Agreed! Altar Beast looks awesome... this is the first I'm seeing of it. Is it from something, or an original creation for the toy?
It is an original idea that i worked on with artist mark rudolph who does a lot of illustrations for decibel magazine. My inspiration was mostly Fruit Brute, jack Kirbys Hulk and jack davis EC comic covers. I wanted to make a 2 piece figure to keep it at a lower price point.
That would be Monster 5 in japan, he also did cannibal ff for me. And good bit of other western type toys. Im tryin but it will be a long while
Thursday, July 21 2011 All Star Bazaar - Open - 2pm A smorgasbord of Global Figure goodness including mini minis from UAMOU, new Millennial Monsters from BloBpuS, Barbarians from Frenzy Bros., new aliens from Galaxy People PLUS select goodies from the FIG-X.JP warehouse. Team Europa - 2pm - close The Tarantulas, Triclops & Bruno Orbit bring a touch of Continental Class to the Symposium. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 22 2011 All Star Bazaar - Open - 1pm Return of the morning buffet of figure entrees. Paul Kaiju - 1pm - 3pm The West Coast Master of Monsters will hold forth with a cornucopia of his latest creations. Suckadelic - 3pm - 5pm The East Coast King of Bootleg Action Figures holds court with a bevy of hot Necromancer exclusives and sexy sidekicks. Monster Worship - 5pm - 7pm Newcomer to the Symposium - Monster Worship will be dropping new vinyl goodness from their All Star roster including Johnny Ryan, Jeff Lam and Mark Rudolph. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 23, 2011 All Star Bazaar - Open - 12pm Your first stop in the morning to tide you over for a long Saturday of Figure overload. L'Amour Supreme & Fiends - 12pm - 2pm Illustrator Provocateur L'Amour Supreme is bringing an All-Star entourage of artists to the table for 2 hours of creative chaos. Rumored yet unconfirmed names culled from the Twitosphere have included Skinner, Count Chocula, TWERPS, the Creature from Laguna Beach, COOP, and Beezelbub Jr. Monstre Sean's Resin Emporium - 2pm - 5pm Monstre Hero and UHOH toys team up to bring us a crunchy selection of cutting edge Resin-based Figures Vectar's Saturday Night Special - 5pm - 7pm He's Baaaack. Second tier toy villain crashes the Symposium to drop a glyos-compatible version of himself. He will be joined in his capers by SideKick Lab. It might get messy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, July 24, 2011 The Final Battle: All Stars versus the End of Time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This years GFS is once again proudly hosted by Onell Design & Rawshark Studios.
Altar Beast = Altered Beast= Hundreds of dollars of hard earned money spent at the Arcade= Good Times Had By All!
The Kirby Hulk is definitely there... came out awesome! Will have to check out some of Rudolph's art.
Nice to see I'm still relevant! Philly never had a huge scene for Japanese vinyl, but that's why Skylar and I got on an airplane and went to SDCC, Kimono My House, and Super 7 for our toys. If you need it more regularly, you gotta fly or move. If you are staying on the east coast, NYC is your best bet, but the only real shop out here is Toy Tokyo. I miss you guys & SDCC, We're gonna be in CA within the month for the D23 expo, but missing comic con this year because of it. Have fun dudes!
I am definitely feeling the EC vibe off that guy. Really great work. And I have to second the props on that All-Star poster. Ralph Niese did an amazing job with the character line-up. Love it!!
Dude you realize 99% of the toys on here are an homage to some classic/vintage toy/comic/movie right? Are Gargamel/BxH/Secret Base/S7 lazy too? Gotta boost that post count before you get to be all "hardcore" like that
Before you talk shit about the release and call something crappy...why don't read the whole blurb. The alter beast is a mascot for MW and that was the original idea that he was referencing. The Transformation print from months ago from Rudolph however was a direct play on the Hulk transformation. They openly credit it and state it in the sales link. TRANSFORMATION 19×10.5″ 5-color screen print Lavish 5-color screen print on French’s Paper. Limited run of 54 hand numbered and signed by the artist, Mark Rudolph. The Transformation is a play on the Jack Kirby Hulk transformation sequence from the 60s. The character is a mascot I designed for Monster Worship, a producer of limited edition vinyl toys, art prints and apparel. (Limited to 13 copies) Price includes shipping.
LOL you sound so disappointed like you were looking forward to this before it was even announced and then let down, almost seems personal? How would this PANEL be a HOMAGE if it didn't have the same layout and design? "This piece is homage to one of my favorite panels of Jack Kirby's Hulk, and introduces the world to one of Monster Worship's newest characters, the Altar Beast! " --- Keep it coming MW, I love this figure!
