via Action Figure Insider: Over a year ago, my friend Josh, who is an epic figure customizer, made a “lost” second wave of figures for Mattel’s vintage Clash of the Titans toy line for his personal collection. He did an invisible version of Perseus, Perseus with a helmet and Perseus with Bubo. He also did Zeus, Andromeda, Ammon and a more screen accurate version of Calibos. These were stunning figures and made everyone who saw them aware of what could have been with that toy line.
Cut to a year later and a couple of other friends Eric and Jason designed and printed a STUNNING custom cereal box for Josh as a surprise and if this doesn’t make you want to travel back to 1982 I don’t know what will. This box of “CINNAMON KRAKENS” is so pitch perfect accurate to it’s real, vintage cereal box counterparts that I’m sure that just by placing this on the Internet that someone is going to be convinced that it’s real and will create unshakable false memories every bit as strong as those friends you know that are CONVINCED that they or someone they know were sent a rocket-firing Boba Fett as a kid. It’s not real, it’s just a lovingly crafted one of custom for a friend, and it’s AMAZING!
Jason spent many years designing packaging and toys for a major fast food chain so his ability to mimic and create such a convincing “fake” is almost unparalleled. You really have to see them to believe them. Jason was also the person that made that amazing custom Super Powers Fortress of Solitude Playset box for me as a wedding present. I like to think that somewhere in an alternate universe my young self has just finished his 4th box of CINNAMON KRAKENS and is getting ready to clip out the offer and send away for some of those epic figures.
Cut to a year later and a couple of other friends Eric and Jason designed and printed a STUNNING custom cereal box for Josh as a surprise and if this doesn’t make you want to travel back to 1982 I don’t know what will. This box of “CINNAMON KRAKENS” is so pitch perfect accurate to it’s real, vintage cereal box counterparts that I’m sure that just by placing this on the Internet that someone is going to be convinced that it’s real and will create unshakable false memories every bit as strong as those friends you know that are CONVINCED that they or someone they know were sent a rocket-firing Boba Fett as a kid. It’s not real, it’s just a lovingly crafted one of custom for a friend, and it’s AMAZING!
Jason spent many years designing packaging and toys for a major fast food chain so his ability to mimic and create such a convincing “fake” is almost unparalleled. You really have to see them to believe them. Jason was also the person that made that amazing custom Super Powers Fortress of Solitude Playset box for me as a wedding present. I like to think that somewhere in an alternate universe my young self has just finished his 4th box of CINNAMON KRAKENS and is getting ready to clip out the offer and send away for some of those epic figures.
I so wish this was a real product. Well Funko has some custom cereal boxes coming out soon.
ReplyDeleteThis is terrific! However, it also brings out my long-simmering childhood D&D-playing anger at Perseus in this movie. Losing the shield to Medusa (umm... spoiler), is understandable, but dropping the helmet of invisibility in a swamp? How could that demi-twat be so careless with a gift from the gods??? Haha!
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