everybody norm from tested here at designer continent 2019 this is Keith
poon who's an artist buddy else to run toy queue yes out of New York right yes
yes and yeah if you guys have worked with so many cool artists to bring their
designs to collectibles to turn them into real things one of my favorite
products that you guys put out is the Ashford boys series which is your
interpretation of the faucet carrot can be how did I come about and how is that
evolved that's pretty like I do things that I
really enjoy this like some a hobby now into a business my doing in my career so
really like it's my pleasure to work on a character that really like an extra
boy we don't want to make anything like just from the storyline we were to you
know create something fresh and new for the collectors so we have came up with a
new series called like the city serious hmm we started from New York because
based in New York from New York and then to Los Angeles to Thailand and now we
have some other new series will be coming up next year so it's like this
remix in of a classic character because there's so many Astro Boy toys and
figures in the history of the character you're modernizing it and letting
collectors from may live in New York or LA to kind of make it their own
yeah representative they're the pride they have yeah they're City yes yes with
a really cool design of course the Statue of Liberty take in the LA and
gesture that's really cool this is a new one right yes that's a new one we caught
a hoodie versions that's coming out very very soon
yeah and this is more tore into like a sweet culture
and we figure because we have been doing more shows with like sneaker con and we
figure like this would be good for the sneaker head totally not just for toy
collectors and that's where a lot of these collectors their interests
intersect yeah people who collect shoes or kind of buy limit edition yes the
occurs they also say are but are toys yeah he's a urban take for this concept
now tell me on some of the other characters and figures and licenses your
work with obviously you have to get your turtles here I see some Looney tune tell
me about these yeah so we need to be sent us our own productions we also do a
lot of like brand collaborations and work with brands and I really love to so
big big boy toys are from Hong Kong so they have these Ninja Turtle license and
these are really massive yeah yeah once you hold it and you would know like oh
they are like it's almost so message in poet it's gonna take a big place on your
shelf yes very very cool also love that like your Looney Tunes license and the
artists that you work with it's a very subversive take on ladies yeah you know
I do there are a classic character like you said but these are really like fresh
ideas mm-hmm and you know they've never been made before yeah it's just really
like new to the market it's not only do you have some kind of a more grotesque
versions you have I love atomic Jerry and you also have kind of ones with
three eyes really wild yes what can people afford to in the Tokyo ball for
next year we we are rolling more licensing product and one of the
biggest big release for us it's like a Keith Haring Bluetooth speakers mm-hmm
yeah because we redesigned everything structure like inside make it this is a
we we make the original back in 1985 but back in the days there's no pretty to
features yeah yeah we work everything and make it up to day features so that's
something like very very new and that would be one of our biggest off the next
year and as an artist yourself any bring back the Sharky's that you used to scope
there's an astro boy that's a way for you going forward I I would love to but
I just you know wait wait I when I get time to sit down there thing about
something new for the sake I'd yeah yeah I would love to see more artwork from
your creative yeah thank you your brain thank you so much great great to see you
here they cider con all right thank you we'll
check it next year