The first offi­cial release of MOLEZILLA will be a clear blue vinyl Exclu­sive 2011 SDCC edi­tion from Bob Conge / Plaseebo and will be avail­able from the Dra­gatomi SDCC Booth # 4935.

7″ high with pink inset eyes and an inter­nal motion acti­vated LED unit in an Ultra Lim­ited edi­tion of 10 signed and num­bered pieces will  come with a full color header card and a back-story sheet.

 

They are here on my work bench get­ting dressed up for all of you who pledged sup­port for the Molezilla Kick­starter project.

I plan to ship the rewards to every­one by the end of July.

I wish to thank all of you who helped make the Molezilla Kick­starter project a suc­cess. You are part of a team that is bring­ing a new kaiju to life. I am hum­bled by your support.

This bad boy is in pro­duc­tion NOW !

Molezilla is a new 7″ high art toy fig­ure that I want to pro­duce in soft vinyl as a lim­ited edi­tion for col­lec­tors. I have writ­ten the back­story, designed the fig­ure, cre­ated the sculpt and made a few hand cast resin pro­to­types.  Now I hope to raise the funds to pro­duce the vinyl edi­tion at a facil­ity here in the US.

What’s the big deal about being one of the first vinyl edi­tions to be pro­duced entirely in the US start to fin­ish ?  Well, since the 1960’s vinyl fig­ures have been almost exclu­sively pro­duced in Japan or China.  This project will be sup­port­ing the savvy new US com­pany Vera­cious Vinyl and keep­ing the work at home. It matters !

Like paint­ing and its big brother sculp­ture, I believe art toys can make valid state­ments about our soci­ety as well as being a col­lec­table. Molezilla makes his point in the back­story / fable that the fig­ure is based on.

THE  MOLEZILLA KARMA
© Bob Conge 2011

Our story began on the night of Jan­u­ary 19th in the year of our Lord 2011 in room 17-b of build­ing 5 on the grounds of an ani­mal test­ing facil­ity located in East Mill­stone, New Jer­sey. Here was the hench­man firm that did the dirty work for many of the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies who bring us those all impor­tant prod­ucts to whiten our teeth, loosen our bow­els, color our lips, get rid of our mucus, and many other good­ies that give mean­ing to our empty lives.

This com­pany has long had a rep­u­ta­tion of going beyond the call to inflict unspeak­able acts of tor­ture upon our meek and inno­cent neigh­bors in the name of “safety for the supe­rior species” oth­er­wise known as “profit and fear of liability.”

The pay­ment for the many decades of the Auschwitz like treat­ment of ani­mals at this facil­ity came due this night of the 19th. Karma was embod­ied in a mole that had been injected daily for six months with enor­mous doses of an exper­i­men­tal growth hor­mone and radioac­tive iso­topes. A lab assis­tant found the 10 inch mole lying belly up in his damp and dark cage. Assum­ing the mole had lost its abil­ity to con­tinue suf­fer­ing for the good of mankind, he dumped the life­less yet still warm body in to the cart with the oth­ers that made their final escape that night. The cart of fate was left in a dimly lit room at the back of build­ing 5 to await incin­er­a­tion at morning’s call.

The call would not come that morn­ing, for the mole was still alive and the full effect of their exper­i­ment was about to be real­ized. As the mole slowly emerged from the drug induced stu­por, the growth hor­mone treat­ments of the past six months all kicked in at once and he grew to a hight of 50 feet smash­ing through the sky­light into dark of the night. By morn­ing the behe­moth had eaten all of the employes, freed the other ani­mals and demol­ished every  lab­o­ra­tory at the facility.

Today is Jan­u­ary 20th and Molezilla is sleep­ing on his full belly in the com­fort of the Hol­land Tun­nel. The sign above him reads “Stay In Lane For New York !”

 

TO PLEDGE SUPPORT for this MOLEZILLA KICKSTERTER Project Please visit:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1867183139/make-molezilla-in-the-usa

PLEDGE REWARDS

PLEDGE $10. and You will receive a signed 4″ by 6″ Plaseebo sticker printed by Sticker Mule and a Plaseebo logo pin.

 

PLEDGE $25. and you will receive the above plus a 9″ x 12″ full color lim­ited edi­tion print of the Molezilla header card orig­i­nal art cre­ated by John Kastner.

 

PLEDGE $50. and you will receive a 7″ high Molezilla fig­ure in WHITE VINYL with red glass eyes, a copy of the back­story and the full color header card. These will be hand signed, num­bered and dated / lim­ited to the num­ber of pledges.

 

PLEDGE $75. and you will receive a 7″ high Molezilla fig­ure in GLOW IN THE DARK VINYL with red glass eyes, a copy of the back­story and the full color header card. These will be hand signed, num­bered and dated / lim­ited to the num­ber of pledges.

 

PLEDGE $100. and you will receive  a 7″ high Molezilla fig­ure in GLOW IN THE DARK VINYL, hand painted with a color wash and red glass eyes, a copy of the back­story and the full color header card. These will be hand signed, num­bered and dated / lim­ited to the num­ber of pledges.

 

PLEDGE $200. and you will receive  a 7″ high Molezilla fig­ure hand painted in full color with red glass eyes, a copy of the back­story and the full color header card. These will be hand signed, num­bered and dated / lim­ited to the num­ber of pledges.  And an 18″ x 24″ full color lim­ited edi­tion print of the Molezilla header card orig­i­nal art cre­ated by John Kastner.

 

 

 

Clear with gels sim­i­lar to these photos

PLEDGE $350. or More and you will receive  a 7″ high Molezilla fig­ure in CLEAR VINYL with color gel inserts, in an exclu­sive hand painted edi­tion with red glass eyes and an inter­nal motion acti­vated  color chang­ing LED unit, a copy of the back­story and the full color header card. These will be hand signed, num­bered and dated / lim­ited to the num­ber of pledges. And an 18″ x 24″ full color lim­ited edi­tion print of the Molezilla header card orig­i­nal art cre­ated by John Kastner.

 

 

PLEDGE $500. or More and you will receive one of the orig­i­nal six resin pro­to­type Molezilla fig­ures in a one of a kind hand paint color-way that will be hand signed, num­bered and dated.  And an 18″ x 24″ full color lim­ited edi­tion print of the Molezilla header card orig­i­nal art cre­ated by John Kastner.

 

TO PLEDGE SUPPORT for this MOLEZILLA KICKSTERTER Project Please visit:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1867183139/make-molezilla-in-the-usa

 

I am pleased to have been invited to build an Ultra Lim­ited cus­tom edi­tion of the Brian Mahony Diagomi fig­ure for the GUUMON Group Show at the FOE Gallery in Northamp­ton, Mass.   The show opens Fri­day May 13th.

Each 8 1/2 inch high clear vinyl piece in the edi­tion is hand painted to allow see thru areas on the body / head to reveal all sorts of col­or­ful alien guts that are illu­mi­nated by a switched color chang­ing LED unit inside the body. Long live the Elec­tric Circus !