A solicitation for Dr. Destruction Original has just been sent by our distributor (DKE Toys) to retailers. Dr. Destruction Original should start arriving at your favorite Designer Toy Store in the next coming weeks.In celebration of the release, here's a gorgeous picture Jerry took. The menacing vibe he captured was inspired by Super7's latest Book.

As mentioned in previous posts, I'm all about basketball. Love playing the game. I even coached a team back in high school with Mista Hippo...and I love watching the Lakers.I know it's easy to hate the Lakers and Kobe Bryant...but, man, for a while there (while Center Andrew Bynum was healthy) the Lakers were playing some deadly basketball. I was shocked and saddened to see Bynum get injured in the Grizzlies game this past Sunday. But, fortunately, he's supposed to be back in 2 months.The Lakers have a LOT to work on while Bynum recovers from his knee injury. Even if they won against the Sonics this past Monday, they did not look good. Defense was super weak without the presence of the shot blocking Bynum...and you could tell that Lamar Odom and Derek Fisher felt awkward adapting to their new responsibilities without Bynum.I'm a bit worried about the next few weeks. Lakers have a nasty schedule with games against the Suns, Spurs, and Cavs all coming up. Call me crazy, but I strongly feel that if the Lakers are able to be #1 in their Division (which is tough because of the Suns), they're guaranteed to make it to the Western Conference Finals (assuming Bynum will be at 90-100% by Playoff time).My dream? Lakers Vs. Celtics Finals. I know it's a bit ridiculous to dream of...but it's not as far off as everyone thinks!Here's an old but classic clip from last year. Bynum Vs. Shaq. Bynum's grown significantly as a center since then but, to me, this is when Bynum really became a MAN! :-)

Vinyl Pulse has an exclusive look at Moko from the upcoming Tcho! Mini-Figure line. The entire line has really come together during the last few round of sculpts. Moko is definitely one of our favorites (actually, all the sculpts are amazing!)...which is fitting since Moko comes from Ohm's Bao Battle comic and Ohm also happens to be the designer of the entire figure line.At first we were haven't a bit of difficulty getting the right shape for the mask. The sculptors, Lester and Erick Sosa, were impeded by the idea that the mask should be a separate piece from the head. It was a nice idea, but the result was the mask felt far too detached and detracted from the overall shape of the figure. Once we decided to sculpt the mask as part of the head, the sculpting process was a very smooth one.A small addition that made a world of difference was making the eyes raised. Originally we were going for just an outline of the eye. But, based on the wonderful suggestion by Ohm, we decided to create a raised relief for facial details on all the figures. It was a brilliant suggestion that made all the figures that much better.Check our more pics of Moko HERE.

Here are some nice pics of a rough El Gladiator Mini-Figure. It was sculpted by William of Sosa Studios (our favorite sculptors) as a test to prove his sculpting ability. We've been wanting to do a Luchadores5 Mini-Figure line for some time. Seeing this quick little rough makes us want to begin it even more!This is NOT a final figure sculpt. In fact, William did this sculpt for free using only 1 quick sketch of a Super Deformed El Gladiator. Considering the lack of resources, William did an amazing job!This figure is super small (as is suggested by it's size next to Jerry's immaculate hands! ;-) ). When we finally begin production on a Luchadores5 Mini-Figure line, I think we'll do something a bit bigger and more to scale with the Mini Tcho Line: probably around 3 inches (10cm).Still, seeing this sculpt in person makes it easy to dream about how beautiful a line of such figures will be!

Here are the first pics we've received from our factory of the Molly Vinyl Prototype. This version of the figure is made from the Master Mold to get a sense of how the original sculpt transferred over to the silicone molding process.I'm guessing a bit here, because my contact in China did not give me any details...but I believe the maroon legs are still done in wax. I requested that the Muttpop logo be engraved in the bottom of the right foot...so they haven't made a new silicone mold with this correction.Also, I requested that they give Molly's head a ball joint (similar to Red Demon) to ensure that the figure has maximum head poseability.Thus far, I'm pretty happy with how Molly is turning out. Jerry just put the final touches on the box design which is amazing (I love ALL of Jerry's box designs). We were initially bummed because we thought we had to follow the Oban Star Racer product guidelines for the box...but after submitting our rough, the President of Sav! The World said that we should unleash that Muttpop magic on a revised design. We did and the final box is sharp and snazzy.We'll share that with you later!

I'm going to change things up a bit and do a few posts today. Lots of fun news discovered and I figured instead of holding off on it and make the blog irrelevant to the latest news, I'll do small bits about each of them.These next few days should be pretty exciting on the Video Game front since CES is happening in Las Vegas. The PS3 is getting a nice resurgence due to the appararent Blu Ray/HD DVD coup by Paramount. It looks like the next generation of Video Media will be Blu Ray.This is a huge breakthrough for Sony. A lot of companies don't like to support Sony media because they are such a huge multi-media corporation. Beta, Mini-Disc, UMD, Memory Cards...Sony's lost practically all media format wars for the last 30 years. Forcing the Blu Ray format on the PS3 can attribute to it's initial high cost and slow start as a next gen system...but it's looking like its all finally paying off.This shouldn't affect the XBox 360...but it validates PS3 as a long term contender. Even with all this talk of the Wii console sales and the crazy amounts of software the 360 manages to sell...Sony stays competitive by being an affordable next gen HD video player.I STILL need an HD TV...so it doesn't have any affect on me...but it's fun to see how it all unravels. In fact, my buddies make fun of my 19" Magnavox Tube! Hey, it's better than the 13" VHS/TV combo we were using for a couple years. The Magnavox EVEN has an S-Video input! :-)