I匀l confess at the beginning of this that this is an attempt to get some of your hard-earned money, but I promise it﨎 as a prospect to offer a handful of items that I咩e come to love pretty incredibly and suspect that several of you might also either already know about, own, or at least have seen in some off-hand manner what I匇 putting up on the sales block.

With a great deal more prevalence within what seems to be the past two years or so great professional illustrators have taken it upon themselves to start marketing their wares directly to the public rather than simply waiting for somebody to call them up and ask them to do a spot illustration for a magazine or book. This has blossomed into the release of some of the most phenomenal little toy designs I咩e seen in some time.

I don咜 think it﨎 a major stretch to assume that their are several action figure junkies in our midst - this and music seem to be two of the best-loved addictions of the North American Graphicus Designarontus, and I匇 pleased to confess to being just one of the fold in that way.

A good friend and I saturated our addiction to a particular line of toys within the past few months and as a result have several duplicates of certain figures that we叝e happy to turn around for about 50 cents more than we paid for them a piece initially.

So here﨎 the dual pitch of this note - if you haven咜 had a chance to see what﨎 begun to crop up in terms of designer/illustrator toys, check out any of the following places and bask in the glory of these meticulous and lovingly made little gems - check out Kid Robot, Ningyoushi﨎 Workshop, or even Tower Records under their toy section.

We fell particularly in love with the OX-OP series of the QEE line (these are little animals designed to be keychains, though I have yet to see anyone who has even for a second thought about using them this way) - it﨎 sponsored by a killer little gallery in Minneapolis / St. Paul also named OX-OP - they show these illustrators and designers regularly and partnered with the Hong Kong company that makes these to create these toys.

The attached image shows the figures we have available - talk to me to find out what the respective quantity on any one of them is. My other sales angle is that by nabbing one of these from us you can order a specific figure - if you order from one of the sources listed above, you叝e relegated to the travails of blind assortment (when you receive the figures they叝e sealed in a box that doesn咜 show which figure you叝e getting - you叝e simply at the mercy of what happens to turn up in the boxes you get). We叝e asking $5 for any of the figures shown and then would ask that you pay for the shipping on them - otherwise, they叝e yours for a guaranteed cheap price.

That said, check out these amazing toys, and if you happen to share this addiction or just see something that would look great on top of your monitors or printers, let me knowﾖNo pressure, just figured you冝 be exactly the audience these were intended for and would love to share some of the spoils with you.