Sao Paulo's equivalent to Kid Robot is Plastik, which houses a toy heaven for adults. Besides being ground zero for the toys we've come to adore and obsess over (plus a few more not known outside the country yet), the…
Continue Reading →Munny (Sponsored by Kid Robot) is supporting independent artists alongside our friends at Plastic Chapel and Capsule Gallery. They are having a Munny show fittingly named, "Follow the Munny" June 9th through July 14th. Featured designers include Evan Hecox, Scot…
Continue Reading →For the past year, the urban vinyl community has relied on Face Your Manga for all our avatar needs. But now one of our own has stepped up with an app that renders our likenesses in Kidrobocolor. That would be…
Continue Reading →Many toy fans have been closely following Kidrobot's evolution from designer toy hub to lifestyle brand and media conglomerate. The latest news falls into the latter category, with Kidrobot essentially curating the redesign of the Cartoon Network. Per motion design…
Continue Reading →Everything's going green these days, and the toy world is no exception. Perhaps appealing to our guilt at the amount of plastic we consume as toy fanatics, a growing crop of collectibles attempts to balance the extraneous and the ecological.…
Continue Reading →Kidrobot has just dropped word of their releases for October, and the theme is dark. With toys spanning sex, death, nightmares, zombies and psychos, there's officially something for everyone. The month opens and closes with 8-inch Dunnys: the kickoff figure…
Continue Reading →The Simpsons series (out August 21) marks Kidrobot's largest mini-figure series yet. Twenty-four vinyl figures stand just three inches tall, but the implications of the Kidrobot/Simpsons collaboration are huge. Despite the fact that Simpsons-creator Matt Groening redrew his characters in…
Continue Reading →Ada Pinkston at Current TV just sent over a video they just posted featuring their Brazilian host Rico (no last name) of the Globe Patrol show getting reacquainted with Sao Paulo after being away for a decade. You know we've…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo's premier toy art store Plastik, whose second-floor exhibit space I really love and have written about before, has gone virtual with a splendidly complete online shop stocked with the models that collectors in the most remote parts of…
Continue Reading →The last time we wrote about Sao Paulo's toy artspace and store Plastik was when we profiled their Munny show, but right now they're fresh into a new exhibition entitled Evoke that attracted so many people to the opening they…
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