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.
We like making friends. Here at UNKL HQ, we enjoy meeting people that would be great to partner with because we respect their work or what they are contributing creatively, musically or intellectually to the world. Most times, partnerships are clear; other times, they are a big longshot.
Like in the case of Mike Patton. We’ve been fans of Patton’s bands, record label and ability to look good in a hairnet for years now. So, on a whim, we sent him a package of our toy and a note gently suggesting that we work together. Little did we think that he’d actually jump at the chance to make toys.
Not only did he and co-owner of Ipecac Recordings, Greg Werckman, jump at the chance to make toys, but they wanted to make one for every month in 2008.
So here they are: the Ipecac + UNKL Series. Twelve months of UNKL-designed releases that nod to Ipecac Recordings catalog of stellar bands. We’ll kick the series off in January 2008 with our Ipecac-branded UniPo, followed in February by the release of the Tomahawk UniPo, a mini-Patton with a real hairnet. You can get a first look at those above, and we’ll update here with more figures as they come in.
Here’s how the rest of the year breaks down:
March: Isis
April: The Melvins
May: Northern State
June: Goon Moon
July: QUI
August: Desert Sessions
September: Fantomas
October: Unsane
November: Dalek
December: Peeping Tom
We’ll have a limited number of each available every month right here on our site.
Suddenly, UniPo is rocking a lot harder than it used to. And that’s the way we like it.
What’s this you say? Why, it’s UniPoker. This little ditty is available this holiday season right here on our site. For 30 bones (that’s $30, dude), you get this custom UniPoker tin, a deck of cards designed by UNKL and two of four royal UniPos. The four figures (King, Queen, Jack, Joker) will be packed into the tins randomly, so you’ll have to choose your UniPoker set carefully, or trade figures with your friends.
Watch for these little guys on our site in late November.
Shot by electrons, to be more specific.
After the massive recall of many mainstream toys manufactured in China due to lead content, we figured we’d better be safe and test our little vinyl buddies as well. Our friend Chris at the University of Oregon hooked us up with the CAMCOR Electron Microscopy Facility there at the University, and told us that would be the best way for us to check for any lead content in the paint used on our toys.
After amputating a few TinPo and UniPo limbs, a couple of hours of shooting electrons through them and testing how well we’ve retained the Table of Periodic Elements, we’re happy to say our toys are lead free. Pb-free.
Yay for us.