Halloween is the toy photography community's biggest night of the year — and this year, the Epic Toy Sound family showed up in force. We put one call out to the ETS group: drop your Halloween shot if you want it featured. What came back is the whole point of Toys and Beats in a single post — toy photographers under one roof, shooting horror, monsters and mayhem, with Epic Toy Sound music underneath it. Every photographer below is credited and linked back to their own page. This is what the community looks like when it moves together.
Toymirth — the eye behind Valley of Giants
Anthony "Toymirth" Eck builds whole worlds out of dinosaur toy photography. He is the visual artist behind Valley of Giants, the Toymirth × Epic Toy Sound dinosaur lofi release, and its 45-minute long-form mix. For Halloween, he pointed that same world-building eye at the spooky side of the shelf:
Toymirth's Halloween carousel on Instagram
His world is a record you can own: Valley of Giants — the full pack on Toys and Beats.
KIDULT — a Deadpool spectacular and a 27-photographer takeover
Stevan Nikolic — KIDULT (@kidult_1983) went twice. First, his own Deadpool Halloween spectacular:
KIDULT's Deadpool Halloween Spectacular on Instagram
Then the post that says everything about this community: the Fun Friday Halloween Edition carousel — 27 toy photographers in a single collaboration, with the caption crediting "Music by @epictoysound." Twenty-seven photographers, one post, our music. That is the scale of this family:
The Fun Friday Halloween Edition community carousel on Instagram
KIDULT rides with Epic Toy Sound on record too — hear him on "Get Poppin" (feat. KIDULT) by Epic Toy Sound.
Rokez — choose wisely
Rokez kept it classic NECA horror — trick or treat, choose wisely, because not everything behind the door is friendly — and tagged it #epictoysound:
Rokez's Halloween carousel on Instagram
Rokez also hosted the Fun Friday Halloween collab — his edition of the 27-creator takeover, same night, his roof:
Rokez's Fun Friday Halloween collab post on Instagram
Rokez has an Epic Toy Sound release of his own: "Blood and Liberty" by Rokez.
Dorkfish Collection — the killer party
Wolfgang Timbs of Dorkfish Collection threw the party — it's Halloween, time to throw a killer party with the boys — a horror shelf where every guest is trouble:
Dorkfish Collection's Halloween carousel on Instagram
TopShelf Collectibles — the boys are back in town
TopShelf Collectibles brought the two names that own October — Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees — back in town for one night only:
TopShelf Collectibles' Halloween post on Instagram
MashedUp — The Wolf Man, and a Photo of the Day
MashedUp went full classic monster with The Wolf Man, shot for the Mezheads "Horror Poster" collaboration — a collab that pulled in 15 more toy photographers on top of the names above. The shot travelled, too: @toysgram.indonesia picked it as their Photo of the Day:
MashedUp's "The Wolf Man" on Instagram
MashedUp has an Epic Toy Sound record of his own: "Thats Mashed Up" by Epic Toy Sound.
Manyakfunks — Myers, Home With His Pumpkin
Manyakfunks answered the call the direct way — he dropped this shot straight into the ETS group thread: Michael Myers in low window light, knife in hand, a jack-o'-lantern resting on his knee. Horror photography is his whole lane — his Jason work and Universal Monsters shots have run in this community all season — and this frame is that lane at its best: one light, one shadow, nowhere to hide.
Photo: @manyakfunks
His sound runs the same dark corridor — hear him on "Midnight Ambush" by Manyakfunks.
And this morning he posted the global Halloween collab — hosted by @actionfiguremaniacs, with another whole roster of creators in the dark with him:
Manyakfunks' global Halloween collab post on Instagram
Skull Boy — Weekly Wonder: Spooky
Skull Boy (Rodrigo Ramírez) is family here — his cover art carried “Not Alone.” This afternoon he dropped the Weekly Wonder: Spooky carousel: the shadows came alive, and the creators brought the Halloween spirit with them.
Skull Boy's Weekly Wonder: Spooky carousel on Instagram
His track in the catalog: “Not Alone” — Epic Toy Sound feat. Skull Boy.
One roof
Eight photographers featured here, 27 more in a single collab carousel, 15 more in the Mezheads horror poster run — and every one of them one click from the music. That is Toys and Beats: the figures, the photographs and the sound, built together. Shop the featured artists' releases at toysandbeats.com.
Every photographer featured in this post is credited and linked back to their own page — featuring is what this community does for each other.
— Ronnie Desiderio, Founder of Zillion Marketplace LLC