“Hey!  Look over there!”  “Where?”  “There!   What's that I see in Electronics?  I think I see The Loyal Subjects!  Right next to a pile of Funko, some McFarlane, and a little NECA!”  “Yeah man, finally!  We’ve hit the jackpot!”  Walmart’s locked and loaded!  A full statement of the heat seekers!  Go get ‘em!

Los Angeles is community.  All the deep urban/suburban blocks from West Adams, Jefferson, Arlington Heights, Little Tokyo, Arts District, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Culver City, Inglewood, Boyle Heights, Bunker Hill, DTLA, East LA, Vernon, West Hollywood, Larchmont, Beachwood Canyon, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Atwater Village, Echo Park, Glassell Park, Frog Town, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City, Mid-City,

Ever seen one of those 80’s tour videos?  Usually accompanied by a ballad from the hair band of the day; life on the road, truck stops, loading in gear, setting up in big venues, sound checks, load out, backstage exhaustion, back in the van…the wear and tear of the road as you setup to play from city to city.  Journey “Faithfully”, Motley Crue “Home Sweet Home”, you know, the “tour video”!  As a kid I’m thinking, “That d

New York?  LA?  New York?  LA?  Back and forth like Taipei vs Hong Kong in a ping pong tournament.  Pros for New York – it’s one of the greatest cities on earth, with a great fan base, some of the greatest restaurants, it’s Fall when the leaves are changing, Central Park strolls, great hangs, meet ups, costumes, a ton of passion, a couple of my favorite restaurants, some good haunts, and some old friends to see

Metal!

First off, I have 100 blogs to write.  My last update was a shout-out to Predators making their way to the shelves at Walgreens.  It looks like folks are enjoying the Predator packouts.  I love this line, I say this about every line but of course they're all my babies.  I dare not cast any one line into the shallows, they are all precious, my precious (hint).  A ton has passed since the last update – plans, tra

This year marked the 5^th annual Fan Jam.  An idea first presented by a friend of the Company, with the simple implication, “Let's do something special for folks who like, and support TLS”.  Great idea (I thought), a fan appreciation event but without the walls and borders between folks who like TLS and the folks who work at TLS…a “break down the velvet rope” style event in which we all mingle, chop it up, share

I think the question I was served up the most upon our announcement that TLS had linked up with Mattel to launch a new Hot Wheels line was…..hmm, let me think about it, there were a lot of questions!  Question 1 – What are you going to do different that Hot Wheels hasn’t already done?  Question 2 – Do they roll?  Question 3 – How is this going to fit in as an Action Vinyl?   Question 4 – Why?  I suppose th

It’s hard not to be Pollyanna about your Brand.  Hopefully my stoke transfers, and becomes your stoke.  I make collectibles because I like to build, I build because I like to share, I create because creating is sharing on a much more intimate level, sort of a soul bond per se, especially if your creation connects with another human, and hopefully your creation takes on a whole new meaning, or an amplified meaning with it’s ne

My grandfather used to have a study.  More like a converted bedroom/study.  My grandparents were born in the early 20^th Century, my grandfather a WWII vet, the “Greatest Generation”.  In so, very old school, traditional, he used to warn about the “laying on of hands”, his way of saying “shake my hand but don't hug me.”  He was born in Columbia, Tennessee, not far from Nashville.  My father was born i

“Bing, Bang, Boom!  Smack, Splat, Thwack, Crack!  Crumple, Crackle, Thwackle, Thud!”

“Zing, Zang, Boing, Bounce, Splash, Ding, Brack!”

The Loyal Subjects was born from a letter to friends, and family, aptly titled “The Loyal Subjects”.  I was going through a transition; a failed attempt at a business, a musician, and a show creator.  I had creative juju but zero business sense.  A literal creative in the wholesome term – all things creative matter, everything else a distraction.  After my failed attempts, I received a divine moment of whiplash, the

I said, train kept a-rolling all night long, train kept a rolling all night long!  It's been two weeks since the pallet train hit the tracks, two weeks, and TLS has been flyin’ like a freight train, on the ole pallet train…choo choo!  When I started TLS, almost 10 years ago, and if anyone came tappin’ on my shoulder, “Hey there buddy, you’re going make a bunch of killer collectibles, it’s going to be in a giant Dragon head ca

“Did you see that!”  “What happened?”  “Jon Snow took off on that dragon?”  - and so it begins, Season 8.  Off to a good start, don't you guys think?  Palace intrigue is thick…plots, subterfuge, alliances, treason, dastardly deeds….can’t decide if I’m watching the Nightly News in this politically charged climate or Game of Thrones?  What's different, the Dragons?  If I turn on the news and dragons are

The Game continues.  No spoilers here. 

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Feburary 15^th, 2019

“It's Friday night, I got tears in my eyes, I have to go to hell before I get to heaven, big ole Jet Airliner!”  I don't have tears in my eyes, but I am hitting the road Monday, off to Nuremberg, Toy Fair.  The Toy Fair with the killer name – Spielwarenmess…make sure to pronounce those “W’s” like “V’s”.  Maybe I have a couple tears.  The forecast is 70 degrees all week in Los Angeles, snowy and chilly all week in Nu

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Hello #TLSArmy!  Welcome to all the newcomers to the TLS Action Vinyls community!  It seems each year SDCC brings in new passionate pop culture enthusiasts into the TLS narrative – great products, loads of fun, community, trade, story telling, and high quality, memorable experiences!   TLS is a Brand first – we’re more than just pro

I have an older sister.  Being the kid brother I was put through the sibling gauntlet of experimentation.   Occasionally I would get a hug and compliment but mostly terror.  A hose turned on while dressed for church, a practical joke extending to my sister and her gaggle of gossiping goons (aka mallrats), the “I’m going to lick your

I’m sure you’ve heard it before.  It goes by many names; Murphy’s Law, Mercury in Retrograde, Human Error, Bad Luck, Black Cats, Lucky Number 13...if you believe in superstitions or voodoo (I do), some times the Universe has its own inexplicable plan and the best thing you can do is surrender to it’s omnipotent and unrelenting forces.  In the end, everythin

I live in a great part of West Hollywood.  I feel connected to my community, I should, I’ve lived in West Hollywood going on 22 years.  Originally from the suburbs of Laguna Beach I vowed in a praetorian declaration to my mother as a wholly confident 12 year old that I would never live more than 5 miles from the ocean, and if circumstances were such, death would become me.  Shortly after High School I traded in my surf gear for a pair of drumsticks, stricken by Rock N Roll fever I followed my sickness to Los Angeles where a cure waited from

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Funny enough, all I hear in my head while writing this post is David Lee Roth’s “Yankee Rose” – ‘Are you ready for a new sensation!’  It’s probably because I have Thundercats mania too.  Literally.  I’m as excited as you to find Thundercats in the wild and dote lovingly and overbearing/boorishly like a grandma at Christmas who doesn’t know her own strength or bosom size.  Hey, it’s Christmas time; you know you have one of those Grannies.  Each time she comes in for a hu