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1
Sep 10

Dunny: final count

I’ve just completed a final count of the number of 3″ dunnies in my collection, and also broken the count down to the number of each series released and even to the number of each specific design within each series. It has taken a while what with my collection being sited in different parts of Wellington, but done it finally is.

The magic number? It seems I have 455 of Kid Robot’s 3″ dunnies. 455.

Breaking that number down into the different series 455 starts to look something like this:

  • 37 x Series 3 (2006)
  • 7 x 2-Faced Series 2 (2006)
  • 31 x Azteca series (2007)
  • 31 x Series 4 (20007)
  • 54 x French series (2008)
  • 42 x Series 5 (2008)
  • 1 x Kronk Gingerbread dunny (2008)
  • 74 x Ye Olde English series (2009)
  • 30 x Endangered series (2009)
  • 25 x Dunny 2009 series (2009)
  • 1 x TADO Santa dunny (2009)
  • 60 x Fatale series (2010)
  • 62 x Dunny 2010 series (2010)

I have relatively low numbers remaining from the early days because back then I was prone to drunkenly passing on my spares to friends and others. There’s a certain amount of regret for me in all that. Less so from sharing the dunny love, but more from how I may have gone a bit overboard in the giving department.

Ah well.

If you’re even vaguely interested, you can see a collection of dunny figures set up at Te Papa (I’m not sure where just yet). A number of the 3″ figures from the Series 3 and Azteca series are from my own collection. For those everso slightly further afield, feel free to view vicariously via the internet here.

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21
Aug 10

Things I have done: Dunny 2010

POPUP hosted the launch of the new dunny series from Kid Robot and it was an enjoyable if subdued affair against previous series launches.

I won’t go into how early I got there, how much I’d had to drink before arriving, or how quickly I ended up with as many dunnies as I did.

What I will say is that I managed to walk away with 62 of the little buggers and they all look really rather good. I’ll post photos in due course, so you’ll have to trust me in the meantime when I say this is perhaps Kid Robot’s strongest series yet.

Working from left-to-right, top-to-bottom I have…

Esther Kim x 5
Huck Gee x 4
Sket One Boom x 2
Michelle Valigura x 5
Doktor A x 1
MAD x 1
Sket One Ketchup x 5 + Sweet Relish variant x 2
Damarak x 4 + green variant x 1
CW x 0
Shelterbank x 5
Travis Cain x 3
MCA x 3
Tizieu x 5
Sneaky Raccoon x 7
Amanda Vissell x 6
Jesse Hernandez x 1
The Beast Brothers x 0
Triclops Studio x 0
Frank Kozik Green Apples x 1
Frank Kozik Gold Apples x 0
Aya Kakeda x 1

The Huck Gee ninja foxes look amazing, as do the Sket One ketchups and the detailing on the Jesse Hernandez, Doktor A and Sneaky Raccoon figures is staggering. The prize for best design though, at least for me, is a tie between Travis Cain’s balloon dunny with it’s Jeff Koons-esque head and Aya Kakeda’s super-rare and completely-unexpected centaur dunny.

I only have a few gaps before I have a complete set and hopefully my patience holds out long enough to get one of the Triclops Studio zombie dunnies. Promo photos of it look really good.

I’ll definitely be heading back to POPUP to get more, so if you’re keen to swap spares, let me know either by email or by leaving a comment on this post.

The ones I’m really keen to build higher numbers around are the Huck Gee, Travis Cain, Sneaky Raccoon, MCA and Jesse Hernandez dunnies.

One can never have too many dunnies

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28
Jun 10

The addiction continues

I got these little buggers from POPUP last week. They are the 8″ Tim Tsui Da Space Warrior and TADO cobbler dunnies. While I was at the store, Tony mentioned the next series of 3″ dunnies are coming out the week before I leave for Melbourne in July.

I’m going to be so poor.

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22
Feb 10

I want this so hard

I don’t know anymore than this and that I want this more than most everything else in my life. Well, if it’s 8″ I do. Not so fussed if its the teeny tiny one.

Size does count for something in this world, people.

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8
Feb 10

Jaded

The last few weeks have seen me otherwise preoccupied with:

  • Getting over a stupid injury suffered New Years Eve eve.
  • Dealing with the political fallout when our largest city lost power for the stupidest of reasons.
  • Heading off to Auckland for Laneways and a long weekend.
  • Failing miserably at avoiding physical altercations.
  • Planning a few trips to Melbourne the next few months.
  • Recovering from doing my back in by helping build another raised bed for the vege garden up the back.
  • Playing Darksiders / Army Of Two / Mass Effect 2 into the wee hours.
  • Adding to the dunny collection.
  • Adding to the sunglasses collection.
  • Generally drinking far too much.
  • Reading far too little.
  • Spending too much time with people I perhaps shouldn’t.
  • Spending too little time with people I perhaps should.

All in all, it’s been a mixed bag that has kept me away from here.  I’d apologise but that has an air of the irrelevant about it, does it not?

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28
Nov 09

CONSUME HARD

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All I’ve done is buy…

  1. The November issue of Foreign Policy magazine, because the articles are rather insightful without preaching to any particular political leanings.
  2. Dragon Age: Origins for XBOX360, an RPG that has been garnering a fair amount of praise.
  3. The new James Ellroy novel, Blood’s A Rover, the last of the Underworld LA Trilogy (American Tabloid and The Cold Three Thousand being the earlier instalments)
  4. A sorely-needed Remington beard trimmer.
  5. The red 18″ mega munny, because it is big and red.
  6. The Gloomy Bear 8″ dunny, because I didn’t already have one.

The only things I have yet to sort out buying are:

  1. Flights to Auckland for Laneway Festival in early Feb 2010.
  2. Flights to Melbourne for HEALTH in late Feb 2010.

Maybe I should just fly from Auckland to Melbourne and just spend the month of February there.  Or not.

I’m undecided.

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5
Nov 09

Substitute

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… shoes for toys and you have some idea of the ridiculousness of the scale of my collection.

Although travel has generally meant I haven’t been able to indulge as often or as greatly as I might otherwise, I have picked up a fair number of new additions to the collection that I’ll have to blog about at some stage. Mainly dunnies, yes, but also a few other choice items.

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30
Oct 09

And we’re back

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… albeit a tad the worse for wear with severe jet lag, rather horrendous and ongoing sleep deprivation, and a body adjusting from 30+ degree weather with oppressive humidity to what felt like six degrees and consistently cold southerly winds today.

On the upside I came back from Singapore with oodles of unspent spending money so have cleared my outrageous cellphone bill from the previous month (thank you Melbourne!), my hotel room in Singapore and the cost of the new specs. As with most bad habits, I bought the last case of Dunny 2009 that POPUP had in stock, as well as a new XBOX360 to replace the one that died, tickets for two to Casiotone For The Painfully Alone in November and ferry crossings for the South Island roadtrip around then.

The case of dunnies was pretty good with a fair few rare ones and spares of some of the better designs like the flocked Luke Chueh, the Devirobot To-Fu in blue and red colourways and Mori Chack’s Gloomy Bear in both pink and grey colourways.

The XBOX360 is the black one that came free with Halo ODST. Can’t say the game does a lot for me and have since been told that it was one for the fanboys like JJ.

Might need to see a doctor again at some stage as the calf is still giving me a fair amount of grief. Oh and maybe for the not sleeping thing too.

Also on the list of things to do is something to do on NYE given the R&V programme means all the acts we want to see are on the first two days of the three day event, justifying an early exit from the event.

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20
Sep 09

UPDATE : Pohara

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Ok, so we’re five days away from Melbourne with:

  1. Flight changed to come back from Melbourne a day early.
  2. Tickets sorted for myself and the young one to see Metronomy in Wellington.
  3. Some semblance of spending money having been scraped together and already changed into Australian dollars so as to avoid repeating the embarrassing that came with being struck by an ATM withdrawal limit the last time I arrived in Melbourne Airport.
  4. A koha for the wedding in Singapore has been scheduled for the pay cycle following the next one, so pretty much all sorted.
  5. I’ll worry about spending too much money for Singapore once I get back from Melbourne.
  6. I have a 3-day pass to R&V, thanks to Tim.
  7. I’ve worked out how I’ll get to R&V, again thanks to Tim.
  8. I’ve worked out a place to crash in Hanmer and checked that some of the better wineries will be open for tastings when it comes time for Piers, and possibly Bonni, to come over in November.
  9. Leave from work has been sorted for both Singapore and hosting duties in November.
  10. I have yet to find a good dealer for sourcing enough blow to just be done with it all.

All that leaves now is to get a new Xbox360, maybe some new sunglasses, that apartment, some of the new dunny series that came out a week or so back, or maybe even some of these Beast Brothers customs.

Just relentless.

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13
Sep 09

The joy of labbit

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I sent one of my plush labbits to a very good friend of mine as a gift for a very good if much younger friend of his and the photo above is the end result.

I get the same sense of glee when I buy toys. I’m just not the most expressive of people.

I have another one for another friend. Fingers crossed she reacts the same way.

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