The Lab Mice Live!

RAMPAGE x SPLURRT Lab Mice Pre-order is live in the shop through 3/24!!!

All pre-orders get you a chance to win one of 3 handpaint figures by SPLURRT himself!  He will be doing a Cadaver Kid, a set of mice and one more (yet undisclosed) one-off!  Grab some mutant mice and get your chance at a 'golden ticket custom!'


http://rampagetoysandart.bigcartel.com

Mutant Vinyl Hardcore X Skull Head Butt at RAMPAGE STUDIOS!

After a fun Keshi Party and a Wonderfestival that was good (despite the mega snowstorm hampering the crowds), it's time to get psyched for this year's FIRST full on show at RAMPAGE STUDIOS:

MUTANT HEAD BUTT ATTACK!!!

For this one, Mutant Vinyl Hardcore and Skull Head Butt (Marmit) team up and release what are sure to be a killer group of custom figures!  MVH will be painting SHB figures and SHB will be doing custom MVH figures.  To round it all off, I will also contribute a little group of RAMPAGE custom MVH and SHB figures (psyched!).

Event Details:

-Opening Party: 3/14 19:00~ (ticketed sales - tickets will be distributed starting at 6PM on a random and first come first served basis.  Entry will be for 5 people at a time. Coming early does not guarantee you an early entry to purchase figures) Toys and libations will be on hand.  Once sales have chilled out, everyone is free to hang out, chat and stare at the toys. (変な日本語：オープンパーティー：金曜日3月14日19時から～　チケットの販売。18時からチケットあげます、ランドム番号で。5人ずつ展示に入ることができます。販売のおわり時からぜひ飲みましょう！）

-Saturday and Sunday (3/15-16): 11:00-16:00 (display of all figures and maybe more new stuff and maybe a release - sales will be on a first come first served basis)　（土と日曜日3月15－16日：11時から16時まで：売り物ありますと、ふつうな販売します）。

-Any remaining items will be online in the RAMPAGE WEBSHOP on the Monday following the show's closing.

This should be a good one!  Keep an eye on @mutantvinylhardcore and @jmrampage on Instagram for updates!  See you there! 

KESHI PARTY and WONFESU!

Long time no blog update!

Last month's Superfestival was AWESOME!  Thank you EVERYONE for the support at the event and on-line afterwards.  You all ROCK!!!

Been busy around here - getting ready for 2014's inaugural event at RAMPAGE STUDIOS and for Wonderfestival on the same weekend!  Here's some images and info on the upcoming stuff - NEXT WEEKEND!

 

TRU:TEK will be in attendance at RAMPAGE STUDIOS!  February 7th from 7PM until whenever.  New Keshi, new Gachapon and libations!

WONDERFESTIVAL!  Winter 2014 edition featuring TONS of stuff!  I will have New Frenzy X RAMPAGE Cupcake Luchadors (full vinyl version), New Dinos, Ugly Unicorns painted by Justin Hillgrove and OODLES of new micros in sets and singles form.  SUNDAY 2/9 !

Hope to see some of you there!

Playing Catch Up

Hey Blogger Reading Peopleses!

Alas, I had, yet again, forgotten to Update the blog of late.  Here's a quick update of what has been happening - which I will follow up with a NEW post in a bit - about what WILL be happening soon!

-Halloween Release!  This happened - still a few items remaining in the ol' shoppe: here

-Design Festa!  This was a blast as always - hanging out with Pop Soda and Refreshment Toy, and putting out some new Gachapon Goblins and other fun stuff ^_^  Here's a pic:

-Junkie 6!  Another fun outing with Devil Robots, Mad Barbarians, Art Junkie and Hidaka Makoto - this time at the new Fewmany location in Shinkuku!  The event has since closed, and couple items from that are now in the shop as well.

Next up - NEW stuff AND the OSAKA Doki Doki Sofubi Event on December 1st!  Post to follow :-)

Halloween!!!!

Hey Hey!

Halloween is coming - Yay!

As in the past couple years, Halloween time is new toy time in the RAMPAGE TOYS  shop!  This year is a bit nuts - with a show at RAMPAGE STUDIOS just past (still some of those goodies in the shop), a gallery show in Shinjuku opening this Friday AND Design Festa this weekend (crazy!), but I've still gotten together what I think is a great selection of new toys for the webshoppers out there!  I'll be releasing this bundle of goodies into the wild at 12 midnight - today - October 30th - in the shop - http://rampagetoysandart.bigcartel.com/ -  Here's what will be available:

 

1) Orange and Black MARBLED vinyl Ugly Unicorns!  $30 a piece - and I'll paint eyes and mouths (in colors of your choosing) if you so desire.

 

2) X-ray Kowaillas!  Collab with Hints and Spices - his creepy and cute Kowailla sofubi gets the internal x-ray-insert-treatment!  Various versions - all $25 each.

 

3) "Splatterhouse Kyuuketsushi" - GID vinyl!  A collab with the omnipotent Velocitron!   $30 each.

 

4) "Tricks and Treats" Bobby and Harry!  A small handpaint edition of the Bobbybeast characters "Bobby" and "Harry."  These will have some fun little packaging additions thatnks to Walter Parenton (Bobbybeast mad scientist and designer dude). $25 per set of 2 painted micros.

 

Aside from that, with Design Festa coming up - Look Sharp! - bundles of new stuff!  Dinos, collabs, UU's, and micros :-) 

If you are in Japan, come hang out with me, Pop Soda and Refreshment Toy  - this weekend at Design Festa - Booth C-323  at the Tokyo Big Site!!!!  Gachapon Goblins will be in attendance in the Gachapon machine - with a new surprise color!


Happy Halloween!!!!

New York Comic Con!

It's that time of year again - Fall Show season!

Superfestival has passed - it was awesome.

Next Up is NEW YORK COMIC CON!

This year I'll have stuff at two locations.  First off, my always solid ground at NYCC - Tenacious Toys!  Tenacious has been showing my stuff at the con since 2010, since the day when he had 2 detolf cases and one little table, and it's always my pleasure to be part of his booth.  This year, Tenacious has organized a MEGA booth - an entire BLOCK of the Cultyard - but my stuff will stay at home in the core, at spot #208.  Tenacious Toys is run by the one and only Benny Kline - he's a gem of a dude, and I HIGHLY recommend to all attending that they stop by and say hi (both personally and from ME!).  Of course, there are also the toys!  Here's SOME of what I sent over:

"Wizard Crystal Turquoise UU" - blank and painted (internal and external paint) - 5 of each

"Spectral Manotaur"- RAMPAGE x Imps & Monsters - Blank and painted (very few blanks, and 5 painted figures)

 

Bagged and Header carded figures - line art by the most excellent Joseph Harmon, colored by my oh so non technical self.  Take note - the pictured micros (UU's and Unicorns) will also be at Tenacious Toys Booth - # 208

 

Next up - I've sent over a nice sized HORDE of Gachapon Goblins (Wizard Crystal sets, and some other cool stuff) to Joseph Harmon, who will be exhibiting in booth 204, along with Bwana Spoons and some other cool cats.  If you haven't had the chance to check out the Gachapon Goblins yet (and very few outside of Japan have yet), here's you chance to see them, hold them and buy them!

 



Sweet header card art by Walter Parenton - known world wide for his Bobby Beast Instagram comic series, and other awesomeness as well!

 

Lastly, and certainly not leastly (yeah - that's not a word) - SPLURRT!  Huh?  Wha'?  Yeah - once again, I've had the wonderful opportunity to paint up some of Splurrt's killer sofubi figures.  Did two Digglers and Two Cadaver Kids (OG!), and Joe (Splurrt) will have the lot (and much more of his stuff) for sale at the Monster Island table (booth #504) on Saturday at 12 (noon).  Check 'em out!

 

 

 

So, there was one other project - but I can't say anything about it!  How's that for a story?!? :-P

 

Anywho, if you are at NYCC, enjoy!  Buy lots of toys!  Take lots of pictures!  YAY!  And if you AREN'T at NYCC, well - I dunno - check my webshop.  Might drop something in there - who knows!

NNWA RECAP and "Nama Niku Talks Shop"

Hello, and welcome to the newest RAMPAGE blog post!

YAY!

So, the recent Nama Niku Wrestling Alliance event was a SMASH success!  A whole bundle of Keshi makers, collectors and otherwise dorks showed up, and there were drinks, toys and important conversation （笑） to be had in abundance!

For you information hungry types, I’ve decided to do something a little different.  I’m sitting at a (unspecified chain name) coffee locale with the USA’s preeminent Kinnikuman and Keshi authority, Mr. NAMA NIKU himself!  We’re going to talk, and I’m going to Type some of the key points here, and then you to can know what this Keshi thing is all about!  For those of you who aren’t big on the information gathering thing, you can just skip down to the Event and Toy photos.  Either way = Enjoy!  (btw – Nama Niku is actually named Tyler)

What Makes you Psyched on all this stuff?

“The thing that’s exciting about this scene (collecting and all) is that it is never ending.  There is so much cool stuff out there and (now) so many people creating great new stuff.  Also, the number of janky bootleg figures and the sudden appearance of new and cool old stuff… It’s a constant experience of ‘discovery,’ and finding something new and awesome always keeps me going.”

What is your favorite move in the Chojin Dreamtag Arch?

“For sure!  It’s gotta be the Muscle Docking!  DUDE!”

 

Seriously though, what peaked your interest in Kinnikuman to begin with?

“As a kid, I collected M.U.S.C.L.E.  I was into the design, but the whole backstory thing didn’t exist, as far as I knew.  So, I made stories up – and I cut and glued figures together to make new characters and new stories.  That lasted through college.  Then I came to Japan for the first time.  I was at a Toys R Us, and there were these big articulated Romando figures.  “WHAT???” They had names?  Was it a Japanese Bootleg of M.U.S.C.L.E?  Was it some sort of copy?  NO!  It was the original thing – the REAL deal.  The figures I had come to LOVE had funky names like Buffalo Man and Meatokun.  My world was rocked.  The truth was revealed. “

OK.  The hard facts.  How many figures do you own?

“A lot.  I’ll just send you a couple pictures.” 

 

Anything in particular that you have in your collection and really treasures?

“Yes.  I was lucky to go on a tour of Yudetamago’s studio, Studio Egg, and was given an AMAZING piece of original Kinnikuman artwork.  This:”

Tyler with his heros at Studio Egg!

 

Moving on.  What is Nama Niku all about?  What are you trying to accomplish with the blog and your figures?

“Nama  Niku is the place to go for RAW and  UP-TO-DATE Kinnikuman news.  At any given time, you can find cool interviews with Kinnikuman and Keshi folks, reviews of merchandise (old and new.  Bootleg and legit), pictures of Yudeki (Kinnikuman fans - think ‘Treki’ but rooted in the name Yudetamago – who is the creator of Kinnikuman, and now this is a run-on…oops.) collections, and much much more!  Check it out!” 

“Nama Niku figures have their roots in my passion for making and mashing and customizing keshi figures.   I started making all sorts of wonky figures, casting them myself (sometimes), sharing them on-line (on sites like Little Rubber Guys and OctoberToys), and just giving them away.  I was SHOCKED!  People liked them.  They were just supposed to be funny little blog mascots, but people wanted them in their collections!  That was exciting.  I started working with some really cool cats – M.U.S.C.L.E. Things, Marty Hansen (the Godbeast) and Eric Nilla for example, and we got some figures cast up, and they sold.  The whole idea was to make NEW characters that would fit with the original Kinnikuman line – stories and all.”

 Some of Nama Niku's "Whisky Sasquatch" figures that recently sold through the Mandarake twitter feed!

 

“The thing is, the creation of new Kinnikuman characters (Choujin) has always been fan driven.  From the start (an even now) Yudetamago allowed fans to submit ideas for new characters, and many of those designs became popular characters in the comic and in keshi form.  Ergo, when I do this stuff, the Japanese Yudeki don’t just accept it, they embrace it!  It’s all about “Yujo Power” (Friendship Power), which is a major theme in the Kinnikuman series, and serves to make the people who collect and are excited about Kinnikuman stuff some of the nicest toy nerds around!”

 

Tyler and the Nakano Broadway Microkan headmaster, Miyakoshi-san.  True Yudeki!  True Yujo Power!

That’s Neat.  So, what’s next on the agenda?

“I’ve got some new figures in the works, some great collaborations and all that good stuff.  Superfestival is coming up and (plug warning!) RAMPAGE TOYS will have some great new figures ;)  Basically – I’m on the road to fame and fortune (NOT!)”

That’s All!  Here’s pictures from the show:

Nama Niku "Archival Display"

 

Eric Nilla's Cythulu figures.

 

RAMPAGE painted vintage Deka Keshi

RAMPAGE handpaint Super Cupcake Luchadore

Eric Nilla's Elephunt

RAMPAGE handpaint DEATHMATCH keshi

NNWA exclusive Meatgrinder!

NAMA NIKU (Tyler) rocking the new Art Junkie "Kinnikuman Emotions" Tshirt - released at the event, and available NOW in the RAMPAGE SHOP!

 

Big thanks from both Tyler and myself to all who came out for the event, to all who grabbed some of the awesome keshi released at the show and to all the folks who have grabbed some cool toys from the shop since the show has ended.  Good Times!