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Art Asylum is a New York City based design studio and toy company. Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
Originally started by Digger Mesch and Donna Soldano in 1996, Art Asylum was initally just a work-for-hire sculpting studio which designed various action figures, busts and statues for numerous toy companies such as ToyCom and Playmates. A notable job in this period was the design and production of the "Scuba Steve" action figure prop for the 1999 Adam Sandler film Big Daddy. Sandler at Cannes 2002 Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and musician (he sings, and plays the guitar). ...
Big Daddy is a comedy film starring Adam Sandler that was released in 1999. ...
With an increasingly profitable segment of the toy market being older collectors seeking heavily detailed quality designs, Art Asylum decided to enter the market as a full toy company, partnering with Adam Unger and Play Along Toys in 2001 for production. It's continued partnerships with companies like Diamond Select Toys and DC Direct have given it access to popular licenses such as Marvel Comics, Star Trek and DC Comics. Play Along Logo Play Along Toys is a toy company. ...
DC Direct is the brand of action figures released by DC Comics. ...
Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Entertainment, Inc. ...
Star Trek is an American science-fiction franchise spanning six television series, ten feature films, hundreds of novels, computer and video games, and other fan stories. ...
DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ...
Being a smaller company compared to industry giants like Hasbro and Mattel with a higher collector and niche focus, Art Asylum's choice of licenses can be at best described as eclectic, ranging from well known brands as Star Trek and Marvel Comics, through to things like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Madballs. Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) is an American toy and game company. ...
Mattel Inc. ...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Traditional Chinese: 臥虎è—é¾; Simplified Chinese: å§è™Žè—é¾™; Pinyin: Wò HÇ” Cáng Lóng) is a wuxia (martial arts and chivalry) film released in 2000. ...
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One of company's enduring brands are the block style miniature figures Minimates. Minimates are a block styled miniature action figure created by Art Asylum. ...
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[edit] Title card from the original Battlestar Galactica series Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of American science fiction films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978. ...
Advertisement for Madballs Toys Madballs were a toy series of rubber balls with strange and disgusting faces created by AmToy, a subsidiary company of American Greetings in the mid-1980s. ...
Clive Barker (born October 5, 1952, Liverpool) is an English author, film director and visual artist. ...
Speed Racer is the title of an English adaptation of the Japanese anime Mach Go Go Go which centered around automobile racing. ...
Star Trek is an American science-fiction franchise spanning six television series, ten feature films, hundreds of novels, computer and video games, and other fan stories. ...
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. ...
Minimates are a block styled miniature action figure created by Art Asylum. ...
Minimates are a block styled miniature action figure created by Art Asylum. ...
DC Direct is the brand of action figures released by DC Comics. ...
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