ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

This is some really wack bring-out-the-gimp Yo Gabba Gabba on crack kind of shit. I saw these PQ Kewpie Dolls on the Triclops Blog yesterday, but had to save it for closing time Friday because if something was ever NSFW, it’s certainly this. The twisted minds at Japan’s Build Up have quite royally debased the puritanity of the kewpie doll. Not that there wasn’t always something that creeped me out about kewpies, but well, this is different. At first I wondered if maybe I just thought this was bizarre because I don’t speak/read Japanese, but then there’s the dude getting a kewpie doll up the bum and it’s like, oh, well OK, some messages really do transcend the language barrier.

I’m sure it’s just coincidence, but don’t the last three recall a Kaws Dissected Companion, Warm Regards print and Bendy, respectively? The bottom row of Kewpies (Buff Q, Gross Q, Crap Q and Nyoro Q) are the newest in the series of cell-phone straps ($6.29 USD here), while the top row (Fat Q, Grandpa Q, Skinny Q and Melting Q) are the originals.

Build Up has produced short videos for 7 out of 8 of the Kewpies so far. I’d venture to say that the only vid safe in mixed company is Buff Q, which is just kind of a kaleidoscopic rendering of a Kewpie on ‘roids to techno. Gross Q incorporates a gun, box cutter, naked puppetry and exploding guts into a vignette that does make me wish I had a clue on the language tip. Fat Q gets cooked in a bowl of ramen. I have absolutely no idea what is happening in the Nyoro vid, but it involves possibly ear cleaning and romance gone awry. Skinny Q is a diet pill commercial that may in fact be endorsed by the Olsen twins. M. Night Shyamalan watched Grandpa Q and said to himself, “Damn, I wish I’d thought of this first.” And well, Crap Q, you’re just going to have to check that one out yourself. Zed’s dead baby…

PQ Kewpies can be procured at Strapya-World, the kind folks who make it possible for you to view these videos after the jump…Enjoy!

Gross Q

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTO7144wSl0]

Grandpa Q

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILlfXo6tPA8]

Skinny Q

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdiYVD-GOc]

Buff Q

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w96xiFduBQQ]

Crap Q

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmdmfIRocHg]

Fat Q

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZGMQd01Eg]

Nyoro Q

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpKwixzfYg]