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There always cool things happening in San Francisco’s Haight/Ashbury District and one neat event is the Kidrobot SF V.I.P. Party. Of course the Ramen crew was there to enjoy the festivities and our host Eddie also grabbed a sit-down interview with local Dunny artist Big C and as they talked about his charity Dunny fundraiser for Bad Rap and 2013 Designer-Con.
The iconic 1988 anime-film Akira also had the famous red bike that the character Kaneda rode and now, LEGO builders the Arvo Brothers have built the bike from LEGO pieces.
Do you want to build this bike? Everybody can now! The Arvo Brothers will be releasing a book of how-to-instructions on December 14, 2013.
This a limited edition Entertainment Earth exclusive molded by Gentle Giant featuring a bunch of cute Ewoks attacking a Scout Trooper.
Fans of the video game Arkham City will definitely want to pick-up this action figure 2-pack featuring the over-steroid baddy Bane and crime-busting Batman.
I dig reading DC’s reboot awhile back, The New 52 and picked up various trade paperbacks from this series. So if you’re fan of the New 52, you might want to grab this action figure pack.
Take the iconic Mr. Potato Head toy and dress him up. Fans of the popular Doctor Who TV show will want to grab this Potato Head – the Doctor Who Gold Dalek Mr. Potato Head. The figure stands 7″ tall and is ready to take on Dr. Who.
It’s Cyber Monday and you can pick up this custom golf cart that looks like the Tumbler Batmobile from the The Dark Knight films.
Dropping at Kidrobot stores now are these 6 custom Munny figures by custom toy artist J★RYU and super cosplayer VampyBitMe. These Munny figures stand 18″ tall and Halloween scary. These Munny figures are for the pricey toy collector since they are around $3,000.00USD each. Yikes.
This amazing Joker’s Funhouse playset made from LEGO has lots of cool stuff like light effects, moving parts, and tons of mini-figures. Built by custom LEGO builder Paul Hetherington, the Joker’s Funhouse won Best in Show at this year’s BrickCon.
We got a sneak preview of this Android Series 4 set of figures @ 2013 New York Comic-Con a few weeks back. Now this collectible vinyl set is ready to drop these next few weeks at your local geek shop or online store.
Medicom looks to make a splash this December with their Series 27 release of BE@RBRICKS! There will 24 figures to make up this Series 27 set. Already on the Medicom website, 11 figures have been revealed and the likes of Robocop, Tigermask, and Attack on Titan will be part of this set.
If you’re a fan of cute vinyl collectible figures then this 2-piece collection might be for you. Medicom Toy known for their BE@RBRICK figures teams up with fashion apparel brand A Bathing Ape (BAPE) for a Milo and Star Wars collab.
This first piece is Star Wars x Baby Milo VCD Darth Vader figure with removable mask.
If you remember growing up the 80’s, a certain Richard Donner film has a special place in every kid’s heart – The Goonies! A group of nerdy kids on the hunt for long lost pirate treasures to save their neighborhood and I remember jamming to Cyndi Lauper’s “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” whenever it was on the radio. Now Funko’s popular Pop! Movie series features The Goonies.
If you like collecting weird vinyl toys and underground urban fashion – there’s a convention for it! It’s DesignerCon! The two-day collectible show DCon took place this past weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center in sunny Southern California. The Ramen crew went down to check out all the cool stuff with guest host Shannon Murray. We also interview 3 cool artists: Kathie Olivas, Amanda Louise Spayd and Shing Yin Khor. Here’s the recap and highlights from DCon:
For more, go to: DesignerCon.
Ramen and a Half interviews Andrew Sumner to find out what Titan Entertainment Group is all about at New York Comic Con. 
First and foremost our team at Retrenders reviews many of Titan Books and we’ve grown to love what they do, because we simply love the content they publish and re-publish. Titan Entertainment is known to reinvent and revive content that had once had their moment in time from cult classics novels, comics, and they publish niche content about historical arts, artists, musicians, early filmmakers and much more. It’s as if Titan reflects on fascinating content and say – “This is entertaining – let’s revive it!”
Titan Entertainment Group is also an official licensee of Doctor Who products and works with popular media entertainment and culture. You can find out about their latest releases and featured products at Titan Merchandise.
Curated by artist and dunny fan Big C, the custom Dunny event took place at Kidrobot SF.
Just in time for Halloween, check out this cool pumpkin-inspired Android mini-figure by artist Gary Ham.
Our Ramen team showed up for the Kidrobot Dunny Evolved release event at Kidrobot SF retail store. The vinyl collectible toy series features 5 artists: Huck Gee, Frank Kozik, Kronk, McBess and Scott Tolleson, and each artist created 3 different figures for the set.
On October 10, 2013 – Kidrobot launches Series 3 of Dunny Evolved 3″ vinyl toys. Each artist picked in this Dunny Evolved line-up created 3 dunny designs.
The Ramen crew visited Kidrobot SF for the release of the DamGun ‘Bots. If you’re a Gundam fan or just an anime mech-head, then you might like these ‘Bots. Kidrobot pays homage to these plastic snap-on model kits with their own DamGun ‘Bots.
Last week in SF, our Ramen crew went to a special Kidrobot event with artist/designer Frank Kozik and his Marvel Labbit series.
I still remember that feeling of saving up all my quarters for the week and rushing to my local 7-Eleven store where they would have video game arcades like Space Harrier, Daytona USA, Thunder Blade, Operation Wolf, Afterburner and of course Capcom’s Street Fighter! Those were the days, but let’s move on … Kidrobot’s first Street Fighter 3″ vinyl figures were super popular and now it’s back with a Series II.
If you can’t afford to buy all of Mattel’s He-Man Master of the Universe’s toys and figures, why not just build your own from LEGOs? And that’s what custom LEGO builder Alex Jones (Orion Pax) has done.
Yesterday was the release of Kidrobot’s Street Fighter Series 2 vinyl figures and our Ramen team was at the Release Party to cover the event. We had a blast trading, buying, playing Street Fighter and just having fun talking about geeky toys in general.
The 2013 Tahoe snowboarding season may still be a few months away, but maybe these Army men-like figures can fill the void from Toy Boarders.
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