Thomas over at Inavatof has released a new paper toy for free download – The Vendor. This is a character that Thomas developed as part of a short comic a little while ago, and it’s nice to see the hairy ice-cream-wielding ape take on another life.
Quick tip when making this one – try using double-sided tape instead of glue, especially if using a heavier paper or card as I do, as some of the curves are a little hard to stick with glue.
Download The Vendor from the Inavatof.com website, or from Thomas’ profile on NicePaperToys.com.
A friend of mine found this on some Japanese site called Biglobe (anyone know it?) – it’s a pretty rockin’ paper model for the Millennium Falcon. I can’t read Japanese, and the model itself doesn’t have any clear design credits (in English anyway), so if the creator if this is out there somewhere and wants to touch base, I’d gladly let everyone know. I haven’t made the model up yet cause I’ve used up all my good paper-toy card on a recent batch of Cubees, but rest assured once I do get this sucker made, you’ll be reading about it here! You can download individual pages from the Japanese source site here, or otherwise you can get a combined PDF that I created from here.
When there’s paper toys, that gotta get made … Who ya gonna call? Cubeecraft! Now available for download are Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson). I LOVED this movie when I was young and taught myself how to draw the Ghostbusters logo so I could plaster it all over my school books. Grab the Ghostbusters Cubeecraft series here, including the older Mr Stay Puft model from a while back.
A (very talented) friend of mine today directed me to a website that he has been contributing to with some custom paper toy designs – NicePaperToys.com. It’s kind of like a DeviantArt site for paper toy designers and artists. Well worth checking out to find some cool new toys to make, and getting involved if you’d like to share in the community and networking aspect of the site. By the way, my friend Thomas of Inavatof has developed some pretty cool characters (one of my favourites being Bad Carrot). Check it out!
Many readers of Toy Tragic have been commenting on the Cubeecraft paper craft toys that we’ve featured. They’re an awesome way to spend a night in and to add some cool character toys to your collection. Since I talk a lot about Mighty Muggs here as well, I though I’d highlight all of the Cubees that you can make that also have Mighty Mugg equivalents:
I’ve got some ideas for other ones which would be cool -Palpatine? Boba Fett? C3-PO and R2-D2? The possibilities are endless! 
One of my earlier posts introduced you to Cubeecraft – downloadable paper models that you print out, cut out, and fold together. I’ve had many responses from readers on how cool they though they were, which is great to hear. Over the past couple of nights I’ve made some new ones – Master Chief, Aztec Nerga (complete with with Oscar Award), Gir and Superman. Later on (maybe tonight … we’ll see) I’m going to make a Dana Scully (for my Fox Mulder), Dr Zoidberg and a Marshall Alexander exclusive called The Rubee Project (Rubiks Cube robot!).
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