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Does anyone other than me give a shit about vinyl "art toys"/"urban vinyl"/"designer toys" whateverthefuck?

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― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

i imagine these things filling a big hole in the desert like the e.t. atari catridges

― and what (ooo), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what they are?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

I really love Be@rbrick, though I don't really collect them, just buy one every so often as a present-to-self type thing - I try not to get more than two from any given series (as that way madness and completism lies), but series 13 is so cute my resolve may fail.

― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

For Pash (and whoever else):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_vinyl

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Be@rbrick stuff, but I'm more into the Dunnys and Qees.

I realize that I appear to be speaking moonman here to some of you, but I'm not making this all up, I swear.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

how expensive are these things, generally speaking

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I've seen things that look like these (I GIS-ed "urban vinyl") in F.P. in Newcastle sometimes. You see the odd one that's cute, but most of them are really ugly (to me), and they're usually pretty expensive? I guess there must be people with hundreds of these things cluttering their homes.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Key word: "clutter". Individually, they really entice me to buy them and enjoy their adorableness any time I want, but then I think of the shelf space and the dusting and the essential uselessness...and I can't do it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

"crappy things that are bafflingly expensive"

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

As a total drooling Jim Woodring fanboy, I've wanted to get the full line of his creations (there must be around a dozen by now.)

As a total broke-ass chump, I haven't gotten any.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://jimwoodring.com/mrbumper/bumper4.jpg

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

???

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Uglydolls, and I remember seeing a sad ghost lamp in Soho that I almost hinted at for a gift!

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

yes! these are the only ones i would consider buying (too broke though)

http://www.designertoystore.co.uk/prodimages/pupshaw/hpfrankall.gif

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

And how sweet is that life size Pupshaw?!!?

http://www.jhno.org/pt/6.jpg

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

When I was weaning myself off of buying shit-tons of CD's I would listen to a few times and then forget about, I started buying a bunch of these. At least I can stare at them and get more visual pleasure than I get from piles of colorful CD spines.

I sort of dig the proletarian art aspect of them. (Not the huge $$$ ones though, those people are INSANE.)

xpost: The Woodring stuff is great, but I don't have any of it.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, on the "how expensive?" thing, the lil' ones are usually $6-$8, BTW.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

I do pretty much love this:
http://www.toytokyo.com/productMulImages/234_1.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

i drop by toy tokyo at least once a month and sorta tempt myself, but reduced space and a realistic wallet stop me... for the most part. I did buy my girl a 75 buck j-import woodring figure for her birthday, tho.
Mini-pupshaw is looking at me from the kitchen.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

franklin mint for the fanboy demographic?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty much.

I like these:http://www.futureplastik.co.uk/dunnys3sq.jpg

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

feh.
http://www.futureplastik.co.uk/dunnys3sq.jpg

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

I collected the little Kozik Mongers figures, which I thought were really cool...

ihttps://pro19.abac.com/plasticpassion/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/kozikmongercaseBIG.gif

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Whoops: https://pro19.abac.com/plasticpassion/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/kozikmongercaseBIG.gif

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

example:
http://www.freebento.com/store/files/t_834.jpg

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit, now I know Frank toys exist. Fuck. My house has way too many silly plushies and action figures, this thing is a thing that for me to get into would be to never get out of. It is nice to have a borg holding hands w/a little Virgin Mary atop my TV tho.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

used to be a big fan of strange and bizarre toys in general then grew old and bitter ran out of space, started buying some of the kubrick's. these days happy to take a walk through toy tokyo or look at the websites. weird to think the murakami's exhbit drew 95,000 in la in 2001, some of the big names involved (nike, sony), a rise in hip hop culture in the past five years and yah i ask the same question does anyone else give a ...pop art that nobody wants...gotta be selling japan

― Wieviele Leute in dieser Stadt (kephm), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

my roommate assists for [major ny street artist whose pseudonum begins with "K"] so my house is slowly filling with this stuff. That said, I have two McFarline Gretzky figures (in box!)

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Lladro for kids! Are your kids going to look at them and have the same reaction that we have to blown-glass clowns, I wonder?

I'm not saying that in any kind of judgemental way, I actually am a little in love with Pupshaw there.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.ebayimg.com/05/i/06/bf/1e/80_1.JPG

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

I guess the crazy newts series are big $$$ these days.

http://www.zymoglyphic.org/acquisitions/images/newts.jpg

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Likewise the Imperial Newts, I'm sure.

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f41/50d/f4150d0c-f07b-4899-bf46-85b3ad35a141

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.duckywaddles.com/ProdImages/imperialnewts.jpg

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

i am down w/ this but i don't own any nor can i afford to get into it.

if i had $150 to waste, i might drop it on a HARVEY + JUBS set

http://static.flickr.com/26/49923088_f265af0cfe_o.jpg

jmes jarvis is so rad

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

ethan upthread very OTM

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

I keep meaning to pick up an icebat uglydoll for me and my kid, the little ones are like ten bucks, I can deal with that.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

so jimmy mod, do you and your roommate make crazy $$$ on ebay??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

i have a colleague who's really into this stuff, makes them too... but i can't really get into the idea

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

LOL I KEEP TELLING HIM TO DO THAT BUT HE WON'T :(

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

Some of 'em are ok (I'd like a Drinky Crow figure if one exists), but I don't really like most of them (or the commercial aspect of 'street art' - Nike sponsorships, etc.. I see a big difference in these and 'proletarian art' like screenprints).

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.aintitcool.com/images2005/comics/drinky.JPG

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

That's pretty good, but I think I'd want Drinky to be a stuffed toy to go along with Sock Monkey. Real buttons for eyes and all that, you know?

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

Drinky Crow is boozing it up on top of my TV. Sometime he gets so drunk that he loses the bottle.

A stuffed one would be the ultimate, though.

― patita (patita), Sunday, 7 January 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

Homies figurines are still 50ยข

― naus de lekkerste..! (Robert T), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://worldofwonder.net/image1/bapoo1.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 January 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

i do love homies!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:57 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I have officially crossed the line from normal to creepy, after buying an IKEA glass cabinet to display these in.

― John Justen, Sunday, 19 August 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

s1ocki otm.

― gr8080, Sunday, 19 August 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

xpost - It's the IKEA part that is creepy. Buying glass cabinets won't be creepy until you buy, like, 10 of them.

― Sara R-C, Sunday, 19 August 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

Skipping 11 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

http://www.blister.jp/images-item-big/page-2869.jpg

― RJG, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

:D

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://harajyuku.mwater.jp/images/figure-toxic-teddies-ramones.jpg

― gr8080, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1427/1174796561_c4f782574d_o.jpg

LET THE TAUNTING BEGIN!

― John Justen, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

lol

― gr8080, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago)

dude, shameful, bro.

― ian, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

windex.

― gr8080, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

This just places you among the numberless hordes who collect stuff for no other reason than they think it looks cool and they're a bit obsessive about it. Now that you have a display case, you can sit for hours and look at your stuff. This seems daft, but harmless. I mean, it could have been guns or knives. That would be much creepier.

― Aimless, Sunday, 19 August 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

looks like a shop

― RJG, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

i used to have a lot of baseball cards LOL.

i still have this though, same thing pretty much:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1361/1148488689_ffeae0e5e0.jpg

― Steve Shasta, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

that's cool. i've got a signed copy of weezer's green album so you're in the lead...

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

I have a Super Bowl XXJWIJA-whatever logo football helmet signed by MARK RYPIEN. If I can find it, will sell to any ILX Redskins fan on the cheap.

― milo z, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

I will give you $1.00 US for it plus shipping. No insurance pls.

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

nb: it's a replica helmet, so not suitable for giving to your cousin to play Pop Warner in

― milo z, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

I suppose I'm enabling you by saying this, but I think it looks nice and neat, John. I wouldn't want to clean the glass or dust the figures, but hey - I don't have to!

Also, it will only really look like a shop when there are 10 of them.

― Sara R-C, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

I am glad you do not keep them in the box, Mr. Justen.

A neighbor of mine had a display case just like that for her precious moments porcelain figurines. But with more mirrors and obviously way stupid looking bcz, you know, the precious moments.

― Abbott, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

looks like a small shop

― RJG, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

I'm just glad John hasn't started collecting Precious Moments figurines. See how much worse things could be?!

― Sara R-C, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago)

You do have more of those than the one shop in El Paso that sells them. They have about ten. They also offer three different T-shirts and four records. There's one lone sales (?) person staring intensely at a turntable. I have no idea how they stay in business.

― Abbott, Sunday, 19 August 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

xp to john

so they arent lined up everywhere anymore?
BOOOOO

― the sir weeze, Monday, 20 August 2007 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

Well, the rest of them are. [/secret shame]

― John Justen, Monday, 20 August 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

john justen - i think that is a nice looking case you have your figures in. where did you get it?

― sweaty palms, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

ikea. hope this missive arrives in time!

― John Justen, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 07:44 (seventeen years ago)

i look forward to the completely justified negative weirded out reaction of the movers when i explain the purpose of this thing

― John Justen, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 07:53 (seventeen years ago)

I can't wait until you turn into a crazy catlady.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

(sez the dude with 200+ Doctor Who books)

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://15.dtiblog.com/v/vari/file/PC300045.jpg

― ian, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:50 (seventeen years ago)

lol windex

xp shit dude shit

― gff, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

John's got like 20 of those

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

i actually have one of the figures in that series, of a girl tied up, meant to be posed face down. a friend of mine got it for me on vacation in japan.

the only other toy i have is a lois lane "classic silver age" figure, which I have no excuses for other than that I love lois lane.

― ian, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

i emailed someone at presspop gallery to see if they are ever going to reissue woodring's lifesize pupshaw toy... and she said they were indeed planning on it, but not for a year or so. sweet!

and the mr. bumper toy he did is really cool... you can find them on eBay for fairly cheap (compared to the original selling price) if you're patient and don't buy the first one you see.

― ytth, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

I saw a bunch of these things in Newbury Comics the other day and I do have to admit they're about a bazillion times more intersting in person than in pictures.

Given the price tags on them, I'm even more o_O about John's display case.

― HI DERE, Friday, 2 May 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

DO THEY HAVE KATAMARI COUSINS

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ่Œ„่•ƒ, Friday, 2 May 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Taco Bell u crazy

― existential eggs (Abbott), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

I mean that site does nothing wait l;ook at this http://in-this-economy.com/2009/09/02/taco-bell-blatantly-rips-off-kidrobot/

― existential eggs (Abbott), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eIRZl6Cv0yo/Sp-wKvRmEcI/AAAAAAAADaA/u-_mcOF_uxY/s400/bellhedz.jpg

― existential eggs (Abbott), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

massive lolz at "Bellhedz"

― so says i tranny ben franklin (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

I will collect all of these and call them "Dickphaces"

― so says i tranny ben franklin (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

This was my reward for entering a Taco Bell for the first time in years.

― existential eggs (Abbott), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

Taco Bellend

― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

kinda sad mostly lol

― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago)

wow tho looking at the photos of the box and packaging makes the level of ripoffery kind of glaring. guessing this is one of those situations where a huge-o corporation does cost benefit analysis on the likelihood of a lawsuit and decides to forge ahead nontheless.

― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

I got one of the 3" blind boxes for my birthday and I got this dunny. I like him
http://static.getseoshop.com/image/000000000008639/220x400x3/dunny-ye-olde-english-uamou-2-25.jpg

Vinyl will not talk off because of taco bell so yeah, mostly lol

― beauty of grunge = abandon (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

I have a few Jim Woodring and Pete Fowler toys at home and a Drinky Crow (complete with gin) on my desk at work. No compulsion to seriously collect them, thank fuck, but they're neat enough to have around.

― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, everyone should have at least one vinyl toy for their desk at work and maybe one for a hood ornament

― beauty of grunge = abandon (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

I have Run DMC

also some Star Trek OST stuff they did (Mugatu, Spock, the Gorn, Kirk)

― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 September 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago)

I reaaaaaaaaaaaaallly want the Heidi Kenney coffee cup keychain.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.vinylclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/yummy-breakfast.jpg

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

my gf is currently rocking the donut from that series as a keychain. they're cool!

― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 September 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

lmao @ pharrel's corny ass: http://theselby.com/5_25_10_PharrellWilliamsEd/

― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago)


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