'Star Wars' Mighty Muggs
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, ComicCon
Your task: take an urban vinyl toy and transform it into art, all for a good cause. Lucasfilm presented the opportunity to artists, comic book creators, toy designers, and celebrity fans, and the result is a project called The Empire Muggs Back. The individual, one-of-a-kind pieces will be displayed at San Diego Comic-Con next week and also online at StarWars.com before being auctioned by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Any Mighty Muggs collectors out there? I'm out of touch with the toy scene, but the Wikipedia entry claims the Mighty Muggs "resemble super deformed versions of characters" from blockbuster movie franchises: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, G.I. Joe, the Transformers, and Marvel Comics. Prices range from $9.99 up to $174.99. Blank Mighty Muggs are also available, which can be customized to the buyer's content. You'd need to really stretch your imagination to think the Star Wars toys actually resembled Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO, or Chewbacca -- and maybe that's the point. They are definitely funny-looking little things.
Hasbro donated the blanks (the white one looks kinda scary to me) and you can see 26 samples in the image above, which amply demonstrate the creativity that the project inspired. I especially like the TIE Fighter figure in the second row. If you won't be in San Diego next week, check StarWars.com for more upcoming pictures. As one of the artists said: "We all had the same blank bowl of ice cream to start with, now i want to see all the nerdy, nerdy toppings everyone came up with!"
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7-15-2009 @ 2:35PM
Rivndellelf said...
I wouldn't call myself a collector, but my fiancé and I have about 10 of them. They're just so damn cute... I mostly used mine to decorate my file cabinet at work (teaching high school English), and it was a daily struggle to get the kids to keep their hands off of them. Lol. My personal favorites out of the ones we own are Darth Vader (though unfortunately his cape makes him likely to fall over at the slightest bump), Boba Fett, and Iron Man (in the Mark I suit). We don't have it, but the face on The Hulk is hilarious...
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7-15-2009 @ 3:52PM
C.A. said...
Yep, these are great shelf collectibles. We have all of the Marvel characters lining our living room ceiling on the side opposite the front door. We get endless compliments from salesmen and delivery people.
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8-03-2009 @ 11:14AM
Marjana said...
Lucasfilm Ltd. and StarWars.com are pleased to present The Empire Muggs Back, an auction hosted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Artists, comic book creators, toy designers, and celebrity fans armed with markers, paint brushes and glue guns transformed blank Mighty Muggs into one-of-a-kind Star Wars art to be auctioned by the Foundation. Bid today at www.charityfolks.com/theempiremuggsback!
Visit StarWars.com for in-depth Empire Muggs Back coverage, Mighty Muggs crafting tips, artist profiles and more! www.theempiremuggsback.com
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