Report: Acid Dunny Release Party and Signing @ KR LA (1.26.06)

Kidrobot LA hosted Tim Biskup for the release party and signing of his sweet 8" Acid Head Dunny on Thursday night.  At 4PM, the line was about 20 or so people and continued to grow as the doors opened at 6PM.  While the turnout was pretty incredible, things were much calmer compared to the release of a super-rare toy such as JLed’s Lava Bunny.  Even though many people waited patiently in line in the cold (well for Southern California), they seemed quite happy and content! The KR staff handled the line quite well letting in people only when other customers left the store.   After all they were about to buy an Acid Head Dunny, meet Tim Biskup and have him sign their new loot.

Tim started signing right at 6PM with Tigerlily on his lap. As is always the case, Tim was laid back and quite friendly.  He took the time to ask peoples’ names so that he could personalize the toy along with his signature on the foot of the Dunny.  He also doodled on the "face" located on Acid Head’s chest.  The expressions varied from angry to content to happy.  Tigerlily commented on several and gave her opinion of each doodle’s mood.  A couple fans had Tim do sketches for them and a few also purchased Munnys for him to customize which he did.  Oh btw, asking Tim or any artist to personalize a toy to "Lucky Winner" is NOT very classy — one might even say it’s a little insulting.

These large events are a great place to chat with toy collectors as well as other artists. Several big-names dropped by for the event including Bwana Spoons, Thomas Han, Gary Baseman and Luke Chueh.  Bwana Spoons is in town for his solo show today, Friday, in Santa Monica.  Thomas Han has lots of things cooking including a limited edition print and LA Dunny set.  More on that soon!

Oh… You want to know what else was available besides the Acid Dunny… Ok, here goes!

Several art prints were  available for sale at the show.   5 huge framed giclee’s  were going for an eye-popping $4500.  These were the nicest giclee’s I’ve seen though 😉  The ?show-exclusive? print was available unframed for $150 and was quite nice with spot-use of metallic inks. The super-swanky day-glo Black Helium serigraph on wood was also available (?$1000?).  Finally, there were several Jackson 500 original mini-paintings ($600) and a handful of even smaller paintings ($250).

There were a few custom toys at the show including a hand-painted prototype Acid Head Dunny, a very nice Bad Acid  dunny, and a blue munny with a calli head.  In addition to the customs, a few Yellow Callis were available as were the Ceramic Stack Packs.

Props to Tim Biskup and the entire KR  LA staff including the manager, Jason, for a great event!