About Us

We're two brothers in the Denver RiNo area who rediscovered our love for toys in 2020 and became fascinated with custom toy making. We started our shop to share what we're learning and help others get into making custom toys too.

We believe that more people creating in the hobby will lead to more creativity, diversity, and representation allowing everyone to find a piece of themselves in the toys they love to play with.

Toycrafting is minority and locally owned by Denver natives.  We have staff members with physical and mental impairments, so please bear with us as we are always trying our best to help you find something fun! We grew up here in Denver and want to give back to our community so we're committing to putting 5% of all profits towards art projects with local area schools.

We're primarily focused on local pickup in our shop because we started our shop as a first of its kind physical location where customers could touch and feel 3D printed and custom made pieces as well as toys made by lesser known independent artists.

Our thought is that seeing these toys and pieces in person will help educate and get people excited about the possibilities of buying or making their own custom parts. We hope we can really foster this interest locally, so we're hoping to also be a resource for teaching people how to 3D print and customize their prints.  Likewise, we are also always on the lookout for local artists who want to share their work in our shop.  That all said, we don't mind customers or artists outside of CO reaching out too.  If there's something you really want or want to share please contact us.

Please follow us on our socials as we are constantly releasing new products as well as older hard to find toys from our own collection. 

 

Staff Members

Aaron Wong

Aaron Wong is a Denver native and small business owner. His shop Toycrafting in RiNo, is a space to explore Toy Art and help others express themselves thru art that you play with. We believe that the more people that are creating toy art, the more creativity, diversity, and representation we will see in the things we love. His background is in mobile game development and he holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from MIT. He is a proud graduate of George Washington HS and is inspired by the CO toy community, his immigrant parents, his wife, and his two young daughters who find something to play with in everything around them.

Bryant Wong

I’m Bryant.  I have mild cerebral palsy.  I’m also diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).  I live in Fire Clay Lofts in RiNo.  I may seem really shy at first due to my disability but I really love meeting new people.

I’m a really big fan of Japanese anime and gundam model building.  I’m also a big video game enthusiast…I play PlayStation and have a PS5.  I don’t really have a favorite game but I like certain types/genre and have favorite franchises/series (Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Rainbow Six) to name a few.  I like reading novels…my favorite genre is military thrillers.  Some of the authors I like are Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Mark Greaney, Brad Taylor.  I also like listening to music; some of the bands/artists I like are Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, Fort Minor, Fatboy Slim, Evanescence, Collective Soul, No Doubt, etc…the list goes on.  I grew up reading comics and read graphic novels/compendiums (collected issues/volumes); some compendiums/omnibus I like are Batman, Spawn, X-Men.  I like to watch TV…I watch anything from anime/adult animation to suspense dramas/thrillers to sci-fi/fantasy.  One of my favorite shows is The X-Files. I look forward to meeting you all.  Welcome to our toy store!