Lair of the Dork Horde

Friday, February 21, 2014

Behold... Occulticus!

Here's a shot of my latest kitbash custom figure, "Occulticus", which will be available only at Emerald City Comic Con. Limited edition of 5, signed and numbered, bagged with a header card, all for a measly $20!

Pluggity, plug, plug!

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Ghostbusters Pops!

Out of all of the toys I've designed since joining the Funko team, these Ghostbusters Pops may be my absolute favorite. I know everyone has seen these all over the web but I'm feeling a little braggy.

Also, this post is actually my way of testing out the Blogger app on iPad. Who knows, maybe it'll help me blog more. ;)

Now to test this "insert picture" button...

Okay, now to launch this bad boy and see how it looks.

Friday, February 14, 2014

The Papercraft Star Wars That Never Was!

Just clearing out my desk for the big move (Funko is moving to a larger facility) and I came across this mock-up for a papercraft Darth Vader that we pitched a while back, but was never produced. I thought he turned out pretty cute. Too bad he'll remain one-of-a-kind!

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Kookycraft Paper Action Figures That ALMOST Were!

Hi gang! Been a good long while since I did a good old fashioned blog post and a Facebook conversation from this morning got me thinking about the Mixo Kookycraft paper figures I designed a while back.

Some of you may remember these from a couple of years ago, before I got hired on at Funko.

They were a cool idea, but never really caught on, despite our pushing them as hard as we could at SDCC 2012. Oh well. They led to me landing my dream job, so all's well that ends well, I guess.

In total, we released 4 different DC superheroes...

And 2 Masters of the Universe figures...

But what I thought would be a hoot is to look at the ones that got designed, but never put into production! So here we go...

For the DC series, we had planned to start getting into villains and I actually designed a Joker and Riddler...

For MOTU, Beastman and Teela were next on the list...

We were planning a foray into the world of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers...

And for you music fans, we even looked into having KISS figures made, as seen here in my hand-built mock-ups...

And I olny got as far as making a John Lennon one for our Beatles Yellow Submarine pitch...

And that's about as far as we got.

Looking back, this was a trying time for me, but also very exciting as I daily faced a new adventure in the worlds of licensing and design.

I sort of wish these had taken off better, but if that had happened, I may not have ended up where I am now, so it's probably all for the best.

Given the choice between paper or plastic, I'll take plastic any day. :)

Check back soon, when I'll take a look back at our Boxos line of mini stylized papercraft figures that almost were!