The fastest, most reckless of the UniPo bunch zoomed into our office yesterday afternoon: UniPo Series 5 - The Speed Demons! On sale now in the web store. Check ‘em out!

With the overwhelming popularity of our upcoming MaKPo figure, we thought we’d give you plenty of notice that we’ve decided to not exhibit afterall at this year’s New York Comic-Con. While we had originally planned to be at the show and use it as a place to release a variant of MaKPo, the numbers are just not panning out for us. It’s far away, we’ve never done the show before and it’s too much of a risk to believe that we’d be as well received there as we are at Comic-Con International every year. Maybe we would, but maybe we wouldn’t. We’re a small operation, and sadly for our fans, every penny really does count. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the beginning of 2006 brings a lot of rad releases for us. First off will be UniPo Series 5: The Speed Demons, which will drop in February. See these little fellas? Three lead-feet and one copper:We’ve also go SUG H60 in the works, set to come out in April May of 2008. Probably. Here’s a little teaser of those:  And of course we’ve got the long-awaited Fan Series UniPo coming out in early 2008, new HazMaPos, more SUGs … we could go on and on.  

US customers: you’re in luck! One of our handy dandy retailers, Fugitive Toys is doing a subscription program for the Ipecac figures. Theirs are even more limited then ours, so if you want one you should hurry!

  Our allotted number of Ipecac Toy Subscriptions sold out mid-afternoon yesterday, but fear not: we’ve set aside a small number that will only be available through our web store on the first day of each month. To be the most up to date on when they release, subscribe to our mailing list (on the bottom of the homepage) to get all the latest, most up to the minute UNKL news. 

Since our upcoming series with Ipecac Recordings is so limited, we were only able to allow FIVE of our retailers worldwide the opportunity to sell the entire set throughout ‘08. And the five we chose are:  

Apparently you’re excited.  After getting an onslaught of emails asking for a subscription program, we thought that idea wasn’t half bad. So here it is: Ipecac by UNKL Subscription For 100 bucks, you’ll get one of each of the twelve figures mailed to you each month AND a limited-edition “show poster” for each toy release, designed by UNKL. Cool, right? Yes. It sure is. 

You may have heard about this little collaboration we’ve got going on with Adio Footwear. Yep, we hooked up with the skate company (only the one that boasts Tony Hawk, Bam Margera and Shawn White on it’s team … yeah, no biggie) on their yearly Limited Projects series. The UNKL shoe is a super sick brown, black and gold one, on Adio’s Drayton SL shoe. And it comes with a two-inch Adio UniPo. How cool is that?

As far as we know, you can get them at the following stores. But you best be quick about it, son.

Aqua Surf Shop (San Francisco) - 415/876.2782

BC Surf & Sport (Coral Springs, Fla.) - 954/345.7528

Bills Wheels (Santa Cruz) - 831/469.0904

Cal Surf (Minneapolis) - 612/822.6840

Cosmic (Lexington, Ky.) - 859/260.1125

Crooks Skate Shop (El Paso, Texas) - 915/775.0493

Get Wet (Evansville, Tenn.) - 812/477.5004

Index Skateboard Supply (Hurst, Texas) - 817/282.9777

MIA Skateboarding Inc. (Miami Beach) - 786/621.3511

MIA Skatepark (Doral, Fla.) - 305/599.2172

Skatepark of Tampa (Tampa, Fla.) - 813/621.6793

Skates USA (Lake Worth, Fla.) - 561/964.2511

Wear’s the Beach (Melbourne, Fla.) - 321/984.3984

X Styles (Phillipsburg, N.J.) - 908/387.1711

What the heck is up with Florida? You Floridians love your
UNKL.

Whoops, we made a typo in our email to all y’alls. Hopefully you didn’t call all of your friends and tell them to shop today, because the sale doesn’t start until Friday. Friday, November 16th at 10 am PST. Hopefully you weren’t too confused.

We believe that to be true: if you buy UNKL for your friends and family, they’ll love you. Well, maybe they won’t — but I can tell you that we sure as hell will.

And because we have so much love to give, we’re throwing a big fat sale starting on Friday, Nov. 16 at 10 am PST. You’ll see a little bit of every part of the UNKL family on sale — well, except me, Derek and Jason. You can’t afford these bods. I know, I’m sorry.

So give the gift of UNKL this holiday season. Why not?

Our very own Derek Welch just got back from three and a half days of NASCAR at Texas Motor Speedway. He’s showing some signs of life now that he’s had a couple of days of rest. Bet you guys didn’t know we were NASCAR junkies, did you? Anyway, here are some of pics from the big race on Sunday. Enjoy!

Da pits.

VRROOOOM.

You might call him Derek, but we call him Lil Smokey.

Loyal NASCAR fans.

That’s Gordo, son.

Throwin’ out NASCAR signs, yo.