Upcoming solo show at my man Nychos' RabbitEyeMovement Artspace in Vienna/Austria. All infos on the jacket. Plain.

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Doh! This is definitely my best print ever so far!
Amazing quality from my friends at the SomTee printers and in collaboration with LaGrille gallery in Switzerland. Thanx J&T!
Limited to 50 pcs only. Size 50x50cm on 100% recycled grey paper. 6+1 color silkscreen print. Signed & numbered and it comes with an embossed FÖRTRESS logo.
If you love drinking beer, you gonna love this... Doh!Nuts!

Available exclusively at RockawayBear.com

A new customized 10" Teddy Trooper done by our long-time supporter Frank Mysterio. Thanx for this great one!

Don't Forget! Like Dave the Chimp's Facebook page before the end of the month and be in the running to be randomly selected to receive a Chimp Teddy Troop, original painting, Visual Rock Stars DVD, and stickers!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dave-the-Chimp/254778527941035

A new family member from Hilpoltstein made by Michael P.

Check out the photos of the Trooper growing up....!

A message from my friend Dave The Chimp:

"Want to get your hands on a signed Dave the Chimp 3" Teddy Troop, hand drawn trooper by Dave, an FF/Chimp collab sticker, and a copy of the Visual
Rock Stars DVD? If the answer is "yes" then go and "Like" Dave's page
today! On March 31st he'll select 10 people from his list of "Likers"
to become the new owners of these awesome packages of good stuff!"

Find Dave's page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dave-the-Chimp/254778527941035

I have been aware of the amazing customizing work of Southern Drawl for a long time. I just nicked a bunch of flix of his work to show it here. Also have a look at his blog to see all the other customs he is creating. But you will feel that the Teddy Trooper platform is his biggest favourite! Thanx for his great support!

The Teddy Troops have been shortlisted as an official finalist in the 2012 Designer Toy Awards by Clutter Magazine. Out of a large number of entries, the Troops are one of handful of nominees in the following category: 

Best DIY Platform

You can go and vote for your beloved Teddy Troops on the Designer Toy Awards website. Vote! That's a command!

Here comes a one-of-a-kind Apple-ish customized Teddy Trooper. Pink-Flod added a docking for i-phone and speakers to a 10" Teddy Trooper. Loud! Louder! Check more designs on Pink-Flod's website.

There is also a little making-of video here.

The next big thing from our man Muffinman. The "Chocolate Trooper" keychain. Again coming as a super limited edition because of all are hand molded. Keep your eyes open on our webstore!

Prepare for Fortress' upcoming show in Brooklyn, NYC.
There will be this handmade keychains in yellow color-way available finally. Again super limited because of all of them are handmade by the famous Muffinman (Thanx for making this happen so short in time!).
Also there is another yummy yummy tasty special figure on the way... so be there!

"Recently i had been invited this week to speak at a school in art classes. Not at the Bauhaus University but in a very smart elementary school. Showing the kids some of my graffiti works, speaking about vinyl toys and answering them all their questions. Also doing some live drawing for them on a canvas for their class room. The kids were super excited about having me there. I guess back in the days when i was their age i would have been blasted too to see some modern arts instead of some old farts.
I then also asked them to join in to draw on a paper with my Teddy Trooper shape lines and bring in their phantasy and skills.
Here are all the funky results (in no particular order).
Thanx to all the cool kids of "Klass 4A" and their lovely teacher Miss H. for having me as a guest!" / Flying Förtress

This custom trooper features a wireless USB Sound Player. Well done by GladGuile.

AlexBreak sent in this great little Turtle Trooper. I like turtles!

New costumized Trooper by our big supporter Frank Mysterio.

Together with the great MUFFINMAN from Fakehouse we released these Teddy Trooper keychains in two colour-ways. All handcrafted, casted and painted. Limited to 30 pcs each colour. Available at RockawayBear.com

A whole new twist on the Teddy Trooper platform by HerrBender. Disco time!

Sharp teeth on the custom Trooper by AlexBreak. Thrill!

Another brilliant customized Teddy Trooper by Muffinman. He's boss! We have a colab thing coming up soon.... stay tuned!

Another evil custom Trooper flew in today! Bloodsucking red demon - wear some pants!...

"Kingdom Of Troops" - a series of Teddy Troopers customized by Patmoslipsi. Thanx to Mark for sending in these photos!

Two new mini canvas series available now from Flying Förtress. 10 pcs each colour drop way. Spraypaint and marker on canvas wrapped on cardboard. Size 18x24cm. Get them at RockawayBear.com 

I made another custom 10" Teddy Trooper for my show at the TOYKIO gallery. Like mostly everybody else my age grew up with the Star Wars movies and maybe more important: the Star Wars Kenner toys. I had been thinking for a long while which of the classic SW characters i could pick. Some of them are obviously fitting on the teddy and helmet.... Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, Boba Fett, Biker Scout, Deth Star Gunner.... etc. Most of them have been remixed a hundred times. Somehow at the end i came up with the lamest and uncoolest character of the whole universe: Admiral Ackbar. And the Kenner's Ackbar toy figure even came with the most useless weapon of all time. A stick. "Hey! Look at my new stormtrooper figures i just got! Those big blaster they have! They can shoot down everything. What have you got?" - "Admiral Ackbar! He can destroy the Death Star! With this... äh,... stick... thing." (To not offend Ackbar's dignity any further i haven't given him a stick... thing.)
Available at the TOYKIO Shop&Gallery.

My friend Muffinman - creator of the "From Bronko With Love" / "The Magnificent Ambrose And His Amazing Flying Headgear From Hell" and "Tag Team Partners" Teddy Troopers - just sent me these shots of his latest custom 3" Trooper. It is called "GOTH - Guardian Of The Hog". This time with a new bushy hair style... That little punk just made my day!

This is incredible sick! An amazing customized Teddy Trooper called "Rabbito" by Mall aka May Ann Licudine from the Philippines. This is the best Eastern gift this year for me! You have to check out more of her brilliant works on her blog...

All the best for our friends, supporters and troops! 2011 will be a golden year! Starting with this golden boy made by DMS and sent in by Tim Munz to join the headquarter. Thanx!

Finally this little hot item made it over to our warehouse right in time for the cold and snowy christmas days.. In colaboration with MOLOTOW spray cans we turned the 10" custom Trooper by Flying Fortress into a limited run of the 3" Troops. Comes in a special box. A tribute to the legendary spray can from the early 90's. Available NOW at the all brandnew RockawayBear.com online store!

A little customized Trooper i did for Peter from BUZZWORKS.

Just arrived in (winter)time for christmas.... Grab them at Rockawaybear.com

Two great customized Teddy Troopers by Howie Green. See more of his work on his website www.hgd.com

Spotted this deep in the garage...

JonPaulKaiser dropped in his two Star Wars related customized Teddy Troopers. The "Darth Vader" and the "Porkins" one are dope. See more custom toys on his blog.

The TURMKUNST project in Berlin has just finished and now the biggest Teddy Trooper mask on the tower is watching all over the Berlin skyline. Size? 3"? 10"? No, it is 160ft (50 meters) high. Massive! The artists HONET, SOZYONE, Craig KR Costello aka KRINK and FLYING FÖRTRESS spent more than 6 weeks to turn the infamous "Bierpinsel" tower into this huge artwork.  More photos on Flying Förtress' blog.

Timself who hooked me up on the "Most Wanted Messageboard Artist Series 1" (which was a customized Dunny fan series) dropped me this little gift in return. Thanx a lot for those friendly dentures! :-)

More than 50 original custom 3" Teddy Troops from the design contest of series 03 are now for auction on ebay. Check out the acount of Actiontoysgermany there!

I have just a little surf through the internet and picked up some flix of customized Teddy Troopers from all over the world...

We got in two new fellas from ActionOne and Haciendo Estragos. Salute!

My friend ZAM over at Visionary Tattoo over in Lake 

Ronkonkoma/NY made this little sword swinging "Zamurai". Zam and Laura are also running the Genuine Artikle Gallery where i had my solo show last summer. Best times! There are only one or two original artwork pieces left from my show and available at their Genuine Artikle webstore!

"Show me your teeth!" - "Nice ones!"  Check Spugna's work on his blog!

"Funny how? Funny like a clown? How am i funny?"...

by one of the biggest Teddy Troops supporter: Mister Muffinman!

Fshizzy also sent in more flix of his friends' and his own custom Teddy Troopers. Some of them are still available at BFLY.CZ

Here we have three little Teddy Troopers customized by Fshizzy. Check out his other amazing custom toys on his Flickr site. A lot of wicked Dunnies, Munnies and others can be found there!

Another great fellow dropped in from Muffinman: It's "The Magnificent Ambrose And his Amazing Flying Headgear From Hell"! Lickin'!

After bringing you the "Red Shadow" and the "650° Hitzerot" customized Teddy Troops i just emptied my last little red acrylics to drop you "Der Rote Baron" aka "The Red Baron" (wikipedia) - the German aerial battle legend from WWI. Even if it features those strong red-white-black colours and German air force insignias this one has nothing to do with Third Reich or shit. So don't take me wrong! Now that all my red paint has gone i think for my next customized Teddy Trooper i'll have to give a zombie-SS-officer a rainbow-coloured armlet instead...

This one is really super cool! And it is also based on the small 3" Teddy Trooper what makes it even more amzing. "Tag Team Partners" by Muffinman from Hamburg/DE.

A limited t-shirt featuring the MISTxFörtress Trooper design is available at LVL Clothing.

The thirs stop of the MISTxFörtress show will be at the Espace LVL in Nantes/FR on January 8th, 2010. Also some live graffiti session with POCH and RAISIN before during the day. Come by and say Hello!

Ian Ziobrowski sent in new customized Teddy Troopers: the "Nuggy Trooper" and the "Lil Nuggy Trooper". Great "Holzfäller" couple! Maybe you already know his "Smokey The Bear" custom made for the Wreck The Halls contest? Here it is again...

We just got in these 2 new amazing customs. The "Monster Bilis" by Chauskoskis and a Chickadee Trooper build in "Meißener Porcelain" by Schni!ike Schni!ike.

A new art print from Flying Förtress is available at Elbtunnel.com

Limited to 25 prints only / size: 50x70 cm / 3-coloured silkscreen on canvas / stretched on frame / 2 additional hand-painted custom colours by Flying Förtress / signed and numbered /  so each one is an unique copy!

Get yours for your Teddy Troops collection.

This idea had been sticking to my head for a very long time. For 15 years i have this left over (almost) full spray can standing in front of me on my desk. It has been the BEST EVER red colour spray paint. Ever! "Hitzerot" aka "The Red Gold". For those who know... Heavy covering power - heavy toxic impact. So this customized 10" Teddy Trooper is my tribute to it and a whole era of writing on steel back in the days.

For their show in Rennes/FR Förtress did this custom 10" Teddy Trooper together with his friend MIST. It is available at the Delkoraphik Gallery&Store.

My friend Nikoman from Rennes/FR gave me this armed "WAR-T01" Trooper as a gift to join my private collection army. Merci!

A new tasty customized Teddy Trooper by WuzOne

We got sent in some great flix of another amazing customized 10" Teddy Trooper: the "Baxter the Lonley Dead Bear" by Aaron Boy. Thanx for support!

Next stop for the Mist X Förtress show will be the Delkographik Studios in Rennes/FR. Opening: November 28th. Until January 6th 2010.

Due to the release of the Teddy Troops Series 03 we set up a little show at the Woolwill Shop & Gallery in St.Pauli / Hamburg, Germany. There will be all released 3" and 10" Troopers on display. Also we have some original customized Troopers by Buff Monster, Parskid, James Yeah?, Miss Stephanie, Purple Pace and Förtress. And a few secret scraps...