SILLY THING x Daft Punk x Medicom Toy | Hypebeast

Amongst your various collections, how high do toys rank? What particular reasons draw your interest in toys?

I don’t really collect toys anymore, but if I see something really catch my attention, I’d still get it.

How did designing this Kubrick differ from your experiences in the past, including The Beatles Kubrick set, the Chapel of Dawn Wrestling Elves and the Iron Man toy?

I think they are all pretty much the same. I explain what I want and how I want to do it, drawings & prototypes, samples back and forth, and so on, until we get the best result. The wrestling elves, with James Jarvis, from a of couple years ago was particularly the toughest one. The prototype testing took us a really long time to make right and make sure both of the characters could stand single footed. As for the Ironman, we had a lot of fun testing different levels of Grey on the body as well as playing around with the battle damages.

Do you prefer the realm of realistic toys over that of more surreal designs?

I kinda like both, it depends what the object is.

Are there chances we’ll see a SILLY THING in-house toy label? or will it be strictly collaborations going forward?

At this moment, we don’t have any plans of doing a full-on toy label, but we do have a toy division under SILLY THING. All the toy related projects you’ve seen previously were all produced under this part of the company. As for collaborations, if the timing and the ideas are right, we are always up for it.

Any last words?

I would like to thank Pedro and Michael for everything on this project, without their help, this collaboration would have never happened. And of course, a big thank you to Daft Punk. Be sure to check out the Cool Cats website for the exclusive pre-launch. I hope everyone will like them!

- SILLY THING
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