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Founder and CEO of Illuminatoys and Cheapotoyland.com Midas Wilder Teams Up with Musclethings Laboratories to Unleash Mini-Figure Toys Inspired by Video Era Character Icons as VIDEO NASTEEZ! EXCLUSIVE FIGURE REVEAL! DIG IT!

Most magnetic magic maniacs will remember those too groovy mini-figures like Monster in my Pocket and M.U.S.C.L.E. toys that populated our pockets as we roamed the aisles of our local video store in search for our next VHS adventure. Those pint-sized playthings are in the midst of a killer comeback among the custom toy crowd (along with a ton of other custom cast figures and throwback toys), and are now even expanding into different sub-cultures and making for some truly radical mash-up manifestations. Cue Illuminatoys / Cheaptoyland.com proprietor and video era aficionado Midas Wilder. He’s teamed up with custom casters...

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Analog-Inclined Graphic Artist Anthony Jimenez AKA Eibon Celaeno Crafts Killer Collage Work with Cuts from Our Favorite Video Covers! Click This Link for Ultimate Video Cassette Cover Art Celebration and Re-Animation with VHS MUTATIONS!

With punk rock roots of scotch tape driven cut-and-paste collage, analog loving artist Anthony Jimenez AKA Eibon Celaeno has since endeavored to delve into the digital design realm to manipulate and manufacture a line of visual homage in salute to the vibrant video covers he eyeballed long ago at his local video store. These most excellent mash-ups of exemplary analog era cover art have indeed sent a wave of awe throughout the VHS collector community, encapsulating the arresting and eye-popping essence of the original artwork while being reworked into Jimenez’s own retina-blasting renditions. Anthony is out re-animate the appreciation for...

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Illustrator / Artist Joe Deagnon Recalls Canada During the Rewind Era and Channels Analog Anecdotes (and Other Insane Occurrences) to Create the Comix Anthology PARANOID TALES OF NEUROSIS Featuring Past Work from FILM THREAT and Much More!!

After a childhood filled with pulpy pages brimming with monsters and madmen leading to a life rife with heavy metal records and horror movies on plastic formats, illustrator, artist and all-around creative dude Joe Deagnon found his voice in creating comics. He’s worked his share of day jobs: porno theater snack purveyor, animation cell painter, and of course, he put in his time behind the counter at a video rental shop or two. All of these escapist and occupational experiences twist together and manifest through panel and page to create Joe’s collection of comics called Paranoid Tales of Neurosis. The...

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The Too Groovy Crew of Video Era Excess Aficionados and Entertainers EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! Unearth an Unbelievably Weird World of Homemade SOV Madness and Share it with MEMORY HOLE!

The vast majority of voracious Videovores out there are apt to be familiar with EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! and their finely tuned brand of appreciation and celebration for awkward, outrageous and at times utterly unbelievable acts of video era excess. Their website, live shows and general presence has offered a host of viewers an affectionate and often hilarious homage to the seemingly endless stockpile of VHS oddities harvested from the cracks of oblivion and Goodwill shelves from sea to VHShining sea. Cue their newest analog era celebration incarnation MEMORY HOLE. After sifting through just a small portion of a presumably preposterous...

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Illustrator and Collage Artist Donny Robinson Turns All Walks of VHS Cover Art into 3D Pop-Up Sculpture! And it Rules!

A wave of analog excitement recently washed over the world weird web after the Lunchmeat VHS Fanzine Facebook page flashed a look at a most groovy gift I received from artist extraordinaire and all around radical dude Donny Robinson. DR’s rendering of a Media release Mother’s Day VHS box into a thrashin’ 3D pop-up sculpture is just one of the many slip case alterations he’s been shelling out; and as you’ll observe throughout this post, he’s sure to garner a lot more attention should Videovores sink their teeth into his array of analog casing cut-ups and other artistic creations. This...

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