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NEW POST: "Happiness is..." a small exhibition of framed printed matters, toys and t-shirts by Eric Wirjanata at the Tree House Kemang. There's no particular concept about the exhibition... so expect a little bit of everything! The show will run at the Tree House Kemang for the whole month of February 2013 and for the opening (February 9th, 2013), there will be live music as well as free booze while supplies last. This should be a fun show, with tons of great art... so don't miss out! http://dlvr.it/2vWsJZ

"Cavey The Sea Wanderer" will retail for $40, is limited to 10 pieces, and comes with a box full of goodies! Each has been handmade, from the handcut felt body and tentacles to the painted details and teeny tiny hand stitched teeth. Each Cavey The Sea Wanderer comes with an exclusive art card not avaliable anywhere else, a canvas bag, black Cavey badge (only avalibale with super rare Caveys!) Thunderpanda stickers and one lucky Cavey collector will win the above original 8"x8" painting... and seeing as there are only 10 pieces, your chances of winning this painting are really good!

Well look who made the long trip to SDCC from Indonesia... it was the collaboration between Thunderpanda and Plastic Culture that we featured HERE before named "Perry The Sea Wanderer", and he was all painted up looking really nice! This guy stands a little over 8" tall and is just about as wide... seeing as it was up at the DKE booth... look for distribution of these figures in the very near future!

First spotted this past year at STGCC 2010 (Singapore Toys Games Comic Convention) was the multiple figure collaboration between Thunderpanda and Plastic Culture that featured new sculpts of a series of characters they are calling "The Wanderers". Today we are getting a close look at the production of one figure in this series... "Perry The Sea Wanderer". As you can see they are moving right along with the production of these resin figures, and in case you were wondering this guy stands a little over 8" tall and is just about as wide! This whole series is pretty stellar, and I really love the sculpting on each figure... especially this one... how can you not like tentacles :-) There is no word on the release yet of these or how much they will retail for but from our last check look for them to retail for less than $100 a piece! More info to come.

Eric Wirjanata aka Thunderpanda has taken his Lemi figure from concept, to sketch, to paper, to plush and now to Lego?!?! That's right folks Lemi the Space Wanderer "Candy Colored" edition is a Lego Brick Sculpture that is made of 325 bricks, and according to Eric "On a sunny day afternoon, Lemi went out for a walk in the park where he had a sudden craving of bright colored candy sold by an old aunty with her hopper... and probably because of the body genetic that didn't go well with the artificial coloring for candies, Lemi himself turned into one bright candy space wanderer." If you dig what you see yo can actually snatch this piece up for your collection, just head over HERE and pull the trigger!

Just revealed at last weekends very HUGE STGCC (Singapore Toys Games Comic Convention) was all three of the upcoming collaborations between Thunderpanda and Plastic Culture. We first showed off the initial sculpt of this new series called 'The Wanderers' where "Kid" the Lava Wanderer(right) looked like a fierce ball of angst and now posing in the picture along with Eric are the two other figures in this series "Perry" the Sea Wanderer(middle), and "Alex" the Forest Wanderer(left)! What we can tell from this picture above is that these figure are really big... in fact "Alex" stands a whopping 12" tall, and standing on his tentacles "Perry" stands 8" tall! These are set to release in limited numbers, and expect them to be under the $100 each! I am really enjoying the sculpts of these figures, and keep your eyes peeled for more info once it drops!

Coming up and being shown this weekend at the very HUGE STGCC (Singapore Toys Games Comic Convention) will be the first figure collaboration between Thunderpanda and Plastic Culture. This will be the first of many character projects that they are calling "The Wanderers". The first figure dubbed Merapi "KID" the Lava Wanderer looks like a fierce ball of angst and you can see this piece in person at booth booth A20 during the convention. There will only be only 20 pieces made. Each piece will have some hand-painted area and will come signed by Thunderpanda. This piece will retail at $89.90 per piece. Background story of Merapi "KID" the Lava Wanderer: "Kid" is what they call him. A kind-hearted teenage creature who lives in the center of the earth. His day-to-day is pretty much the same; playing at the side of lava stream until dinner time all by himself. Felt bored and lonely, he began to wonder... when suddenly he was blinded by a bright light. A volcanic eruption that creates a way to another world. He then followed that light, and was astonished to see what has happened. Looking at wounded victims, he felt responsible. He tried to help. But because his appearance is not like everyone else, the people was scared. The children loved him, though and accepted him for their own. He was then called "Kid", short for Merapi Kid.

Eric Wirjanata aka Thunder Panda, the resident artist at Plastic Culture is set to debut his new resin toys "The Wanderers" at STGCC this December 10-12, and the teaser pics of these guys look pretty sweet! On the left is "The Forest Wanderer" ...the soul of the deep forest in Papua. The stories about him are mysterious, because he is rarely seen. In the middle is "The Lava Wanderer", coming from the guts of our earth, and during the Merapi volcano eruption he rides the lava to see the earth's surface... And on the right is "The Sea Wanderer", an octopus with superstar blood, but never knowing it... coming from the deep sea of Java Ocean. Keep an eye out for these in Eric's store as well. Awesome stuff!!