2 posts tagged “october”
I was labeled a Gwin fanboy recently. While I was slightly offended at first, I quickly realized it was true. Never considered myself a fanboy. I don't live in a basement, I don't haunt dark alleyways looking for comics, I bath regularly. Geek, nerd, loser maybe but never a fanboy. Oh well. Guess I'll have to move back in with my mom now.
Why was a called a Gwin fanboy? Because I've been geeking over the mini gwins that were released at San Diego Comic Con last month. Well I finally got some. 3 to be exact with a perfect little Z.O.M.B.I.E. (who hopefully will be the start or a giant Z.O.M.B.I.E. horde). They arrived on my doorstep Monday and I've been playing with them ever since. Each mini gwin came in a small bag containing an "I play with toys" sticker, a zombie magnet and was attached to an October Toys keychain. "Best promo idea ever!"
The Z.O.M.B.I.E. came carded and bagged, individually numbered 1-50. Mine is number 7. He even has a 7 on the bottom of his feet. He's great! The perfect zombie comic con attendee. He has glasses, backpack, Star Trek shirt, no fat chicks sticker, comic con badge, poster tube. You can almost hear him panting and wheezing as he hunts for free swag and fresh brains.
The blank black gwin didn't get much camera time, but the little ones are such camera hogs it was hard to squeeze him in. I'll make it up to him somehow.
Lock up the women and children, hide the food and dispose of any incriminating evidence, the Gwin's have invaded.
Well my house anyway.
Wow! That's a lot of penguins!
So I'm back to toys today and what cool little toys they are. Small little penguins called Gwins produced my October Toys (www.octobertoys.com or www.gwinarmy.com). And now I have them all (well almost but we'll get to that). Thanks to the internet, some searching, some hard work and the kindness of some people behind the Gwins I now have what I am comfortable calling a Gwin Army. WooHoo! So let's break this down, a base inspired by the linux mascot, a roster of artists and the results is 2 series of really cool toys with a third on the way.
Here's series 1:
Series 2:
And then there are blanks and clear gwins. So you can create your own and show the world how you too can design a great toy.
And exclusives. What would a toy line in today's world be without exclusives? Everybody has them and the Gwins do too. Convention exclusives from last year (including a Glow in the Dark Octogwin - that is freakishly bright!) and a promo Classic Fred Gwin from the Bat Day at the Park event from a couple years back.
I'm almost caught up. Dok A customized a few of his into bloody "gore" edition Gwins and is selling them on his site.
So of course I had to have one of those, but now I have to impatiently wait for it to arrive. And then there is the mega-gwin, the 13" grand-daddy gwin to watch over al the mini-gwins. Do I break my mini streak and buy one? Maybe. It's certainly worth it, and none of the gwins have disappointed me yet, so probably but we will have to wait and see.
These are great vinyl toys, and amazingly affordable at $8 a pop (minus the exclusives of course) and with series 3 recently announced:
Squidboy - Night of the Living Gwin
Jim Koch - Goofball
Lou Pimentel - Snack Time
Hideous Boi - Tombstone
Billy Rawley - Barbarigwin
it looks like the Gwins are here to stay.
It's not to late to pick up most (if not all of them) easily. So get going, buy them, support them and start your Gwin Army today.
And when you're done check out toybreak a great podcast from the crew at October toys.
http://www.toybreak.com/