ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

With a cephalopod radar that’s constantly in overdrive and sapping vital nutrients from my body like a parasitic twin, it’s almost like the eight legged seacreatures of the world flock to me. And I love it.

Ion Tallman has found a genius use for those terrible old Quints dolls. You know, those tiny babydolls that came in packs of five, and people were all like ‘Oh my god, five babies at once?’, and then some real-life people made every effort to outdo the premise of the toy by popping out a few dozen at a time? You sure showed Tyco, welfare mom, Nadya Suleman!

But I digress. If there was every a way to make a babydoll tolerable, Ion found it by turning their heads into squid and squid-like creatures. The Octominian Triclops and Chico, and the Kali-marin Qwibble are but a few in the series of cutely creepy custom toys. Think Muppet Babies, but with Star Wars aliens. I think about that all of the time.

While you’re there, scan through the scads of photos for a huge variety of really awesome sculpts, beautifully photographed creations, and hand-made things. I’m entranced.