Gustav

Scratch gets a big grin piglet with thanks to 2Much's intricate illustration, Riccardo Bucchioni summons a ferocious, one-eyed orange lizard, UK artist Mr Gauky debuts with his first vinyl toy and makes it typically terrifying and Andreas Krapf gets a mini version of his popular Nom Nom and Pinky — we warned you about Nom Nom and his horrid hunger! Ted gets the Bunka 'Chaos Monkey' treatment, Dust recreates his iconic 'Prisoner' and Alfa debuts with the sinister looking and blood splattered 'Butcher'. The Dude gets the Attaboy touch of brilliance with the character 'Gustav' from his 'You Might Be A Monster' book. Germany's Mike Friedrich uses his wicked sense of off beat humour to create something truly peculiar and France's Grapheart returns with an abominable ape named 'Hucky'. These are all limited edition collectable vinyl mini figures that come blind boxed. A "blind box" is a type of packaging that hides its contents. It is like a game of lucky dip, which one will you get?Producer of the ultimate limited edition vinyl toys. We set out on an adventure to 'Inspire to create'. A burning love for art, design and everything to do with creative culture forced us to sow the Dudebox seed back in 2010. We really had no choice! Pure creative energy can't be held back. We have been surrounded by exciting visionaries and creatives from all around the world for a long time. Now, coming together as Dudebox we want to give these talented artists a new platform to express themselves from. Our motivation is simple. We want to INSPIRE TO CREATE! This is our mission statement and our mantra. It keeps us in mind of who we are doing this for and that is the artists, the collectors and anyone else who is new to the world of vinyl toys and wants to discover moreThe Dude is the first plattform by UK toy comany Dudebox.Attaboy is an internationally shown artist, creator and toy designer whose work is seen in galleries, museums, toy boutiques, magazines (Newsweek, Wired, Juxtapoz, Clutter, Playtimes, etc.), calendars, and art books. After years of creating, recreating, and inventing award-winning and best selling toys for Hasbro and Milton Bradley, he went AWOL to create his own art and licensing studio. His art work has been licensed to Dark Horse, Last GAsp, Tower Records, Kiss, the Dixie Chicks, Sony, and many more. Atta is the co-founder of the critically acclaimed Hi-Fructose Under the Counter Culture Magazine which has grown to a world wide circulation which quickly sells out, Hi-Fructose features interviews and exposes with a growing echelon of pop and visual counter culture artists like Mark Ryden, Chris Ware, Jeff Soto, and Tim Biskup. The first four volumes of Hi-Fructose will be reprinted in book form later this year and will be published by Last Gasp. Atta's Art focuses on the disturbed childlike sensibilities that he values above all else and is centered in a world of goo filled creatures; lust filled and awkward, uneasy with their own cuteness or simply unaware of it or how it affects them or others, all imagined in