Vincent Van Gogh Action Figure on Kickstarter
February 11, 2017

We want to make art history a little more fun by turning Vincent Van Gogh into an action figure!

 

WHY AN ACTION FIGURE?

For the last 2 years, Today Is Art Day had a mission to make art and art history more fun and attractive to a wider audience. We have built an incredible community of more than 58,000 art enthusiasts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

The level of engagement we experience with this community is unexpected, and unprecedented.

We want to try something new, and offer our fans a new way to bring art into their daily life. With the Vincent Van Gogh action figure, we want to:

  • Make art history more fun
  • Develop a new kind of product for art history fans
  • Pay tribute to one of the greatest painters of all time

Help us spread the love of Art (and Van Gogh) by supporting this campaign!

WHAT WILL I GET?

The action figure is made of PVC and is 5 inches high. Both ears are removable (although Van Gogh cut his left ear).

Hopefully, this figure would be the first in a series of many others featuring art history heroes. In our wildest dreams, these figures would be available in all the major museum shops across the globe!

 

 

 

 

 

 

IT COMES IN A BOX!

The figure comes in a high-quality box that presents fun facts about the artist and some of his most recognizable masterpieces. It is possible to cut out the masterpieces and make a paper easel from the box.

 

 

WHAT’S NEXT?

So far, we have created an action figure design, built a prototype, selected a production company, and identified a worldwide shipping partner. The following steps are still ahead of us:

  • Mass production of the action figures
  • Packaging
  • Fulfillment and shipping

The last steps in this project are not cheap. This is why we are looking for the support of the community to help us make this project a reality.

You can find the Vincent Van Gogh action figure Kickstarter here.

Daniel Pickett
AFi founder and Editor-In-Chief Daniel “Julius Marx” Pickett has been around toys his whole life. The first line he ever collected was Mego’s World’s Greatest Super Heroes line back in the 70s. He has been surrounded by collectables ever since. In 1999 he was confounded by a lack of information and news about some of his favorite toy lines he was collecting. Since he couldn’t find the information he decided to pursue it himself thinking other people might also be interested in the same news. He started writing a weekly column on the toy industry and action figure for a toy news site and in a years time he tripled the sites daily traffic with his updates, reviews and product features. He built relationships with every major toy manufacturer and many sculptors, painters and mold makers. He grew his hobby into a world wide expertise that the industry has embraced. In 2004 he teamed up with his toy buddy Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and they created their own website www.ActionFigureInsider.com. Daniel has been quoted in both industry and mass media press outlets. Over the years Daniel and AFi have been sought out as experts in the field. Daniel was regularly featured on “Attack of the Show” on the G4 network as the primary contributor to their “Mint On Card” segment, and our front page has been linked to from USA Today’s “Pop Candy” Blog twice. Daniel’s content has also been featured on Bloomberg News, MSNBC.com, Time.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, CNN.com, AssociatedPress.com Wired.com, Fark.com, Boing-Boing, Gizmodo.com, Ain’t It Cool News, the Official Star Wars blog, Geekologie, G4, CNet and Toy Fare magazine, among many others. He has consulted on toy lines, books, documentaries and TV shows. But all of that really just sounds snooty and “tootin’ his own horn” – the long and short of it is that Daniel loves toys and he LOVES talking about them.
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3 Comments »

  • Jim Abell Jim Abell says:

    I have so many questions about this “project”… Why is this being called an “action figure” when it has zero points (maybe one at the neck) of articulation?… Perhaps it should have been designed as a bobble head?… Why this stylized, cartoon-y likeness instead of a realistic likeness?… Didn’t Accoutrements make a Van Gogh figure years ago?…

  • Derek A Stallings says:

    Exactly. Accoutrements did make one quite a few years ago, which in my opinion was a better representation. This is more stylized – absolutely nothing wrong with that – and seems more in line with something Funko would put out. I think that they are targeting the wrong prospective customer base.

  • j1nxt3r says:

    Maybe the tags for this kickstarter be updated to include something like “figure” “figurine” “doll” “toy” “historical” for better marketing/customer base?

    I was wondering about the two previous comments here regarding the term “action figure”, so I did some google research. It seems that there is no consensus on what constitutes something to be an “action figure.” However, they all do agree on couple one basic thing – it’s a small scale doll/figure. They often have posable/movable joints/limbs/parts, but not necessarily.

    The “main” dictionary that most people go by states it pretty simply as -> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/action%20figure

    Although, I guess it’s possible that term is used differently in Canada…

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