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VINYL JAPANESE TOYSVinyl Japanese Toys are extremely popular today. So, what has made them so popular of late ?More recently terms such as urban vinyl have become a type of designer toy , depicting action figures made from vinyl.Although the term is sometimes used to describe a designer toy , and yet not all such toys can be referred to as urban vinyl, while urban vinyl figures are necessarily designer toys, by virtue of the way in which they are produced . Like designer toys in general, urban vinyl figures feature original designs , and made in small quantities,and marketed to discerning collectors.The trend for urban vinyl is attributed to the designer and celebrated artist Michael Lau of Hong Kong. who is reputed to have created the first Japanese vinyl toy n the late 10990's.The distinguished Japanese designer of vinyl figures Takashi Murakami,has been exhibited in top art galleries such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo as well as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.Murakami's work is quoted as being among some of the most desired work in the world. Stefan Edis, a Chicago art collector is reputed to have paid an astonishing $567500 for a life-size fibreglass cartoon figure entitled Missko2. The famous auction house Christie's owner, Francois Pinault, reportedly paid around $1.5 million to acquire Tongarikun, a 30-foot tall fibreglass sculpture, and four accompanying fibreglass mushroom figures, that were part of an installation at Rockefeller Center. In May 2008, My Lonesome Cowboy (1998), sold for $15.2 million at a Sotheby's auction. Oddly enough, Urban vinyl figures are designed primarily by musicians ,illustrators and graffiti artists living in urban areas especiially in Japan and Hong Kong. the United States and Europe.An offshoot of the hip-hop and youth-centric popular culture, urban vinyl represents real-life figures from Asian and American culture , particularly artists who perform in a hip-hop or related styles . Again a striking facet of this type of creation is that, a toy may be designed almost entirely by a single artist, including elements such as the shape, colthing and painting, or artists may colloborate by individually creating each separate element like the actual scuplture, painting and clothing accessories.Some pieces are notably a collaborative effort, with sometimes as many as 12 different artists contributing to the final design. Urban vinyl is commonly designated as either Japanese or Eastern Vinyl, including anything designed and produced in Asia or Australia, or as Western Vinyl if designed and produced in America and Europe.Vinyl Japanese Toys figures have become collectible items and rare pieces sometimes sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. These extremely collectible Japanese vinyl toys are produced as limited editions and are therefore proving to be extremely attractive to the savvy collector. | | | | | | |  | |  |
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