Disassemble it Yourself Optimus Prime

Today I'm sharing the eight inch version of Optimus Prime from The Loyal Subjects series one. First off, this toy was primed before I took the pictures, which is a straight work in progress shot this time. I took this toy apart using a hair dryer for about a minute per socket. The sockets are grossly over sized and lots of trimming was needed. The  oversized sockets are scale from the three inch version- which will be a future blog.

Disassemble it Yourself Noobz

Not just for beginners. Today I took apart this guy. This is a Noobz from Blizzard. It's a pretty cool toy, but it's toys like this that inspired this series.

First off, I used a blow dryer to soften up the joints then pulled them out. It took less than five minutes to do. Looking at the mushroom sockets afterwards; I would definitely trim them before reattaching. 

After taking this guy apart around some sockets were globs of greasy goo. I'm not sure if it was mold release or due to the tight sockets the manufacturer had to lube them up before putting them together. Definitely creates the cause to wash them before working on them though.

Disassemble it Yourself Tequila edition

The second installation of this blog theme comes from Muttpop's Tequila. This behemoth stands over eight inches tall. The head is the only articulating part, however, there is more to take apart!

I used a hair dryer for about two minutes and pulled it off with some force. The Tequila is glued at the arms and waiste. I used a hair dryer here too. The glue gave way and with a little force the parts came free.

When reattaching I would trim the mushroom socket on the head. For the arms and waiste I would use PVC cement. Just make sure the connect points are clear.

There goes Halloween!

Halloween has come and gone. These toys were made for a Halloween party and now they are up for grabs super cheap! Twenty five bucks for the seven inch toys and $125 for the Mega Munnys. They have all be primed, painted and finishedenjoy and thank you for looking!

The theme for the party was "A Nightmare Before Christmas" and I took it a bit far going with some toys theme simply around Tim Burton characters or concepts such as Beetlejuice, Frankweenie etc. etc.

You can find these guys on sale over here: www.ricstroh.storenvy.com

Beetlejuice!

Frankenweenie

Jack Skelingtor

Duck Decoy Toy

Zombie Tweedle Dum

Zombie Tweedle Dee

Halloween Town Cyclops

My Undead Neighbor Totoro

Pew Pewter Pewtersby (Mega Munny)

Vampire Teddy Bear (Mega Munny)

Jimmy the Devil hits the streets

This is Jimmy, he has a devil suit today. He suit was layered with multiple layers of reds, browns and pinks. It is also black light reactive. Jimmy is cute and has a mischievous smile on his face to show his bad boy side. 

This toy was painted with acrylics on a 7 in Foomi form by Kidrobot.

This guy is available o. Either store, etsy cyclopeangenome or ricstroh.storenvy.com

The Etsy Store

Today was the Japanese Lantern Festival at Como park. I had a great time sharing my art with many of you today. As promised here is a link to my Etsy store and hope this finds you well. Thanks again for showing an interest in my latest art endeavor.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/CyclopeanGenome?ref=search_shop_redirect

Exciting times for art!

http://bit.ly/ZRgYym

I'm currently running the riggers of promoting my Munny Munth creation. The People's Choice award seems attainable this year!

Munny Munth is upon us, must defeat all zombies!

http://bit.ly/ZRgYym

Good morning, I'd like to take this time to ask all who are reading this to please vote on my mega munny. A quick note, "likes" are not votes. I thank you all for the "likes" but you can vote every day. I know I will.  

Munny Munth is upon us. I have this monster entered and would like to achieve the "People's Choice" award. That means voting, and if possible daily.  I am excited to participate in Kidrobot's yearly competition. 

Hail to the Juggers...

A goblin team of juggers. Weapons will soon be added. This fierce team of cempetitors will stand on pedastools and given as awards for a future competition. May the best team win!

Eaters of Mystery Islan

It seems like the list of creatures that are found on Mystery Island continues to grow! This speciman towers 18 inches tall. His nuerological proccessing is exposed to the elements. This evolutionary development may not be the greatest, but visually shows off some old fashioned talent.

Zoot Suit Sam

Meet Sam. He is a seven inch munny/ raffy hybrid. He is loved in all parts of the galaxy. His space suit looks amazing under the sunlight of the dead star in the Kcelboo galaxy and black lights here on planet Earth. He will be on sale on etsy soon enough. For now enjoy hikm in cyberspace in all his painterly glory!

NEW WEBSITE!

Greetings loyal readers!

It is my pleasure at this time to announce ricstroh.com! Over at ricstroh.com you will see art work by me to include: vinyl toys, drawings, painting, CGI imagery and sketchbook concepts. Enjoy ricstroh.com in you leisure!

WINNER! Best ROOZ!

Well the good folks at Kidrobot deemed my Caterpillar Bet Rooz for this year's Munny competition!

Feast your eyes on all its glory!

Gomez from Mystery Island

It all started with this TOBY HK piece bought really cheap.

 It ends with a monster over a cubic foot in size.

One day I'll create a really awesome story for it.

It looks like fishmen

This was a piece for a Christmas show. The show was called "Old Friends" and was the inspiration came from childhood toys. When I was a kid I grew up watching all the 80's cartoons that were nothing more than 22 minute toy commercials. Mer-Man was my favorite character from the He-Man series. Here he is captured on a seven inch Munny.

This guy is on to greener pastures, he was put up and won in a  raffle to benefit Feeding America.

B E H O L D !

Jimmy got a Beholder suit for Christmas too. He also grew a few inches too.

Viva de los diablo!

Looks like Jimmy got himself a devil suit for Christmas.

Mr. Red

Taking the bonsai idea to the Mega Munny stage. However, if I scaled the tree with the munny then it would cease to be a bonsai. I abstracted the tree in a fashion to make it look like a tree from Dr. Seuss.

Rompu

We have: mini, Regular and MEGA!
My sushi loving character in three various sizes.

Regular is still under construction.

The Mega is still under construction (I'm glad he didn't sell last week) it's time to take advantage of the that huge head.

Little Tiny Eagles

The long wait of finishing my first hand painted series is done. I have 20 baby eagle done and ready to be put in packages. They should sell for $25.