One of the hottest releases this year...

is a vinyl art toy :) [sorry didn't note OT in the header] now folks who follow this blog know that i like my vinyl art toys [or well.. toys] other than things that tick. brian donnelly aka kaws is definitely one of the artists out there whose works i have an interest in. i can't afford(or justify purchasing) the ad disruptions that i love, or some of the vibrant cool paintings (smallish ones sold for over US$10k and the bigger ones over US$100k of course) but i can buy some cool small vinyl issues... his last 2 pieces were a bit of a yawn, joe kaws, a snoopy thing, and partners, a take on walt disney with mickey thing. but this recent one is cool and sold out in less than 20mins for over a 1000 pieces on kawone.com

more pics below :) cheers

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i have been wondering what the queue would be like at the Original Fake store in Aoyama... one of the fiercer ones seen was when the dissected bearbrick 1000% dropped at invincible in taiwan... this was the queue for it then in 2009

http://www.freshnessmag.com/2009/02/28/original-fake-medicom-berbrick/

side note: u see the long queues in the above pics and vid... that is nuthin... NOTHING compared to the queuing fever that captured singaporeans during the hello kitty mcdonalds craze in 2000. for foreign readers, in 2000, mcdonalds were selling these hello kitty plushes with the extra value meals and for some unknown reason, a huge % of the populace went absolutely gaga over it and queued overnight and in the rain for these now worthless items... oh and some fought and argued for it too... unbelievable but true, sadly :)

excerpt "At the peak of its popularity, 300,000 Singaporeans or about 8% of the entire population, including children, adults, and old people, jammed all 114 McDonald’s outlets in Singapore round the clock."

http://www.sosingaporeans.com/hello-kitty-craze-in-singapore-in-2000/

http://www.salon.com/2000/01/20/singapore_2/

i think i've sidetracked a fair bit but it's just toooo funny... even the then DPM commented on it LOL: Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said: “Once in a while is alright, but we should not get too carried away. Even if you want the Kitty, there is no need to fight fiercely to try and get one  (Straits Times, February 2000).”