• Spring Forward

    Sunday Mar 23 2014

    A little preview of my latest new figure sculpt for the Spring season~
  • Preview of newest original sculpt figure for February 2014

    Friday Jan 31 2014

    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.

  • Scary Girl Ten Anniversary Group Artshow @ Toy Tokyo Underground

    Thursday Nov 08 2012

     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 2012 Exclusives~

    Sunday Oct 07 2012

     

    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...

  • SDCC 2012 x Giant Robot booth~

    Friday Jul 13 2012

     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...

  • San Diego Comicon Exclusives~

    Tuesday Jul 03 2012

     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



  • Hinomaru Turtle Tetsujin makes it to the Design Toy Awards 2012

    Saturday Jun 16 2012

    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...

  • Thank you to Fan-Art!

    Saturday Jun 02 2012

     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...

  • Blue Harvest Sale is up & running on peterkatoshop.com!

    Thursday May 31 2012

     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~


  • Artist Interview on myplasticheart !

    Wednesday May 23 2012

     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/

       



  • Smash Turtle Tetsujin sold out this morning!

    Friday May 04 2012

     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~


  • The Toy Viking covered Smash series!!!

    Thursday May 03 2012

     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


  • Spankystokes Article on Smash series!!

    Wednesday May 02 2012

     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


  • Toysrevil features the Smash Turtle Tetsujin!!!

    Wednesday May 02 2012

     Andy of Toysrevil featured the Smash series coming out tomorrow!

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


  • Man-E-Toys posts on Smash series!

    Wednesday May 02 2012

     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/


  • Smash!!! series coming this Thursday May 3rd

    Tuesday May 01 2012

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


    Hitting peterkatoshop.com this Thursday May 3rd is the Smash!!! series.

    First up is the Smash Turtle Tetsujin ! $20 each, limited to 8 pcs

    Second the Gamma Shouldiers ! $5 each, limited to 8 pcs as well ( these were from the shock-shouldiers from the pocket power series 1)

    And they'll be some Smash Turtle Tetsujin pin buttons as well~ , $1 each.

  • Thank you to You! Amazing fan pics~

    Friday Apr 27 2012

     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. 


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  • First time on Bifuteki blog on all things awesome!(that's what they said: all things awesome)

    Wednesday Apr 25 2012

      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/

  • Metal-Fusion Turtle Tetsujin on Spankystokes for first time!

    Wednesday Apr 25 2012

     

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

  • Man-E-Toys posts on "Metal Fusion" Turtle Tetsujin!

    Wednesday Apr 25 2012

     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/