ALBOTAS - A Little Bit On The Awesome Side

Ahoy and avast, ye landfuckers! It’s time for another awesometastic installment of Munny Monday!

This week’s Munny is an amazing rendition of Davey Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks, gorgeously brought to life by Mallory Carlson from Fullerton, CA. Mallory is a 21 year old animation major and currently in her senior year at CSU Fullerton. While she’s a full-time student, she manages to score some extra cash by selling her artwork. Long live the dream, Mallory!

Read on for the interview and some more pics, including a fresh work-in-progress shot. More »

Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira (from Attack of the Show) do their own version of The Spirit.  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Albotas!

[HeyOlivia] via [ZombieCake]

Muttpop dropped a little treat in the ALBOTAS inbox — a super-duper fresh Tequila papercraft figure made by BONY. It’s pretty much a paper version of a MAD*L, but with more Luchadore-ish arms. Download your own here and make your own Tequila legion!

Here’s a look at UNKL’s upcoming release from DC’s Arist Project. The shoes come with a matching SUG figure in a fresh sci-fi color scheme and he’s even rocking a DC messenger bag. I’m totally digging the figure, but the shoes are hideous.

If you wanna look like you have mirrors strapped to your feet, by all means, pick up the DC X UNKL pack when it drops in January of ‘09. [Via HIGHSNOBIETY]

The design collective known as Cypher13 (aka c13, aka the dudes behind JoyEngine.com) have joined magnificent forces with AMG to rock your collective faces in twain with a fresh series of Munny customs. Each figure comes with it’s own custom sign featuring the logo for the respective companies that they represent.

*UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that the AMG Munny Contest is only open to AMG employees. Kinda lame, but it is what it is. Special Thanks to Rsin for the head’s up.
Also, for all you toy customizers out there (you know who you are, you crazy bastards!) you might wanna’ check out AMG’s Munny Contest. All you have to do is send in a pic of one of your Munny customs with a little bit of background info about the piece. The deadline’s January 31st so you’d better hurry up you slackers!!!

Check out more pics after the bounce.  More »

Greetings all you artists, gamers, designers, and all-around nerds! It’s time once again for our weekly artist showcase that we like to call Munny Monday!

This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Kristen Livingston, otherwise known as ktotheris10 on the Kidrobot forums. Kristen banged out an awesome Munny based on my favorite video game lawyer of all time, Phoenix Wright. If you haven’t played a Phoenix Wright game yet, do yourself a favor and give it a try.

Aside from the fantastic Phoenix custom, the 17 year-old Canadian also made a Munny version of Aquaman and one of those crazy villiagers from Resident Evil 4. Check out the pics after the jump as well as an interview with the artist.

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Capcom just sent out a press release containing the details of the Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition for home consoles and all we can really say is fuck yeah! We were hoping it would come with an arcade stick, but this is probably just as good.

Here’s everything you get from the official press release:

1. The game (duh)
2. A limited-edition (ie., not sold anywhere else) figurine – Ryu in the PS3 box, C. Viper hotness in the 360 flavor. Decisions, decisions…
3. Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind: a 65 minute anime movie — created by Studio 4C — that sets up the story of SFIV by explaining events post-SFII. BluRay disc in the PS3 box! The Xbox version is a 360 game disc that outputs the movie at 720P, not a DVD.
4. A mini-strategy guide from Prima, written by the same people doing the full-on guide and illustrated by Udon Comics
5. CD soundtrack. Rock SFIV stage chunez in your car!
6. …Plus some secret additional downloadable content that we’re not quite ready to reveal at this point. Look for more announcements soon!

All that for only $80. Not bad at all. I’m buying both because I’m addicted to Street Fighter and I’m a whore for special editions of stuff. Check out a pic of the Xbox 360 Collector’s Edition with the C. Viper figure after the break. More »

Because you know it just had to happen, Burger King has finally (thank God!) released a men’s fragrance. The cologne, dubbed Flame by BK, comes in a 5ml bottle and costs onle $4 - that’s less than the cost of a large value meal! And best of all, the fragrance smells of -wait for it- A MOTHERFUCKING BURGER!!!

Now they just need one that smells like French Fries. I know a certain someone  who wouldn’t mind their significant other smelling like fries 24/7. Seriously, this person luvs French Fries more than they luv cupcakes. (see what I did?)

If you wanna smell like a greasy slab of meat, you can either stop showering, or head over to firemeetsdesire.com.

[Via Geekologie]

This year’s Zombie Pin-Up Calendar is now available at myzombiepinup.com. The 12×12 calendar features 13 drop-dead-gorgeous  models (pun totally intended XD), and is the brainchild of a grassroots guerrilla artist collaboration based in San Francisco. Hanging one of these bad boys on your wall will run you $35.00, but get them quick because there’s only 25 left!!!
It’s all fun and boners now, but it won’t be fun when they’re trying to consume your delicious, candy-brains. More »

For next week’s Munny Monday, I interviewed Kidrobot Forum member ktotheris10. While going through her old posts on the boards, I found this awesome Two-Face custom. Did I mention that ktotheris10 is a 17 year-old girl? Yeah, maybe you should stop slacking and start banging out those customs.

Be sure to check back on Monday for an interview with the artist some more of her work!

Maybe I’m just desensitized to awesome casemods. The painting looks kinda’ shoddy up close, but the lights are definitely a nice touch. Some of the lights even fade in and out. Oh yeah, and the light in the disc slot is red and fades in and out as well. Pretty awesome casemod. Not the best, but it’s awesome. It’d probably be cooler if it didn’t come with a copy of The Force Unleashed. ZING!

[Custom Star Wars Nintendo Wii via Engadget]

Where else could this happen besides the Jersey shore? [Via Insert Credit]

A cop stole some confiscated pot, smoked it with his wife, got reeeaaaallly high, and thought that he was dying from an overdose. Left with only one logical choice, he called 911. Current made an animation to go along with the recorded 911 call and it’s just as funny as you’d think it’d be. You can’t script this shit.

Here’s a clever little shirt from Glennz Tees that makes the epic war against the Space Invaders a tad more realistic. Pick one up for only $19.95.

 I’m suddenly inspired to make a war epic in vein of Apocalypse Now, only about pixelated aliens.

[Via Sprite Stitch]