Atomic Robo Skateboard by Freak Show

Freak Show unveiled the second release in its Longbox Series of comic book inspired skateboards, and this time it’s a deck featuring Atomic Robo! Atomic Robo is a killer indie comic by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener, and produced by Red 5 Comics. Comic fans everywhere are talking about this series, so you know people will be lining up to get their hands on this skateboard.

The Atomic Robo Longbox Series Deck is a 7 ply, PRO skateboard with an amazing graphic by Atomic Robo co-creator Scott Wegener. This awesome board will be sold by Freak Show in two ways: an unsigned version for you to shred it up, and a super limited edition signed version that will be signed by both creators of Atomic Robo, Brian and Scott! The unsigned deck currently retails for $39.99 at the Freak Show online store. For those of you interested in the signed version, email Freak Show at freakshowskateboards@gmail.com to find out about its availability.

Star Wars Disney Vinylmation Series 2

This weekend at Star Wars Celebration VI in Orlando, Disney will finally be releasing the Vinylmation series fans everywhere have been clamoring for…Star Wars Vinylmation Series 2! For its second Star Wars release Disney decided to turn the series upside down and redesign the entire line. From the pictures The Blot's seen so far it looks like they really did a great job with it! I love how the artists utilized the figures’ ears to tell part of the story and set the stage for each figure. My only complaint is how many of the exact same version of these characters included in both Star Wars series.

Star Wars Vinylmation Series 2 features twelve characters from Episode IV: A New Hope, including Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Obi Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, a X-Wing Pilot, a Tusken Raider, Greedo, Ponba Baba, Muftak and the mystery chaser Garindan. This series will be on sale at all Disney theme parks starting this Friday and will retail for around $15 per blind box.

Disney is also releasing a very special Star Wars Celebration VI exclusive figure this weekend. The exclusive Hologram Princess Leia Star Wars Vinylmation figure has a limited edition run size of 2,500 and will retail for $18.95 at Disney’s Celebration VI booth #331.

Companion: Resting Place Vinyl Figure by Kaws

The past few years has been really hard on Kaws’ toy collectors. The artist’s output has been so up and down lately, it’s been hard to call some of his releases designer art figures. In The Blot’s opinion they’ve been very uninspired, almost to the point of being lazy. With that being said, it hasn’t hurt sales one bit as his figures continue to sell out instantly upon release. While I haven’t been feeling a number of Kaws’ more recent releases, his new figure, Companion: Resting Place, is pretty freaking sweet!

The Blot’s a sucker for all things Dissected Companion and this figure looks incredibly well made. My only question is how tall (or long) this piece is. That’ll go a long way to justifying what I assume will be an extremely high price. Regardless, I feel like this figure at least takes Kaws back to a true designer art toy that will look incredible on anyone’s shelf.

Produced by Medicom Toy, the Companion: Resting Place by Kaws is approximately 9" tall, retails for $315, and goes on sale today, Friday, August 24th, at noon EST via the KAWSONE online store.