SubCultures at SDCC: Meet Yasuhiro Nightow, CREATE-A-MATE, Get Ripped-off by Rex Ganon!

The Panel: SubCultures: Toy Revolution!
The Topics: Toys as Art, The Designer Toy niche, Easy 15 minute dinners that feed 5!

We are very lucky to have Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow joining us to talk about his wonderful company Toy Tribe and the cutting edge products of Kaiyodo. Then Let's all get bitter and talk about the things we hate! After that we'll take your questions and finally pay you off with free toys for enduring this boredom.

And this year we will be frisking the plebeians for rotten fruit. We don't need another Elizabethan volley of boos and food towards the panelists.

Saturday July 24th: 3:00-4:00 SubCultures: Toy Revolution! - The world of Action Figures and Toys is changing in monumental ways! Thanks in part to the emerging culture of Designer Toys, mere playthings are now considered WORKS OF ART! Talk and Listen to Digger (President Art Asylum), Yasuhiro Nightow (ToyTribe, Trigun Creator), MAD, Tristan Eaton (KidRobot), Achy Breaky Toys, Casey Lau (Hyperchild) and many more artists, designers, and nar-do-wells! FREE TOY GIVEAWAYS! Room 3

Create-A-Mate Competion

Want to Design your own Minimate? Stop by Art Asylum's Booth to see some of the killer enteries so far in the CREATE-A-MATE COMPETITION! We will have a few hand panted prototypes on display so you can see the competition. if you're feeling lucky you can even register!

Remember the top 3 designs get made into REAL TOYS! Hooray! You can register at the show and throw your hat into the ring. Contest ends August 6th 2004.

Art Asylum booth # 4429 www.artasylum.com

Rex Ganon Convention Exclusive Rip-off!

While you're at SDCC throw your money away on the remote possibility of getting one of the 10 hand painted Rex Ganons. Even though SubCultures is a small company, we can still stick it to the fans like the big boys! These special figures will be randomly packed amongst the limited 2,500 Rex Ganon Figures available from Plan B Toys! Good Luck finding one, suckers!

The Exclusives are as follows:
Battle Damaged Rex
Bearded Sailor Rex
Burple Rex
GermAsian Royal Guard
Golden Legs of Rex Ganon
Metro-Sexual Rex
Rex's Roommate Vaughn (not Rex)
SilvaBot Rex
Think Pink Rex
Tiger Python Trooper Rex

If you hunt around the convention floor, you should be able to find Rex Ganon creator R Hunter and have him sign your Rex... sure to increase the price you'll get for it on eBay!

Rex Ganon figures are available at Plan B Toys booth # 4129

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About SubCultures Design:

SubCultures Design is responsible for keeping an ear to the ground to find the next up and coming toy designers. With a traveling art exhibit that showcases their unique talent, and a network of press and websites, they can spread the word in both a grassroots and major way.

Thanks to partnerships with Plan B Toys and Art Asylum, SubCultures produces Its own cutting edge products like The Indestructible Rex Ganon, and fan involved events like the Create-A-Mate Competition. This Fall SubCultures proudly releases Ahn Tran's Tranimals, a handmade plush line available at Tower Records.