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Wed, May 6, 2009
If you are the rare bird who was put off by all the violence in those carefully-crafted weapons-n-ammo accessories of recent Huck Gee customs, you’re in luck: Huck is showing off his softer side with a series of ten SkullBunny figures.
This little guy has been sitting on the backburner for a year or so, trying to figure out the best way to bring him to reality. So we stuffed him in some fur and sewed him up tight, and we think the results are quite adorable!
The 10 custom hand-painted, fur suited, SkullBunny figures will be, albeit briefly, available this Friday, May 8th at Noon PST for $650 each at Huck’s eBay store. Each is signed, numbered and comes in shown bunny suit. Due to the nature of the materials, some differences should be expected in each figure. FYI, I think these are freakin’ adorable, too.
Jeremy Brautman - who has written 1965 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Jeremy Brautman joined ToyCyte in 2008 and has been writing about toy culture ever since. You can currently find him contributing to a variety of blogs, artkiving doodles at Doodlesplatter.com and cataloging artistic ephemera at ARTkivers.com.
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May 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Is that $65 or $650? Awesome, btw
May 6th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Yup, you read it right: $650. Sounds expensive, but that’s kind of a recession discount if you look back in the archives at the $800-$1500 pricetags for Huck’s previous pieces. These will sell out in 5 seconds. Don’t believe me? Lurk and refresh the eBay link on Friday…
May 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I may be in the minority here but this doesn’t look that cool to me. I’ve always loved this skull face but it looks like its wrapped in the carpet from my gradeschool. Sorry Huck you’re one of my absolute favorites but this is just mailing it in. Still better than a pooh-sicle though.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Kylo76, hands down my favorite poster
May 7th, 2009 at 8:41 am
For real. Too bad he can’t make a living off brilliant comments, b/c he has my vote too.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I would take making a living on anything right now, quit rubbing it in Jeremy. I’m pretty sure I got Huck’s vote too.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Boring nothing new here… Don’t get me wrong I love Huck stuff but he is getting greedy and nothing new….
May 7th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Its hard to speak your mind honestly, especially when you are trying to make it in the same art world. Ironically, the bigger your name becomes, the harder it becomes to criticize others.
I actually think these aren’t all that bad, not for me but certainly unique with the fur…
And as far as cost goes, they are worth exactly what someone else is willing to pay for them
May 7th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Who’s rubbing it in? If anyone wants to hire me to write about toys and Kyle to submit frequent witty commentaries about me writing about toys, we’ve both got great references and availability.
I think I gave up critiquing prices. Sometimes it’s a bummer if you can’t afford something, but then also the artist has to make a living, and Huck’s just doing this. You don’t see Huck Gee iskins and sneakers (yet). Anyway, at least he’s not selling them in blind boxes.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Don’t get me wrong I don’t dislike this figure at all, it’s just that Huck has set such a high standard with his pieces that this falls a little short in my small mind. I will never begrudge anyone for the prices they charge, except maybe KAWS. Especially not Huck because you can tell how much effort goes into his pieces. You’re right Freeny, if someone is willing to pay those prices, then that’s what it’s worth. In honor of you Jeremy, my comments will be blind boxed in the future.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Nice discussion in here. Honestly. I don’t mind negative (ahem, constructive) comments, as long as they’re delivered eloquently and with substance.
That being said, there’s history to the bunny suit figure. This is a figure I wanted to make for years…. I’ll post pics before the weekend explaining.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Huck, you are a true gentleman, no explanation needed, it’s cool that you even pay attention to what we say. Tonight I will drink a Sloe Gin Fizz in your honor while I listen to the latest episode of The Shadow on the transistor.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
What started as a critique has now evolved into a lovefest. Hippies.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
At least I don’t live in Berkely…
May 7th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
YAY!
as reward, you are all invited to join my Facebook Fan Page-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-Freeny/34170123768
(You lucky Bastards
I love you guys
May 9th, 2009 at 6:31 am
looks good, but not quite my cuppa tea. reminds me of mario in tanuki suit.
May 17th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I can get a real chinchila cheaper than this. I know its art but c’mon. I hate blind boxes!
June 7th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
this is definetly my favorite huck figure eva!!!