Paper Toy

When I was young, I used to check the back of cereal or chocolate sticks boxes for cut-out characters or objects, urging myself to collect the entire set in making a complete town. I personally let the boxes be, hide it, and treat it as a collectible :p

One afternoon, out of the blue, I had the chance to visit the Exploratorium again. There were additional contraptions that I tested. Pretty awesome as always. Later, I went to the gift shop and looked around. To my surprise, I saw a book called "Papertoy Monsters". Flipped a few pages and jaw-dropped to the extreme awesomeness! There were 50 papertoy monsters to assemble, each with its own designated artist, templates, instructions, and a back story.

When I got home, I did my research and later found two more amazing books related to paper toys, namely: "Urban Paper : 26 Designer Toys to Cut Out and Build" and "We Are Paper Toys: Print-Cut-Fold-Glue-Fun".

Papertoy Monsters by Brian Castleforte	Urban Paper by Matt Hawkins	We Are Paper Toys! by Louis Bou

The fully bright-colored pages of creatures of these amazing books receives a 5 stars from me! Kids who'll be getting these as presents are lucky! (Someone get me this! It's for every age bracket XD)

Here's a video of a kid assembling "Ice Huggy" designed by Salazad.

I wanted to make an in-depth discussion to each of the three books I mentioned but there wasn't much information, especially the characters and artists' name, to the other books, I decided not to go any further. It's fair.

Before I proceed, I would like to give credit to the paper toys I used for this blog entry's signage. From L-R: Dolly Oblong's The X From Outer Space (template); Matthijs Kamstra's Scorpion Robot, and Marshall Alexander's Zeke (template).

Now, I don't want to leave this entry short so allow me to introduce Guillaume Pain aka Tougui. He created papertoy template Rodrigo Del Papel where he and 19 more amazing international artists poured their creative juices to make their characters based from it. All the works were exhibited at Le Dune Cafe at Paris last March 3 - April 10, 2010.

Below are the characters they made. (Scroll-down to end this post for a surprise)

The Surprise: Tougui has provided download links to all 20 paper toys. Choose your favorites and start assembling! List: Dolly Oblong - Shin Tanaka - Aphte - Mr Kone - Matt Hawkins - Tizieu - Bishop - Phil - Grapheart - 3EyedBear - Castleforte - Fasmer - Tougui - SupaCat - PulcoMayo - Marshall Alexander - Julie West - Tokyo Candies - Tanki - Fakir.

Paper Toys are still alive! Thankful it hasn't gone rusty. Oh by the way, if you love Paper Toys no matter what genre and create them either through assembling, designing or both, then head over to this amazing community, NicePaperToys.

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