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Portland, OR

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That happy feeling.

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Mighty Morphin Endorphins.

Last week was a rush, rush to get everything done (I didn’t), and then the rush I get from a project well done, peoples, and friends getting to check it out. I buzzed the whole bike ride home, wanting to get dinner with Martin, and not have the night end, but too Daffy Duck with his giant clam pearl. There were two Shogun Warriors and a bunch of tools in my basket that I didn’t want to leave at the shop. 

The next morning the rush continued getting ready for online sales. I’m finally winding down now, almost ready for my nap.

The first opening was great. It was exactly halfway between my fears and hopes and dreams. 

I thought I was going to either see 5 local toy nuts and no one else. Or a huge mob with all my old friends and everything sells out.

The five local toy gurus were there right away. Thank you so much Portland toy crew. Then a good chunk of locals rolled through and we had a good time. A great mix of humans. 

Thanks to everyone that came out. I’m really looking forward to our next monthly meetup.

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Kaiju Hobo

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Grass Hut Art Market

Starting in September we will start hosting semi monthly shows after a long hiatus. Wake up, it’s time to play art.

400 NW couch st. inside Floating World.

More info- @bananapoons on instagram

September 5th- 30th. Reception September 5th 6-9pm

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New works by Bwana Spoons

original arts made from wood, paint, beach trash, sofubi, and fun.

October 3rd - 31st. Reception October 3rd 6-9pm

Rampage and Friends World Tour

Join Jon Rampage (NY), Grumble Toys (Winnipeg), and Gravy (Portland) will all have a buttload of new toys.

November 7th - 30th. Reception November 7th 6-9pm

Tokyo based artists Science Patrol, SQD BLSTR, and Apos Toys bringing the fun piles of sofubu.

December 5th-31st. Reception December 5th 6-9pm

Local legend Martin Ontiveros brings a rainbow powered deathwish of original art, and maybe even a couple toys.

Wally working on the space. We found well over 100 tees while hunting for some paint!

Wally working on the space. We found well over 100 tees while hunting for some paint!

Shops is getting ready for a load

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I have a shop drop scheduled for 10am pacific July 24th. There’s so many goodies though. I don’t think I can do everything at 10am, so I think I’ll do this in two waves. One in the morning, and one later in the evening. Anyone that orders from the first wave will have their shipping refunded if they end up doing multiple orders in the next couple days here.

And… I have a little treat shipping out with new orders while they last. Have you seen him? Terry Magnets. Just a little something awesome for my peeps. None will be for sales, just free with purchase type of thing.

And… bet you guys didn’t notice I was too lazy to change the prices on my prints, which means they are all still on sale. All that Silk screen business. So wednesday should be a pretty fantastic day:)

Summer Slime is here.

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Well, almost here. It’s this Saturday! July 20th. The gate opens at 6pm. Come and hang with us, eat some tacos, and check out SD from old town. This has become my favorite event of the year, and right up there for favorite trip, and time of the year. This time used to be very fun and stressful when I was setting up inside the SDCC convention. Now this is just fun. See my old friends, make some new ones, dip my head in the ocean, maybe go on an adventure, play some lego, skateboard, eat good food, and sell some art and toys. I can’t wait to see you.

Toys and art from over 10 artists; Paulkaiju, Bwana Spoons, Rampage Toys, Uky Daydreamer and many more.

Free tickets to enter the drawing to purchase figures will be distributed starting at 6:00pm. Ticket numbers will be called via a random drawing at 7:30pm.

This is at the old Gunnzo location in oldtown SD, just up the hill from the new Gunnzo shop. 2445 Juan st.

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Archive Sale D Terry & Hooligan Fun Raiser!

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Here’s the whole of what is left from my archive sales plus more new goodies. Everything from the old archive sales have been discounted. Still not garage sale prices. That’s not going to happen, but solid prices. So if you were on the fence before …

Here’s the whole of what is left from my archive sales plus more new goodies. Everything from the old archive sales have been discounted. Still not garage sale prices. That’s not going to happen, but solid prices. So if you were on the fence before this should help. And then new goodies? Yes! Help me raise some funs for by ongoing toy desires for new sculpts. Email me at pelicanmist at gmail.com for a current pricelist. Last note. these have all been on display at one point or another, some have small scuff.

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Look at that little chanmen ooze it. There’s a fly on his head. How fartin’ perfect.

Look at that little chanmen ooze it. There’s a fly on his head. How fartin’ perfect.

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New Suns!

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DIY Sharter Friday 10am pacific. Friday June 28th. New Terry and Hooligan pre-order.

Launch of the New Suns

For some time now I have been scheming to shrink My Suns Of Brodarr guys. For a long while I couldn’t decide on how much. Make the Micro? But how Micro? Maybe that’s a whole other thing. What I really wanted and want is a whole series of figures that make the perfect travel companion. 

When I was in second grade A Star Wars Snaggletooth spent an entire year living in my pocket. So that’s the size I landed on, a fat Snaggletooth size. Now I can have a travel buddy big enough to engage with all the other action critters of the world, small enough that they can go anywhere.

Terry is a wizard that lives in a broken down castle. Assle Castle. He casts spells to time travel, which ALWAYS causes a new problem that he must fix by again traveling through time. Believe it or not he’s six parts. You probably haven’t seen his wand yet that he holds in his little hand. I haven’t either.

Private Hooligan, or is it just Hooligan now? Was doing time on some bullshit charges when he was recruited to fight in the Warpits*. He managed to escape and although he would be happy in living alone in the desert, or the darkness of the jungle floor, Hooligan now rents a room in Assle Castle. Unsuccessfuly attempting to have Terry NOT do any further time travel, screwing everything up.

*See BigBoy FunZone number 2 for the full story.

Approx 3.75” tall. Yeah.

Sofy vinyl made in Japan. Yeah!

These two little beasts launch the New Suns.

Both are sculpted by the mega talented Naoya Ikeda of Gargamel and Super 7 fame. YEAH!

Timeline. The sculpts are done, now it’s time to move into wax, then metal molds, and then we are in business. With the sculpts complete, I’m ready to move into DIY Kickstarter mode, and get a batch of pre-orders going for you. You have the opportunity to get the very first colors all for your own little mitts before half the world even knows this is happening.

These boogers will be made at the Shirahama factory. Although this is the first toy of mine being pulled here. We go way back. Mr Shirahama and I been buddies for over quarter a century. Having vinyl pulled here for the first time is just another fantastic treat for you and me. Anywhoo, this could be all in our hands in as little as 4 months (unlikely:), or take up to a year before we have all these in our collections and our pockets. Thanks for getting on the earlybird bus with me.

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Round 3 Archive sale

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oozies, le merde, fredericks, and a teenage randall walk into a bar

oozies, le merde, fredericks, and a teenage randall walk into a bar

killers wigglin’

killers wigglin’

Look at all those killers

Look at all those killers

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details details

oh hello Stevens

oh hello Stevens

oh glowy stevens

oh glowy stevens

puppy killers

puppy killers

For an updated pricelist give me a holler at- pelicanmist at gmail.com

Round 2 Archive Sale

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Misc fun bits

Misc fun bits

Gacha, Hokai and Eaton

Gacha, Hokai and Eaton

Ojo Rojo

Ojo Rojo

Marty

Marty

T9G walking Killer and walking killer

T9G walking Killer and walking killer

Oh Dolly

Oh Dolly

sweet Globby action

sweet Globby action

Hello Boris

Hello Boris

I’m slimming and trimming my archives down to one or two colorways a piece. Here’s Round 2. Some of my Gargamel sculpts, and a few other fancy bits. Old sold out editions of everything. I truly love these, but out with the old and in with the new. Email me at pelicanmist at gmail dot com for a price list if you are interested in anything.

archive sale round 1.

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skulls

skulls

Naoya Hedos

Naoya Hedos

Naoya Hedos

Naoya Hedos

Mystery Zag

Mystery Zag

Zags

Zags

Fighters

Fighters

Dragamels

Dragamels

Standard Hedos

Standard Hedos

Earth Restroyers

Earth Restroyers

Smogons

Smogons

I’m slimming and trimming my archives down to one or two colorways a piece. This is it for Round 1. Which is mostly beautiful old Gargamel sculpts. Round 2 more of the same plus a lot of my own characters. Old sold out editions of everything. I truly love these, but out with the old and in with the new. Email me at pelicanmist at gmail dot com for a price list if you are interested in anything.

New Prints coming

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Just finished prepress for a new load of Nature Calls prints. Excited to see how these look in real life. I’m shooting for a release next Friday on the webshoppe. The lil cactus one is my favorite. I drew it a good 2 months ago and then promptly lost the sketchbook when it was time to scan it and get these all finished up. After a week of off and on searching i found it in a very safe place:)

My Sleepy shelf Contest Friday Feb 8th.

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Contest! Answer these questions here in this post. What’s your favorite toy here? What do you think my favorite toy might be here? One winner will be selected and receive a really fun goody bag containing a hat, zine, a print of my Killer day 8 painting, and a toy or two. Winner announced Saturday eve, and entries accepted up till that time.

Also please feel free to set me straight on any names I may have mixed up. Or ask me questions about any specific piece too.

Winter is always a good time to reassess, and change up my environment a bit. I think I’ve had this thing since San Francisco days. This was an old medicine cabinet I found on the street, repainted, and used to hold toys and treasures. Which in this home, might be the same thing. It’s mounted in our living room, and I think the last time it was re-arranged or dusted was about 3 years ago. Time for a change. these aren’t all my favorite toys, but maybe just ones I want to look at right now, or just look happy together. About half were in here pre-dusting, and some have lived their entire lives in this case, at least when I’m watching.

Oh the flipping sparking of joy!

Oh the flipping sparking of joy!

Oh so much right here. L-R happytime. My favorite SQDBLSTR toy which is some piece of vintage turtlefox teapot pottery thing. Rampage tank with a berret. Unpleased ultra monster, which is vintage but I had kiyoka of Gargamel put new sprays on it, wh…

Oh so much right here. L-R happytime. My favorite SQDBLSTR toy which is some piece of vintage turtlefox teapot pottery thing. Rampage tank with a berret. Unpleased ultra monster, which is vintage but I had kiyoka of Gargamel put new sprays on it, which only took him 3 years. Science Patrol blowfish guy. Toygraph Kanegon in egg or something like that. Blitzkreig fun in the back, it’s so D&D! Gargamel Moai fun combiner robot. Sad armless vintage toys that I combined to make happytime. baby Smogon I painted and couldn’t let go of. My Mountaintop Munktiki vessel, which I keep trying to get them to make more of but they won’t:). Happy Dolphin. Buta trash kitty. Big Dogu. Ragon… by Yamomark? Chima dino. Oretan tidal wave… so good.

Top L-R- Buta Tako. Cute ass Gargamess by Gargamel with custom paints. Eggplant Buta. Man At Arms. In the shadows Pandora biggie by Buta. This weird pinecone/moosehair pipe thing. Chima witch Banana. Anklyasaur. Gargamel Crouching Zag one off. This …

Top L-R- Buta Tako. Cute ass Gargamess by Gargamel with custom paints. Eggplant Buta. Man At Arms. In the shadows Pandora biggie by Buta. This weird pinecone/moosehair pipe thing. Chima witch Banana. Anklyasaur. Gargamel Crouching Zag one off. This wormy thing I made from a randall paw that I already forgot the name. Little naked guy.

L-R- Lobros in the back. Dino. baby Pandora. Cute ass mole. Robocon guy i got at a toy show in San Jose for $3. Green Thrashman. Weird resin french bulldog by Gargamel’s friend(sorry i can’t remember his name). Buta bat guy with scarf. Characterics or Toygraph or US Toys Hedo. Amanda Skateboard in the back. Satochan. Chima Lantern.

Upper shelf L-R- Crazy beast I got from Souther and Monica’s traveling trade tortoise event at Grass Hut. Cool rock. Amanda Bat. Gargamel Votom. Neronga Ultra villian or is it Bemler? Globby. Bunny and a Moonshiner in a leather canoe. Chima banana. …

Upper shelf L-R- Crazy beast I got from Souther and Monica’s traveling trade tortoise event at Grass Hut. Cool rock. Amanda Bat. Gargamel Votom. Neronga Ultra villian or is it Bemler? Globby. Bunny and a Moonshiner in a leather canoe. Chima banana. Anraku critter. Tiny Baltan. Star Raider. Buta Booska Lady. Little Gargamel smashface hedo. crabby gashapon. Anraku buddy. Little Bubi guy. Keshi New Terry.

Bottom Row L-R- Namegon. Gashapon crabby on a rock. Sofubi not so soft anymore crabby with accordian plunger on top. Gashapon snapping turtle. Booska in a poncho. Buta cave dude. Chima Manta with a walnut shell turtle my mom made on top.Another leather canoe with little wooden toys, ultra Dada, baby treeson inside. James Jarvis native american. Yoda. Grumble kitty. Buta cave guy. Chima Dino. Shimomoku critter. T9G double dragon/sally. Kure Kure Takora guy. Shmoo. and Zilla made maybe by Toygraph.

What’s your favorite toy here? What do you think my favorite toy might be here?