Andrew (Television Executive) (@[email protected])

Spent the day with a friend from the indie toy world and one of the things we ended up discussing at length was the idea that, as artists, it's very difficult to make a living without engaging some kind of pandering. In the art toy community this takes the form of something called "platform toys" which are largely generic barely characters that serve as a platform for multiple color schemes. Mostly, this means making a boring toy, and then letting a bunch of different artists get together and paint it in the color schemes of well known characters from big corporations like Skeletor or Darth Vader. I had thoughts, I'm going to try and summarize them here.