Rotofugi’s Big Muscamoot Charity Auction for Japan

Toy artist Chris Ryniak’s (blog, Twitter) Big Muscamoot vinyl toy is being used as a charity piece to help out in Japan. The details are posted at Rotofugi, but basically what you need to do is visit visit eBay ASAP for a look at the three toys that are up for auction. (The auction ends in about eight hours.)

Over the years we’ve had the good fortune to get to know a lot of Japanese artists and toymakers. They are the ones who inspired us to do our “Lake Monsters” project to create monster toys in the “kaiju” style. We’ve been in touch with all of our friends in Japan, and luckily, everyone we’re personally acquainted with is ok, but with Japan currently suffering the after effects of a large earthquake and tsunami, we wanted to make a small token of appreciation and hopefully help out a little.

These handpainted figures are strictly limited one off figures painted in the United States by Squibbles Ink’s Joe Somers and Rotofugi’s Kirby Kerr. The vinyl figure is from our “Lake Monsters” series and was designed and sculpted by noted artist Chris Ryniak.