#weird merch

[littlestbigtop]

Saw this at a Boxlunch yesterday, and haven't stopped thinking about the fact that it exists...

#shrek is love #shrek is life #the onions are crocheted #which somehow adds #weird merch #weirdcore #shrek

[bugeyedfreaks]

Found this tea towel online while I was looking for pictures of Mojo Jojo in a state of misery and…?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this design? It’s amazing! I love it so much! 😍 What the heck?! I want this on a t-shirt! If anyone knows if it’s actually being sold as a shirt or something or what the source is (I mean other than being from CN) I honestly want to know.

The towel’s being sold here if anyone is interested! Also, I seriously wish I could just find a master list of where PPG stuff is being sold right now, it’s a miracle I even find these things to begin with.

#weird merch #powerpuff girls #ppg #the powerpuff girls #mojo jojo #blossom #bubbles #buttercup #the mayor #I don’t know if I entirely dig how the girls in color are overlaid on the sketch but like #I love it #LOOK AT MOJO HE’S A KIDNAPPER 💖💕💖 #it feels familiar but I have seen like a million pieces of art from this show lol it could be anything #clearly I haven’t seen this one for a while if I have already seen it before!

[shadow-von-vamp]

taking a sip of his brain

#weird merch

[takerfoxx]

I don't know why they made Evangelion velociraptors. I don't know what dinosaurs have to do with Eva. I'm just glad that they did.

#neon genesis evangelion #nge #unit 01 #unit 02 #velociraptor #dinosaurs #weird merch

[mountainfrogs]

i like to go browsing on japanese and korean shopping sites for keroro merch and you can often find a Lot of weird shit on there.

4 example

i have no idea what this is. none at all.

or like whatever this is

you find some wild shit

#keroro #keroro gunso #sgt frog #weird merch

[musicalislife]

To be 100% fair Käärijä’s new baby body (clothes) is normal/cute compared to other Eurovision contestants’s merch. Måneskin sells butt plug. Joker out sells/sold condoms and underwear.

#käärijä #måneskin #maneskin #joker out #weird merch #eurovision #what’s wrong with Eurovision contestants? #english is my second language

[august-singularity]

The Dragonar Pencil Case

A favorite of mine when it comes to old anime merch is stationary. I swear to god every anime in the 80s had a pencil case to go along with it.

Recently I stumbled upon this amazingly 80s pencil case on Ebay:

So, I’ve never actually seen Dragonar but my boyfriend recognized the mech immediately. I thought this was just the cutest thing ever, it’s a pencil case that’s shaped like a cassette player!

It has a little mechanism that lets you set the date!

It even has drawers!

Then came the creme de la creme: the inside

The inside of the case has the name of the original owner written inside. Kate, whoever she was, clearly loved this damn Dragonar pencil case because it’s a bit beat. I mean, she put her full name on the inside so other people would know it was hers!

At this point my boyfriend came to the conclusion that it may be a customized pencil case. He said that maybe Kate got the stickers somewhere and put them on the pencil case, maybe she was one of the OG American anime fans in the 80s.

I mean, there’s no way that this case was packaged with a Dragonar sticker along with girly little stickers with bows on them, right? I’m not so sure. I feel like it would’ve been very difficult to get your hands on this size of sticker at the time, and it just doesn’t seem right to me.

Dragonar isn’t super popular, especially amongst westerners. Although, maybe it’s similar to Orguss where it was popular at the time and fell into semi-obscurity in the years following.

I did some more digging and found THIS pencil case on Ebay as well:

Not quite the same style, but damn close. Yes, that’s the Garland from Megazone 23 with ROBOT in all caps next to it.

and yes, that’s the Orguss on the back. Also with the oh-so-coveted ROBOT text.

At this point I was CONVINCED that these two pencil cases were connected somehow, and luckily this listing included a picture of the side of the box.

FLOMO, finally I have a name to work with.

I urgently google FLOMO and learn that not only are they a legitimate company, but they’re actually still around! Honestly, it seems like FLOMO made just about every western-released mecha anime pencil case and I was just oblivious up till now because none of the listings included the names of the series. To be fair, how would they know? It’s not like it’s included. Hell, the Dragonar listing’s description calls it a “Gundam pencil case.”

Then, I struck gold.

A nearly identical pencil case listed on picclick. This one has the Zeta and a... Dragonar grunt mech? I haven’t watched Dragonar so apologies to all the millions of Dragonar fans that are surely reading this if I’m incorrect.

Yet again, made by FLOMO.

In conclusion, this was a really fun rabbithole to jump down. I’m definitely going to be posting some pictures of some of these weird pencil boxes so if anyone else is a fan of these sorta bizarre manifestations of American companies bringing over little-known Japanese IPs, I hope you enjoy!

#vintage anime #80s anime #Metal Armor Dragonar #megazone 23 #orguss #weird merch #anime pencil case

[mushroomrealestate]

Why does Belle look so devious-

#disney princess #weird merch #she looks like she’s about to complement me and then go mock me with her friends when I leave the room #I’m sorry Belle I love you but those are just the vibes #Look at how they massacred my girl

[ravenna7939]

I got an ad... for a LITERAL LEGEND OF ZELDA CRACK PIPE!!!!! WTF TUMBLR???!?!

#tloz #legend of zelda #advertizing #link #zelda #someone been hitting them hyrule herbs too hard #its a crack pipe ffs #weird merch

[eyes-of-nine]

early hualian dynamic my beloved(there's so much wrong with both of them but it's too early to get into it)

#trying to figure out how i want to draw them while slowly making my way through all the books #ignore the fact my style is doing some weird 180s recently TvT #...for the purposes of this drawing i did have to delete hc's kneecaps tho ywy sir stop being so goddamn tall #i really wanna make some designs headcanons for more characters and maybe some merch but aaaah #the brainrot is real #and they're the only thing keeping me somewhat sane rn #enjoy~ #tgcf fanart #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #mxtx tgcf #mxtx #my art #hua cheng #hualian #san lang #xie lian

[centi-pearl]

mp100 fanart , furry serizawa and furry reigen

#centipearlart #mp100 #serizawa katsuya #reigen arataka #furry art #digital painting #These were really nice lighting practice #sorry if i drew either of them weird i dont use referenves evern when i should do ghat. They are based on the dog plushie merch

[philsjumpers]

they really said we're gonna feed our witchy lesbian audience with some weird spooky homoerotic horror this fine spring evening huh. halloween come early we cannot stop winning

#i feel catered to PERSONALLY #i love horror i love when dan and phil do weird shit just for the love of it #and i love gothy merch #dnp #dan and phil #phan #<— cringe tag for the fandommetrics

[bugeyedfreaks]

I forget if I posted this before or not, but this is another one of those perplexing dolls that I tend to find on eBay listings. Why is Buttercup the artist? Not that she’s not allowed to paint, but it seems like more of a thing for Bubbles.

Anyway, her beret is very cute. 💚

#powerpuff girls #ppg #buttercup #weird merch

[shadow-von-vamp]

pinnochio

#weird merch

[payasita]

#2: Golden fleece

#cult of the lamb #cotl #doodles #my personal favorite for Fucking Up Everything #hi i got steadily drunker for the entirety of this one so it'll be interesting to look at it in the morning when the queue posts it #also this is accidentally turning into 'also draw the coolest looking crownform weapons' #theyre so slept on bro some of these weapons look SO COOL #and some are so weird #shoutout to bane sword. thats just a baseball bat that gives you tetanus #genuinely 10/10 #ALSO BEFORE I FORGET i spent a hot topic giftcard i got like two years ago this morning and they had cotl merch #i now own a graphic tee with narinder on it thats also just a thinly veiled parody of catholic iconography #what a time to be alive

[zannolin]

tbt moment....we can post @dsmp-tarot pieces now so here ya go. i ended up designing V of Cups (Eret's Museum) and VI of Cups (c!Crime) for it last year :]

#zanna draws #dsmp #this + the merch i'll post tmrw are so olddd it feels weird to be posting this in 2023 but hey honestly i dont hate em. #i put like a ridiculous amt of work into them and also into the symbolism of them so pretty proud of that still #and no i did not abuse my mod powers to get the crimeboys card btw i pinch hit for it and it was a v funny coinkydink #no id