The Weird World of Bootleg Toys
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2024
- At a few pop culture conventions every year, DKE Toys brings designers and artists together to release a series of limited artist edition toys inspired by the blister pack action figures of our youth. Dov Kelemer chats with us about how the bootleg art toy scene got started and how each artist brings something different and subversive to their resin figures and packaging.
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Its not really bootlegs, its parody.
Yeah I was expecting counterfeits and things skirting licensing.
jesusHERCULESchrist yup was disappointed with the click bait title.
Bootleg
1. An unofficial remix that incorporates the complete, finalized original song.
2. Fake-ass imitations of something authentic.
I think we can say without any doubt that these are bootlegs by definition.
It's not clickbait. That is what these are called.
I see them as novelty or joke items.
Wasn't really the type of bootleg stuff i expected, but still kind of interesting to see.
I was expecting a JonTron video.
Give these toys to Ashens so he can make one entertaining and brutally honest review
All of these ugly toys should be burned with a blowtorch. :)
Hordz some chinese will put ripoffs of these bootlegs I am sure.
*beep boop beep boop* Cheapo
Not knock offs, these are custom, bit of a misleading title, but oh well.
Hordz was just gonna comment this.
To call these figures bootlegs isn't quite correct. They are pieces of pop art that paraphrases the original toys in a parodical way. It's more of a comment about disposable consumption than just another collectible toy, by being just that.
it is correct because that what the artists decided to call the style in an act of parody
how are these bootlegs? That word has a crazy negative connotation that shouldn't be given to what is basically art
It's tongue-in-cheek. do you know what subtext is?
You gotta appreciate the exclusivity and the creativity behind these. The stay fresh marshmallow man was heat.
Diggin' the 80's-90's feel of the packaging.
These aren't bootleg toys, they're art parodies.
they may not be what you assumed all bootleg toys are, but thats what this style of toy is called. The title is correct and now you know bootleg toys is both 'knockoff toys' and 'these things in this video'
Instead of showing the interview, they should have shown more of the toys and just had the audio of the interview in the background.
So where is the Robert Cop action figure?
Hey Tested guys, here's a suggestion. How about at the end of these interviews, add a minute or so of pics of the actual products? Every video of yours I've watched is just the interview and not enough of the actual product.
I would buy that book. Lovely conversation starter, and it'd look awesome next to Ashens book.
An update on DKE would be neat, they've started doing internet sales, and online events - a great development for the international bootleg scene.
AHHH an interview with Dov?! this is sweet!
Alot of bootleg figures look cooler than the authentic ones
I have made a bootleg toy but im struggling to figure out how to package it. Seeing all this awesome packaging makes it seem even more daunting...
These aren't bootleg toys. That's a whole other thing. Also you'd think Norm would be better at interviews by now. But in every interview his questions are mostly "I incorrectly think this about what you do, can you talk about that?" Fortunately this guy just gave up at the end and answered a question Norm didn't ask and it was the best part of the interview.
These are bootleg toys. They take copyrighted characters and bootleg their own versions of them, often without permission of the original copyright holder.
youre wrong they are called bootleg toys. You are right, it is a 'whole other thing' but it is also 'this thing'. got it?
One of the coolest things I found in Japan is their Toy Stores ... They are amazing and the American counterpart cannot begin to compare. Todays American toys are revealed as homogeneous PC crap when put against the enormous variety available in Japan.
I would name them... "Hacktion Figures".
Good thing Kishure didn't see the products in that booth. He would have thrown a tantrum.
Cool, thanks a lot!
I had to pause when I saw mirror Spock. I nearly lost it when I realized it was Imperial Stormtrooper Spock *_with a goatee painted on the helmet._*
Hold on. I thought bootleg toys referred to knockoff copies that are sold on the cheap in toy aisles of grocery and convenience stores. They would also have names that are very similar to the original, like Star Warrior instead of Star Wars. They were meant to make a quick buck off of something popular. The stuff featured in this video are more in the realm of custom figures or originals that ape packaging designs from Kenner and the like.
Also, the toys featured in the video are not cheap and not designed to make a quick buck, i.e. they ain't bootlegs.
yes they are they named the 'style' after those traditional knockoff bootlegs. aka its a joke
youre not wrong but this mini art movement is also called bootlegs. now you know.
Really intetesting. I never heard of some of these. 😎
NEED!!
Judging from this youtube comment section, just...wow. I'm glad, designer toys got a huge exposure, lot of opinions, it's really great to see various different perspective into this thing, that seems to be uncharted teritory for most folks ot there(it's getting more refined and definitive though), that sucklord started in undeground/indie toys, (almost lowbrow'ish art movement) in one of this designer toys genre(bootleg). for you guys that still confused about the term bootleg in this context, go googling : appropriation, popart, fluxus, iconoclastic, D.I.Y culture, or any punk subculture, designer toys/urban toys and also contemporary neo kitsch art. hope you can get a better idea :). ps: btw if you understand the context, and paying attention to the word that Dov said, he actually kind of give the really good answer to all this interviewee question.
In my opinion these aren’t bootleg, they’re artist representation of already know figures and being sold as such. The second something is made without consent from the designer of the character but is being sold as official merchandise, that’s when it becomes a bootleg product. For example when China makes unauthorized Marvel figures but is trying to write them off as official, that’s a bootleg product.
Yea I saw them at up close there, they were really cool I just wish I had them money to drop on some. I know it's art and one of a kind things but some of the prices were high for me and the ones that were priced well I really didn't care for
So cool.
Where can you buy those 'Star Weird' figures?
This is not making a custom action figure. This is pop art in the form of an action figure
Those of us who make custom action figures make them as art but also as a way do things like; 1. make the figure match our vision of the character. When the toy company hasnt. Example my first custom was a destiny action figure in gijoe scale. The only toys they make are lego scale. 2.Get a figure they just havent made yet. Example I made a Gwen Pool and finished it about the same time Hasbro annouced a figure for late this year or early next. 3. Make a cohesive universe all their own. Im on a fb group called TheBrotherhood of UN. A post apocalypse acid rain style customs group. 4 for action figure photography. Sometime you want an ankle rocker on your Batman so you can get better posing. 5 and a 100 other reasons.. The most important is love.
Holy crap, Frank has a doppelganger
Why is the audio fading in and out of focus?
I'll totally buy the stuff if he had any Godzilla related things
I would thing of these more as "custom" figures rather than "bootleg." To me "bootleg" implies mass produced cheap copies from old/discarded molds. There's a whole scene of bootleg Transformers toys for example, some of which are actually pretty high quality, that people use to get copies of toys that are either too limited a run or too expensive for them to get otherwise. Obviously that brings up some ethical/moral issues, but when I hear "bootleg toys" that's what I think of.
theyre both called bootlegs. now you can think of two similar things with the same name when you hear of 'bootleg toys'
Wow that guy seems like a barrel of laughs...
Nice
I would pay good money to see a battalion of 'Homotroopers' take on the rebellion.
Selling this junk for $40 but with the quality of dollar store army men
i love this shit
Check an artist called - Pendragon
Interesting
So how expensive are these?
They aren't famous bootlegs butbthey also aren't any well known things.
The ones I saw the prices for was between 40-55 bucks
Norwegian guy ouch. That's a turnoff for me.
they are art pieces that adopted the name bootleg toys as a sort of parody of the cheap knockoffs youre thinking of
You can get shit like this on ebay. Type WWE figure custom, star wars custom etc
I made Yay Arnold!
Listen to that tongue at 1:29
uh....this isnt what i expected from bootlegs...
What are these toys ?
I love STAR WARS.
Loved Andre the Giant
how is any of this legal?
I see what they are going for, but they feel like a parody of themselves. Best of luck to the guy though and if you have some spare money, get one of those, one day they might cost a fortune..
R2-D2大好き！笑笑
井藤陽介くん please talk English here so we all can understand what you're saying
orang man Sorry.I can't say English.Because I'm Japanese,so I don't know how to say English here.
ごめんなさい
井藤陽介くん oh, sorry
orang man Did you really just ask them to speak English? What kind of ignorant shit is this? It's the internet, they can type whatever the fuck they want.
面白いですよね。😂
Novelty toys
Not bootleg..
jontron where
🌞
if they are purpose build parodies/artworks, they are not bootleg.
no they actually are referred to as bootleg toys. the video is not confusing them with 'cheap knockoff toys', theyre just calling them by one of the actual terms for this style of toy.
Has anybody seen Funny toys rock & roll star it is a knockoff of the tyco rock & roll elmo it has the official rock & roll ernie voice
R2-DPoooooo
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Boba Fart
These are more custom figures rather than knock offs, booooo!
that is correct, you assumed wrongly about what the video is about boooo
not... bootleg. its interesting, not bootleg though.
no, that's what this is called, whether you like it or not
Man the cost of making one of those things would be so high that it doesn't even make sense to make them.
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Ignorant comments are ignorant.
These aren’t even bootlegs smh
anyone else look at the title and thought it was a Jontron video?
No cause I’m not 12-15 years old
WTF
i dont think you know what the word bootleg means. lol
no actually you assume that bootleg means only one thing when actually bootleg refers to cheap knockoffs but it also is the name of this style of toy. now you can focus on something else other than the word you didn't really know much about.
it was a joke buddy. The guys at tested are not idiots.
you should really use a lapel mic for both ppl
Send these to Ashens without him knowing they're intentionally made knock offs.
He's a bright lad, he'll figure it out or he'll be stuck in an endless loop of laughing and "what?!"s
Wtf ?
Well this is disappointing, I was expecting actual counterfeits not some Deviant Art cringe levels of "Originality"
I was view number 5000
I'm a little confused how these toys can be called bootleg. Bootleg mean direct copies with out licensing. Not altered toys that are not like the originals at all. What the title should say is........
The weird world of toy alterations
it isn't a matter of people 'calling' them bootlegs, thats the name that the artists adopted going back to the Sucklord guy they mentioned in this video. theres bootleg and then theres 'bootleg'
はろー！
Norm always asks great questions
Shredder1 no he doesn't
Norm your interviews lack form and polish, your camera work leaves a lot to be desired and never focuses on the pieces you are talking about. To be honest you've done this too long to be this amateur. also you show a lack of understanding of almost every project or person you interview. i am often very interested in the subjects you are featuring but by the end of the video i am just left puzzled. i hope this improves in the future but the last 4 years haven't shown much of that.
nophobia123 thanks for writing this comment so I don't have to!
“You have done this too long to be this amateur.” Is pretty much exactly what I was going to say.
It’s sad because he makes an attempt.
not really bootleg
it is though, you just only know the one original definition for bootleg.
That's not art ,that's ridiculous ...
Ludwig Van Zappa Saying that pretty much proves that it is in fact art.
Bullshit !
You don't sell them online because a lot of them violate copyrights and intellectual property. Tested should not be promoting IP theft.
pop art gets away with it.
this is transformative and no one has really sued for this since andy warhol's time
Also star wars are known for being non-litigious. Then why are YOU being a fucking bore
I think Adam Salvage is the creator and founder of this channel tested .... Who agrees ?
This is NOT art, its just fake toys 😎
Thought I'd got an Ashens notification!
this is too niche for me
Misleading title. These are not bootlegs, they are parody action figures/ 3D media art
what if I told you that bootleg toys is two things? one thing is cheap knockoffs that are mass produced and the other thing is these art toys that parody those knockoffs. You and dozens of other people here assumed that the title was wrong when you didn't know what you were talking about.
I really don't like these parody figures, they are aesthetically ugly and a cheap excuse for 'artists' to cash in on another person's IP
Wholeheartedly disagree with all of that.
In what ways do you disagree, though, MetObsessed? For example, how are intentionally-poor-quality action figures not ugly?
LOL Vicky don't ask MetObsessed to qualify the statement he/she has clearly not actually thought about it...
Well, you know, you don't have to buy them or even look at them if you don't want to.
Mecha is a different story altogether... those custom kitbashings can be worth thousands of dollars and are generally beautiful with Jeweler's Precision but.... these... are... not... those
So they're expensive imitations of pop culture designed to look and feel like cheap, mass produced action figures? And people actually spend money on these things? I bet they're the same people who pay a million dollars for a semen crusted bedsheet with paint thrown at it from a distance by a guy with a ponytail and a beret.
You’re talking about yourself, aren’t you? Do you still use that bedsheet?
Jamescrab obviously he's not, he's talking about the people who call shit "art"
If I had money I would buy a few of the things in this video, because they're funny and cool.
So it has to be actual mass produced, corporate commercial products, for people to be valid in purchasing? They can't just buy what they like otherwise?
Leroy, Leroy...Yes, I said semen. It was a reference to the Andy Warhol "Cum Painting" where he basically bust a nut on a canvass and sold it for tens of thousands of dollars. Also, because text has no inherent tone, what emotions you sense has significantly more to do with the way YOU feel than the intent I originally had. Welcome to the internet, where sarcasm reigns and lulz are to be had.
Some of these comments are stupidly racist.
Josh Jordan no, none of them are
Zero charisma
Reminds me of Jontron
Those are bad and they should feel bad.
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third
Please stop letting Norm do interviews. or videos for that matter. He always hijacking the interview by trying to appear smart or weaving his own answer in his own question. Just ask the question and focus on your guest. Nobody wants your opinion.
Well these are more parody toys and a little boring, I thought you were gonna show of funny Chinese/Japanese bootleg/fake toys.
many many people made the same mistake as you. Im correcting most of them and I can't stop. btw these are bootleg toys, theres more than one thing that they call bootleg toys.
Rubbish and more RUBBISH !
Click bait.
These are custom figures not bootleg.
Yes, I still would have clicked, but dear god. These things are awful. No way in hell I would buy one.
I can appreciate the making of the figures, but execution is horrible.
I guess it's true... Art IS in the eye of the beholder.
youre wrong these are also called bootleg toys.
How? Bootlegs figures are created to confuse the buyer into buying them.
Only figure that might be considered bootleg are the stormtrooper & greedo figures.
And I would say the dripping stormtrooper (except for the logo) actually is a bootleg.
All the others are using custom parts or customizing already existing figures.
Homotrooper?
What a disgrace.
look out Bruce, your prejudice is showing
crazzilla Prejudice? Nope, not prejudice. Disgust.
Bruce Ferguson can we compromise and call it bigotry?
crazzilla Lol. You obviously like using a word you don't understand the meaning of.