Hey all, it's that time of year again, where young men and women across the country stride confidently across a stage to a lot of pomp (and circumstance... rimshot please), receive a piece of paper with their name on it, and head out into the world to make their mark on the economy! Or, if they're like me, they move back into their parents' house and play video games until the student loans come due, but whatever floats your boat.
Of course, I'm talking about... graduation. And in honor of this auspicious occasion (yes, I know what 'auspicious' means), we at Mimoco are putting a selection of MIMOBOT Flash Drives on sale. Pick up any of our special sale characters for 25% off! Characters include some of our popular Halo Series MIMOBOT drives, Core Series 2, Artist Series and Happy Tree Friends! Add 'em to your cart, and see the savings.
Beyond that, if you buy $100 or more worth of products, you'll be emailed a $10 gift certificate, plus another $10 for each $50 you spend beyond that (spend $150, get $20; spend $200, get $30; etc.).
We're running this sale for four weeks, so 5/6-6/3. Get to the lab, order some MIMOBOT drives for your favorite graduate (or for yourself, we promise we won't tell), and enjoy the Grad Sale!
Happy Graduation, and congratulations to all who have completed the arduous task of high school, college, grad school, vocational tech school, flight school, police academy 3, and training on the fryer!
Help Susan G Komen's Race for the Cure this Mother's Day!
Greetings one and all, and happy upcoming Mother's Day! For Mother's Day this year, we wanted to help out our community as much as we can: that's why in celebration, we're donating 10% of all online profits to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
For those of you who don't know, the Susan G. Komen fund is a huge, active organization of breast cancer survivors and activists. The fund started as a promise between two sisters, a beautiful, sad, and unforgettable story of family and the struggles of cancer. Now the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is one of the world's leaders in stimulating research in the fight, nay the race, to cure cancer.
Attention Bostonians - tokidoki for MIMOBOT Party at Lab!
Hey hey everyone, we're throwing a party in our hometown of Boston tonight to celebrate the new tokidoki for MIMOBOT Series! Come on out to Lab in Allston tonight from 7-9:30 pm for a sweet time and a shot at getting a pre-release of the tokidoki for MIMOBOT flash drives! It's going to be wild and crazy - giveaways, DJs, free Red Bull... just imagine being surrounded by vinyl toy fans and pop-fashionistas screaming for free stuff and caffeinated beyond belief!
Hey Mimofans, our favorite evildoer - the super Sucklord - is doing an awesome Toy Sum event in New York's Chinatown this Saturday, 4/12. Go for the toys and music, stay for the pure unmitigated evil!
UPDATE:
We are happy to announce the items up for auction at our TOY SUM event in
Chinatown Tomorrow. It is a choice collection of collectable obscura from
far flung corners of the Toy Universe. We have:
EARLY BATMAN BOOTLEG Opening bid: $20
RAIDERS of the LOST ARK VINTAGE TOHT FIGURE Opening bid: $24
GLYOS CUSTOM FIGURE with 3 UNRELEASED HEADS Opening bid: $25
Hey all, we've got huge, exciting news - Simone Legno, the genius behind the tokidoki designs, is going to be signing at the MIMOBOT booth at New York Comic Con! In conjunction with the tokidoki for MIMOBOT release (remember folks, we're launching these at NYCC), Mr. Legno will be making a personal appearance, and any of you tokidoki fans lucky enough to get a sticket will have a chance to meet him and get a signature!
What's a sticket, you say? How do I get one? That's easy - a 'sticket' is a sticker ticket! We'll be giving out numbered stickers on Friday, April 18th, at the MIMOBOT booth. To get one, you have to sign up on the 'I Want To Meet Simone' sheet at our booth. The 'sticket', combined with your name on the list, will be your opportunity to meet the man everyone loves.
The signing will be Saturday, April 19th from 2-4 for everyone with a sticket!
Please note: we will not be able to handle a mob scene at the sticket signup. If it's too crazy and we can't determine the order people arrived in, we reserve the right to implement a sticket number lottery system in order to choose who gets a signature and when.
Greetings Mimo-people! We've got some good news from our riotous friends Poykpac (you know them from our first Mimozine and their awesome YouTube videos): they're up for a couple of huge awards, and they need our help to push them over the top - as if they weren't already!
First of all, they're in the Sketchies contest - go here to vote for 'em. Show them Planet Blooh and its ambassadors care!
Secondly, they're up for a Best of YouTube (bully!) award - head over here and, again, show them some love with that voting finger of yours (not the one you point at politicians, the one you vote online with... c'mon people, minds out of the gutter!).
Poykpac has posted a great reward if you vote: YOU - yes YOU - can be one of the people who walks around and says "Poykpac? Feh, I was a fan of Poykpac LONG before they were huge." The arrogance! The feeling of self-importance! The voting fingers from your friends!
So head over today, nay, right now, and vote, vote, vote! Hurry! They're running out of time!
Oh yeah, and check out our Mimozine trailer to see a short teaser of the original Mimozine, and re-live our first experience with Poykpac!
Hey all, good news! There's some never-before-seen mimobots making an appearance at Art Basel this weekend! If you're in the Miami Beach area, we're insanely jealous! I mean, you should check out the Art Basel show - details at their website", and look for our "friends." That's all the clues we're giving, but you're smart, we're confident you'll figure it out!
So this past weekend (Oct. 27th, to be precise), we had a party with Lab Boston for Halloween - it was Vinyl Massacre, and it rocked! If you missed it, I'm sorry, but you missed a good time with some crazy talented people. We had costumes and a 1-hour extreme Vimobot Design Contest that turned out some very, very good stuff. Enjoy these pictures of the awesomeness!
That's right, we just got back from the City of Angels (returning, of course, to the City of Red Sox) where we peddled our artistic wares at the E For All video game show. Naturally, this was the Halo mimobot Series 1's coming out party, since they officially went on sale the same day E For All started.
The show started off quite well, with lots of visitors on a Thursday (what, Californians don't work? Must be nice!). The rest of the show was rather slow, though, with low foot traffic and plenty of time for me to play Unreal 3, Guitar Hero 3 and, the cream of the crop, Rock Friggin' Band!
Honestly though, E For All attendees seemed to dig the Halo 'bots (and the Star Wars Series 1), and there were plenty of "Finish the file transfer!" shouts thrown about (big ups to Gizmodo's Brian Lam for the play-on-words). LA pretty much rocked outside the show, where I personally tore up the Brass Monkey bar on Wilshire with a stunning rendition of "The Humpty Dance." The mimopeeps also made our appearances at Mann's Chinese Theater and the Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles in Long Beach.
Well, that was our trip; with Master Chief and his cadre of Spartans in tow, we successfully invaded Los Angeles and had a wonderful time. For those of you who we were lucky enough to meet at the show, thanks for coming by, and with winter coming make sure you have a protoHoodie to keep your mimobots warm!
why is the short month always the craziest? mimobots rocked around the clock in february. enjoy these pics from ny comic con, toy fair, and the karmaloop release party featuring the one and only shawnimal smith promoting the LOVE / HATE wee ninja x mimobot series. thanks to all of you who came to celebrate, especially mr. shawnimal smith, artist extraordinaire and doodler of ceremonies. special thanks also to mr. greg selkoe and the karmaloop krew for hosting and dj special blend for the dope beats. peace, love, and respect. we heart you all!
as you know, mimobots have been on tour for the last week or so. all kicked butt at toy fair! karmaloop's release party for shawnimal's LOVE / HATE wee ninja mimobots was a rockin' time too. thanks to all who made it out - pics coming soon. but for now, get ready for the last of the february madness - ny comic con. as usual, mimoco, shawnimal, and the mimobots will be on hand for your delight. stop by the booth, say hi, do a little dance, party time is near :) see you there (booth #645)!
Tech-savvy folks know that a USB drive is a portable memory stick used to store computer information. Designers at the Boston-based company Mimoco and the fashion experts at the Boston boutique Karmaloop know that these USB devices don't have to look so, well, industrial. Tonight, Karmaloop is unveiling a new line of USB drives designed to look like ''Wee Ninja" characters named ''Love" and ''Hate," designed by a Chicago artist. Is it necessary to have a memory stick that looks like a little ninja? Probably not. But it's adorable. There will be a free USB party tonight from 8 to 10:30 at Karmaloop. The drives range in price from $60 to $185, depending on the memory. Karmaloop, 160 Newbury St., 617-369-0100. www.karmaloop.com
mimobots heart nyc! we'll see you at toy fair this weekend (booth#5487) - starting sunday the 12th through wednesday the 15th.
then on friday, feb 17th at 8p - 10:30p, Shawnimal is in town to celebrate the release of LOVE / HATE with our friends at Karmaloop. dj special blend mixes it up, shawnimal signing t-shirts, his new 10" vinyl Wee Ninja, and plush.
then it's to ny comic-con the weekend of feb 24th-26th (booth #685) for more artist signings and more craziness!
mimoco and the mimobots are headed to toy fair on feb. 12th through 15th. if you make it to the show, we'll see you at booth 5847 for a bunch of mimobot luvin'!
Cut&Paste was one fierce event! Congrats to the winner, organizers, participants, and attendees who made the event a smashing success! And a special mention to the two semifinalists, who even though they didn't win, took home 2GB isadore mimobots, which is obviously better than winning anyway! Enjoy this sweet Splatter postcard that Yahid designed to celebrate our sponsorship and the upcoming goSeries.
And now an important word from your sponsor: mimoco is amped to help support the upcoming cut&paste design.competition in NYC on November 19th. For the designers out there, last call for entries is quickly approaching. The deadline's October 31, Halloween '05! Get on it now, and thank us later if you find yourself one of eight designers battling for supremacy. Go, go, go!
Woohoo! Thanks everyone for a successful mimobot launch at GRNY! The talented Ktron hooked us up with an amazing 2000% giant mimobot plush. The four foot tall mimobot stands in the GRNY front window for the next month or so for those who missed it. And Shawnimal Smith sent over the cutest 10" mimobot x shawnimal plush. These cuddly little one-offs (only one made in each of 3 colors) are on display at GRNY and are up for grabs to anyone purchasing a mimobot at GRNY. The contest runs over the next month and the drawing takes place on Oct.17th. Thanks also to dj db and brett from Breakbeat Science for providing a chill soundtrack for the historic evening. For those wanting more, enjoy these pics!
It's official! mimoco and Giant Robot New York invite you to celebrate the arrival of mimobot designer toy flash memory drives on Friday, Sept.9th at GRNY. From 6 to 10p, super-designer Yahid Rodriguez will sign his Cosmos Series creations, while DJ DB (NYC, London) whose mix is loaded onto Cosmos Series mimobots, will spin for the occasion! Plus many chances to win mimobot plush designed exclusively for the launch by Shawnimal Smith (Chicago). We can't wait to see you there! Check Yahid's killer flyer design!
Everyone is celebrating Bastille Day in France, but the mimobots have decided to meet their new friends in a refreshing setting by the Pacific Ocean where all toys and imaginary, visionary characters migrate each year for the annual festival of their parallel worlds: The Comic-Con in sunny San Diego! Expressly designed for the occasion by favorite designer Yahid to mark the unofficial launch date, an extra-special edition of eighty (80) SDCC05 mimobots, will be available exclusively at the show. Don't miss it and swing by the mimoco booth for the first live impression of the mimobots and to adopt yours before anybody else!
