Latest stickers! Suicide Bomber Kevin Rudd, UN Peacekeepers, Gaza Kids, Dalai Lamas, Zombie Girls and Kim Jong Ils. Go to the contact page and send a message with the title: Hello Cupco! I want free Stickers! Ask and ye shall receive! Free stickers!
And these are the wacky-doodle envelopes that your stickers come in!!
The ‘me’ doll with my favourite green belt, favourite Black label hat and the pink hair that I had at the time of the Melbourne Art Fair 2008 for which the ‘me’ doll was made. A few people besides ‘me’ were interested in buying him. One of those people wasn’t Bill Henson; I think he was shitty at me! The’me’ doll is on the wall next to the original Mayu doll (pics coming soon) overlooking our kitchen table like a couple of lovebirds.
Andy from TOYSREVIL has reported on a bootleg CUPCO CLOUD MAN discovered by the boss of ADFUNTURE Eddi and posted on his blog. Here is what Eddi had to say:
“…In the same mall, there are bootleg figures as well.
I must admit, there was that funny feeling when I saw bootlegs of our own products.
Rage? Well, I’m over that by now. Flattery? Well, you can flatter us by selling authentic adFunture products! So, I’m in between the emotion of rage and flattery. Yes, is a conflict disorder of sort.
Cupco, I bought this for you. Not sure if the Cloudman ever came out officially.”
And the word from Andy:
“Bootleg” Cloud Man found in Shanghai? [via adFunture-Eddi's blog]
And I know tis wrong to promote bootlegs, but that is simply quite awesome a figure, innit? (Sorry about that Luke! ;p)
FYI: CLOUD MAN was created by CUPCO! and has been featured in an animated clip and was initially a part of a series of creator/artist-toys under the Love Original Project banner under Red Magic (circa 2006-07), but apparently did not make it to full production. Or did it?
I remembered in an interview with Argentinean-designers DGPH back in 2007 – where they mentioned versions of their GANESH toy (also with Love Original) were also rumored to be floating in the market. These are probably initial samples of the figure, but it sure smells fishy to me. Not cool. And a shame too, becoz clearly Cloud Man would’ve rawked, IMHO.
Meanwhile, peep these initial different proposed colorways for Cloud Man.
Thanks Andy and Eddi for the heads up. What a wierd situation. I wonder what I should do about it?
The japanese writing says MA-RI-O. For a special project I’m working on involving someone called MA-RI-O who also happens to be Japanese. Or is he of Italo-Japanese descent?