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Category Is...Sneak Peek DCon Exclusives


DCON + ON + ON! I can't believe another year has flown by and we are about to have an encounter with likely the biggest and best Designer Con, like ever! We simply refer to it in the scene as DCon dontchaknow. But I digress, partly because I regret to not be in attendance this year (again!!!). This is likely the most focal convention that brings together independent toymakers and artisans once a year! Not to worry, I am certain that some laudable folk out there will be reporting.

There will be lots of surprises this year, including a special exhibition called Toy Within A Toy. For now, at least from a birds-eye view, I can share all these wonderful, announced exclusives (to date). Besides for the figures and pins (below) they will have lots of other handmade and small run geeky goodies on hand, including books, prints, dioramas, posters, and much more. These come from a melody of makers and they are all posted right here as well - stay tuned as these announcements will broaden as the Con comes closer to date. I am promising myself to get there next year, this year was a bit difficult with family responsibilities, and pre-holiday expenses (art people's problems)! Oh, just to nudge you a tad, Tara McPherson and Paul Frank will be there (along with 350 other vendors and artists)!!!

Hats off to Ben and all the organizers! Here's a swatch of glam shots to tickle your soul.

Kidrobot will be there an in full force. On offer they have an official patch, enamel pin (melting ice cream and capsules), as well as Dunnys from Jenn & Tony Bot as well as a GID mini Bugga Bugga from Scott Tolleson from his Odd Ones series. And more....

The Art Of Rizzo Michelle will have some soft toys on offer, cute and creamy!

Concrete Jungle Studio will unveil this incredibly wacky mashup of Wolverine (Stanley Collectible). Limited to only 25, he has changeable magnetic heads. Oh yeah!

One of our absolute fave new artists, Horrible Adorables are in the haus with Ta'noose, a soft mini creature that hangs on your wall. 6" x 7". Look at those big black pools for eyes!

Japanese artist Konatsuya / QPop is bringing two creatures in very different moods. These are Shibara + Sleeping Negora (both Brown Spot Versions). Vinyl, so soft.

Here comes Zebulon with Bonsai and he comes with a hand-knit scarf, so warm and cuddly. Only 30 of these cute thangs.

We are in love with Plain Old Apes and desperately want one, from Barely Human. Oh.

Naomi Knaff is bringing a whole cast of 4.5" characters, or colorways, of her LaTouffe exploding lady whale. Packaged with a header card - the colors look sublime.

These two soft toys, The Pug of Painting Plush Set, come from Nerfect Artistic Novelties and will be available for the super decent $30/set (only 25/exclusive)! Grab those first :)

Pink Owlet have a couple of crazy space cat enamel pins on hand, UFO Cat + Astro Cat.

Firestarter Design, who we've mentioned in these pages a few times, will have the light of the night, or better said, a Glow-In-The-Dark exclusive in the form of Meowwrendi. She's only made 25 pf these cool fat cats and they will run for $70 smackers and measure 2.5" tall. Sculpted by Whalerabbit. Yo.

What could have possibly inspired this? My go-to food group, Pizza! This is an absolutely delectible 7" flipper, Mushroom on one side and Pepperoni (skipless toppings, too) on Side A! From Roman Cortez, these will be tasty cuts as they say.

BLACK LIGHT WONDER: Lastly while we still got you bated and sated, Wonder Goblin Toys will have on offer at least two gorgeous and psychedelic figures in their booth (1106). Watch for Queen Hagopuss and Fungoid Man! These will be 10" tall and they will only have ten of them total, so expect some happy collector squealing!

JUST A TASTE: Expect a veritable monsoon of other things to be announced, so if you want to keep in the loop, remember to either bookmark us here or Like us on Facebook for daily info nibbles.

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