ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Like most sane people, I hate going to the grocery store. I’ve found the trick to surviving many unpleasant (yet innocuous) situations is bringing a toy along. Toys can transform almost any orange alert into a yellow. Plus, if you’ve been roped into going somewhere with a partner or spouse, it’s kind of a good way to seem occupied while goofing off. (They may not mind either, as it keeps you from loading up the shopping cart with Sugar Smacks on sale 10 for $10.) So on the last trip to the local Safeway, I spiced it up by bringing along Sket One’s Buckeye Rot figures. Wheaty Wheat was kind enough to send us some artist proofs of the standard red (804 pieces) and NYCC black w/ GID eyes and teeth versions (204 pieces). Both rotten tomatoes arrived in terrific woodcrate packaging complete with extra hands and knives. They feature articulation at the arms and tail. Each Buckeye Rot is numbered on the bottom. Because there are no feet, this may at first seem like a weird figure to display or incorporate into public vignettes. However, I had no trouble depositing Buckeye Rot onto a pile of tomatoes, as well as several amusing (to me anyway) non-perishabled I encountered in the aisles. No one even cast a furtive glance my way; not even when I put the black Buckeye in among the organic tomatoes (surely a felony in the Bay Area).