A small haul post from #AssemblyRequired day one. We'll be there all day tomorrow.

Hey!

I'm at the designer art toy show in Asheville! I'll be here all day tomorrow and Sunday.

I have Sky Pirates, I have monsters, I have hand made jointed action figures, I have keshi, I have stickers, I have gameboy games, I have comic books, and I have magazines.

We'll sing the songs that remind us of the good times, and the songs that remind us of the bad times.

Learn more https://assembly-required.net/about-us/ or just come see us at Battery Park Hall.

#assemblyRequired #assemblyrequiredasheville #asheville #designertoy #arttoy #toyshow

These are the homies.

#assemblyRequired #assemblyRequiredAsheville #Asheville

Alright, we're on the road towards #Asheville for #assemblyRequired

Well, no. I'm walking to the car. And then we'll be on the road toward the coffee shop, which is in the opposite direction.

But everything is in the car and we will be presently.

Alright, I think this is my last Assembly Required post for today.

Announcing Filibus, The Mysterious Air Pirate.

Filibus is a hand made action figure, based on the 1915 film Filibus. They are a genderfluid airship captain, and the star of my serial magazine The Mysterious Air Pirates.

These are the first batch of our Deluxe Full-color edition figures. They're hand painted.

Future editions will probably involve paint masks, but I didn't have time to do it fast so I had to take the time to do it slow.

There are currently 5 of this Deluxe Edition Filibus Action Figure, along with about two dozen of a show exclusive variant. They will be available this weekend at Assembly Required in Asheville, NC.

After Assembly Required, a second hand painted batch will be available for fedifolk sometime in Feb, and another different edition will be available in March.

#AssemblyRequiredAsheville
#AssemblyRequired #asheville
#SkyPirates #skypirate #SkiesOfTomorrow #revolutionaryJoy #mountaintowntoys

Anyway, as I said in my #shamelessSelfPromotion thread a few days ago, this is how we make our living now. Both my wife and I are full time artists, toy makers, and producers of media.

If you want to support our work, boost some of the posts I've made about #AssemblyRequired or shoot me a message if you want to reserve some of these toys.

When it comes to artistic endeavors, I am forever jealous and proud of my wife.

She decided to learn 3D modelling last week.

Yesterday, she produced her first original injection molded toy.

Meet The Creature from Big Rock Creek.

He's inspired by Kappa, water spirits or monsters from Japanese folklore, and from the almost certainly facetious but persistently reported sightings of a creature emerging from one of the waterways near town.

He'll be available for sale for the first time this weekend at Assembly Required in Asheville, NC.

#AssemblyRequired #AssemblyRequiredAsheville #ashevill #kappa #yokai

Alright! Here's the finished cardbacks for the limited deluxe edition of our new Sky Pirate action figures.

The figure in the bubble is a partially painted test-shot, with some issues that will get resolved tomorrow.

This will be a limited run, with a canvas cardback and a reseelable bubble. They'll be hand numbered, and first come first served at #AssemblyRequired \\ #AssemblyRequiredAsheville this weekend.

There will be another limited run in an alternate colorway towards the end of Feb, followed by the less limited run in March.

Let me know if you want to get on the list.

#SkyPirates #SkyPirate #revolutionaryJoy

We do an annual hand made toy show in #Asheville called #assemblyrequired

This year #assemblyRequiredAshville is FEB 7TH and 8TH at battery park hall on Haywood street. Tickets are $10 and that gets you in both days.

This will be my fifth year presenting at this show.

It is an incredible experience in a great town with a wonderful group of artists and absolutely worth ten bucks.

The final production version of Filibus should be out shortly after #assemblyRequired, I hope. We'll have lots of other things coming down the pipeline over the next few months.

We're still shipping Soledad, and we'll have some convention exclusive limited-edition Filibus Sky Pirate action figures in con exclusive colorways at #assemblyrequired the first weekend in February.

This is what prep for #assemblyRequired #Asheville looks like!

How Donald Trump is Selling America's Future to Billionaires
#AssemblyRequired w/ #StaceyAbrams
#US #Politics #Economics #Project2025 #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #TrumpRegime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqb0cFy5nqs

Q: “What should our audience be DOING to stay up-to-date & understand this current moment? [ICE raids, military in streets]“ @staceyabrams.com #AssemblyRequired pca.st/episode/9036... A: “Local journalism” @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social ✅ Find yours 🔎: www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

In early January I was talking about a theoretical max speed for our injection molding machine of one part every "2 minutes or so"

see https://retro.social/@ajroach42/113783936233043451 or https://retro.social/@ajroach42/113827614810081603

This is a theoretical maximum that assumes peak efficiency, no problems, and 10+ molds in circulation. It also doesn't really account for the actual amount of time it takes to cycle a mold (remove the old part, clean the mold if it needs it, reinsert and reinject the mold.)

It was entirely theoretical though, because we've never actually had 10 molds in circulation, and while our actual peak throughput could absolutely reach 1 part every 2 minutes, our average throughout was one part every 10 minutes or so, due to interruptions, dicking with the molds, cleaning the parts, etc.

The most we did in a single day leading up to #assemblyRequired was about 50 parts.

Armed with this knowledge, I set out to bootleg some art toys.

At #assemblyRequired, I spent the weekend demoing our 3D scanning rig, showing off our molds, and demonstrating our PE toys.

We lined up a couple of toymaking contracts! And we got permission to bootleg a bunch of toys too!

I put together a little web page about our efforts.

https://www.mountaintowntoys.com/custom-counterfeits/

It's #assemblyRequired day!
Come see us at battery park hall in Asheville NC.

I have expedition sasquatch cartridges and floppy discs. I have sky pirates. My wife has ceramics. And 40 artists more talented than I am are also here.

Not this week's #ThursdayThoughts - a flashback to a couple of weeks ago.

I STAND BY EVERYTHING I SAID lol.

#assemblyrequired

https://medium.com/@sarah-geri/should-you-include-assembly-instructions-a-guide-flowchart-for-the-mechanically-adept-413fcfbcf48c

Started listening to a solution - oriented podcast itʼs been out for a few weeks, but the episode about the federal role in education, with the aim of helping us citizens protect the federal department of education. This is the kind of political discussion that works. #USA #USDeptEducation #AssemblyRequired #StaceyAbrams