TOYSREVIL: What is your process of creation like? Do you commit to paper before you start on a sculpt, or is it an evolving hands-on approach?īOB CONGE: The most important creative part of my day is the first 30 minutes in the morning. I was all over it and in 2004 I founded Plaseebo Custom. When the NEW vinyl Art Toy thing started a few years ago enabling individual designers to build unique customs and produce limited quantity runs in China. I borrowed a small file and hand drill from my dads tool box and customized some of my trucks with crunched fenders, bullet holes, and then burned some of the paint with matches.Īs for a defining moment, it wasn't a possibility for me until my son Marcus pushed me into the computer age by introducing me to the world of the internet and building my websites. TOYSREVIL: Was there a defining moment when you realized you wanted to design and create toys, Bob?īOB CONGE: When I was around 7 years old I can remember playing "Army" in the dirt of my back yard with small die cast tanks and trucks made by Dinky and wanting to make them look more like they had really been in a war. Shares with us his process, his past and his future /// CLICK HERE TO READ
in addition to the myriad of Plaseebo creations and personal customs, Bob's darkened aesthetics and even macabre-cuteness had always appealed to me, and yes, even whispered silent nothings to lure my attention and I had to have a long chat with him, embarrassingly bumbling my way thru LOLĪn artist, a "tinkerer", a creator of the Great American Kaiju - Bob Conge Utter the name " Bob Conge" and thy brainspace is engulfed within a void of delirium, teetering on that suspended ledge between an unspeakable nightmare and a whispered siren song so beautiful, you cannot help but be enthralled.
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