Comments on: Kidrobot Rebrands Cartoon Network

By: Designer vinyl artist Nathan Jurevicius brings Scarygirl | Video Gamer Now-The Ultimate Gaming and Entertainment Site

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:52:49 +0000

[...] soon and will be completely free to play at the Scarygirl website. With designer vinyl giant Kidrobot rebranding Cartoon Network, the reach of the medium certainly seems to be widening. I can think of a few toy series right off [...]

By: Designer vinyl artist Nathan Jurevicius brings us Scarygir | Video Gamer Now-The Ultimate Gaming and Entertainment Site

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:56:34 +0000

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:20:54 +0000

Maybe if we casually keep mentioning her name, Christina Ricci, her Google Alert will pick it up and she’ll become aware of designer toys, their fans, their store ninjas and their journalists. We didn’t ask for anything and we got Rosie O’Donnell. So now that we’re asking for someone, Christina Ricci, let’s see.

By: Kylo76

Kylo76 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:13:24 +0000

Yeah Christina Ricci is on a whole nother level than Paris or Lohan, on that note I wish Christina Ricci would wear me …

By: Steve Brown

Steve Brown — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:21:36 +0000

If Christine Ricci wore my ANYTHING I’d be the happiest boy in the world.

By: Jeremy Brautman

Jeremy Brautman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:42:43 +0000

Ha! That is on point since Budnitz blogs every time a Hilton or a Lohan wears his threads. Although, devil’s advocate again: if say, Christina Ricci wore my logo, I’d not only blog it, but also shout it from the rooftops.

By: Kylo76

Kylo76 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:40:14 +0000

I saw him at an art opening for a friend and I was basically asking him about the lame designs for Labbit stools they put out. He told me he wasn’t too happy with them and that all of the designs he submits to KR(60+ I think he said), they always choose the easiest to produce, solid one color style. I told him I thought Paul Bunditz seems more interested in having Lindsay Lohan or some bad rapper in his tshirts than putting out anything original anymore. Frank smiled and told me he would buy me a drink if they weren’t already free. I still like KR a bunch, it just seems they seem to be getting away from their original fans like us and going in a different direction. Also I could care less about the Cartoon Network thing, I love Cartoon Network, the design just seems so unoriginal.

By: Collin David

Collin David — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:34:26 +0000

This is the problem that I have with Mighty Muggs. Hasbro sells blanks, but the blanks are pretty much COMPLETELY unworkable, brittle plastic. It’s like they saw an idea and ran with it without really knowing what it all meant. On the plus side, they stand up a LOT better in the oven than vinyl – great for working up, bad for working IN.

But you don’t see me NOT buying a Ghost Rider Mighty Mugg, either.

If Hasbro did some kind of custom art tour, that would be awesome. All I saw was some guy at NYCC selling ridiculously overpriced customs of existing characters. $1000 for a set of okay Ninja Turtles.

I’m still not on board with Uni-formz and Subcasts, though.

By: Freeny

Freeny — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:35:45 +0000

well, they have a formula and they’re running with it…

By: Jeremy Brautman

Jeremy Brautman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:35:40 +0000

Ooh Kylo you can’t just drop a comment like that and not give us a little quote of some kind. Devil’s advocate: With a recurring theme on every platform on earth, The People want to know what Kozik wants to say about creativity!

By: Kylo76

Kylo76 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:27:25 +0000

Light Bulb Munny’s…lame figure. Could’ve been so much more creative. But having talked to Kozik a month back, you can’t expect much creativity at KR anymore.

By: Freeny

Freeny — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:23:33 +0000

anything worth anything goes mainstream eventually.
The question will be weather the real brains behind this (the underground artists) will reap the rewards, or will big corporations grab cheap generic designers to pump out lookalike products?….

By: Collin David

Collin David — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:35:13 +0000

I’ve been watching these commercials for at least 4 months and wondering the same thing : is this awesome stuff going too mainstream? I’ve also been telling myself that I’d totally buy a ‘Nood’ of Chowder, or Flapjack and Captain Kanuckles, just because they’re such outstanding shows.

Still, I never object to the opportunities that arise from a new blank figure. That would be like rejecting a canvas because it was made by a different company. Now, if these are to become actual figures instead of digital renderings, that’s a different story.