Toy OTD: Electric Tiki Betty Boop Figurine
Electric Tiki is wonderful at making maquettes of pop culture icons, but this one is exceptional! It's a great sculpt - tightly on-model but very appealing and in character.The paint work - especially around the eyes, traditionally a problem area for toymakers - is superb! The base is on-theme, and has no visible labeling on it to identify the character (a touch I love). It's not all that big (just 5" tall), so it won't gobble up much shelf space.
Several versions were made - full-color paint jobs with red, black, and plum dresses; and (pictured) a monochrome variant. They both look sweet, but after seeing Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, I knew I had to get the black & white one!
You can pick up a figurine just like this one for $43.99 + shipping at dinstoys.com.
Labels: betty boop, electric tiki, figurine, fleischers, maquette, merchandise, merchandising, sideshow toys, toy, toy of the day, toy OTD
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
12:03 AM
3 Comments:
What a beauty!
Yeah! Have you seen the rest of Electric Tiki's statues?
Yeah, they have a really sweet line up! The ones that really stand out for me are The Munsters (Herman Munster in particular), Dick Tracy, Fleischer Popeye, and Mr. Magoo. Not to mention the black and white (and red) Herobear and the Kid. All (except for maybe one or 2) of the Electric Tiki's sculpts have really nice posing. Haha looks like I have some of my Christmas list already finished.
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