item#: 067 & 068, 090-108
materials: mostly plastic
status: taken (2.01.08)
Here we have all kinds of fabulous freaks: Kitty (the Monsters Inc. character, item #090), a glow-in-the-dark alien (item #091), three pigs (item #100-102). These tiny creatures were picked up here and there. I couldn’t say where each and every one was from but I know some came from Kinder Eggs: the crow that pulls the worm out of th ground (item #107), the strange bird with blue feathers (item #104), the yellow and orange worm (item#095), and the scary green smiling thing with yellow arms and suction cups (item #098), and the robo-cat with green arms (item #092). The pigs and the chicken (item #093) came from a set of farm animals, Kitty came from a vending machine outside a Japanese toy store in NYC, and the turtle with the bobbing head (item #094) my mother picked up on a trip to some place I can’t remember. The Monkey (item #068) and the Giraffe(item #067) are also part of the Creature Collection.
2.01.08 I gave these away to an artist through freecycle and we met up at a benefit art show, Corsets For A Cure. As a totally unexpected bonus she gave me a copy of The Daring Book For Girls. It’s perfect.
The creatures became the stars of this creation:
I have boxes full of these types of rubbery plastic figures which I have bought almost exclusively at “99 cent” type discount stores over the years. I love to go through my collection of animals and people, setting a bunch of them up on tables and book shelves in imaginative scene. They make great characters to play out a story. Presently I have them sorted out as land animals, sea creatures, outer space, military, dinosaurs, and emergency servies.
That sounds awesome. I’d love to see some of these scenes.
Would you like me to e-mail some JPEGs to you or post them someplace?
YES! Send a link.
Here’s a link to my long neglected ToyProject photo blog with my latest entry :
http://www.photoblog.com/ToyProject/2009/04/06/
I hope this works.