Customizers
and artists have had quite a field day with the generic black and white Might
Muggs. Be sure to take a moment to read this great article from StarWars.com!
The talent is unbelievable out there! Click thumbnail below to check it all
out!
Artists, comic book creators, toy designers, and celebrity fans are getting
out their markers, paint brushes and glue guns to transform blank Mighty Muggs
into one-of-a-kind Star Wars art to be auctioned by The Make-A-Wish
Foundation.
These highly-collectible urban vinyl toys have been available in a variety of
characters from Star Wars and Indiana Jones, among other comic
book and film franchises. For this special project, called The Empire Muggs Back,
Lucasfilm asked popular artists, comics book creators, toy designers and celebrity
fans to take blank
Mighty Muggs (donated by Hasbro) and transform them into their favorite Star
Wars characters, scenes, ships and more.
"Mighty Muggs have this
wonderful humor to them, which is what I think makes them appealing to so many
different fans, kids to adults," Star
Wars artist Nicole Falk says. "This
just takes it to the next level with all the artists' different styles. I am
so excited myself just to see how interesting or intricate they will be and all
in one place together! It's going to be a pretty amazing Star Wars experience."
"I've never customized
a vinyl toy before, so I was excited to get out my paint brushes and work on
a physical object," The Laugh-Out-Loud
Cats comic book artist Adam
Koford says. "So much of what I create nowadays is filtered through
a computer that it's nice to rely on old fashioned, simple tools once in a while.
I was tempted to actually blast a hole in Greedo, but since it was my first one
I decided to save the experimentation for next time. Also my blaster's in the
shop."
The final Mighty Muggs art
pieces will be on display at San Diego Comic-Con and on StarWars.com. Each
Mighty Mugg art piece will be auctioned off to raise money for The Make-A-Wish
Foundation.
For more information, click
here.
