PETERKATO

The largest, chunkiest figure I have made to date at 3 inches high and 1& 3/4 wide this fella has some weight to it. 

Due to be released nextweek I am excited for everyone to tell me their thoughts on him. 

Here is a test shot of the first piece printed , then sanded and primed.

 Nathan Jurevicius Scary Girl show is rescheduled & refocused with a new goal. Beginning tomorrow Nov 9th, 2012 6pm, the show that now has over 130 artists participating (wow!) looks amazing and now will have 10% proceeds of sales go to help those in need from the Hurricane Sandy disaster. So many are still in need of help so any help you can give( whether buying from the show or donating funds, volunteering , everything is appreciated & needed) spread the word!

Here are my contributions to the Scary Girl festivities! Limited edition to 5 pieces, are these "Blister" using...

NY Comicon is here again~( Oct 11th~14th) & for the last few months I have been preparing for it.

Here's a look at brand new sculpted items as well as classic figure new variants, hope you enjoy~

TAKO-CUBEs : sized at 1.5 inches in height these guys are the grunts of the Space Army series I am beginning to flesh out starting this month. They are small and tough but not too bright they are commonly used as cannon fodder in battles. They are more dangerous in numbers and as a...

 Here are some pics sent to me from SDCC 2012(GiantRobot booth #1729). Wish I were there this year but had to focus everything for some future Productions.

Along with the GiantRobot Turtle Tetsujin exclusive , there are also Tasty Rainbow editions of my other figures & free pins with purchase available at the booth.

Tasty Rainbows~

And free with purchase peterkato x giantrobot pins~

Also I was asked by Toysrevil to give a top-ten toys from SDCC wishlist. Checkout...

 For SDCC 2012 I will be teaming up with Giant Robot for an exclusive Turtle Tetsujin release.

Cast in sea-foam green( chosen by Eric Nakamura of GR) and have accents of goldleaf & clear green paint. The torso this time around will have the Giant Robot Logo: Big Boss Robot imbedded inside it. I have long wanted to work with Giant Robot and am very excited about this collaboration.

They will be $20 each limited to 20 pieces. SDCC booth #1729

http://www.giantrobot.com

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...

 Here are two wonderful instagrammers that were nice enough to make fan art of my characters:

First up is Bodz Zaman ( IG handle: bodzilla ) who loves to draw( like me). Here is his drawing of FrightBite floating through a forest scene:

Next up is an amazing IG collage-weaver mo LaPastequeBleue( IG handle: mohojung ), I had never scene anything like her work on IG before & I'm so lucky that she likes my characters enough to incorporate them into these great little fantasy scenes. Her themes vary from comical to...

 We're finally here & the discounted Blue Harvest stock is all here~! This sale is the first of a "Memorial weekendish Annual sales event", the only difference with this sale is that the stock is all new specifically made for he theme! Enjoy~

 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/

 All Smash Turtle Tetsujins have sold out early this morning! Thank you to all the bloggers, twitter friend retweeters, facebook linkers & instagram likers that help make it happen so fast! Here is an example of one of those supporters on instagram ( username : mohojung) as she creates amazing art collages with mixed media, with my permission she made this on her feed & was a great supporter and got the message out. Thank you again~

 Big thanks to Chris at the Toy Viking for posting awesome write up ! Check it out!

http://www.thetoyviking.com/2012/05/peter-kato-avengers-inspired-resin.html?spref=fb

 Thanks to Nick(trustpig) writer for SpankyStokes on the great Smash series article!

http://www.spankystokes.com/2012/05/peter-kato-plans-to-smash-it-up-in.html

 Andy of Toysrevil featured the Smash series coming out tomorrow!

http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-have-hulk-smash-turtle-tetsujin-by.html

 Check out Man-E-Toys for the posts on the Smash!!! series~ 

http://man-e-toys.com/2012/05/02/man-e-news-the-smash-turtle-tetsujin-and-gamma-shouldiers-from-peter-kato/

 This thursday May 3rd ( 4:30~5pm eastern) inspired by this weekends Avengers movie... we will release the Smash series!

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 I wanted to showcase a few special pics that I had received recently. Some are pics from customers kind enough to send me pics in their locales, others are creative postcards of artwork! Thank you to all who take the time to do this, I really appreciates it! 

This was a Jet Black FrightBite that made its way to Mexico City! I love this shot because it was shot in the main square of the city & it brings me back to when I got to visit this wonderful place. 

  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/