I find it so awesome that one shape can be so many things. While mini figures (also called blind box becasue you don't know which one you're going to get) are a great start, large figures is where it's at.
For Christmas, my sister got me an awesome 8 inches Dunny designed by Mad. It's so cool it could kill you.
The big problem is that the Dunnys are hard to find in the Ottawa area. Almost no store carry them, except one : Norml Clothing, an upperground boutique in the Byward Market.
BTW, who knew there was an upperground movement ? I know about underground and stuff, but what the hell is upperground ?
Anyway, I knew they had some Dunny series 4 (I looked for 3-4 hours on the net to find some in the region once) and I went there during the fall
and got some. I went back recently and they had the Insa Dunny, a 8 inches Dunny with a hoodie. Yes, a real dunny-sized hoodie.I'm also a huge fan of Tokidoki and really like the way he design his stuff. The Cactus Friends figures and the Moofia are his 2 mains series that are very popular.
Another artist I like a lot is Touma. He's well known for the Knuckle Bears and other evil creature that look almost cute at the same time. Just do a "touma hell hound plush" search on Google if you don't believe me.
I could talk on and on about different other artist but I'll just conclude with one last : Joe Ledbetter. He's known for the Toxic Swamp Qees and the Finders Keepers series of figures. He got a really different style and really give a wacky personality to his creatures.
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It's funny you should mention that... the rest of the (non-vinyl) figure collecting world calls it: repaints... and we don't usually put much interest in collecting repaint issued figures.
No dude, a repaint is not alike a designer toy. A repaint is a variant of the exact same thing, except with different colors.
Thanks for sharing thiis
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