bigcartel.com from 18:00 GMT Saturday 28th February (UK time). SRP is US$160.

Meanwhile do feel free to CLICK THRU for more Orange Octopus-pics!