Kidrobot - Hello I’m Insane 8 Inch Dunny by Huck Gee

Surprisingly, after the release last week of its Dunny Series 5 set the rest of Kidrobot’s September is pretty tame. I couldn’t figure out why that was, but today everything became a whole lot clearer. October is going to be huge!


I don’t usually like to talk about figures this far in advance of their release, but I have to talk about Huck Gee’s newest production 8 inch Dunny, Hello I’m Insane. Originally a custom figure limited to 10 hand painted Dunnys, the Hello I’m Insane figure was based on Huck’s popular Hello My Name Is 8” and 3” vinyl figures. Now, Huck and Kidrobot have decided to share the love and allow more collectors to add one of these incredible figures to their collection.

The Hello I’m Insane 8 Inch Dunny is psychopathic and armless, and comes bound in a bronze clasped, hard-to-remove cotton straightjacket with bloody traces from his pre-asylum days. This deranged Dunny will be released just in time for Halloween on October 30th, 2008, and is limited to just 500 figures! The figure retails for $50 each, and with such a small production run this figure should sell out upon release.

J.J. Abrams’ Fringe

Fringe, the latest series from TV wunderkind J.J. Abrams, debuts tonight, Tuesday, September 9, on FOX. While Abrams (Felicity, Alias) may have created one of my all time favorite television shows, Lost, I have no idea what to expect with his latest creation.


Described as an X-Files for a new generation, Fringe “centers on no-nonsense FBI agent Olivia Dunham, played by Australian newcomer Anna Torv, who explores odd occurrences of ‘fringe’ science. Her path leads to brilliant but mad scientist Walter Biship (John Noble), who must be extracted from a mental hospital, with the help of his estranged son Peter (Joshua Jackson), dragged reluctantly into the mix.” (link) The show also stars two of my favorite actors from the classic HBO series OZ, Kirk Acevedo and Lance Reddick.

My only problem with the show, and the main reason I am not more excited about it, is that it stars Pacey from Dawson’s Creek! Other than that, it sounds like a winner. Abrams explained to USAToday.com that he “wanted to do a show that had a procedural template, a sort of structure, but doing a procedural in the mold of CSI and Law & Order didn’t interest me.” (link) Instead, Abrams decided to go a rout more reminiscent of The X-Files, by “grafting a larger mythology onto the series that rewards loyal viewers but isn’t essential to any weekly episode.” (link) Basically it’s a version of Lost that’s more welcoming to new viewers and doesn’t take place on an island.

I’m not sold on Fringe yet, but FOX must be. Otherwise how can you explain the $10 million budget the network gave Abrams to produce Fringe’s two hour pilot. (link) Despite my misgivings, I’m going to have to watch tonight’s series premiere. I at least owe Abrams that much for giving the world Lost.

Fringe airs Tuesday nights on FOX at 8/7C.