The most comprehensive visual history of the designer toy movement that exists today! Hardcover, museum quality edition with over 360 color pages oozing with 100's of the most tantalizing toys from Japan, China, Europe, and the United States. The book also features an introduction by Kidrobot founder and creative director, Paul Budnitz, and interviews with several of the biggest names in designer toys, including Frank Kozik, Mori Chack, Dalek and more.

Price: $20.00

 

Book of Amanda Visell's work, styled after a children's board book.

Price: $23.00

 

As much a treasure map as a travel guide, Tokyo Underground breaks down the countless confusing barriers that visitors to Tokyo face, and simplifies your journey down to the essence. Providing advice about what to pack, where to go, and how to read subway maps and make telephone calls, this book covers every step of your adventure with straightforward, useful information.

Once you are in Tokyo, our maps of neighborhoods will get you where you want to go; each on features numerous highlights sights, as well as directions to and from the train station.

As a comprehensive resource, tokyo Underground makes the most secret shops and the coolest destinations accessible in a single book for the first time ever, offering you a true insider's glimpse into the absolute latest in Tokyo toys, trends and culture.

Price: $20.00

 

Collector's Edition Comic-con only release of the documentary "The Treasures of Long Gone John"  A limited first edition version with a specially designed cardboard gate-fold package including a pocket containing a reproduction of "A Pirate's Treasure Dream" signed by the artist, Todd Schorr. There are only 500 hand numbered copies of the edition signed by Todd Schorr, Long Gone John and director Gregg Gibbs.

"The Treasures of Long Gone John" is a feature length documentary profiling collector and independent record producer Long Gone John through his art and musical obsessions. Featuring over 40 songs from his record label Sympathy for the Record Industry including Beck, Holly Golightly and The Dwarves. The film profiles four artists from John's collection: Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia and Robert Williams, including original animation of their artwork. The scope broadens to expose the expanding "lowbrow" art movement.  

 

DVD Extras Include: "The Gone World" a short film by Gregg Gibbs.  Featuring a complete tour of John's former home in Long Beach, since dismantled. Includes music by Spaceman 3, E.A.R., Matson Jones and April March with Los Cincos.

Making "A Pirate's Treasure Dream"  Featuring a compressed time-lapse sequence with commentary by Todd Schorr.

"So Long, John" Concert Footage Featuring Miss Derringer and The Ettes

Price: $30.00

 

 

 

The first ever documentary on the creative, sophisticated, and often challenging world of designer vinyl toys, where artists create their own weird and wonderful figures for a booming, adult collector's market.

The film is a high-energy, fast-paced celebration of new forms of artistic expression, DIY culture, and of course, toys!

Produced by X-Ray Films, Toys Are Us was filmed on location at the creators' and collectors' studios and homes, various toy stores on both sides of the country, and Comic Con International 2006. Exploring the scene through the eyes of the designers and fans themselves, the documentary features interviews with such luminary artists as Frank Kozik, Patrick Ma (Rocketworld, IWG), Tara McPherson, Kano (Moneygrip), Erick Scarecrow (ESC Toy, Liberty), Mark Nagata (Max Toy Co., Captain Maxx), Brian Flynn (Super 7), Mars-1, Jermaine Rogers, J Neth and more, as well as collectors and fans.

Toys Are Us also features a ridiculously loud soundtrack by such punk and under-ground bands as Mindless Self Indulgence, Longway, Brian McCarty, Stick Shift, and I, Synthesist.

DVD extras include additional interview footage with Mars-1, Patrick Ma, Brian Flynn, and Frank Kozik--who takes viewers on a tour of his personal toy collection!

 

Price: $20.00

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Toypunks Volume 1 is a documentary film series covering the converging world of Japanese toys, fashion and punk rock.  Exploring the birth of the designer vinyl explosion from its roots in character culture and punk rock music, Toypunks Volume 1 takes you in-depth with Japanese fashion icon Hikaru Iwanga, creator of the world's first designer toy.  Hiddy Kinoshita of Secret Base, Frank Kozik, Balzac, Three Tides Tattoo and more are interviewed highlighting profound cross-cultural connections between todays top creative talents in toys and fashion.

DVD Features Include:

-Uncut interview excerpts with Japanese punk fashion legend and creator of the world's first designer vinl toy.  Hikaru Iwanaga of Bounty Hunter.
-Frank Kozik on the Death of the Underground
-Hiddy Kinoshita of Secret Base toys of Sneaker Collecting
-Designer toy collection galleries
-Kiyoka Ikeda of Gargamel live toy sculpting session
-Soft Vinyl VS Spawn

 

Price: $18.00

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