M+M book

There is a small load of M+M volume one over at Bambalandstore.com. final copies...

One Last Sunday Pic

Thanks to Pete Ford for the Photo.

Sunday Panel Pics

Thank you to everyone who attended Sunday's panels. Here we have two pics one courtesy of our favourite Latvian Vampire Gimbat and the other by one of the IDW founding members Robbie Robbins. Again thanks to everyone who attended SDCC and the panels, you guys made it a great show for both Ash and ThreeA. The artist has now left the building!

2 Panels - Sunday

Ash will be appearing twice on Sunday...

12:30PM is a spotlight event panel

2PM Is the art of the cover.

Be there or be triangle

Saturday Pics

Okay, what have we got here? Signing, signing, middlefinger-signing and Rufus Dayglo!!
Thanks for the pics Pete.

Toy Awards Pic

This pic by Pituvision (www.pituvision.com) is doing the rounds - I'm not sure what Ash is looking at but there might be something lurking in the Copa de Vida there!

Shot of the Day Friday

This is what happens when your Noir De Plume escapes from his box and runs away! The only question now is - where did he hide the Dirty Deeds?

Another Thank You

Thanks to Gregory, Cody and the Legion for representing! Photo credit: Konfucious

Designer Toy Award Madness!!

Thank you so much for all of the Designer Toy Award nominations ThreeA received this year, we were so happy just to be nominated in amongst such a super talented field of individuals that it would have been enough if a nomination was all, but...

We won!

Congratulations to all of the staff and crew at ThreeA Toys on winning Manufacturer of the year, I know how hard you guys work and how much effort goes into creating each and every toy.

Thank you to the designer toy community also for the Artist of the Year award, it means a lot and given the amount of talent that's out there in the toy industry, (and knowing that the business is hardly a simple one), I'm honored.

Congratulations to all of the other winners and also to the DTA's for finally bringing to life an event that shines a light on and promotes the designer toy industry.

Ash

Cool Stuff

Thank you to Ron Lu who presented Ash with the coolest custom toy this afternoon. It's so cool that we're going to share it all with you here. Once again super cool!!

ThreeA Announcement Friday

ThreeA is proud to announce that it has partnered with amazing Japanese artist Kow Yokoyama to produce Maschinen Krieger in both 1/12 and 1/6 scale! If you think you know Maschinen Krieger think again - ThreeA is about to bring you a whole new world.

Furthermore we will be producing figures for the upcoming blockbuster Reel Steel in 1/6th scale. The Reel Steel movie directed by Shawn Levy stars our own boy from Oz, Hugh Jackman.

IDW Photo OP

This photo comes to us from the good folks at IDW. Publisher Ted Adams is in front, Robbie Robbins and Chris Ryall are out of shot. FYI they're signing the movie contract for Zombies Vs Robots - congratulations guys.

Update #2

ThreeA Facebook photo sets of day one can be found here PHOTOS

Once again RIP Lucien Freud, Britain and the art world has lost a legend.

Thursday/Friday SDCC

Here's a shot of Ash with some of the Legion at the 3A booth, more updates to come. Thanks Pete for the photo.

At the ThreeA Booth

Here are some additional photos again, courtesy of Pete Ford. There's a lot of buzz on the web regarding the appearance of the Star Wars toys at our table so just to clarify - these are samples only and are not licensed (as stated on the Three A twitter) these samples are not for sale (so don't ask!) and were made by ThreeA for Takara.

ThreeA Licensing Announcement!

Ashley Wood and Master Kim (ThreeA) are hereby proud to announce that we will be producing both Microman and Halo Toys for 2012. Stay tuned for more updates soon.

Still Signing...

Thanks for the photo Pete!

Signing Now

Thanks to IDW for the photo.

Scott Eder Gallery Booth

As always Scott is representing with some art at SDCC this year, two shots for you; one of the original art booth and a soon to be sold out limited edition print, (also available at the Scott Eder booth).

IDW Booth

This year ThreeA is located at the IDW booth and this is what it looked like before the crowds arrived.

Preview Night Photos

It's only Preview night and SDCC is already really busy.

William Wray Pre-SDCC Studio Visit

Many thanks to William Wray for allowing us to visit his sanctum sanctorium. An artist's studio is a very personal space and not all artists are so forthcoming with allowing visitors to come and snoop - let alone to post about it on their blog.

Traffic

Lots of people headed for SDCC

Update SDCC

SDCC is a few hours from officially opening now...

We'll soon be touching base with Ash and producer Pete Ford anytime now, as far as I know everything is on schedule and ready to go. We're hooking up with William Wray along the way and then we should be set for a fun journey down.

If you're interested in meeting Ash and the crew from ThreeA head over to the IDW booth and I will post any panel times here as I get them.

Your Plane Awaits

Told you that you were all coming along for the ride! Fact: Ash will travel for more than 24hrs before he reaches his final destination. He's flying on an A380 today, this is the commuter plane that he arrived in on last night.

Gearing up... almost there...

Many thanks to Lorelei Bunjes for the following photo.

Coming At You This Week EXCLUSIVES!!!

Hello, my name is T.P., I reintroduce myself about this time every year when I take a hold of the reins here at the Bambaland blog. Which basically means only one thing folks - yep it's time for SDCC once again.

This year Ash is appearing as a special guest of the world's largest pop culture convention/happening and so we've decided to really go all out and blog like we've never blogged before!! We've even taken care of our data needs in advance so that there will be less lag and waiting time between updates and posts than in previous years.

We first attended this event in 1995 and since then we have seen SDCC change from what was an oversized comic book convention to a major pop culture calendar event. In 1995 there was one large convention hall and you could actually move up and down the aisles without having to call a fire marshal and today as most of you know the event is four gazillion football fields in length and attracts 150,000 visitors plus.

That said, we know that not everyone can attend and that many of those who don't get to attend would give anything to be at SDCC this week and so since Ash is a guest this year we are going to attempt to try and blog this event like you're actually there. - (with an exclusive backstage pass in your hand of course!) (No pressure Ash!!)

So stay tuned if you're interested in any of the following:

1. Panel photos and schedules (Ash is appearing on 4 panels this year)
2. Exclusive announcements - books, art, toys, movies
3. Ambient crowd shots (who was that masked man?)
4. Celebrity photos (Not including the guy in the Voltron suit - sorry!)
5. And lots of other things that you would usually see if you were actually there!

ADD IN BY ASH..

I want 6000 members this week due to my awesome live sdcc coverage!

Sometime In August

This mag will be available in August, one of the darkest things I have done in a while !

Guilty as promised

Sometime in the future!

And thanks to Tom Muller for the awesome Nagasaki font !

Ol Rocky updated

There are not many characters I want to draw or paint beyond my own anymore, but the Rocketeer is one of those. Here is a shot of the prelim for the final painting, though I gotta say I dig this, so I might finish it off. A tip of the hat to Scott Dunbier for turning the screws !

UPDATE, I have scrapped this image ( it's on the floor now ), no one needs another shot of Rocky and a lady, Stevens owned that world, so I have changed tack, might not resonate so much with some my new idea, but I prefer it ! !

stuff I worked on today

Fun-day of painting !