Robotperson

Doyobi has just opened up on Sydney Street, selling Kubricks, kicks and Japanese cultural ephemera. My kind of stuff. Last week I picked up a Slave Leia (pictured) to complete my Star Wars series 5 Kubricks. On the subject of which, pics of SW series 7 have leaked (scroll down) and they’re looking hot. I’m […]

World cup Bearbricks vs Footscape woven.
Bearbricks collide with a mashup of two of my favourite kicks - the Nike Footscape and Nike Woven. Unlikely alignments of robot bait like this don’t come along too often. Me likee the USA colorway […quickly checks eBay….] not available yet.

Running out of Star Wars cultural ephemera is simply never going to happen. Below, some more links for your consumption:

Reinterpreting the original trilogy in the light of Episode III. Executive summary: Chewie and R2 ran the show.
The backstroke of the West. What happens when a dvd pirate subtitles Episode III in Chinese and then it’s […]

Today started well. During an MTV breakfast with Lara on the sofa we

were treated to the new Beck video for e-pro, his latest single. The clip is brilliant. So imaginative I thought it [...]

Yesterday

my latest eBay acquisition arrived from Japan: a set of 30 Pantone Kubricks. Since I first saw these on the Ningyoushi message board (a good source for plastic news) I knew I had [...]

It’s

been a good week for Kubricks. Yesterday morning I received my Ma.K (Machinen Krieger) Kubricks from Hong Kong, an eBay purchase. And then I popped in to see Yota at Nasty [...]

I forgot to mention that last week I picked up a set of the very nice Maharishi DPM Kubricks. DPM stands for Disruptive Pattern Material, which means camouflage to the rest of us.

They have taken their rightful place on the shelf (Alife’s Jest Kubrick makes a cameo (fnarr!) 3rd [...]

We were shopping in Brighton last weekend and I spotted a new Lego store, which has opened up just in time for Xmas. I insisted we stop in for a nosey.

I’ll skip over incredible Star Wars sets like the AT-AT, because it was the NASA sets which really blew [...]

I chose today, London’s hottest on record (just let that sink in for a moment) to do lots of walking and shopping around the West End.

An early end-of-meeting at Tower Bridge (not literally) gave me an hour or so to kill, and I wanted to check out the [...]