Production photos

Here are some of the photos I have received from the factory documenting different stages of the production process. Most of the toys are finished and packaged at this stage and I’m arranging shipping to the US. They will soon be distributed and available for a wider sale.

I’ve worked closely with the factory to ensure quality control and color matching. They have done a brilliant job and have really given these toys the attention they deserve. It’s great to get these behind the scenes shots from the factory and to be able share some of them.

Thank You

To all the friends, family, strangers, strangers who have become friends, and fellow toy fiends who backed the Trash Bag Bunch XL Kickstarter, I want to extend a very gracious “THANK YOU.” Thanks for the support, the trust that I would execute this, and the continuous positive feedback.

Here is just a small acknowledgment of all the people who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign in May-June 2018:

Jonny Look

Tyler Lucas

Lauren Malizia

Ted Melnick

Carly Mercer

Jacob Mikkelsen

Neil Moherman

Patrick Muhlberger

Magellan Mulligan

Roger Murray

Michael Neel

Tom Nimmo

Brian Oliveira

Zach Orian

Rachel Owen

Mark-Anthony Padua

Anthony Paolo

Edgar Paredes

Alisha Pearlson

Eric Perez

Brodie Perkins

Carol Petrie Sam Rauch

Freeman Reed

Harry Reep

Gavin Rehder

Casey Roberson

Emma Ross

Pierce Ryan

David Sabol

Mik Samaniego-Lira

Kara Schaub

Mckean Scheu

Jenna Schoenfeld

Emil Sempf

Paul Sewell

Tony Simon

James Singleton

Liz Slabodnick

David Sobolov

Meredith Sottili

Joshua Sterling

Nicholas Stevens

Thomas Stump

Robb Sturtcman

Shannon Sullivan

Nick Swain

Nate Theis

Faith Thumath

Hazel Thumath

Charles Thurlow

Adrianne Tompkins

Gabe Uhr

Manuel Utrera

Bryan Walman

Gabriel Waluconis

Scott Williams

Simon Wilson

Ulise Acosta

Andrew Adams

Kahil Agnew

Jeremiah Barber

Vincent Bargo

Judson Beecher

Rick Behnke

Alex Bickmore

Erin Blake

Bryan Borgman

Blake Boyd

Bryce Brentlinger

David Brocca

Amanda Brown

Isidro Buenrostro

Ryan Bury

Edwardo Cabrer

Malori Cefoli

Jake Chambers

Suman Chatterjee

Iris Chu

Joshua Cole

Heather Conley

James Collett

Andrea Cornell

Andrew Crabtree

Juan Pablo Cuello

Mike Deas

Jesse DeStasio

Razvan Dragan

Adam Edgley

Daniel Elmore

Stephanie Feinerman

 Janet Fulk

Duane Fulk

The Creative Fund

Justin Gadze

Greg Gallant

George Gaspar

Eric Gibeau

Ryan Hertel

Cory Howard

Steve and Donna Jackson

Kipp Jarden

Dan Johnson

Brian Kameoka

Scott Katler

Klaus

Benny Kline

Simon Kock

Eric Koch

Jason Kreiger

Justine Law

Amy Leach

Ben Leach

Brian Leak

Samantha Levy

Christopher Lick

Exclusive Muckoid

This is the Tenacious Toys exclusive BLUE MUCKOID, only available from Tenacious Toys. This Muckoid features an all-new color palette. The green, pink, and purple are all different shades from the classic version, and the blue body gives ol’ Mucky a whole new appearance. It’s a limited release, so stay up to date with Tenacious Toys on social media for ordering info! In the meantime, enjoy some photos of the new colorway:

Updates! Updates! Updates!

Things are trucking right along, it’s time consuming and hard to keep pace with updates!

Some blank green and blank glow units arrived in time for Designer Con and they are beautiful.

It was great to have a presence at Dcon and show the toys to the world and also preview some upcoming prototypes.

Take a look at the Last Resort Toys booth:

I met a handful of Kickstarter backers, which was so nice, and was able to connect with many other talented artists. Such a good convention!

Enamel Pins

Production is moving along well and I'm starting to get some goodies in!  I've got some photos from the factory here (please excuse some blurriness, I'll replace them once I get a chance to photograph the pins.)

The details and colors on these came out beautifully. These will be available at Designer Con 2018 and fulfillment of the pin reward tier from Kickstarter will also start in just a couple months!

Trash Bag Bunch XL Production Progress

Here are some cool photos from the factory.  These are the wax copies used to make the metal molds.  Once the factory has made their molds, all the vinyls can be pulled with the same details and no degradation to the mold itself.  

As you can see, the waxes are beautiful and well polished with all the details transferred from the prototypes.

Designer Con 2018

Last Resort Toys will be vending at Designer Con 2018 in Anaheim, CA November 16-18.

Wait...that means there should be some merch...right? Right! So what's going to be available? All the Trash Bag Bunch XL stickers, enamel pins, and t-shirts. And hopefully some actual Trash Bag Bunch XL vinyl toys! And some other stuff...wait and see.

If all goes swimmingly with the first parts of production, I might have some stock by November. These will probably be blanks (maybe some exclusive DCon 2018 customs) in "exclusive" packaging (because the regular packaging won't be ready yet).

Anything else? Yeah. Prototypes of some new toys. Maybe a few surprises, maybe a few announcements. I can't post it all here or what reason would you have to come check out the booth?

SUCCESSFULLY FUNDED!

The Kickstarter was successfully funded on June 7th!

So what's next?  Now I'm just working out details, figuring out numbers, and placing my order with factory.  There is still a lot to do!  I'm finalizing things for the shirts, stickers, and pins too.

And of course, I'm planning more toys!

Thanks to everyone who pledged to the Kickstarter, and/or shared the campaign.  It was a lot of fun, and a ton of work, and there's still much to be done, but these toys are happening!

TRASH BAG BUNCH XL AT FIVE POINTS FEST

These dudes will be hanging out at the Tenacious Toys booth #234 at Five Points Fest in NYC this weekend June 2-3.  Drop in and check them out!

Sticker and Enamel pin set giveaways!

You've got two chances to enter to win a set of the 7 stickers and 6 enamel pins.

Just check out the giveaways on the Last Resort Toys Facebook and Instagram feeds.

Share the love for your entry to get some free stuff!

Click the pic for the Kickstarter page!

Half way there!

Half way through the campaign and over half the money pledged so far, but still a ways to go!

Please keep up the support, and thanks!

Click on the pic to go to the page:

Sharing the love!

Some of the best toy blogs and news sites on the web are helping spread the word about TBBXL!

Big thanks to SpankyStokes.com, ToysREvil, Tenacious Toys, and Action Figure Insider for sharing the the Trash Bag Bunch XL Kickstarter!

KICKSTARTER IS LIVE

Here it is!  Finally!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1002792664/trash-bag-bunch-xl-vinyl-art-toys

Look at it...it's beautiful!  Time to shove the baby from the nest!  Spread the word!

FINAL UPDATE BEFORE LAUNCH

The Kickstarter will be live as soon as I hear back from Kickstarter! Don't worry, I'll post about that too.

I've spent DAYS building the Kickstarter and creating the reward tiers and doing math and whatnot--so much involved!

The final surprise I've been keeping up my sleeve is a re-release of the 12 Trash Bag Bunch mini figures only released in TBB series 2.

If you're a fan of this line--then you already know what these are.  Time to complete that collection!

Premium Painted figures

Both Liceplant and Muckoid done up with extra detailing.  Using hand-painted and airbrushed enhancements to really bring out the features of the larger sculpts.  Both figures have additional colors to show off their unique elements. 

Check out the below comparison shots to the classic figures so you can see where the details have been enhanced.

Most notable on Liceplant are the color changes.  White teeth with airbrushed details, and yellow to red fades on the leaves giving them an autumn orange appearance.  The eyes and all the vines have added details, and all the leaves are shaded with airbrushing giving it a generally darker, and more realistic appearance.

A dark wash on the bark texture and brown vines on the feet:

And check out those pearly whites:

Muckoid has airbrushing on all his wrinkles and disgusting crevices to bring out the detail and darker fades on all his spots.  He has a generally darker, and more realistic appearance

Airbrushing on the throat and tongue create more depth and enhance the details.  Hand painted aging on the teeth give a more realistic feel to the mouth.

The eyes have some bloodshot shading and the claws are enhanced with some aging.  All the musculature pops with airbrushed shading.

On the broader parts of the figure, there is a general mottled pass of airbrushed detail to add to the overall feeling of grossness. 

Muckoid also has some toe jam details, and a puss-filled yellowish hue to some of his pimples.

Along with the purple spots, the tops of his eye stalks also have a darker gradient for added detail.

STICKERS

Coming in at the low end of the Kickstarter rewards are a selection of stickers.  Seven designs in total: Trash Bag Bunch classic logo, Trash Bag Bunch XL logo, Last Resort Toys logo, Liceplant, Muckoid, Skuzbeast, and Stink Buzzard.

BRONZE STATUES

Both figures will be offered in bronze--really giving these low-brow monsters the fine art treatment.  For anyone seeking something truly unique, and has a bucket of money sitting around, this will be the highest priced backing reward.

I'm doing my best to get the Kickstarter launched ASAP--probably going too be a bit late on that April launch I've been talking about.

Pre-order Exclusive Colorways

As previously noted, these are the colors of the series 2 versions of the toys.  Orange Muckoid, AKA Eyeballer, was actually never produced.  Red Liceplant, AKA Mighty Lice, did see production in VERY small numbers in Scandinavia.

Rather than calling these "Kickstarter exclusives," I am very carefully naming them "Pre-Order Exclusives" to avoid complaints or confusion down the line.  Allow me to explain: your best chance (and only chance for the foreseeable future) to obtain these versions will be to purchase through the impending Kickstarter campaign.  However, I want to retain the ability to make them available again during pre-orders of future TBBXL toys.  And possibly the very occasional charity auction, toy show, convention appearance, or base for a custom, etc.  But do not be confused, there will not be a wide open opportunity to purchase these versions outside the pre-order for Trash Bag Bunch XL via the Kickstarter campaign.

MORE ENAMEL PINS

Skuzbeast and Stink Buzzard enamel pin designs for the Kickstarter campaign.  We're getting close to launch time, just nailing down final details.  It's weird how close you start looking at these little toys when you need to redesign them--I never noticed that Stink Buzzard has an inner mouth!

Big thanks to Kevin Ivers for the design work on these pins: http://strangemovieperson.wixsite.com/amish

Classic Colors

Here they are in all their glory.  The classic versions feature the same color scheme as the original toys.  The carefully applied colors show off the sculpted features and really bring these guys to life!