Let me tell you about the best little giant toy company in the world. Medicom. They’ve got contracts with some of the greatest toy designers in the world and they do not-hold-back! They make the greatest stuff ever! Lemme give you a rundown of their latest achievements. First, let’s talk about that KAWS Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket set you see above. They were first blasted all over the internets by Arrested Motion who, when walking about a museum exhibition, spotted the little cuties. This was (is) The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum‘s first KAWS exhibit, as well as Brian Donnelly (KAWS)’s first solo museum show. Then there’s all sort of other toys like EAMES, Ren and Stimpy, The Clash Mickey Mouse…
Oh my god the excellent things that are about to be released unto the world.
Arrested motion claims to have confirmation that these Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket toys will be coming to life via Medicom. It seems totally reasonable so there’s probably no reason to doubt it. Feel free to send me a set!
Then let’s keep going down the list. All of these are pictured in the gallery below, right after photos taken by Arrested Motion of the KAWS figure as pictured at the museum show. TOYS: There’s the EAMES yellow and black furniture pattern Bea@rbrick (which, if you don’t know what is, it’s a bear-shaped canvas-sort of toy onto which hundreds of designs have been placed), super flat black and white Mickey Mouse brick, Star Wars original packaging Kubrick set of 6 (Kubrick is very similar to Be@rbrick, only they’re more open to interpretation, not just bearish) -series 3 with C-3PO, Han Solo in Carbonite block, AT-AT driver, Lando Calrissian, Wicket W Warrick the ewok, and a jawa!
Next there’s a black and white version of the iconic London Calling pose (The Clash) Mickey Mouse, SpongeBob and Patrick Star Kubrick, Star Wars Kubrick series 1 (I don’t know what happened to 2) including Luke Skywalker in Jedi Knight uniform, C-3PO with Salacious Crumb, R2-D2 with drink serving tray as he had on Jabba’s Barge, Chewbacca (Bouschh’s Prisoner), the seen-once-maybe-twice in Return of the Jedi tall yellow and green alien Amanaman, and Jabba’s right hand man Bib Fortuna.
Then there’s REN AND STIMPY BE@RBRICKS what in the world?! There’s a plain set of them then there’s SPACE MADNESS. Then, since we’re in space already, there’s a Kirk and Uhura Star Trek pack of Be@rbricks – these have a very interesting style to them that makes me wonder who did the artwork.
There’s some KAWS “teeth” shoestrings that I’d like to have a whole case of because they’re so awesome I’d put them in all my shoes forever, “Deep Sweet Easy” and “Kuredosukopu” Be@rbricks with strap that are super gorgeous and will have profits donated to JCV polio vaccines, and surprise(!) a Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket Kubrick set. How much you wanna bet they got a deal on licensing for these two characters and came to KAWS with the idea of rocking out on a version of his own?
And that’s my conclusion. See how the world all connects.
For more info on the KAWS artshow at The Aldrich: http://aldrichart.org/exhibitions/kaws.php
For more MEDICOM news: http://medicomtoy.tv/blog/
For amazing hotdogs: http://unclefrankys.com/
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