A blast from the past. Heard that Kathie will be having a custom toy show soon at Copro Nason Gallery. Can't wait to prounce on her custom mad*l toys.
Overpowered
Since I am a big big fan of the MAD*L toys, I was fortunate enough to be able to secure 4 MAD*L drawings from MAD himself. I dig the titles too: "Pressure", "Speak Out", Ascend" and "Overpowered".
Somehow the images reflected my life in the corporate world where there are always pressure and back-stabbing involved when one needs to "ascend" in the corporate ladder to survive.
Love MAD's mad*l toys and artworks and I am very pleased to be able to add to my MAD collection.
Saw this "Visually Impaired" MAD*L toy on the Kidrobot forum board and I was lauging my arse off. This funny custom has been created by a forum member Benjamin (who I assumed is an Englishman, since his forum location is London).
Managed to add all the photos of my MAD*L toys collection onto my "Collection" page.
Please feel free to browse through them :)
MAD*L is a toy designed by the very talented MAD and it is one of my favourite toy for customization.
Shown here is my Kathie Olivas custom MAD*L.
I love the Big Money designs by Jeremy Madl (MAD from Madtoydesign).
Somehow the symbol and concept of "Big Money" recprociate my own personal ambitions and goal for myself in corporate life.
Money is not the most important thng in the world, but unfortunately I need it to buy more toys (whch is the most important thing in the world).
Big Money, where art thou?
Phew... after collecting for months I am happy that I have compiled all the photos of my mad*ls. Just posted the photos on the kidrobot forum. The story I posted is as followed:
"Greetings all, it's me again
With my kaws, Touma & kaiju photos out of the way, I will like to share with you my favourite toy collection: the MAD*Ls.
History: I started out with 2 hobbies: MTG and WOW. (if you do not know what these are, you don't wanna know) All my spare time was spent on them and I have never thought of having a new hobby. It was one fateful day that I was so bored in the airport, awaiting for my flight to London, that I bought a newly launched local magazine called PlayTimes from the airport bookshop.
My life changed from there on and I have given up MTG and WOW.
My first ever vinyl toy is the Tower Records MAD*L and it is that figure that started my hobby of collecting vinyl toys. To me, the shape of a MAD*L is simple but yet beautiful. And the toy's canvas head has opened up opportunities for all sorts of design possibilities.
Without further ado, my proudest collection."
"I wanna thank all the artists who are willing to listen to my suggestions for their creations as well as those who are sick of my pestering for a piece of their beautiful art and wanna shoo me off by doing a custom to shut me up. Thank you!
P.S. Dok A, rc44 and motorbot (gingerbread?), where art thou? "
When time permits, I will update the photos of my collection in my own Collection page :)
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