Chaaa-ching!

so is this the 22nd chapter?

I like the Clockwork Orange concept.
I like the Egg.
I like outfits.
I like accessories.

I dont like the 4 [expletive deleted] platform.


ps. what is that nipple on the the eggs head? is there a suprise inside?

I think that's the windup key in the back.

yeah thats the top of the windup key.

I do have the exclusive Preston Blair License, so a bunch of Blair figs will start coming out in 2007.

I will probably release the Dog and the Buzzard first. Im pretty excited about that,Blair rules.



the Ultraviolence set is a total run of 600 sets in 3 different color combos

400 sets for the us and 200 in Asia.

I have sold through my orange colorway ( I have 5 sets left) and will cap the preorder list today actually.

other things in manufacture right now that you can look forward to hating:

Mongers Menthols: 21 new sculpts, 1.5"-2" size blind box carton of 24
Chumps Crime Family:13 new sculpts,2 patterns each,2.5" size
Usagi-Gon-5 colorways, 100 pieces each colorway:Fullcolor,GID,clear,clear purple,clear Orange
Ho Chi Minh 16" flocked Resin bust with hat and ak47 ;100 pieces,50 red,50 blue
8" murder [expletive deleted] with 1/10 Jack Torrance chase
16" Stalin Bust in vinyl
Big Mongers:6"-12" size range

Labbits!

Bondage mini 5 pack
Jungle Magic flocked mini 5 pack
Easter Labbit: 5" or 10"

and..due to overwhelming request 8 new styles 10" Labbit.

Big Army Men: 16" versions of plastic army men with non violent accessory for peaceniks. Or straight up weapons for not.

...so much hate...so little time.

Im definately about getting paid. I love money. I also love doing these toys,its way fun.

getting paid to design toys rules.

what's the cost on the violence set?

65.00 MSRP for the 5 pack and the accessories. the accessories actually cost me more than the figures! (4 hats,4 weapons,windup key)

No doubt you have an awesome job, and are great at what you do. But, are you actually proud of your designs? When you sketch up the Mongers are you like "Hell yeah! These fucking rule!" ?
I look at your merchandise and I see about 5 minutes of design time. It seems like you make a quick sketch and that's the end of your design work. From there it goes to a sculptor who does all the work. I know most people use other people to sculpt their concepts - but their concepts look like they actually took a bit of time. Take a look at your sketches that you post on your forum...beyond those, what do you do? Or these Mao busts - do you just tell someone "Put a nicked set of Mickey ears on him and stick a cig in his mouth"?
I know there's a lot more to the business than just coming up with the design - but what you do just seems so lazy. I really am interested in what you do (design-wise) beyond the sketches you post on your forum - my curiosity is as sincere as my hate for your toys. As is my admiration for your business sense...

its way harder to make the simple looking designs. I do full 6 views etc all by hand.

try it sometime. its not as easy as it looks.

I am not a sculptor, so indeed, I use pros.

I do make real elaborate scratchbuilt mechanical things though, but those are not part of the 'production toy world'.

I am always trying to make the designs as simple as possible, as the really really simple ones always seem to be way more popular.

I am totally proud of my stuff.

I have been able to release over 100 different toys since 2003, and many more to come. It was a dream and now its reality.

and thus far, they toy thing has been like...ultra-successful as far as I am concerned.

I have to turn down offers.


I have been a full time graphic designer for nearly 25 years.

I am no 'artist'. I am a full time self employed graphic designer.

deal with it.

when did everyone start dissing you, Frank?

I love the mongers.

technically, to do the mongers I ended up doing about 120 finished technical drawings
all in proportion and so one.

and 13 'hero' drawings

so a total of 133 finished drawings, all of which where scanned in and then

set up as color and pattern spec sheets, 6 per figure

so that was a total of about 79 master files .

and none of the digital work was run on scripts, its all 'hands on' vector.

and layouts and templates created for the individual boxes, the master carton etc.

all in all the mongers took about 180 hours to do. Thats actually hands on time.

I am curious about this Preston Blair license...... Does the estate get a cut of the profits? Or are you just paying the estate for the name? Or did you set this up to pay the estate back for all of the images of his you "graphic designed?

people have always dissed me over the years.

comes with the territorry.

no, it seems to be much more vocal these days...especially around this board.


Anyone care to chime in?

Off topic, but

Frank, did you make it to the Super 7 openning last Friday? I kept looking for you in costume. . .

The Blair Estate gets a % of figure profits. Normal license deal.

to be fair to the dissers,
you could point to threads titled "bring the hate" and "more hate"

wheres my popcorn??

its because of this

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LOL,

I am pissed I missed the S7 opening but my old computer died thursday and me and my girlfriend where up until like 5 am thursday and friday nights setting up a new system.

it was a nightmare, but luckily, shes a fuckin genius with that shit so everything made it intact from the bombed out puter to the new system.

the new S7 store kicks ass.

the thing I find interesting/telling is that here we have an artist signed up under his own name getting lambasted by a buncha faceless folks under assumed handles. Now there's some balls.

Anyone heard the title track to William Shatner's "Has Been" album?

For the record (not that I think anyone gives a rat's ass, mind you), my name is Corey Edwards and that ugly mug I'm presently using as an icon is my own (I'm mucho handsomer in real-life, however)

Yeah I never really have understood the 'anonymous' aspect of these sorts of things, but its cool with me. Its easy to criticize when you yourself are hidden away...so I dont really take the hate too seriously.

But, sitting in the studio all day gets boring so I tend to post on lots of forums, feels less isolated that way. Multitasking,if you will.

Ironically, I have very good relationships with all the japanese toy makers you guys love. And like Flynn and ramos etc...

now..if they start to hate on me, then I'll take it seriously,as I actually know them and what they do etc.

to be honest,... I don't understand the hate myself. The man is a major player in an industry where we're fans of. He wants to put out these toys, (might not be for us) more power to him. Can't we all just get along?