Mutant Vinyl Hardcore x Kaiju Korner Doji San release info!

This collab is a long time in the works. We're very happy to be able to give you pics and ordering info for the MVH x KK Doji San!

We were thrilled to collaborate with Rich (LASH) on the release. Please note: Ordering will be through MVH. Here are the details:

Doji San "Watermelonhead" lottery info

- Cast in glorious glow vinyl
- Painted in metallic green, with hot pink, red and silver details.
- Comes with both cyclops and demon masks!
- Comes with full color Doji San inspired print by Kaiju Korner's Irene Fu!

For this release, Irene did a painting inspired by the Watermelon Head Doji San, with other MVH characters joining in on the fun. The print is based on a famous Japanese ghost legend, featuring Doji San on a classic "matsuri" (festival) float and surrounded by ghosts and MVH characters. The prints, which were made in Japan by a professional print house, measure 5x7" and were done on a heavy gloss stock. Each Doji San order will come with this print and a Kaiju Korner sticker.

Lottery Details :

- $85.00 plus shipping.
- Shipping within the USA will be a $10.00 flat fee from the East coast to the West sent Priority USPS mail.
- International shipping will be $ 35.00 Priority USPS ONLY

How to enter:
Lottery Begins: Friday 12:00 AM  2/1/2013 US Eastern Time
Lottery Ends: Friday  11:59 PM 2/1/213 US Eastern Time

All winners will be chosen and notified by MVH on Saturday.

Please send your entry to: mvh.dojisan@gmail.com
In the title please write: "WatermeLLonhead"

 In the body of the e-mail please include :

-Name
-Address
-If you're a Skullbrain member, your SB name
-If you're on Instagram, your Instagram name

!!But wait there's more!!
 >>>> There will be a chase version of the figure in MVH colors! Feeling lucky ?? <<<<

Unpainted Glow "Cherry Picker" Doji San Release info

In addition to the painted Doji San, Rich will also be selling an unpainted glow version!

The unpainted version will be sold through the MVH web shop >> HERE <<

It will sell for $75.00 and a lucky few will get a painted "Cherry Picker" version.

The unpainted version comes with both masks that feature red doll eyes. This release will also come with a black and white print based on Irene's illustration for the Doji San painting.

This illustration is black and white with the exception of red highlights, which Irene added to reflect the red doll eyes of the Cherry Picker release

The sale goes live on the MVH Big Cartel on Friday 2/1/2013 at 8:00 PM US Eastern Time sharp!

Good luck everyone!

Blobpus x MVH Death Sludge Demon

Amazing Blobpus x MVH collab

 

I love the Blobpus metallic pallet. Also, with this release, Kaji-san used more of a gorgeous mother of pearl silver spray, which works really nicely with the GID base vinyl.

Looking forward to seeing more from the dynamic sofubi duo!

Here's an indoor look which brings out the metallics more.

Diggler & Doji-san tour the South: Birmingham, Alabama

Mutant Vinyl Hardcore's Doji-san and Splurrt's Diggler are on a tour of the South! First stop, Birmingham. It's a beautiful old city best known as a past industrial powerhouse that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement.

At the cast iron statue of Vulcan - the world's largest such statue cast in 1904 for the World Fair

Checking out the city from above

We built this city on metallurgy!

With Dr. King

Sofubi tomfoolery in B'ham!

Facing justice!

Interview with Rich Montanari aka LASH/Mutant Vinyl Hardcore

Here's an interview I shot the other day with sofubi Rich at his studio in New Haven. We had a good chat about Rich's new figures, collabs, events, and Archie Bunker chairs.

Blogspot has been funky with video embedding, so if you can't see the video below, you can check it out on YouTube here.

Visit with Rich Montanari aka LASH (Mutant Vinyl Hardcore)

The other day in New Haven I hooked up with my buddy Rich Montinari aka LASH, the man behind Mutant Vinyl Hardcore and its fast growing sofubi empire. Rich is always a cool dude to hang out with, and he's riding a non-stop slipstream of creativity and ideas for new projects and collabs.

Let's start with some new pics of his studio. (Click here to check out my studio visit report from last year.)

Recently Rich received a a huge order of blanks, including the first pulls of his new figures as well as a big batch of Ollies. Here's a look at some of the figures in his studio - waiting to be painted!

 More after the jump:

Blobpus x MVH GID Enma 1/1 custom chase revealed

Many Blobpus toy releases are sold blind bagged. That means there's a 1/1 custom figure inside one of those bags.

Recently the GID Blobpus x MVH GID Enmas started shipping. (Click here for a look at that figure next to the first release.)

Lucky collector J.ME (check out his awesome blog here) received a 1/1 GID Blobpus and was kind enough to send us a photo:

For comparison, here's the standard version:

Blobpus x MVH Enma Ollie side by side

Now that the GID Enmas are shipping, I thought it would be nice to take a side by side look at the first two Enma production releases.

I think the colors on both releases are quite a bit different, though they both have the signature Blobpus look.

 More after the jump:

Medicom sofubi bonanza!

Medicom has released pics, prices, and ordering info for a grip of new sofubi exclusives. The good news for fans around the world is international shipping is available for all of them!

First there's Josh Herbolsheimer's Earth Wolf:

Sold as a pre-order for 9450 yen, with the ordering window open until March 31. Click here for ordering info

Next up we have the debut painted releases of MVH's Death Sludge Demon:

These are 9000 yen each and will likely be sold lottery style since orders are sure to far outweigh supply. The ordering window is open through March 10. Click here for ordering info.

More after the jump:

Mutant Vinyl Hardcore x SpasmOne clear Ollie made to order release

I love me a good pre-order. Even better are made to order releases, a trend which is rapidly catching on. We've seen MTO releases from numerous sofubi makers, including Blobpus, Elegab, and a certain Grody Shogun x KK release. ;-)

Now Mutant Vinyl Hardcore is getting in on the act, with a MTO Ollie collaboration between MVH and SpasmOne. The release features a clear Ollie with guts printed on clear acetate. The result is simply stunning.

The price is $150, and the pre-order will begin on MVH's Big Cartel site on Friday 11/18/2011 at 5:00 PM (presumably EST) and end on Sunday 11/20/2011 at 11:59 PM. (Seiko precision!)

As Rich writes, there will also be a chase version. In his words, "The chase will have different color guts and will come with a half painted fade in MVH color scheme of purple, green black and red !!!

These guys will not be blind bagged, but inserted at random. So there is no guarantee what you will get, but you will get utter gut madness !"

Gut madness never sounded so good.

More pics:

 More after the jump:

In detail: Blobpus Enma Ollie Custom

 

Here are full-scale and detail shots of the Enma Ollie custom I got at the recent Blobpus custom show. Kaiji-san's paint on this figure is incredible. He has evoked an Enma Ollie that is both ethereal and organic, like something straight from Japanese folklore. The colors and level of detail are off the charts. Of all the sofubi figures I've seen and picked up over the years, this is one of my top 5 all time favorites.

These are all hi res shots, so click on each one to see the full size.

Check out the purple veins!

 More after the jump:

Mandarake x MVH Double Ollie Release

Got there a wee bit early for the release. Seeing Nakano Broadway empty and dark felt like a scene from a zombie movie. When the early otaku crowd started flowing past, my suspicions grew... Then I sat back and relaxed, content in the awareness that I have little brain matter to tempt the hungry undead.

Line starts here.

Two Ollies were released at Mandarake:

Standard

Secret

Mandarake Ollie

Spotted in the hallway display case, gearing up for next week's release!

Ordering instructions. Let's hear it for Mutant Vinyl Heardcore! ^_^

Backstory and info for MVH x Blobpus Enma

Ever since in-development sculpts of the Blobpus Enma head sculpt for MVH's Ollie started surfacing a little while back, the sofubi world has been buzzing with excitement about the figure's release. Here's a shot I took of the finished Enma head sculpt at Pachisummit last month. (More shots here.)

A few days ago, the first pictures of the debut production figure emerged online, and just yesterday at the Blobpus x Guuman custom show, Kaji-san had the sample out for display.( Go here for details on how to pre-order the figure.)

I sat down with Kaji-san at the show and talked about Enma. Here's what I learned.

Enma is a god that stands at a purgatory checkpoint between heaven and hell. Enma is neither good nor evil. His job is to judge people after they die. Notice the monk sculpted on the back of the head. If a person is judged to be good, the monk will see that the deceased is sent to heaven.

If a person is judged to be evil, this fierce gaze will condemn the person to hell:

The character above his center eye means "king."

As Kaji-san explained, the colors for the first production are the colors traditionally associated with Enma. Kaji-san also pointed out that whereas Enma is typically shown as having two eyes. Kaji-san's interpretation in toy form has three.

A couple of pieces of news about this release. First, Kaji-san will paint as many as are ordered. If there are 50 orders, then 50 figures will be sent out. If there are 100 orders, then that's the release number. Finally, and this is huge news, Kaji-san says he is going to paint ALL of the debut release Enma figures himself. So this release is an amazing chance to order a hand-painted figure from one of the true masters of the art.