Flipped out the template image from WordPress and uploaded one of my own. It’ll do for now, but I plan on changing it up later on I think. This is a small collection of toys I’ve collected over the years. Although I’m much older – my maturity level remains to be that of a 12 year old. From left to right the toys are as such:

Band-Aid version of Kozik’s Smoking Bunny – Got this while traveling Asia a few years back. I like it because he’s broken but he continues to do what he loves.

Behind the Kozik is a tiny version of one of Godzilla‘s villains. Still unsure what his name is, but I like him cause he’s basically a spiky turtle out to wreak havoc.

Next to the Kozik Bunny is Gaz, younger sister to Dib from the famous cartoon Invader Zim. This is from the Halloween collection where Gaz dressed up as a chipmunk. She’s pretty much the only good animated version of an emo kid.

Standing front and center is the Bloated Penguin himself. This was given to me by a designer by the name of Kurtis Whitelaw. Kurtis and I used to work together and along with designing for the company, he also taught design at Emily Carr. He would always hand out tiny “gold star” like things to his students that performed well and after a project Kurtis and I worked on together he handed this to me.

To the right of the penguin is a Fat Cap I picked up from Kid Robot a few years ago. I like this one in particular because he’s a white marker used for tagging.

Finally, on the far right is either Kang or Kodos from The Simpsons. I’m not sure which one it is considering they are identical aliens. This toy in particular is from The Simpsons Halloween collection where the family discovers that Maggie is actually half alien.

So there you have it, the header image of the Bloated Penguin explained. I’ll make sure to do a commentary track when the DVD is released…

Out.

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