Raving Toy Maniac has announced the details for CustomCon 25.  The custom action figure event will be held from Monday, April 5, 2010 through Friday, April 9, 2010.

Even though the CustomCon kicks off three months from now, the deadline for submitting your entries is only two months away: Monday, March 8, 2010.  Submission guidelines and further details can be found at Raving Toy Maniac’s CustomCon 25 - Spring 2010 page.

To find links to past CustomCon events and read about its creation, please visit our About CustomCon page.

Host: Raving Toy Maniac

Dates: April 6-10, 2009

More Information: CustomCon 22 - Spring 2009

Everyone’s favorite online custom action figure convention is on the other side of this weekend. As always, the week-long web event will feature collections of brand new, never before seen custom action figures created by customizers from around the world.

To find links to past CustomCon events and read about its creation, please visit our About CustomCon page.

CustomCon 21 wrapped up yesterday with 4 final assortments of custom action figures.

JB Designs returns for a fourth entry in his Justice League Unlimited 3-pack series featuring a striking Captain Boomerang.

In a throwback to the mid 1990s, Rabid_Ewok brings out a Valiant Legends series inspired by the Shadowman comic.

David Harris produced an 8-figure assortment of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Even though the line lacks the title characters, you should definitely check it out if you were ever a fan.

Finally, Marvel’s recent re-imagining of X-Force is represented in a 4-figure line from Norman Dapito.  All four major characters are represented: Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, and Wolfsbane.

Check out CustomCon 21 in its entirety at Joe Acevedo’s CustomZone.

Day 4 of CustomCon 21 brings some more DC characters, a full line of Marvel Legends, and some imaginative vampire hunting.

JB Designs returns yet again with another Justice League Unlimited 3-pack.  Today’s offering includes two better-known characters, both of whom have appeared on the big screen: Two-Face and Poison Ivy.

John Bodin gives us an F.A.O. Schwartz exclusive Justice League Unlimited figure in the form of Captain Marvel.  Take note: the head and cape were sculpted from scratch.

Ken Dembowski (Mattman) may have finally run out of characters to customize.  He brings an all Marvel, 8-character Dragonman build-a-figure assortment to the table this time, and I’ve never heard of 6 of them!  … but I guess that doesn’t mean too terribly much.

Finally, Sasha offers up a 5 piece "Tall Tales" collection from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Each item in her collection required some genuine thought and reflects a knack for choosing good base figures.  The sculpted details look quite good, and she did a great job of turning Brett Favre into a vampire football player.

Check out CustomCon 21.

Day 3 of CustomCon 21 brings four new assortments.

JB Designs hits us with another Justice League Unlimited 3-pack; Figurechick makes her CustomCon debut with a 3-figure assortment of The Lone Gunmen; and Terayne and Dano combined their efforts on a Marvel Zombies Wolverine.

The big line today is courtesy of Sillof, creator of the Steampunk Star Wars waves seen in previous CustomCon showings.  The line has been renamed to Steam Wars and includes 11 figures in its Return of the Jedi wave.  Joe Acevedo said it best:

[Sillof’s] re-visioned characters are full of retro-futurism twists and antiquated design elements. Great lengths were taken to give the entire line […] a cohesive aesthetic.

Head over to Joe Acevedo’s site, and check out CustomCon 21.

Day 2 of CustomCon 21 brings us 5 new sets of action figures.  JB Designs kicks things off with a Justice League Unlimited 3-pack including a menacingly cloaked Hourman.

Johnny B brings us another wave of The Underground.  SaintSyn offers up a collection of Mars Attacks! action figures complete with a Martian flying saucer.  A single figure line from ofwolfandman called Media Madness features the title character from The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

In my opinion, the class of Day 2 is Iron Cow’s The Lost Wave.  I don’t mean to detract from the work of the other contributors, but Iron Cow really did an amazing job.  Each of the 5 figures is done really well, but the two standouts are his Neal Adams inspired Trenchcoat Joker and the Ed McGuinness inspired Batman.  The details and paints apps are precise and intricate, but he was really able to capture in figure form the same essence that the artist’s themselves captured in the comics.

Click here to visit CustomCon 21.

CustomCon 21 is upon us.  Joe Acevedo is once again hosting the fall event over at his website.  Day 1 kicked off with 5 lines of new custom action figures…

First up is a six-man collaboration on Squadron Supreme that produced a whopping 15 figures.  Dr. Solstice produced 6 of the figures including a great looking Speed Demon.  Glassman added 2 figures including a noteworthy Mink.  A wingy Nighthawk figure is among the three contributed by Stew.

Johnny B gives us wave six of his coming-soon online graphic novel The Underground, featuring some creative characters and nice paint applications.

Day 1 also featured two lines of inaction figures - one line inspired by My Little Pony and one line featuring only a Stan Lee Mighty Mugg.

Finally, in a strange combination of old school and new school, there’s a line of Jack Kirby’s Project Cadmus in Minimates form.

Head over to CustomCon 21 to check out all of the Day 1 lines and custom action figures.

Joe Acevedo has announced the details for CustomCon 21.  The custom action figure event will be held from Monday, October 6, 2008 through Friday, October 10, 2008.

Even though the CustomCon kicks off two months from now, the deadline for submitting your entries is Monday, September 1, 2008.  Submission guidelines and further details can be found at JoeAcevedo.com’s Custom Zone.

To find links to past CustomCon events and read about its creation, please visit our About CustomCon page.

CustomCon 20 is in the books.  Hosted once again by the boys and girls at The Fwoosh, CustomCon 20 featured lots of great work.  39 pages of new custom action figures brought a strong mix of classically inspired figures and down right goofy creativity.

One of the more creative lines is brought to you by Meatloaf of Darkness - Enemas of the Loaf - who finally accomplished the impossible task of putting squash, a donut, and some vengeful, vulgar vegemite into action figure form.  Not to be outdone, Apathy Ink stepped to the table with a very detailed (both the figure and the back story) entry called GombiZobPocalypse.

In a more classic vein, Marvel and DC are again very well represented.  Monkey Pops set the bar with 8 total waves of custom actions figures.  His Sword & Shield Productions created 5 waves of All-Star Squadron and 3 waves of X-Men Evolutions - featuring the original 5 X-Men in various team outfits.

My personal favorite is Raybot’s Ultimate X-Men line.  6 well detailed custom action figures join three existing ToyBiz creations to make up this 9 character team.

As usual, there’s just too much for me to sum up into one tiny blog entry.  Don’t take my word for it. Check it out for yourself, and sing the praises of the participants in The Fwoosh’s forums.

CustomCon 20 will run from July 7, 2008 through July 11, 2008, hosted once again by our friends over at The Fwoosh.

The Fwoosh does a great job with CustomCon.  As always you can expect great work by a wide range of action figure customizers from around the globe.  You’ll see figures from experienced artisans and beginners, in styles you know and love, and there’s almost always something you didn’t expect to see.

Head on over to The Fwoosh’s CustomCon 20 page for all the details.