Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Grimm Dudes

The 12 Grimm Dudes are bizarre incarnations of classic fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters.  They are not part of the TDD enumeration whatsoever.  However, they are very creative, well-designed, and well-made. They seem more like small McFarlane or Mezco figures than anything from Tech Deck. 

Chapter 1 (2002)


3Pig -- A mutated version of  The Three Little Pigs which is a English fable from the 1840s (not from the Grimm brothers).

Big Rad Wolf -- A play on the Big Bad Wolf from the pig tale and also Little Red Riding Hood.  Here he is holding a leaf blower to help blow down the house of  3Pig.  

Lumpity Grumpity -- A scary egg-creature relating to the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme from 1717 (also not from the Grimm brothers).

Peter Rottentail -- A roided rabbit with mice in a bandolier.  The name comes from Peter Cottontail, the 1910 storybook character (also not from the Grimm brothers). The idea of the abused mice probably relates to Little Bunny Foo Foo who liked to scoop up field mice and bop them on the head.

Prince Harming -- A slacker-take on Prince Charming.  Here he has a guitar and beer.  Prince Charming relates to may fairy tales, one of which is Sleeping Beauty, which was collected by the Grimm brothers (though the tale is centuries older).

Toof Fairy -- Based on the Tooth Fairy of English folklore (again, nothing to do with the Grimm Brothers), this version has a pair of pliers behind her back.  She gonna get yo teef. 

Chapter 2 (2003)


Cindyrella -- A wacky take on Cinderella, which is a very famous tale collected by the Grimm brothers.

Pine-noseo -- A weird take on Pinocchio, a specific character from a specific Italian story that came out in 1883 (not a Grimm's tale at all).

Red -- Ah, a bratty Little Red Riding Hood figure.  This one is among the tales collected and published by the Grimm brothers. 

The Meeces -- The Three Blind mice, mutated into a single being much like 3Pig from Series 1. Of course, "Three Blind Mice" is an English nursery-rhyme from 1805 and has nothing to do with the Grimm brothers. 

Tweedle Dee-Dum -- Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum also mutated into a single being.  Of course, these are characters from Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass) and not the Grimm brothers.

Johnny Badseed -- Here we have a parody of Johnny Appleseed who was a real person (John Chapman) who famously planted apple-trees across Ohio and other parts of America.  (Not Germany, and again not associated with the Grimm brothers.)

So, being very generous in our assessment, we can at best associate only 4/12 of these figures with Grimm's Fairy Tales.  They are Cindyrella, Prince Harming, Red, and The Big Rad Wolf. 

Packaging


We are still looking for Chapter 2, let us know if you can help.  We do not need packaging or boards.  

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