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.
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.
This year, we're taking a small number of injection molded action figures, many rubber keshis and hard plastic monsters, some original gameboy color games, many comic books that we've published ourselves, and the first two issues of my ongoing #skypirates serial #TheMysteriousAirPirates.
I have attached some photos.
If you can't come see us in person, I'll be posting a recap video to our television network sometime in mid FEB. You can find our television network on the fediverse at @video or online at newellijay.TV
In the meantime, most of the products we're taking are available for sale from HTTPS://mountaintowntoys.Com and the rest will be available after the show.
We've added an assortment of canvas prints and we're working on some new zines, including English translations of some previously very hard to find early manga.
A lot of our toymaking efforts right now center around shows and events.
Historically, this has been the only way for us to actually make any sales.
I enjoy doing shows and events, but I would really love if our sales could be more consistent than event based retail will allow. It is too big of a risk to depend on shows that might happen during hurricane helene, or might be slower than usual because of the aftermath of hurricane Helene, or might just have been so poorly advertised no one shows up.
The last two years worth of shows have been a *lot* of that. I wrote a blog post about the last one https://ajroach42.com/joelanta-2025-retrospective/ and the fallout from that post appears to have gotten us blacklisted from the big March show.
That's fine. We'll survive. We'll find new shows. But it would be nice if we didn't have to depend so much on events.
We're working on releasing more toys, more of each toy, and releasing toys on a more predictable schedule. We're working on new video games, more fiction, more comics, and new methods of making toys.
It will be good! But it will take time.
In the meantime, we're making toys (among other things) and I'd appreciate it if you would help us get the word out.
@ajroach42 misread that as "if you can't come and see us in prison" at first, and was very confused and rather worried for a moment
