even before PEECOL Series One has officially dropped, Kidrobot has announced the release of Series Two for a November 29th-drop! and from my interview with creators, eBoy, they are currently working on Series 4 and i have no doubt this series would go on for quite a while more, IMHO :)seen on the KR-forum thread are a few more peeks into PEECOL vinyl-citizens, with no doubt mixed reactions from collectors, for which i have this theory (do bare with me) ...
upsized the figures to 300-400% and get well-known fan-favourite artists to design their skins = how does that sound? /// CLICK TO READ MORE
frankly, i feel a vast majority of collectors (no, i dun have stats to back this up) out there are possibly elitists. toy-snubs, if you may. and while i suspect it's not for lack of respect nor admiration for the CREATORS, but moreso the TOY FORM, and sometimes even GENRE ... so too a certain amount of leeway is accorded/given to their own FAV ARTISTS, when they lay their collective pens and paints to a figure (sometimes irregardless of the form, toy or not), IMHO.
hey, nothing "wrong" with that, really (i insist) - becoz it IS about personal preference (am not event talking about "taste" or "opinion"), IMHO ... and that's what makes the toy-realms so full of "life", innit? i for one welcome the diversity (even tho i may have my own opinions on a few of them as well), if not we'll ALL be getting the SAME type of figures at every single drop everywhere, innit?
i like PEECOL ... you don't need to like them if you don't want to. it's cool :)
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4 comments:
for many fans the contribution of eBoy to this project is what counts.
seeing the toy's form not pixel-art enough is what's causing the mixed reactions. if KR starts doing other artists designs there will be no trace of eBoy whatsoever.
well said, Anonymous :)
I love these. I'd actually prefer to see eBoy run with it for a while before having other artists do their interpretations. I don't want them to be Dunnies. I want them to be one huge CONSISTENT story with a single vocabulary. But the artist series are inevitable... Let's just wait a bit!
those were meant to be read by the "haters"
i do agree with you Mark. frankly i'd rather see just eBoy's designs and no one elses ... but for the sake of speculation, an artists' series is not a SHOULD HAVE, it is an ENVITABILITY ... LOL ... i for one can't wait to have a chance to have an entire series of OG PEECOLs myself :)
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