Tristan
He is from the Great Lakes area
angel
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185 83 831
13 years ago
this just makes me feel meh.... so what
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
to me it's ridiculous... it isn't transformed in any way, it's not the best Snoopy sculpt, slap a couple of X's on it and sell it for big $$$...
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40 1999 75
13 years ago
@MisterQuiche: Stupidy strikes back!
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51 9 368
13 years ago
This is a preview shot, so this is definitely how it will look like. So no photoshops here.
Kaws is getting really lamer and lamer, and this release is such a lazy design that there ain't words to describe it. -
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118 160 32
13 years ago
Worst KAWS figure ever.
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13 years ago
Yeah, let's stick it to him now that he's not producing stuff we like! Yeah!
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860 9 87
13 years ago
never been a huge KAWS fan, but this really is just slapping X's on a figure. It's all about the brand now. Ron English has done more interesting things with Snoopy
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angel
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566 356 245
13 years ago
Leave Peanuts to Ron English!
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185 83 831
13 years ago
@ tristan; i think some folks have been saying this about kaws stuff for a long time, its just a thousand times more obvious with this release. i know kaws collectors who believe this is ace and a must have
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13 years ago
Weak sauce.
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185 83 831
13 years ago
dang, true, i'll get my crayons out now!!!
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
Tristan - first of all, I think it's okay to criticize an artist when you think he's doing bad work.
but to be fair I've always been sticking it to him cause I don't like his work very much - to me it seems more like brand merchandise then art and Kaws himself more buisnessman then artist.
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280 124 209
13 years ago
BRB... making my Snoopy toy into a KAWS toy.
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
Snoopy X monsterforge ftw!
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280 124 209
13 years ago
Ha ha ha! Maybe!
Nah... I'd actually have some fun and paint it up! -
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13 years ago
MisterQuiche and lordsketch: I agree with both of you. I typed the above comment facetiously, but with an alarming amount of sympathy. I also feel like the stuff I ought to like is not as cool as it used to be. However, barely one percent of Kaws and Dunny and Bearbricks interest me. Kaws probably didn't think this Snoopy would falter, but many on this forum think so. And here I am, seeing the same qualities in this figure that made me think the rest of Kaws is overpriced and underwhelming.
When I started collecting blindboxes in Portland and Chicago (on the few chances I happened to be in either of those cities) I had no idea how much vinyl I had already missed, and four years later I'm feeling crotchety and curmudgeonly and bitter that the artists I liked then either aren't producing stuff that appeals to me or they have stopped making vinyl altogether, and the rest of the toys that I like are unattainable due to rarity, expense, or access.
And the rest of the rest look like total boring shit. The debate over whether something is genuine or bootlegged, commercial or art, goes beyond what I care about. I love my collection, and I'd like to refine it, nurture it like a little toxic garden of non-biodegradable treasures. But increasingly it looks like there is less out there for me. So I feel old and mean compared to my enthusiastic collecting self of just two years ago, and with artists like Kaws I just sit back feel cynical. People are upset about Kaws doing a lukewarm x'ed-out-eyed Peanuts character. I guess I'm upset about caring less about vinyl in general.
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280 124 209
13 years ago
I like chocolate milk.
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185 83 831
13 years ago
@tristan; i know where you are coming from, i have shed most of my collection in recent years but continue to look and hope to find new artists / pieces that excite me. For me recently my focus has been more on the resin producers, small home runs, more artist interaction and a feeling of being involved as opposed to just buying a really really expensive snoopy or tweety bird. (obviously the only factor that ultimately matters is do i like it!)
@ monsterforge, Blend some ice cream in there and im right with ya! -
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
Tristan - there are many many more toys I want then money I have so I don't have those problems :P
there will always be crap, everywhere. But there is is still a lot of stuff I love. -
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51 9 368
13 years ago
I normal situations, at least for me, there will always be lots of stuff I would like to have, but cannot based on the price/availability etc. But it's all part of the fascination of collecting, buying fancy furniture and so on: would be a damn more boring if you could get all the stuff all at once!
We as consumers/collectors have the responsibility to buy and collect the stuff we really like and want to support, and I have started to think about his more and more lately. About the facts how well are the companies treating the artists, in which conditions are the toys made (I don't want no-one to risk/damage their health making my toys) and so on. As one individual you can't do miracles, know every little details of conditions, but you can act via your buing habits and I think I'll do that much more in the future. This all comes to Kaws and how I really think that his toys and art has started in the recent years become more and more about milking the buyers/collectors. That in my mind tells that he doesn't really appreciate his fans a lot.
I myself have cut up my collecting almost totally at the moment, but in the future I'll surely buy only something really special and might head towards buying more art pieces during the years. For example nice painting/canvas by some brilliant artist.
For me my toys, although I have a really small collection compared to many here & it doesn't include any "high-end" vinyl toys, are little pieces of art and all have something that visually & mentally describes somehow who I am and what makes me happy.
But that's my rant about these things. Hat tip to Tristan for starting the conversation. Now others - continue. -
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185 83 831
13 years ago
Yes indeed, if nothing else, this (in my opinion) poor piece has opened up a lot of conversation from folks
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51 9 368
13 years ago
Bump ;)
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13 years ago
I haven't bought Kaws releases for some time now, but I wouldn't mind having this one, lame though it is.
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13 years ago
im always trying to get my hands on a new kaws piece as broke as i am but this will def be on the last of my list. still love his art though. im sure he has a method to his madness
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angel
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154 129 400
13 years ago
I have to admit,it leaves me cold,except for my love of Snoopy,there's nothing to this.
But again, this is one of the things I like about the toy-as-art world,we all have such different tastes.
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28 114 32
13 years ago
Bland, Bland Bland. Kaws has wacked out with this little offering. Concentrating more on the dollars than the idea. I've seen more originality in a game of naughts and crosses.
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355 333 84
12 years ago
Tweety & this has damaged KAWS's reputation
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355 333 84
12 years ago
no way.pinocchio is great
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13 years ago
i like those quite a bit!!!
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13 years ago
reminds me of this....
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13 years ago
lol
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97 165 7
13 years ago
Yeah, I want those tentacles to wobble like the cartoon. To be honest, these Gompers are inspired by Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons.
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13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?... />Touche, Jazzydan!
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13 years ago
i really like this colorway of your tentacle gompers:
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10 183 628
12 years ago
rasta colorway! my weakness!
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13 years ago
BOOBS AND POLAR BEARS! love that combination!
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13 years ago
There seems to be a worrying trend starting for toys with boobs. People are gonna start giving me even funnier looks when they come round to and see my collection.
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
yes, but oddly not that many polar bears...
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13 years ago
hehehe
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13 years ago
The flesh colored breasts cost more than the unnaturally colored ones.
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13 years ago
So that's puce, huh?
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51 9 368
13 years ago
Isn't that just "dark red", "wine red" or something like that?
"Puce" feels a bit too detailed when listing designer toys ;) -
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185 83 831
13 years ago
burgundy i'd say!!!! lets maybe stick to dark red? puce is lighter than this i reckon
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51 9 368
13 years ago
I think so too - dark red is fine!
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185 83 831
13 years ago
what messer chsnged this to 'Bordeaux'???!!!
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13 years ago
Heh. Someone awesome, I'd guess. Who is not me. I am not the uploader.
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13 years ago
:-))))
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13 years ago
mmmmhh... may i dig a bit in this color topic, too??
when i click on the colorway "dark red", then only this toy pops up.
shouldn't it be listed under just "red" as base color?
i mean here are toys listed under BLUE for example, even though some are "royal blue" or "baby blue" or "aqua blue"...still they are all blue..
don't know, if this matters, but i read a comment on another toy earlier, that: "the color tag is meant to easily catalog collections by color" and this here would be a case of TOO defined color tagging for me. -
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13 years ago
SillyK, I agree.
I think it should be narrowed down to the main or predominant colour of the toy, not by different shades. So for me this toy is red, and if I was grouping my toys this most likely would be in a red section, or brown depending on which group it suited. -
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13 years ago
agreed JEN. i am fully with you on this one! :)
@ 23SPK: the color tagging works just fine, if you keep the colors to the base or dominating color of each toy, as i explained in the comment above with the example of blue toys. i don't know how else i could explain, what i am trying to say. -
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185 83 831
13 years ago
both toys now updated ;)
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13 years ago
What JenX said.
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185 83 831
13 years ago
Hmmmm, MPH have this toy listed as Brown, let the color debate continue
http://www.myplasticheart.com/pc/QEE143DONNY/01DALEK/Qee+9+inch+-+Dalek+Donny+Brown+Bunee
( yes, i enjoy making trouble :P ) -
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180 314 28
12 years ago
Sorry, but this toy has an edition of 50 instead of 200!
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239 62 43
12 years ago
Sorry, but all of these came out in 2006....says on the feet
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angel
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12 years ago
Sorry, but I had to correct them. Awesome, thanks :)
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12 years ago
Sorry, but i lol'd
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13 years ago
I love this guy.
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
link is wrong...
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13 years ago
Thx Lord :)
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13 years ago
Are there different colorways, or is it only this fake-blood drizzled on ice cream color? Or worse yet, burgundy?
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13 years ago
LOL Tristan 0o)
noooo burgundy please ;)
if you wonder about the color of the toy in this picture, then i can calm you with saying, that this is just a bad photo. it is supposed to be a shiny black.
here a better pic of this toy:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/5896349930_9fbe0bddda.jpg
and i researched other colorways for you... found a gorgeous mint green, casted in resin, which brings out the sculpt wonderfully -
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12 years ago
Anyone have this one for sale???
Please contact me wpaarts@hotmail.com -
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185 83 831
13 years ago
not enough toys have nipples!
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13 years ago
but all nipples are toys!
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185 83 831
13 years ago
if only i could press 'like' on a comment!
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
here we go :P
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13 years ago
Woah, I really want this one!
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
there are SO many bearbricks it's hard to upload them all.
apart from the regular series there's special releases, con releases, mini series.... -
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13 years ago
That amavevera is a very bad girl! You've obviously been hanging around with elissa far to much!
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13 years ago
Not enough toys have vulvas.
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185 83 831
13 years ago
well spotted!
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
http://rotocasted.com/toy/912... :)
(somebody had to do it!) -
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185 83 831
13 years ago
Each Box MAY contain SOME of the following:
Silicone Mold Debris
Bum Castings
Off-color bootleg bits
Suckpeg reject parts
Actual garbage
Broken toys
Amazing weird shit
Intermediate Production models
Crap
Fragments that may give clues about upcoming projects
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185 83 831
13 years ago
Can people post links to photos of whats in their boxes, perhaps hints of figures to come :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suckadelic/6076735219/in/photostream
shot of inside 2 of the boxes -
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13 years ago
Disappointment, LOVE IT!
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185 83 831
13 years ago
yup, maybe that means one box is empty!!
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13 years ago
That would make my day.
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185 83 831
13 years ago
Well, i hope everyone who gets one posts pics, i think i would piss myself laughing at an empty box
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13 years ago
you can remove the link...it is sold out
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185 83 831
13 years ago
done!, i saw his tweet! did anyone get one of these?
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13 years ago
This was to much even for my sucklord lust, I bet theres secretly some cool stuff in the boxes though!
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13 years ago
Awesome, let me know what its like, I'm very intrigued!
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13 years ago
I wonder if Suckadelic got tired of being so popular and thought the only solution was to sell the worst bunches of crap imaginable. If that doesn't work, they can always sell actual crap. But that would go far beyond the ironic, quasi-legal, and nostalgic boundaries into the realm of blatant condescension. And no one is going to stand for that, right?
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92 33 17
13 years ago
i think its more to offer an affordable item for people who dig his work
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angel
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13 years ago
Stupid, self-indulgent.
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75 34 104
13 years ago
How many of these were made?
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75 34 104
13 years ago
Want the little turntable that came with the Sucklord 600!
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angel
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381 1089 1433
13 years ago
Jan - I don't think it's a joke, or at least not a joke at the *expanse* of his collectors. I've had the opportunity to talk to him and visit his studio when I was in NY and I can tell you -
Sucklord is very aware of his persona and his charm and its all part of his artistic act. He's actually an artists with a lot of integrity who cares about the stuff he produces.
I bought a Dumny from him (which I have unfortunately lost in a bad NY night :( ) and when I gave him the money he said "asshole!" and added - "that's what you came for, you get the whole experience" :D -
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13 years ago
^^ sick story lordsketch. Sucklord sounds like a really cool dude.
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13 years ago
Sucklord is so hot right now he could take a crap, wrap it in tinfoil, put a couple fish hooks on it and sell it to Queen Elizabeth as earrings
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
I'm going to put X-eyes on a broken Suckpeg, sell it, and retire.
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13 years ago
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185 83 831
13 years ago
sucktoys also had 'im an asshole for making this' on them.
Glad i uploaded this, lots of discussion! and yup, 40 made and all sold at $45 a pop. And yeah, Sucklord on TV, should be funny, will they let him say F**K as much as we all know he likes! -
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432 4 822
13 years ago
Kevlo's g̶a̶r̶b̶a̶g̶e̶ toys.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevlo9/6093641436/in/contacts/ -
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185 83 831
13 years ago
cheers shank, think i'd be happy with that selection.
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6 36 49
13 years ago
There is this part of me that really, really wants to see this as a commentary on blind boxes...but I just can't.
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13 years ago
"when I gave him the money he said 'asshole!' and added - 'that's what you came for, you get the whole experience' :D"
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13 years ago
That Kevlo picture is a good score, seems like a fun bunch of trash
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185 83 831
13 years ago
there was a full douchebot in my box, pink dumny body, unpainted suckshark and a beer cap amongst other delights. i think it was well worth it
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angel
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432 4 822
13 years ago
I keep dogging Sucklord because I assume that part of the appeal of his work is that many people hate it. Just trying to do my part.
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185 83 831
13 years ago
@shank hahaha nice, some people do love the haters!!
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20 17 20
12 years ago
that is sad
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lordsketch
381 1089 1433
13 years ago
this is what I imagine Jan looks like :DD
J_Walrus
51 9 368
13 years ago
:D
monsterforge
280 124 209
13 years ago
This is easily the coolest thing I've seen all day.
SillyK
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13 years ago
hahaha lord ^_^
jan is much more awesome, even though this toy is almost unbeatable!
ToyPunkJan
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13 years ago
I'm only a hippie on the inside :)
Tristan
343 224 314
13 years ago
Looks like a Bee Gee.
monsterforge
280 124 209
13 years ago
Only the coolest darn BeeGee we've ever seen. We could all learn a lot from this guy. He is a master of his own domain... a king of all he surveys. He is the most interesting Space Apeman in the universe.