On Saturday, Amanda Visell welcomed hungry collectors to the Switcheroo Workshop for the official release of her newest vinyl – the What-Did-I-Eat-Ephunt. Both the Big City (ed. of 500, $70) and Warrior (ed. of 100, $80) made their debut. For pre-orders and the event, Amanda included randomly chosen hand-made resin plugins featuring several shapes including a robot, lion, sword, boombox, apocalyptic clock and more. While the Warrior has sold out, Big City is ready and waiting for you from the Switcheroo web shop. In addition to the production toys, Amanda offered three clever customs – a skyscrapin’ city dwelling ‘phunt, a brick-clad domestic ‘phunt and a wild, vibrant magenta-purple gene-spliced set merging a dragon scout with a ‘phunt.
Running with the ‘eating’ theme, Switcheroo offered two eating events – a pie-eating contest (fastest to consume an entire cherry pie) and What-Did-I-Eat-A-hole. The voracious collectors with the three fastest times came away with cool hand-made trophies featuring Amanda’s newest toy. What’s a What-Did-I-Eat-A-Hole ? Think mystery meat. Risk a dollar and then reach into the elephant’s stomach for a helping of mostly odd foods (quail eggs, cuttlefish, fried pork ears, durian and more). Your loyal reporter ended up with something that seemed more fit for the aliens in District 9 than a human…
