about hard sell tour's juke-bot by bigshot toyworks

turntablists DJ Shadow X Cut Chemist X artist/designer Paul Insect X tireless-toymakers Bigshot Toyworks = JUKE-BOT!

based on the Hard Sell Robot poster by Paul Insect (with the animated sequence playing at DJ Shadow X Cut Chemist's Hard Sell Tour - which i still can't track down, except for these), with figure design and development by the happening-cats @ Bigshot Toyworks, and sculpting by Scott Wettershneider - this retro-vinyl-mecha (tis a jukebox, innit?) was made first in a run of 50 for the UK leg of the tour (sold out within a day, no less) and limited quantities are apparently available (while supplies last) on the current HARD SELL tour, with some possibly making it to DJ Shadow's site (in the US) some time (when? i don't rightly know, for now anyways :p)
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personally, as much as i like what i see thus far, i actually like the notion of the toy more than anything else - the notion that tis based on an illustration of a poster from a musical-tour by two renowned turntablists made into a vinyl toy = *awesome* - the differing genres combined, is a connection i see in all aspects of themes and products that i blog about and perhaps have not ranted-on enough about, is made real in this toy ... but that's just me :)




im sorry but i couldn't track down the video that had the Juke-Bot sequence, but maybe this'll placate you folks for the time being - first up is an instructional film made by Ben Stokes, - which is screened as the intro to "The Hard Sell" Tour! followed by an exerpt of the HArd Sell Tour DVD with DJS + CC speaking about the genesis of the project = enjoy :)

Show Intro (by Ben Stokes):


"Live" Show Intro:


DVD-Excerpt: