PETERKATO

Return of Bad Knight

It's been awhile since the Robotic Knight has been seen & with many requests for its return I have worked hard on bringing him back in one of my favorite colors of all time: Metallic Blue. This color combo ( with the shield red & eyes yellow) reminds me of the old japanese robot Tetsujin 28 ( aka Gigantor ). There will be 8 pieces for this edition & each 3.5 inch figure is priced at $40 each piece hand painted and hand produced. Figure will go on sale Thursday 8pm eastern time here...

Here's a discovery I found on instagram. It's called the little red door & the artist here makes these cute ceramic mini houses in a variety of choices. Whether its a gnome-like house, cherry bushed house, or customizable alphabet houses ( like the ones I had ordered) they are all hand-made, all beautiful. They reminded me of the Valentine Day Turtle Tetsujins I had done earlier in the year. Toni the artist of the little red door had included some wonderful gifts, candies, postcards and to my surprise extra houses! I got a great red house with a little black...

To my surprise earlier in the week I had received a tweet from the Design Toy Awards group. I found out that my Japan Charity figures , the Hinomaru Turtle Tetsujins had been entered into two catagories for this years awards: Best Self-Produced & Best Toy of the Year.

To be included on the list with so many veterans in this industry is really amazing. I honestly thought it was a mistake of some kind( like some twitter-hacking prank or something), but as I checked the link to the DTA 2012 pages I saw that my figure was up there...

Please check out my video interview on Kaiju Korner by Andy where I get to talk about my resin figures , toy history & plans

for the coming year! http://kaijukorner.blogspot.com/2012/03/interview-with-peter-kato.html

It's like 15 minutes so I'd check it out when you can unwind for a minute~

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Went to myplasticheart and happily restocked the special Hinomaru Turtle Tetsujin Japan Charity figures. It's wonderful that they are selling, huge thans to the staff of myplasticheart for all their continued efforts in raising funds for the people of Japan that were affected by last years tsunami/earthquake disister. Each is selling for $25 & all proceeds go to the charity. Thank you all~

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Please check out the article by Vinyl Pulse!

 http://www.vinylpulse.com/2012/03/peter-kato-x-myplasticheart-hinomaru-charity-edition-turtle-tetsujin.html

Thank you Edward for the write up! Super nice !

http://toysetc.livejournal.com/350477.html

Thanks Niall for the awesome write up & side banner~!

http://man-e-toys.com/2012/03/02/man-e-news-turtle-tetsujin-hinomaru-charity-special-from-peter-kato/

wow Andy! Thank you so much for the great post! So fast I couldn't believe it!!!

http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2012/03/japan-charity-edition-hinomaru-turtle.html 

We were so thrilled to hear from our favorite magazine, Clutter!

Thank you so much for helping get the word out on these figures BIG thank you for your support!  

http://tinyurl.com/82rwv9l