Every day, so you don't have to, I troll the designer toy blogs looking for the next yeti thing. The yeti is elusive, as I'm sure you know, but I've learned from experience that The Himalayan Man-Ape will eventually make an appearance.
Today I was rewarded with a sighting. The great Plastic and Plush blog revealed what the Strangekiss company is planning for their upcoming projects. And one of their figures will be a yeti!
His name is "Bill the Yeti", and here are the schematics (click to view bigger):
The talented David Lanham (whose Zog figure I previously blogged about) is the primary one responsible for Bill. All signs point to this figure being in possession of removable outfits. And check out the undies! (I'm telling you, this is the start of a fad.) Rumor also has it that other guest artists will get to modify Bill to their liking, further exploring their yeti love in the third dimension like it's never been done before!
And we may be seeing Bill the Yeti as a full-fledged figure on the shelves of people with expendable incomes as early as San Diego Comic Con (which is usually late July) - not too far from now.
This could be the BEST YETI FIGURE of 2009! So look out!
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