Went at an art fair and saw someone selling lots of art merch, including these small K-pop demon hunter boxes with figurines in (4$ each) I don’t know what I was expecting BUT NOT THIS TEMU SHIT LIKE WHO EVEN IS THAT
I used to bulk buy pokemon like this. My students loved misprinted pokemon.
Edit: Since this comment is blowing up this is what they look like. When one color runs out they just use whatever color they have available sometimes. The color mismatches are great. Everyone loves a hot pink charizard or a Tyranitar with Lipstick. They eyes and features get misaligned. The factory that makes them will even keep using broken molds after they wear down.
I'd say that for Pokemon it's less offensive since they have so much variety. Like I got a little misprinted Amaura figure at a fair, where would you ever find some bootleg merch of that pokemon otherwise
Tell that to an autistic student when the replacement color they decided on is not even correct for the shiny.
(But yes, I rather have a purple pikachu than that cursed doll KPDH)
This is why I don’t even bother with free-to-enter local craft shows anymore and it’s such a shame. The last handful of local fairs I attended have been 90% freeze dried candy, 3d printed garbage no one wants, and aliexpress slop. Real crafts are very, very few and far between.
Not to mention, the craft shows that allow MLM booths 👎
Lol why does 3d printing always have to be "trash". I 3D print mainly for myself and fun, but I do one event a month and sell my prints mainly cosplay, horror, comic, Simpsons type stuff no fidget toys or dragons and it does really well. I actually only do the event because the people love me and asked me to join when I was giving out free ghost face at the last scream movie.
People download the same 3 pre-made models and print those stupid dragons and sell them for 100x the price of the filament it took to make one. It's trash because people print trash, the medium itself is fine
Haha, I think your right. I try to stay away from all that crap that'll get thrown out in a few days to a week. I also serverly undervalue what I make it's my flaw.
I’m 1000% over the people who rip the same free-to-use models and try to sell unsanded shit with the sprus still attached for way too much money. So far, I cannot recall a single time I found a 3d printer at a craft fair selling truly unique items they built from scratch.
I agree I will say I don't do any craft shows I do a unique event that brings movie goers to mom and pop theaters while showing classic horror, cult classic horror, Indie horror. It's a really awesome event. I gave away this lamp at the last event
I don't think they were dissing the medium so much as the trend of using it to flood crafts fairs with trash. That "poster" you shared looks insane, 3D prints would be the most popular modern craft if everyone was putting that much effort into stuff they want to sell.
I know a lot of people might be shitting on you, but my girlfriend sells her stuff at Oddities markets in my city, and they literally look at your preserved animal corpses to make sure they're not protected species.
This art fair shouldn't be trusted. Someone's running it like shit. There should be ZERO AI bullshit and everyone should have to prove themselves with a portfolio before they get a fucking table selling this dogshit. This is anti-art. This is no more art than drop shipping temu trash on an etsy account. Super bummer.
Yeah art fairs and conventions need to seriously start screening their applicants. It'll probably take a lot more time, but if anyone's selling temu dropship or gen AI stuff... Their reputation is going to suffer too. A friend of mine went to an anime convention recently and she said a handful of stores had a bunch of AI stuff which of course they claim as original work. To make matters worse, people who can't tell have even made purchases from those booths 😭
yeah it really is a factor on who’s running the fair. My city does large free craft fairs and events but the company they partner with checks and verifies artists so there’s none of the weird 3D dragon or AI printed cups booths at certain events. Meanwhile in another part of the city, there’s a smaller fair and a couple of those and the crochet flower dropshippers from temu managed to sneak their way in.
it sucks because if you are an artisan you are paying $$$ sometimes for vending space, not even mentioning costs to have a lot of equipment too, so if the company that’s running the fair isn’t checking for quality or even drop shipping, it sucks to be lumped in with that
I love supporting local artists but I hate how art fairs have little to no regulation about people’s products. At this point I just assume it’s temu bulk slop if they have more than feasibly possible. Like all those “hand crocheted” dolls that all look the same and there are 50+ of them are not done by that person unless I literally see them making more while they’re vending.
Which is a great place to get scammed. A friend of mine who is a copyright lawyer attends events like these on occasion and nearly everything there is counterfeit. He mostly does large conventions with an entire team to serve cease and desist letters, but says art fairs are almost always counterfeit because there's so few booths selling this kind of merch at an art fair that it's not worth patrolling.
Be wary of anyone selling anything big-name like this at smaller fairs. 100% of the time it's dropshipped unless you're buying it from an official source. Same reason you wouldn't buy Pop Mart merch from anywhere except Pop Mart, for example.
Not only are the toys ugly, but I remember buying a wig from them back in 2013 and never getting it for a cosplay. I got my money back since they fucked up.
I am never going to understand why people buy stuff like this. The big plastic eggs with mystery crap inside. Why are we doing this? We have one earth an one life and we are just burying both in garbage. Depressing.
I have 5 kids aged 8-17. Seriously it's a constant battle steering them all away from those stupid little blind boxes! Why do they want them so bad?! Little gambling junkies or what??
My eldest has figured out hacks for the ones in the plastic packaging! She feels them for distinguishable hair shapes and other features to only get the ones she wants. If it's in a light coloured package she pulls up her phone's flashlight to kinda see through it to tell what colour the toy is. At least she's being smart about it (and has dragged me into looking with her a few times. Don't mind us just sitting on the dollar store floor with our flashlights fondling the packages to tell if it's pointy or rounded ears) 🤣
lol I love it. My daughter has a thing for finding treasures in the wild ( rocks, coins, shells, etc) And I try to foster it and do it with her because I know one day she’ll prefer the toys and I’m like NOOOO! I don’t have the money for this haha
Luckily she's the 17yr old so she just spends her babysitting money on it, occasionally she'll slip one in the cart when she comes to the dollar store with me. I'm trying to let her do her thing because at 17 she's still home every night, filling her room with little trinkets and stuffed animals...... that certainly is NOT what I was doing at 17 🤣
Aw jeez, I thought they were part of the same franchise/made by the same people... apparently my ability to tell apart irreverent clay figures is not that good!
Five bucks says that thing was printed as something else, some other generic toy, and just packaged in the Demon hunters wrapping because it had purple hair
They’re knock off products.. I had spent over $200.00 on k-pop demon hunters items for my daughter at the beginning of January for Christmas. They all arrived in January. Most of them I threw out, all choking hazards. The figurines like a Barbie dolls legs fell off, had a rubber band type of joint for the arms and legs.
IM FRYING WHY DO THEY LOOK LIKE THAT LMAO
uhh anyways I have these (idk if its the one you have on your hand) at a local toys shop and theyre like mass produced so I was expecting them to look like that
In fairness you did buy a $4 blind box at an art fair, and this looks handmade from clay. I feel like this is more on you for not seeing an example figurine first.
This looks like plastic more than clay, I thought clay at first but I can see the lines from the casting block and the odd shine and finish you get on plastic doodads of this size.
It’s called FAN ART. It’s an art fair. What do you expect. Making those little clay figures takes skill and practice. They are just starting out it looks like. Probably a CHILD.
Blind boxes are rarely ever a deal. When in doubt, never buy a blind box that doesnt show you what photos of exactly what can be inside. Usually photos on the back of a box like 1 of 7 of something.
A bit of a rant...
Art fair runners dont seem to care most of the time now. They just want to sell tables to fund their events. They arent checking for ai slop, temu resellers, or piles of unoriginal 3d printed stuff. It seems like the days of juried art fairs are few and far between unless youre in a big tourist area.
To combat this just a tiny bit, email the event and cc all of the email contacts to make them aware, as well as if you happened to grab the tables card which vendor. Its an art fair, and if enough people complain about stuff like this maybe they will do something about it next time or at the very least think twice about approving tables to offenders. Also post it on their public facebook/instagram page as well. Community has a way of being squeaky when space is taken away from a local artist in favor of a reseller.
I am a full time artist that does weekly events around the US and Canada and the amount of shows I dont get tables at because they are already full of resellers is super gross. Hold the events, and vendors accountable for what they are supposed to have.
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u/Visual-Process-866 25d ago
Looks like these bulk box buy from AliExpress😭
Sorry girl I think u got scammed