Further to the 2000ad-related posts this week to mark the comic’s 35th birthday here’s a nicely timed gem that turned up recently on Pete Fowler‘s blog. In 2005 I took part in an exhibition in London curated by Playlounge called ‘Zarjaz’, the brief being for artists who were fans of the comic to reinterpret any character in their own way. I chose to do a fantasy cover that never was featuring Torquemada, a Terminator and the many tunnels of Termight, a homage to Kevin O’Neill and very influenced by this cover, which I later managed to acquire from him. In hindsight it’s a bit overworked but I included it as an oddity in the current exhibition at the Pure Evil Gallery as the timing seemed good.

Anyway, another artist in the ‘Zarjaz’ exhibition was Pete Fowler, who did a gorgeous T-shirt design featuring Nemesis as one of his wood sprites, which I love and still wear to this day. Amazingly he’s just unveiled a toy version of the same design (maybe as a tie-in to the anniversary?) that he’s done with Togetherplus. I’ll be wanting one of them then.

The sequel is here (you know, the one everyone loves the most), new SW-themed 2 track 7″ with attached vintage figure. Also, if you missed it last time, they’ve repressed the first Rave Wars. Be quick, 200 copies of each only, more pics when I get mine in the post.

On sale Jan 6th 9.00 Hong Kong time from 3A Toys. Might have to be an early birthday present to myself. I’m told he’s doing a version of Mazinger and possibly Gundam too if this goes well.

This just has my name written all over it – coming soon from 3A and Bandai

The boys and I had a little spacecraft build-off the other day – each person has to make a ship out of the parts contained in one tray of Lego.

No cheating and dibbing into other boxes for parts and it’s first come first served on who gets what, you go until you’ve finished your ship or all the parts are used up.

The I Am Legion custom toy show featuring bastardised versions of 3A toys opened yesterday at the 1:AM gallery in San Francisco, It’s at 1000 Howard St. SF, ca 94103 and is open until Dec 4th. See some of the amazing customizations in the gallery below and my previous post. All photos grabbed from posters on the 3A forum, especially RmOS1.0. Love the Hellboy one

Regular blog readers will have noticed a love for Ashley Wood‘s 3A toy company and its works and his legion of fans are putting on a custom show in the 1:AM gallery in San Francisco in two weeks time. A blank severed Bot head was given to each participant, to customise as they wish but it seems a few have gone outside the brief too with amazing results. Over at the 3A forum there has been a slow reveal of some of the custom creations set to appear and the overall quality and ingenuity of some of the pieces is staggering. Wish I could see some of these in the, er… plastic. More to come once the show opens hopefully.

Available now: 11 separate figures for $85 each or one humongous 11 figure set for $650 – from 3A‘s Bambalandstore

Well, that’s the Xmas present sorted

Remember this painting? Here’s the first finished prototype, debuted at a Hong Kong Toy Fair a few weeks ago, check the amazing camera work in the video too.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Want!  … so bad