The Super Suck-Up 2 Bootleg Resin Figures

Last weekend at Designer Con 2013 DKE Toys and Suckadelic presented “The Super Suck Up 2,” a group art show featuring exclusive editions of hand painted, handmade toys by each artist with package designs by the one-and-only Sucklord. The Super Suck-Up 2 included customized Sucklord bootleg resin figures by Bob Conge/Plaseebo, healeymade, Grody Shogun, J*RYU, Jesse Hernandez, Leecifer, Michelle Valigura, Mike Egan, Sket One, TOUMA, UAMOU, Angry Woebots, Scott Wilkowski and The Sucklord.

DKE Toys asked each artist to customize, mash-up or paint an edition of Sucklord figures. These 3.75" figures will be complete with a bubble on a Sucklord designed backing card. All figures retailed for $100 each (the Sucklord figure was only $50). Any remaining figures will be available after the show at Suckadelic.com.

Edition sizes are as follows: Bob Conge/Plaseebo - edition of 28; Healeymade - edition of 30; Grody Shogun - edition of 50; J*RYU - edition of 50; Jesse Hernandez - edition of 50; Leecifer - edition of 30; Michelle Valigura - edition of 29; Mike Egan - edition of 30; Sket One - edition of 50; TOUMA - edition of 50; UAMOU - edition of 50; Woes Martin - edition of 50; Scott Wilkowski - edition of 50; and Sucklord - edition of 35.

DCon 13 First Look: The Super Suck-Up 2 Line Up!

A pretty sweet Suckadelic flyer just showed up in The Blot’s mailbox with some exciting news! After the huge success of the inaugural The Super Suck-Up at DesignerCon 2012, the epic Sucklord custom show is coming back for a return engagement! Curated by the Super Sucklord, DKE Toys and Toy Break, The Super Suck-Up 2 features an epic line-up of 14 artists customizing Sucklord’s signature bootleg figures. The Blot got to see the first show in person last November, and every single figure was fantastic! I was even able to add one to my collection. So of course I’m really excited to see what this new crop of artists do with the Sucklord’s resin creations.

So here’s the information you are really waiting for, The Super Suck Up 2 line-up! It will feature works by Bob Conge / Plaseebo, Healeymade, Grody Shogun, J*RYU, Jesse Hernandez, Leecifer, Michelle Valigura, Mike Egan, Sket One, Touma, Uamou, Angry Woebots, Scott Wilkowski, and the Sucklord.

While this is the only information The Blot has right now, if The Super Suck Up 2 is the same as last year then each artist will create a custom Sucklord figure with a limited edition run size of 50 pieces, which will retail for $100 and come packaged on a blister card featuring artwork designed by Sucklord. Can’t wait to see these! DesignerCon 2013 is now two days and takes place November 9th-10th at the Pasadena Convention Center. You definitely don’t want to miss the designer art toy event of the year!

Batman Karakuri Custom Figure by D-Lux

After releasing a killer series of Joker Karakuri just a few weeks ago, D-Lux dropped a second surprise comic book inspired release on Monday. This time D-Lux channeled his inner Dark Knight to create a series of “Guano Man” Karakuri custom vinyl figures. Sporting a black cowl and yellow utility belt, Guano Man is ready to stop crime and protect your toys! Limited to just 3 pieces, there is still at least one of D-Lux’ fun Batman Karas still available through his online store for $50.

DCon 2012 Exclusive The MAXXakuri by Nebulon5

For Designer Con 2012, Nebulon5 has created a killer set of The Maxxakuri custom figures. Utilizing Grody Shogun’s Karakuri, this purple and yellow color scheme pays tribute to one of the coolest comic book characters ever…Sam Kieth’s The Maxx! Everyone who grew up in the 90’s either read Kieth’s hit comic book series from Image or watched the animated television series on MTV (or, most likely, did both). The Blot loves comic book inspired colorways, and Neb did a fantastic job recreating The Maxx’ look and feel on these 4” Karas. I’ve got a sinking suspicious these are going to go quickly at DCon.

The Designer Con 2012 Exclusive The MAXXakuri by Nebulon5 has a limited edition run size of just 5 pieces, and will be sold exclusively at Spanky Stokes’ DCon booth.

The Joker Karakuri Custom Figure by D-Lux

Last weekend D-Lux announced a surprise custom run of Grody Shogun Karakuri vinyl figures entitled “The Jerk!” Is it just me or does The Jerk bare an uncanny resemblance to the Clown Prince of Crime!?! The Blot loves super hero inspired colorways and this Kara looks pretty spot on to The Joker. I just wish I could have grabbed one, as all three The Jerk custom figures ($50) sold out instantly upon release in D-Lux’ online store. A Joker Kara would go great next to my Batman Custom Monster by Grody Shogun.

Arctic and Atomic Ojisan/Karakuri Series by D-Lux

If you’re still not familiar with D-Lux’ work yet, you should be! The Detroit artist is doing some incredible things with an airbrush, and he’s been releasing a number of highly sought after custom runs on a variety of sofubi platforms. The self proclaimed Toy Ruiner’s latest release is a blind bagged series of Arctic and Atomic hand painted custom Ojisan and Karakuri monsters. Grody Shogun’s 4” monsters are popular enough on their own, but when you add in a crazy paint job by D-Lux you’ve got an instant sell out on your hands.

D-Lux took an interesting approach to creating this Arctic and Atomic Series. Each figure was painted both internally and externally on crystal clear vinyl, giving them a pretty cool effect. Not only that but as you can tell from the photos above, the Arctic and Atomic Ojisans are very different from the Arctic and Atomic Karas. Arctic Kara is like crystallized jagged ice, while the Arctic Oji has more of a soft snowy feel to it with melted ice inside. Similarly, the Atomic Kara is like hot hunks of rock in pre molten state, while the Atomic Oji looks like molten lava from an atomic blast. It’s really amazing how D-Lux was able to use the exact same colors and paint style on two different figures and get such strikingly different results!

The Arctic and Atomic Ojisan/Karakuri Series by D-Lux went on sale last Saturday, September 8th, at the D-Lux online store for $40 each. Sold blind bag style, there were only 20 pieces created in all (5 of each figure in each colorway), and these sold out immediately upon release.

SDCC 12 Exclusive Unpainted White Young Gohst by Ferg & Grody Shogun

If like The Blot you were dying to get your hands on a Young Gohst vinyl figure from Ferg and Grody Shogun (aka Luke Rook), but weren’t able to purchase to the subscription plan, here’s your first opportunity to buy just one. At San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Ferg and Grody Shogun will be releasing an Unpainted White Young Gohst. This awesome collaboration stands 3” tall and is made of soft Japanese vinyl.

The San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Exclusive Unpainted White Young Gohst vinyl figure by Ferg and Grody Shogun has a limited edition run size of 50 pieces, and will retail for $35 each exclusively at DKE Toys SDCC booth #4728 on Saturday, July 14th at 4pm when both Ferg and Luke Rook will be on hand for a signing.

Grody Shogun Shooting Blanks from Lulubell Toy Bodega

Lulubell Toy Bodega released some really exciting news yesterday for all the Grody Shogun fans out there. After tons of requests for blank Grody Shogun figures for artist collaborations and customs, the Lulubell team has decided to give everyone a chance at their own artist run of figures or customs by planning a very special Grody Shogun Shooting Blanks for April. Luke and Amy are constantly changing the game and coming up with innovative ideas that in my opinion are so great for our little corner of the art world. I just wish some of the larger toy companies would follow their example!

So here are the details of Lulubell’s Grody Shogun Shooting Blanks Event: for one week only all of the original Grody sculpts (Ojisan, Karakuri, Monster and Ensorcelled Man) will be available for purchase as unpainted blanks with no maximums! Seven colors in all will be available: clear and 6 mystery blind bagged colors (order 6 colored figures of any sculpt to get one of each). And get this, all blanks will be offered this time only at discounted pricing to allow for reasonably priced artist runs and customs! The Grody Shogun Shooting Blanks Event starts at 8am PST on April 12th and will last for one full week. All pre-ordered items will be delivered by June.

This is every collector’s chance to finally get their hands on that Grody figure they’ve been looking for, and every artist’s chance to do their very own run of customs. Even better still, if you do a set of custom Grody figures, Lulubell will promote your run its email newsletter the week before it goes up for sale on your site. And if you end up doing any one off Grody customs, you can submit it to be part of the “Mighty Morphin Grody Mash-Up Show,” the first ever Grody Shogun custom show September 7th at Lulubell.