Elder Gods, cryptid creatures, and classic wrestlers come to life as sofubi-style figures from Wandering Planet Toys and sculptor and horror artist VELIKAN.
The two Cryptid Combat 5-inch soft vinyl art toys named the Cthuluchador and The Ultimoth Warrior will be available in October through a special Backerkit campaign.
“I grew up in the late ‘80’s and merged my youthful interest in WWE with my later interests of H.P. Lovecraft and cryptids.” said VELIKAN. “I was lucky enough that Wandering Planet had the same interest in such things! I hand sculpt my designs out of Super Sculpy and then make a silicone mold to cast them. This gives me a hard resin figure that outlasts anything else I’ve tried. The originals are seven inches tall so that I can get the details in, and they are then scanned and painstakingly hand reproduced by sofubi masters. Hardly a machine involved in the process! They are true Art Toys.”
“When we saw VELIKAN’s insane sculpts for Cthulchador and Ultimoth, we knew we had to work out a collab,” said Wandering Planet Toys co-founder Chris “Doc” Wyatt. “Seeing these two mythic titans of horror clash is a weird fiction dream (nightmare?) come true. It’s as if 1930’s pulp fiction slammed into 1980’s wrestling culture, and gave rise to Japanese-style vinyl kaiju mutants. It’s madness.”
The figures will be available individually for $75 each or as a pair for $120. Each figure comes packaged in hang bags with original header card art by VELIKAN in the choice of three color patterns.
Wandering Planet Toys will also be creating retro-style lunchboxes featuring Cryptid Combat art by VELIKAN.
Wandering Planet Toys will also release a series of Planetoid Racers action figures in the near future (which can be monitired on their Kickstarter pre-launch page) as well.
Stay tuned to Conskipper for another interview with the Wandering Toys crew and check out some of the promotional art for Cryptid Combat below.
