We Love Odd
Those of you who know me are aware that I’m a bit of an anglophile. So when I heard about Weenicons, I thought to myself, well this is the dog’s bollocks on multiple levels! Here are intricately detailed toy effigies of pop culture characters AND they represent just one range among several even cheekier toy lines by the English company, OddCo. Are these art toys? Depends on your definition of both “art” and “toys” I suppose.
Here’s what I say: OddCo makes great figures with attitude and edge, like if Garbage Pail Kids were injected with a constant IV solution of TMZ. In a nutshell, a big difference between collectible toys in the UK and the US seems to be this: The UK’s “#1 Alternative Collectible Gift” is a line of toys that many of us (and by us, I mean you) have no doubt passed by while browsing for lava lamps or edible underwear at Spencer’s Gifts. Would you pose this Bears at Urinals diorama next to your Be@rbricks? You know what? I just might.
Today, OddCo took their pop culture paradigm-play even further with the launch of Popmash, a toy line that seeks to save us from ourselves.
Fame and pop culture are rapidly going out of control. Experts predict that at the current rate by the the year 2020 everybody on the planet will be famous. Economies will collapse. Society will be in disarray. Television will be really, really awful. We need a solution to this problem before it’s too late, Popmash is that solution. Popmash scientist reckon that by genetically combining two famous things we can reduce pop culture by 50% and save the planet for another 100 years.
While OddCo currently only distributes these new figures within the UK, we at Neon Monster hope this will change and that you’ll see Weenicons, Bad Taste Bears, Teeny Demons and Popmash figures stateside in the future. In the meantime, I’ve had a right proper chat with Mr. Paul Kell of OddCo on the topic of all things ODD. Got a short attention span? Follow OddCo on Twitter.
