PETERKATO

Tuesday April 15th the nyc gallery toystore myplasticheart will release their colorwave for my Bedtime Bunnies. The assortment includes a color variation of light violets, chic yellows, light blues all with contrasting bunnie-slippers. The gallery-store has always been very supportive of my pieces so it was a pleasure to give them such a varied "easter" batch. This time the batch have been organized as a blind assortment so i have included a special chase figure, one golden bunnie with a black felted bottom. I hope you like the figures & please stop in at myplasticheart if you're in...

 So my daytime job is at this artists studio in NY called John Derian Co. where we focus on producing handmade decoupage plates, platters, paperweights, coasters and bowls . His designs are sold at upscale home stores, in catalogs, and gift shops worldwide. It's a wonderful place to work where the people are very good to me. I get to assist in design & production and have learned many unique skills that I otherwise would not have gotten to learn had I not worked here. Artist HealeyMade actually worked here first( as one of the skilled artisans in production) & got...

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 artists interview on myplasticheart ! This wonderful little store has been so supportive of my work from day one!

Big thanks to Jessica for the interview~

  http://www.myplasticblog.com/interviews/interview-with-peter-kato/

  Check out bifuteki a blog(new to me) that put up a posting about the "Metal Fusion" Turtle Tetsujins. 

The blog is not just about toys & has a very interesting selection of stuff. Please check it out!

http://www.bifuteki.com/2012/04/mph-x-peter-kato-metal-fusion-turtle-tetsujin/

http://www.spankystokes.com/2012/04/peter-katos-metal-fusion-turtle.html

 Thank you Niall of Man-E-Toys for your wonderful posting~!

http://man-e-toys.com/2012/04/25/man-e-news-the-new-metal-fusion-yellow-and-silver-turtle-tetsujins-from-peter-kato-x-myplasticheart/

 Super blogger Andy of Toysrevil was the first to post the news of two Turtle Tetsujin exclusives for myplasticheart. They are part of the "Metal Fusion" series that we will be seeing in our figures coming up. These first two are simply known as Orange & Silver version.

Check out the link to see the post!

http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2012/04/turtle-tetsujin-metal-fusion-exclusives.html

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/