Alyenz Blind Box Mini Figure Series

As you all know, The Blot is constantly on the lookout for the next great designer vinyl figure platform. So, I was really excited to receive a press release earlier this week announcing the launch of the new Alyenz blind box series by Buffalo Toyz, a newly formed designer toys division of well-known French label Attakus. Each Alyenz vinyl figure is 8 cm tall (a little over 3 inches) and will retail for around $10-15.


Alyenz is an all new platform with spicy, atomic, rustic, retro-futuristic or parodic designs, customized by some of Europe’s top fashion professionals and artists from the worlds of graphic design, comics, cinema and of course street art, as well as a few veterans of the vinyl scene. Alyenz offers for the first time a European vision of designer toys, associated with a desire of pointing out the most representative artists of contemporary creation.


Alyenz Series 1 will go on sale in February 2010 and is composed of 9 different figures featuring designs by Genevieve Gauckler, Lewis Trondheim, Soldedad Bravi, Marc Caro, Run, The Black Frog, Stan and Yoann Etienne Aillaud.

Alyenz Series 2 will go on sale in September 2010 and will also be comprised of 9 figures featuring designs by Rolito Pierre la Police, Philippe Buchet, Soledad Bravi, The Black Frog, Fred Blanchard, Etienne Aillaud and Yoann.