Flyers will be Flyers

Up past midnight placing my new and highest Uglydoll shelf. Before I could climb down from the ladder, three flyers zoomed up and claimed the space.

All of my Poe's are keen for a high perch. Flyers will be Flyers!

Wedgehead x 4

Big Wedgehead fan here.  And the only thing better than one Wedgehead is MORE!

Meet four of my main guys.  From left to right: Little Wedgehead , then the tiny one is a Clip-on Wedgie, next is Midling Wedgehead, and then Classic Wedge.

The Wedgehead on the far left is a Sneak Preview  version, sometimes called a sneak peak.  They were released at San Diego Comic Con in 2005 and are a limited edition Ugly.  Little Wedgehead in this color blue was never released as a retail Ugly. There were two retail versions, one pink and the other grey with red teeth. All of them are equally adorable.

The fellow in the middle is a Midling Wedgehead.  He's a one-of-a-kind mid-sized Uglydoll handmade by the amazing Sun-Min Kim.  This size Uglydoll was never produced, BUT soon the Citizens of the Uglyverse will hit the stage.  I'm guessing based on bits I've read here and there that they will be in a mid-size!  And it's a nifty size to be at a full 10 inches!

The 12" Classic Uglydoll is our boy Rocket.  We named him rocket because he likes to stand on his head and blast off. If you've been following the Ugly Chronicles for a long time you've seen Rocket before.  He's the fellow in the weird 3-D glasses leading a mission into space. (you'll have to look a ways back to find that one)

Rocket is what we call a Gen 1 (Generation 1)Wedgehead meaning he's a member of the first wave of Wedgeheads to be released.  Like a first edition!    When you get into Ugly as deep as I am, you care about these things.

Here's a cool tidbit about Wedgehead.  Wedgehead is one of David Horvath's early drawings from when he was a kid!  Seriously.  I read that.  And look at him now.
Maybe Wedgehead is,  in his own way,  the first Uglydoll.  If I ever meet David Horvath, I'll try to get over my shyness and ask him.

Now go give your Wedgehead a hug!

Twas the Night Before Ugly

This week is like the night before Christmas for many devoted Uglydoll collectors. Each day we are anticipating the arrival of our newly adopted handmade Uglydolls. Other collectors await their limited edition and custom Kaiju and original David Horvath drawings.

I rarely leave the house during postal hours for fear that special parcel will arrive and I will not be here to sign for it and greet my new adoptee. This may sound like a pain, bur really it's a pleasure to wait, wonder, and feel that exhileration when the postal truck pulls up. If not today, maybe tomorrow.

Every new Uglydoll arrival is an event. But a handmade Uglydoll is the Main Event, the whole enchilada. David Horvath tells us this group of handmades is the last. So this arrival is especially sweet and dear. It will be a strange new world without handmade Uglydolls to look forward to. But David and Sun-Min have never made a wrong or bad decision concerning Uglydolls and their fans, so I trust where they are going and follow happily along. The news of the end of handmades has made the few I have all the more precious to me.

To see the object of my affection cast your eyes up to the photo. See the pointy-headed red fellow at the right of the photo? That's him. That's my Pointy Max. Is he not a dreamboat?

Moving from right to left: Pointy Max red, Big Toe, Cozy Monster blue, Batty Shogun pinkish, Pointy Max blue (brother to my Pointy), Batty Shogun red, Cozy Monster green, and half of Cozy Monster orange.

Not pictured are Ket, and all the other Uglydolls in the Mono colors.

Where is all this highly anticipated Ugliness coming from? Dehara and David Have Mono art show at Stitch in Tokyo.

It is unconfirmed, but likely that many of these new handmade Uglydoll styles will make their way into the retail Uglydoll line-up, but in other colors. That would be cool for you and for me. I would dearly love to have one of each. But money and fairness prevented me from having more than one. We were limited to the purchase of one handmade Uglydoll per person. And no, it wasn't too hard to pick just one. It was love at first sight with Pointy Max. OK, it was kinda hard. I wanted MORE! I admit. But I'm happy happy happy.

Please come tomorrow, Pointy Max!