Behind the Bears

SEVEN DEADLY SINS - GLUTTONY

2010-02-19T10:48:00.003Z

A treat for all you Gluttons!!!! Well done to Pete and the team! This one's a beauty!

EXCLUSIVE - PINCH&TWIST / LIMITED EDITION

2010-01-27T10:04:00.001Z

Yes! I can now reveal images of the hotly anticipated 'Pinch and Twist' figurine!!!

Collector's have been voting in their droves for this excellent PGU sketch to be made into a figurine for months now and we are happy to tell you that 'P&T' will be available as a Limited Edition (1100) figurine which will be launched in Feb 2010...

As per all our new limited editions, P&T will come with an individually numbered disc in its base and the usual signed, limited, certificate of authenticity.

Hope you like!?

ODDBLOG

2010-01-13T14:00:00.003Z

Hey Guys!
If you like the Bad Taste Bears, why not check out the brand new OddBlog, home of the BTB'S and all our other OddCo products and happenings... Check out a huge new BTB spoiler on there NOW!
Paul x

SNEAKY 2010 LEAK (SPOILER)

2009-12-10T13:19:00.004Z

Hey Guys!
Below is a sneaky peek at some of the new bears due for launch in 2010. Don't look down if you don't want to spoil the suprise and are happy to wait until the new year.

Hehe. Fooled You! Well that's not strickly true...

Below is an image of some of the melted down wax models that our sculptors have been working on for 2010.

When they have finished casting the wax model, the wax is then melted down in order to re-cycle and make new figurines.

So... can anyone guess what we've been sculpting? Looks like something out of John Capenters 'The Thing' at the moment!? Hehe

Merry '3 weeks until' Xmas

Paulo x

DOLLY MIXTURES

2009-11-18T13:25:00.008Z

THE MISSING PORN STARS....

Back in 2005 when PGU showed us the 1st images of 'The Pornstar Bears,' we were absolutely blown away. Very controversial and hugely amusing, Bad Taste Bears went straight to work on sculpting and packaging and had some great brainstorming sessions coming up with the names...

They were launched at the Spring Fair in our 1st ever 'peep show' and were deamed as some of the most serious XXX products we'd ever made! A few complaints came over from the guys on the TY stand opposite us too. Ooops.

One of the original Underhill images that we sculpted, that never made it into production was the 'Dolly Mixture' figurine...

As funny as these Dollies are, they were not launched due to the fact that there was no bear to be seen in the set. And although we love them dearly it was thought that BTB customers would not want to own a set that just contained dollies.

After sitting for many a long year on the shelf with only each other for company we have decided to set these ladies free to join the other Teddie and Dollies in the home of a Bad Taste Bears collector.

If you think you will be able to offer a good home to them visit our eBay store now.

REMEMBER, REMEMBER

2009-11-05T09:55:00.003Z

Remember, Remember… It’s the 5^th of November

To celebrate the FAILED attempt of blowing up of the houses of Parliament, Bad Taste Bears are giving away a Napoleon figurine FREE with EVERY ORDER! Banging!!!
Offer only available today until 12am Nov 6^th.

CULT MOVIES

2009-11-02T12:40:00.002Z

Hey Guys! Hope you all had a spooktacular Halloween...
Check out this image of the brand new Movie Bear additions coming this November (just in time for Christmas please Santa...)

Noticed some of the leaked images online were a bit sketchy, so I thought I'd add this little group shot into the mix.

My fave is probably the Marsh Mallow bear, but then GB is one of my favourite Movies of all time.

HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEN!!!

2009-10-30T09:14:00.005Z

Hey Guys! Just wanted to wish all you trick r' treaters a Happy Halloween!

If you don't already know, my absolute FAVOURITE BTB's of all time are the Monster Bears. That's why I'm totally chuffed to see these fab Mini-Monster sets come to life and hopefully go to a great home through the wonders of BTBEbay...

If you didn't already know, these dinky critters stand at approx 6.5 cm and were originally sculpted to be made as keyrings. However, plans were changed and these designs will now never be released at this size.

There are a total of 3 sets of the original Micro Monster prototypes, each with a different finish:

Silverscreen Monochrome
Halloween Glow in the Dark
Classic Originals

My favourites out of these are the Silver Screen versions (especially Dracula) and although they look pretty good on EBay, I just wanted to give you more of a close up look....

I'm going to be very jealous of the person who manages to pick up this set!!

Check them and the other two sets out on Ebay here...

Paul x

ONE BIG JOKE

2009-10-21T12:52:00.002+01:00

Giant Joker in da building!!! Looks like he's Slashed on himself a bit though...hehe. Note the addition of a numbered certificate as his playing card. Nice.

TEE SHIRT PREVIEW

2009-10-20T14:47:00.002+01:00

Check out this tasty number!! The t-shirt's not bad either!? Hehe.
Available from the November Glam Events 2009 (UK and Europe) and limited to only 100 pieces worldwide, these bad boys are bound to sell out very quickly....

LIMITED VISION

2009-10-06T15:34:00.002+01:00

Looking forward to the new IRON FIST limited edition going on sale tonight!!!? Thought I'd chuck up a picture of all 3 limited editions for 2009 together, so you can see what they look like in all their glory! I happen to think that this is one of the best years for Ltd Editions so far.... Paulo x

I LOVE TO WATCH YOU WALK TONY!!!

2009-09-28T13:20:00.005+01:00

Hey there Guys!
Sounds like a great time was had by all at the Collect@ signing on the weekend! Massive thanks to Pat, Andy and the team, who really know how to look after their customers. Big thanks to Pete and Sue too, who worked their bums off again on a religious day of all days. And of course thankyou to everyone who made it over to Halifax and made it a really special day. Cheers Guys!

As you know, Collect@ were lucky enough to have the premier of the new Travolting Buy Back bear... Alot of folks have been asking to see pictures of the variations. So here they are for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Original Sculpt

Standard Travolting

Black Travolting (100 Worldwide)

Gold Travolting (Only 5 Worldwide)

BTW, post on this thread and let us know if you won a black or even gold Travolting? You lucky buggers!

Keep staying alive!!!

Music Legends

2009-09-11T12:46:00.006+01:00

Incase you did not find all the images last weekend here they are in all their glory!

YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING?!

2009-09-08T12:24:00.003+01:00

It was announced last week that the new GIANT FIGURINE for the Autumn Event will be none other than everyones favourite happy villain.... Thought I'd put some sneaky progress photos up so you can see how he's coming on. Best giant bear EVER?

Music Legends Treasure Hunt UPDATED

2009-09-04T15:47:00.002+01:00

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW ENDED. CONGRATS TO THE WINNER!!!

OddCo and Peter Underhill are delighted to announce our brand new mini-series of Bad Taste Bears, the Music Legends which will be launched later this month. In order to mark this extra special occasion we are be holding an internet treasure hunt between 4th and 7th September.

This weekend 7 photos of the Music Legends will be hidden within the pages of certain BTB related websites. You guys must do a little detective work and scour the internet looking for these magnificent 7 images, each of which will display the Music Legends Logo. As these will be hidden on various BTB related corners of the internet it's up to you to sniff them out.

The 7 images will not all appear at once so you may have to return to certain places that you think they may appear at regular occasions...Well, we didn't want to make this TOO easy!

Once you've collected all 7 images of the Music Legends, you must then upload them all onto the(Members Only) competitions section of the BTB forum (there is a limit of 4 images per post so you may need to make 2 consecutive posts). The first person to do this will win the first two Music bears absolutely FREE!

Go on then, we'll be nice and give you the first to get going with.....

Good luck to you all and enjoy your hunt!

ONE FOR THE TWI-HARDS

2009-08-28T10:30:00.005+01:00

We were recently asked for a Twilight Edward bear by our good colleagues in Australia... Apparently Twilight is pretty big news at the moment? Duh? Actually, I must confess to having read the Twilight books... Does that make me a teenage girl?

Anyway, Pete has kindly obliged and here are the results. What do the Twilight (Twi-hards) fans think? Has Pete nailed Robert Patterns simmering, solemn, sexy, stare? GO TEAM EDWARD!!!

Paulo x

Details of launch date and price are to be released later on this year...

more sneak peeks of the music range...

2009-08-20T08:57:00.002+01:00

Check out the lurvely red packaging as designed by resident graphical genius, Mark F.

Tra, La, La... Sneaky Peek.

2009-08-07T15:12:00.003+01:00

What could deez little bad boyz be?!?!?!

WHITES, CAMERA, JACKSON!!!

2009-07-17T13:02:00.002+01:00

Check out this sneaky photo of some event whitewear which will be available to paint at the Summer Event. Watch out for this bad boy in your goody bags... The bear painting competition winner will win a monochrome Jsester bear as seen below.... Good luck!

IT DON'T MATTER IF YOU'RE BLACK OR RED?

2009-07-16T14:22:00.003+01:00

Just recieved stock of the monochrome Jimmy Riddle bears... Though we'd give you more of a preview of what some lucky buggers are going to win/beg/steal next week!!! See you there!
Paulo x

The Wheel of Fortune!!!!

2009-07-16T12:08:00.004+01:00

What's Nigel been up too then...? Making a new spin-da-wheel 'round table' for the Summer Event! Oooh watch it spinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Bad Taste Bears @ TAIPEI TOY FESTIVAL

2009-07-14T14:00:00.005+01:00

Taipei Toy Festival is the place to be if you are one for cutting edge designer toys and collectables.

The show brings thousands of insatiable toy collectors of all ages and uber-cool vinyl toy designers from around the globe through its doors.

At the latest Taipei Toy Festival Bad Taste Bears were represented by our friends at GICO GICO COMPANY. They have come back to us with great reports - BTB certainly seems to have struck a chord with our friends in Taiwan.

Click here to see all of our pics of BTB at TAIPEI TOY FESTIVAL

So, you've spotted the tees....

2009-07-09T16:53:00.002+01:00

Available at the Summer Event this year. 10th Anniversary Tees!!! Sorry the photo's aren't great!? I took them. Paulo x

Warehouse shenanigans

2009-07-07T15:26:00.005+01:00

Billy and Gail seem to be having far too much fun downstairs while we are slaving away up here....

Give it up - you're not teenagers any more guys!!!!

A Bear is Born….. Part 3

2009-06-25T08:53:00.008+01:00

Trimester 3
Painting

The piece then finds it’s way back to the painting desk. There is no greater requirement for this job than nerves of steel and a super steady hand. Often the bears will go through a number of different paint jobs before the final colours are decided upon. For anyone who is a budding bear painter the main thing you need to know is “Bear Colour” is xxxxxxxxxx

Once approved from Pete our workshop painted copy will be sent to the factory as reference for the painters to copy

The Big Day Arrives A bear is born….
And here is the new arrival in all of her glory. Of course this is not the end of the story she now has a long journey ahead of her all the way from china to collectors homes all over the world.

A Bear is Born….. Part 2

2009-06-24T09:07:00.009+01:00

2^nd Trimester -

Once the sculpt is finished and has been approved by Pete it is now time to make a silicone mould of the bear. Firstly we make a strong box around the bear using scrap pieces of plastic tacked together with superglue.

The box is then sealed along the seams using a hot melt glue gun to prevent any leaks when we come to pour silicone rubber into it. We pour the right amount of silicone into a bucket and then add the catalyst which will “cure” the silicone rubber. The silicone and catalyst are thoroughly mixed together using a large drill.

The bucket is now placed into a vacuum chamber for a couple of minutes to ensure there is no air in the mix. This stage is very important as any air bubbles in the silicone rubber will be evident on any finished resin casts. We now pour the mix into the box mould’s making sure they are fully covered by at least 30mm. The moulds are now placed into the vacuum chamber as pouring the silicone into the moulds can cause small pockets of air to get trapped against the bear. After another couple of minutes the moulds are removed and placed somewhere flat to cure. This can take anywhere from between 1 – 8 hours de pending on the ratio of mix and room temperature etc.

When fully cured we remove the outer box and think about where we are going to cut the mould to remove the wax bear. At this stage it is important to cut the mould in the most suitable place as we do not want to have a mould line running across anywhere obvious like the face. A sharp scalpel blade and a pair of circlip pliers are used

We now hold the mould together using elastic bands and wrap some masking tape around the top to create a “well” which stops any excess resin coming out of the mould when the resin is poured. The resin we use is a two part polyurethane which is mixed together in equal parts then poured into the mould. The mould is again put into the vacuum chamber to extract any air bubbles, this time from the resin. After removal we leave the mould for about ten minutes while a chemical reaction in the resin causes it to get very hot and set hard. We can now remove the resin from the mould and think about finishing the bear.

At this stage the bear finish is quite rough as the sculptor’s tool marks can be seen on any smooth surfaces. This is when we turn the rough cast into what we call the final “grey”. The cast is sprayed with a grey primer them rubbed down using different grades of wet & dry paper until a smooth finish is achieved. We now add things like the legal wording and individual number to the reverse of the bear.

Sometimes at this stage it is necessary to separate some parts of the model to make it easier to mould and produce on the Far East, the example shown is quite basic so this is not needed. This picture shows the final grey which will now have the silicone mould process repeated giving us a “master grey” mould.

A Bear is Born….. Part 1

2009-06-23T12:43:00.007+01:00

Hey Guys!
We've been asked to put together a 'step by step guide' for the creation and conception of a BTB figurine... The full 'product development' guide will be added into the website over the next coming weeks, but until then we thought we would put it up section by section onto the blog...

Conception
When a man and a woman love each other very much…..Maybe not – that is a whole other kind of conception.

The Bad Taste Bears are the brain child of Peter Underhill. Where the concept comes from nobody really knows – well we do but if we told you we would have to kill you.

Whilst Peter tends to have a free reign when it comes to the subject matter, occasionally he has to design to a certain theme – for example: The new Music Range had to have musicians as bears.

Peter sends his ideas through to the gang at Odd Co in the form of sketches. The best ideas are then shortlisted and any amendments made before the sketch goes to our master sculptor Sir Wayne of Taylor.

1^st Trimester – Sculpting & Componants

Before giving a sculptor one of Pete’s sketches to work from, it is sometimes necessary to make some components in “hard”, where it would be too difficult or unsuitable to sculpt in wax. Some good examples are bears like Mike (the microwave,) Fabio (Egg,) and Kongo (Building.) These parts are made using a variety of materials including modelling board, plastics and resin. We use workshop machinery such as a milling machine and lathe to do this

Wayne Taylor is the chief sculptor for the Bad Taste Bears. The sculpting process begins with a lump of wax, a bit of wood and a metal prong (who’d have thought it?). It is at this point that Wayne sculpting skills transform Peters 2d sketch in a 3d wax model.

BEHIND THE SCENES PHOTOS

2009-06-19T10:34:00.006+01:00

Hey Guys!
Nigel is a pretty busy bee at the moment (as you will see in these photos) so he has allowed me the reigns of the BTB blog!? Oh dear.... Anyway, hopefully with the two of us at the helm we might get a bit more content going.... Here's some more photos from in and around the new OddCo.Ltd. office.

More Tea Vicar?

Stacked to the rafters...

Haven't been cleaned since we moved in.... seriously.

Hey, that's a nice bike!

Out the back...

More out the back

There is no escape

Gav's time Machine...

It's a Trapp...

Rad bunny hop! Look, my bike's much better...

Nigel's fold up bike (a girls bike)

Picking Room... Sealed with a kiss.

More machines plotting to destroy the human race

Whew!

2009-05-12T09:56:00.003+01:00

I was gonna start by saying sorry for not blogging for ages, but I'm not. Not really. I've got a good excuse.
The truth is we've all been really busy.
There was the move, closely followed by the event. Two very big things to sort out, at sort of the same time as well as the whole making and selling bears thing.

Personally I wanted to make another game for the event, and I wanted to do another one of my super mint cool bear mods. You know, put you all to shame, and show you how it's done and all that. (Good job I didn't have the time. I doubt I'd be able to do better than some of you guys)

Well anyway I think we're caught up now. Back to normal. Whatever that is.
Looking forward to the next event. (I was up for just having all other events from now on having a burlesque theme, but I got out voted)

This drawing from Pete sort of sums up how we were feeling after the moving the warehouse. That was a lot of boxes to move! Nearly 40!

Go on then here's another warehouse fail.

We've Moved!

2009-04-09T16:30:00.003+01:00

Whew! I'm tired now! I'm not saying it was all me. A couple of the others helped a bit.
It's not finished yet. Very much a work in progress.

I don't know why Bobo is so tired he hardly did anything...

Here's me being clever with a camera...

later...

We make bears, and...

2009-03-12T10:50:00.003Z

Amongst other things we like to do key rings, but in the interest of mixing things up a bit, and keeping things fresh why don't we do the next lot of key rings a little different than the last lot?
No I don't want to. I fear change Whaaaa!

Having said that...

The key rings we do are great for people like my wife who like a nice big unloseable bunch. She'd pile on a bear or two. A heart shaped thing, something with a photo in it. One of those things that aren't a pound coin but work in shopping trolleys etc.

I prefer to slim things down a little...

Something like this might be nice...

Oo yeah, that might work. Light, slim, sexy. I can see that working as a bear key ring. Shame we don't do anything like that...

Hold your horses there fella. What's this?
It looks like I'm doing the art work for such key rings now!
I take from this that I'm doing a few of the movie bears, but I can't imagine myself not doing a few classic bears too.

You're obviously gonna want a bear that speaks of your own personality. I might go for the Joker bear, because I like jokes and mass murder.

Go on Blog!

2009-03-02T15:36:00.006Z

A word of warning. This post contains links to other places on the interweb. Click them and won't find yourself on a hardcore porn site, but you may find yourself outside your comfort zone. (unless you're comfortable with blue eyeliner that is.)

Go on do a blog. Why? Because Kirsty wishes it. That is why. (competition rules here)
If you're anything like these guys you'll do what you're told, because you know that women know best. (and it's hard to say no to kirsters)

The idea is that you, the blog reader, become the blog writer.

The nice thing about a blog is that it can be about just about anything. That last link is to bloggers with an interest in "female led relationships"!?! I've checked and there's more people with an interest in buses ! At first I thought that maybe "buses" was code for something else a bit more interesting, but no Buses means buses.

There's this guy in with those guys, who I would have thought would have got on well with my dad.
While my mates dad down the road had the poster of the tennis girl scratching her bum in the loo, my dad plumped for paintings of classic cars all over the house.

As I write this there are 313 people on blogger who list Satan in their interests.
Not to worry though 132000 people list God amongst their interests. So, er, yeah god! Go god! Whoop!
30 nerds and/or geeks on blogger are into "zx spectrum"
Whilst 2200 are into "time travel"
A rather pitiful 6 who declare an interest in "bad taste bears"
168000 are into "sex" that's more than God!
And perhaps sickest of all there are 10 who like "blue eyeliner" Yeah I know. There are some freaks out there!

So a blog can be by anyone about anything.
Sadly "My husband is an asshole" was last updated in 2005
And "my husband is crap" stopped in September 2008. So I take from that, that men as a whole are getting better. (apart from maybe me)

You are free to blog about anything you like, but I guess it won't win our little competition unless it's about bears. (at least loosely)

And you are free from constraints too. (someone on one of the forums complained that i'd aligned text centre on one post, as apposed to to left, so I was asked to change it!)
We're following some blogs now. Just go into our profile and have a look. If your thing ain't there then leave a comment or something to let me know about you.

You go girl(or boy)friend!

Nigel

Humm... Semi nudity...

2009-02-19T16:53:00.004Z

Ah now, being, what some might call, a "deconstructed man" if there's one thing I like it's a semi naked lady.
If I were to be pressed further as to what I might like more than a semi naked lady I would have to say two semi naked ladies.
Which is why I'm giving serious consideration to attending the bad taste bears Bearlesque Masquerade on Saturday 18th April.
Burlesque is actually better than just plain old ordinary semi nudity, as there's more than just skin on display there's actually talent too. A performance. Something a little more interesting than a straight strip.
I'm keeping my ears closed to the details of the performances so that I may be maximally pleasantly surprised.
You ladies will be able to appreciate the performance I'm sure. (All women are a bit bisexual too so that will help)
It's also important that you insure that your man gets a good seat, as you'll be able to reap the rewards later in the boudoir.
Does it matter who puts the petrol in the engine as long as it's you who gets to drive round the race track? And by that I mean he might want to have sex with you.
I'm being a little base I know. It is an art form. But it's one of those art forms that can be appreciated on two levels.

As well as the semi nudity there will also probably be some other stuff. Click here to find out what.
Personally they had me at Burlesque...

behind the scenes peek

2009-01-21T14:01:00.006Z

Look at this angry young man.
You know what it's like. You're on a night out with the lads. You had a row with the wife before you came out over her wanting you stop gambling, or to get a job, or stop injecting or whatever. So you're not in a fast hurry to go home.
All you want is a few drinks.
One turns into two, which pretty quickly becomes three, then four, then six, then... er... what was I... erm...
Then you're thinking "Oo look at her over there... I should go over there and turn on the charm..."
There's a blank patch of memory during which time you lost your shoes, and ended up outside in the rain.
You're close to the edge, it's not going to take much to send you over.
Then you get a text off the girlfriend "You're dumped!"

Before you know it you're up the top of the Empire state batting away the police biplanes with a traffic cone...
It's happened to us all.

Anyway here's some behind the scenes shots of the Nigel's Friday night out bear (or Kongo as everyone else is calling it)

Empire state made out of Chocolate? Hummm.

"Grrrr! Kongo Mad!"

That last shot inspired me to photochop this little scene together.

Come down from the ceiling,
I didn't mean to get so high.
I couldn't do what I wanted to do,
When my lips were dry.
You can't just up and leave me,
I'm a singer in a band.
Well I like drummers baby.
You're not my bag.

Till next time...

Just don't tell the daily mail...

2008-12-15T15:58:00.009Z

Do something on Christmas for the blog." I was told.
"Yeah sure." I thought. Why not? It's not like some Christmas fun is going to land me in a load of deep shit or anything, is it?
Or is it?
So I wrote a load of words and that about Christmas Dinner. Having done that I took it upon myself to pile some humourous links into it too.
Click on the word chocolate, and it took you to a picture of a baby covered in chocolate.
Click on a Turkey, and it took you to a picture of a turkey pecking president Bushes balls.
Click on the word Bitch and it took you to a picture of a half naked lady with a Santa hat on nearly doing something with a beer bottle.

oops.

A couple of you complained on the forums about that particular shocking image.
I'm not going to defend myself. You were offended. It was removed. Sorry.

I thought that I could blog with wild abandon because one of our bears is having sex with a sheep. And you seem to like that.
Like I say. I'm not looking to defend myself. It's a bit of a shocking thing to come (or cum) across, but there's nothing more on show there than you see on the average bear.
All you can see is the nipples. (the internet contains other images where you can actually see stuff "going in")
Is there a sort of bear filter in play here?
You may like to see a bears nipples, but not a ladies?
Please let me know. I'm not looking to piss you off. (if it wasn't for you guys I wouldn't have a job.)

Here's my "artists" impression of the offending image through the bear filter...
And be warned. The original is underneath it. Do not click that weird line if you are likely to be offended by the image. I just thought that I had to put it there so that those who wish to judge can judge.

To my mind the offensive elements of the image are the blue eyeliner and the clear plastic heals.

Then after that I caused further offence by being racist...

A couple of weeks ago I was watching a Youtube party on MTV. They, and loads of really famous people were celebrating youtubes success, and they were asking the famous what there favorite youtube vids were.
One of these guys was Wyclef Jean of Fugees fame. He said that his favourite video was Charlie Brown Kwanzaa.
Now there's no link here for that. If you want to see it you need to make a proper effort. You need to go over there, and find it. If you do find yourself watching it it won't be by accident.

I caused offence. And I can see why. Sorry.

I thought that you'd all be unoffendable. Turns out the repeated use of the "N" word does cause offense.
In my own twisted world the "N" word is very offensive if spoken by a white person. I personally don't find kwanzaa offensive because it's been dubbed over by black people.
I like listening to gangster rap (even though I'm possibly the whitest man alive) Dizzy, Dre, and snoop all use the "N" word a lot, and that's fine in my eyes.
But I'm white. Am I allowed to like it?
Wyclef Jean of Fugees fame likes Charlie Brown Kwanzaa.
But I'm white. Am I allowed to like it?
I thought it was funny because in it Charley Brown's a pimp, and does loads of swearing.
I should have at least warned you. I know that now.

Again.
I'm sorry for any offense caused. The first and last thing we at Bad Taste towers want to do is cause offense.
(That is why if you click on the word bitch in the post below you will be taken to a picture of a little fluffy kitten. Aw. Bless.)

Happy Xmas

2008-12-09T10:11:00.008Z

Ah Christmas.
Again!
We seem to do this every year now. We dig ourselves a little deeper into debt to buy a bunch of stuff people don’t want, and what do you get in return?
Shower gel.
What are they trying to say? Or am I the only one who gets shower gel? It’s just me isn’t it. I smell.
The tradition of giving gifts at Christmas started with the three wise men giving their gifts to the baby Jesus. Their names were Gaspar Marks, Melchior Spencer, and Balthasar J. Argos.
Bastards.
If they’d just given Alcohol then that would be the tradition now, and I’d be able to get pissed all the way through to April. As it is now I’m going to be able to smell nice though to April.

It’s not all about the giving and receiving of socks and shower gel though. There is eating too…
My Breakfast on Christmas morning will usually consist of a fist full of nuts, one of the kid’s selection boxes and a tangerine. Lunch will be something light like another selection box, some of the chocolate decorations off the tree, some more nuts. Another tangerine. A bacon sandwich with a quarter of Christmas cake smothered with Bailey’s Irish cream for pudding. (Bailey’s is a cream). I am then wheeled over to my chair where a bowl of Cadbury’s miniature heroes can be found within arms length. These aren’t easy to get down past the nuts, the orange, the bacon and the cake. So it’s at this point I like to start washing the bite size confections down with a can of beer. Or if I’m feeling particularly festive, a can of sherry. It’s important to go easy as one can often find ones self in trouble when it comes to the CHRISTMAS DINNER.

“Dinner” doesn’t really convey what you’re up against here though. It’s like referring to Everest as a hill.
There’s roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, baby potatoes, baby roast potatoes. Carrots, sprouts, cabbage, peas, Yorkshire pudding, and parsnip. There’s roast pork, sliced ham, roast beef, applesauce, and sausages, and sausages wrapped in bacon. (Because a sausage isn’t quite meaty enough), and cranberry sauce. Some little scotch eggs too.
Then of course there’s the Turkey.
But is it a turkey? The thing we got last year was so big I suspect it was the product of a union between an ostridge and raptor.
There is no way to eat all this. It’s impossible. Impossible without gravy to lubricate the tubes. And a can of lager, and a sherry, and a bailey’s.
The tablecloth is there for one reason. To hide the fact that everyone has their belts undone.
The short gap between turkey and pudding is filled with witty conversation and eggnog.
No body wants it. No body needs it, but it’s brought in all the same.
Pudding.
Pudding was invented because your average dinner isn’t big enough to fill you up, but then again the average dinner doesn’t cast a shadow. (Any bigger and there’d be mountain goats on it hopping from roast potato to parsnip.)
There’s chocolate cake, arctic roll, and éclairs to get through before the Christmas pud is rolled out of the kitchen, up a ramp, and on to the table.
You can’t fit it in. Your full. Your stomach is full. Your neck is full. You’ve got potato in your cheeks and you have a little sausage under your tongue. Any more food and you’re going to have to resort to filling up a lung with Christmas pudding.
It does look nice though.
It takes a while to get away from the table. You know it’s going to be an effort. You don’t make the effort for the Queens speech, but you do for Wallace and Gromit. The three yard walk brings on the meat sweats. You fall back into your seat, look over to your right. The bitch has filled up the Cadbury’s heroes bowl again.
She’s trying to kill me!

Happy Christmas.

It’s rare but it happens.

2008-11-20T11:38:00.003Z

The Fates have conspired to create a one off original...

There was something about a Hitler bear once, years ago now, before I joined. One was made, but only one. We sold it to a collector, but like I said only one was made.

Then there was the “Bart” bear. Which had a lot of people here humming and ahhing.
It’s rare, but sometimes you need to take things right through to the finish. Get the thing done in proper 3D, and painted, and everything before you know it’s not going to make the grade.

It has that cheeky, "we’re ripping off someone else" thing, but the thinking here at Bad Taste Towers is that it doesn't really cut it.

Or are we wrong? What do you think?

Zombie event. Done.

2008-11-05T09:48:00.008Z

Whoa! its been ages and ages since my last post.
Bad Blogger Bad.
I have been shirking my responsibilities, and it hasn't gone unnoticed. Kirsty thinks that one of the games for the next event should be spank the modelmaker. You win a gold variation if you manage to make me cry.
Humm.
Personally I'm not so keen on that idea. If the bible has taught me anything (and it hasn't) it's that it is better to give than to receive. (I'm a little fuzzy on whether or not Jesus was talking about spanking or not when he said that.)

Speaking of events, did you have a nice time? I hope you did.
Personally I did. We at bad taste towers think it went well on the whole. We could have maybe done more to decorate the room, and I know a lot of people didn't think the comedian was that good. I quite liked him, but I missed a lot of it because the sound wasn't great either.
We do take note of such things, do try to learn from our mistakes.
So maybe we did or didn't impress you. I dunno. What I do know is that you lot impressed us. Some of you were in fancy dress right? You don't look like that all the time do you?
The pumpkin carving was impressive, as was the mod your bear competition.
To my knowledge we've never done a mod your bear thing at an event before, but I think that going off the talent displayed on the night we'll be doing more.

Now that that's over it's time to turn our minds to the next event. As far as entertainment goes I'm pushing for the cumshots. A band from Norway that recently got into a spot of bother when a couple got up on stage and... er... fucked.
Luckily the police chose not to prosecute me, er, I mean them.
I promise that the wait for my next post won't be so long.

Nigel

My new T-shirt causes a stir.

2008-09-22T14:40:00.002+01:00

Everyone in the office thinks my new t-shirt makes me look gay.
But it's got "not a gay' written on it!

I think I need to rethink my "love cock" coat.

Btb radio rocks!

2008-09-18T16:50:00.003+01:00

What with radio being shit the office has started using Playlist dot com.
With Playlist you can bang together your own mix tape (remember tape?) Everyone in the office is logged in to the same account so we can all add to (or take from) the playlists. It started with the btboffice playlist, then half an hour later Kirsty had created her own playlist rather than add to the office one. (she doesn't play well with others).

The fact that we're all logged into the same account gives rise to lots of fun and games.
Some of the old ladies in the office (mark and Michelle) took issue with some of the heavier shit so Kirsty created an easy listening collection called "nice and quiet songs" you'll not find a playlist called that now because someone changed the name of it to "Shit and bland stuff".
I created a playlist of 60's/70's vibes called Nigels old stuff. Paul then dobbed in there and cameos "word up" in there. It's not there now, I deleted it.

My favorite track at the moment is in the btboffice's playlist. it's playing now as I write this. it's called "Oh no you didn"t" by Mercenaries 2. Chris found it. Thanks Chris.

Paul's created his own playlist of Queens of the stone age type style stuff that never gets played because of the high rock content I'm thinking I might slip John Denver's "Rocky mountain high" in there when he's not looking.

Hold on, What the fuck's this? Some one's put "Birdhouse in your soul" by they might be giants in there?

Kitty animation

2008-09-09T14:01:00.002+01:00

Happy Birthday Michael !

2008-08-29T15:07:00.005+01:00

Happy 50th birthday Jacko!

The Smooth Criminal who did not say "lets Come together" to a long line of under age boys is one year nearer the grave, and to celebrate, the Bad one is to be captured in far eastern poly resin.
Wheather he be black or white you've got to hand it to pixie voiced grey faced Thriller. He told his critics to beat it, thought to himself "Don't stop till you get enough" and kept on going in the face, not of children, but of legal proceedings.
The king of pop may be past his best, but there's no denying that his body of music is on the whole better than the pedo of pop's Gary Glitter, who once sang "Come on, Come on." 11 year old Vietnamese girls.

Jacko is to be the new event bear! 'Cos he's a zombie! Yeah Zombie's! I'm interested to see what colour he's gonna end up being. Anything but black really. He's got to be recognizable hasn't he.

I want it made clear that Michael Jackson did not get jiggy with any underage boys. He was proved innocent in a court of law, and is every bit as innocent as, erm OJ Simpson?

Dawn Of the dead

2008-08-22T13:53:00.003+01:00

Hello.

It's been a while since my last post.
This is because...
A. I am a lazy twat.
B. I've been on holiday for a week in the lake district.
C. I've been too busy watching Redtube.com
D. all of the above.

Well my zombie Captain lucky went down well didn't it.
So well that we're going to do a zombie event on the first of November.
Well alright maybe it wasn't just me. Maybe we've thinking about a zombie event for a couple of years.

Are you coming?
Are you going as a zombie or a famous zombie? If you go as zombie Elvis you might not be the only one. In which case we'll probably get them all to fight to the death in a paddling pool full of KY jelly.

let's all go as Zombie Elvis!... No lets not.

We're still mulling over what to do on the night.
Maybe a pimp your bear, into a zombie, competition? You could bring along your zombified bear, and win. Erm... my Zombie Captain lucky... or... maybe something that's actually worth something.

If you do come as a zombie you could go all out with loads of latex rubber, or if you're anything like me you could just get up early.

This is what I look like if I get up before 8.

You all have a choice. Come as a zombie or just come. Unless your name is Dawn. Then you've got to dress up. 'Cos then you'd be Dawn of the dead!

HA HA HA HA HA ! er sorry.

Design a bear comp winner, wins.

2008-08-05T16:24:00.002+01:00

If you don't already know the winner of the Design a bear competition, has,.. er... won.

Well done and congrats to Madden for coming up with this beauty.
There's usually a few different opinions floating around the office when we do one of these things, but everyone here loves Madden for pulling this out of his head (sicko)

They were all winners in my book (though it's important to remember the others don't get swat!)
Kirsty's close second was this treasure. (uh oh, someone has spotted that we like to rip people off)

There was this interesting one from Suzie...
What's going on here exactly Suzie? Is he sucking or blowing?
If he's sucking then that really is bad taste isn't it!

Click on any picture to be transported over to our Flickr site and judge for yourself.

Oh and Suzie. Call me.

The nature of the beast

2008-07-29T11:29:00.002+01:00

If you're anything like me it's no big deal if your bear breaks, you can just turn it into a Zombie. Zombies are meant to have bits missing, but why did it break in the first place?

Well it's the nature of the beast I'm afraid.

I know your bear isn't a toy, it's a collectible figurine for proper grown ups, but toys are a good place to start.
Your average toy figurine for kids is made from injection moulded plastic. An aluminium or steel two part hard mould is produced and hot melted plastic is injected into it. The mould it's self will cost about £1000. But that's just for a simple mould, to make one part. more parts means more complexity, that means more money.
The big toy companies make this pay by selling a million. (when you sell a million the percentage of cost attached to tooling is small) and they're all painted by machines.

The bears are made a completely different way.

We use rubber moulds.
The nice thing about rubber moulds is you can bend and peel the mould away from the figurine (some thing you can't do when the mould is made from metal) This means that we can add much more detail to the figure. The material used isn't plastic, it's a poly-resin. This process lends it's self well to short runs in production. because after a while the rubber starts to absorb the resin and eventually there's so much resin in the rubber the rubber and the resin stick together then the mould rips, and you've got to make another mould from your original. (The most I've managed to get out of a mould myself is 50)

So the resin is good for extra detail and short runs. Making your bears rare and highly detailed, but poly-resin is brittle, and will break like plastic won't.
Sometimes we fuck things up in the packaging and bears get broken before they even get to you. This happens because we are always trying to push the boundaries of what you can do with the medium, and sometimes we go too far (sorry) having said that we have noticed that some collectors are plagued with receiving broken bear after broken bear, whilst others don't get any. It's probably not your postman himself, kicking his sack up the street, but the sorting office must resemble a wild west bar fight.

On a separate note, we're bad taste, what with all the drugs and sex with sheep, but how bad taste are you? Leave an anonymous comment and tell us your secret. How weird are you lot?

Pimp that bear part 2

2008-07-15T13:31:00.002+01:00

Right so where I left off yesterday, I was just going to paint the thing.
If you've ever been in the Painting tent at any of our events you'll know me as the one who knows how to mix brown, but to tell the truth that's all I do know when it comes to painting.(they don't let me paint bears here at work) but, hey, how hard can it be?

The paints we use here we get from games workshop. Every colour has an interesting name like blood red, or scab red, or skull white.
I've gone for rotting flesh green because it's a Zombie isn't it.
You do pick a couple of things up from sitting next to Gav (Gav paints all the original, originals). Always mix a bit of water in with the paint. I think that this is to stop the fur getting filled up with paint.
Don't try to paint it all in one coat. You may need to let it dry and go over it again.

And a nice little trick is the 'wash'. Which is where you mix up a really watery colour so that it only rests in the details. This was painted with Rotting flesh green with a wash of chaos black over the top, once it dried.

Oo, look I scratched a crack in the skull and the wash has filled it nicely.

Nearly there with it. That Parrot looks a bit healthy though...

That's better

Bit of blood too. On his shirt and leaking out of the open eye sockets.
Humm nice.

There we have it. A one off original. A unique. Dead Jack. Only one in existence

I've done all this at work. So I guess it belongs to Bad Taste Bears. Maybe we'll put it up for auction, or use it as a prize one day. Who knows...

Pimp that bear

2008-07-14T16:41:00.007+01:00

Oo, nasty! My lucky Jack just took a tumble off the top shelf. (note to self, Frisbee is to be played outside in future).
The broken crutch is easy enough to fix. A dab of glue should sort that out.
But there's also this nasty chip in the hat, coupled with the usual paint-off-nose thing.

Humm, what to do? What to do? I could paint the chip out with some chaos black paint from games workshop. Or...

I could attack it with one of these! A dremel tool! Yes that's what I'll do.
The top of his hat's a mess, but if I try to make him into a zombie pirate, I'm going to have to make even more of a mess of it...
And if it is going to be a zombie I might as well go for it, and dremel off his eye patches, and go for the whole hollow eye sockets look.
Aw yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Bit of rough sandpaper should sort that out.

nice

Now this Zombie's looking a little too happy for me. So I need to have his moustache off, because that's a dead give away that he used to be smiling.
Ah and look at his cheek. The bit I've got in the dremel has a flat end so the hole I make has a flat bottom. Look, you can see his skull now.
There's a patch of skin missing at the back now too.
Now i need to get something sharp and scratch in the fur that's missing...

Lovely

Ive dremeled out some of his cheeks too to give them a hollowed out look, but I still need to get rid of that smile.
Now comes the car body filler...
Humm, messy, but some sandpaper will soon sort that.
Great. I've smoothed off the filler and used the dremel to make a nice Zombie mouth.
Needs painting now.

Is there such a thing as too Bad? Humm

2008-07-02T16:22:00.006+01:00

Most of the time a drawing comes from Pete, and goes straight the sculptors.
It's that simple.

Sometimes things have to be altered to stop it breaking in the post (Yes I know that does still happen sometimes, but we try our best. Honest)
Sometimes they need to be tweaked so that they'll stand up. But as far as possible we try not to mess with it too much.

Then there was this little fellow a couple of years ago. He had us all split as to whether or not he should be made.
"Yes! Do it!" I hear you shout, and half the office was with you on that.
Then you think to yourself "Humm, what if we do it and we put it out there, and the next day someone has another go at blowing up the London underground?"
Humm... what do you think? I still don't know.
Then sometimes Pete has an idea that can be done more than one way. He often does a sketch with alternative this and that. Most of the time there's very little in it when it comes to which way to go.
Both ways are more often than not equally as funny.

Liberty was never meant to be funny. It's more of a comment on the times we live in.
But she had us scratching our chins all the same.

The gun she holds in the real one is an M16. (the gun the US army use over in Iraq) but there was the choice to use the AK47. The much loved weapon of choice for Terrorists the world over.
This would have made the comment that the U.S. had become the terrorist. It changes the feel of the bear doesn't it.

Everyone thought that little transfers on the glasses of the twin towers burning would be going too far.

Come to work as Paul day

2008-06-27T15:37:00.000+01:00

Click the pic for a closer look at the office

And a plumber!

2008-06-13T13:06:00.003+01:00

Ah right, the third Occupation Bear is a Plumber called Walter.
As I said before these guys will be available at the summer event. (Be there or be square)
I really need to start reading my E-mails.
Yesterday was Thursday. Drunk Thursday if you recall from previous posts. (formally naked Thursday) It's a team building thing.
So I rolled into work completely pissed only to find everyone stone cold sober! Apparently a mail had gone round explaining that, turn up to work drunk day, was no more.
Due to some crashes on the way home last Thursday.

Shame, but I wasn't that bothered (because I was I was pissed!)
And when I got in to the office I found this!
Becky the new girl bent over a chair ready for her spanking.
It's sort of an initiation. We all get spanked on our first day. Everyone lines up behind you and takes a turn.

I couldn't sit down for a week after mine (368 people worked for the company back then).

The newbie spanking is something I can really get behind, when the newbie is called Becky, or Jilly, or Suzi, or Candy, or Summer. It was a little harder to get all fired up for it when it was Greg the forklift driver. Six foot three. Big ginger beard. Tattoos about his Mum. You get the picture.

Bent over a box of liberty bears, hairy butt cheeks quivering and in anticipation. Knowing that if you don't make proper contact you'll be made to do it again.
All of this (and nothing else) was made a little harder by the fact that he was wearing white cotton over the knee socks! Humm nice!

Click the pic of Becky's bum for more pictures of her first day.

Nigel.

P.S Greg if you're reading this call me

Oh it's a vet!

2008-06-12T16:07:00.003+01:00

Yes that's right the second occupation bear I've got to show you is a vet!
Not the easiest of jobs in the world. Especially for the guy you can read about if you click the picture below.
Why do vets want to be vets?
The job is pretty much putting your hand in big animals, or your finger in small animals. (I'm probably missing something here, there may be more to the job.)

"What do you want to be a vet for?"
"I'm gay for cows!"

There's a lot of bad taste mileage in vets though. The question is, is it alright to do another vet some day in the future?
Having done a vet is that it for us? Or could we still do one getting ripped to shreds by a cat or parrot or something next year?

The year after we could do one trying not to get shagged by a loved up horse after the vet got his horse tranquilizers mixed up with Viagra.

Then maybe in 2011 we could do a bear with his arm up inside a giraffes bum, but he's got to stand on step ladders to get there. (Humm we might have to put that one in a bigger box.)

We could do with a vet actually. Look what I found in the bathroom.
It looks like one of those angry husbands (or that angry wife) finally caught up with Mr Bear!
See you later
Nigel

Bend over

2008-06-11T11:40:00.002+01:00

Oo so the Summer event inches nearer and nearer. (it's the waiting I can't stand). As well as the chance to get eaten by lions, we are launching a new range.
The occupations range. Bears with jobs basically. So if you've got a job your self these may be the bears for you! (If you don't have a job buy them anyway.)
The range will eventually total six, but it's only the first three you'll be able to get your paws on at the event.
A nurse called Aida, and two more...

"Er what's that for?"

"You look hot,
I think I need to take your temperature."

"That's never gonna fit in my mouth."

"Oh it won't be going anywhere near your mouth!"

I'll let you know more later this week.

Hugs Nigel

Oo Look at this!

2008-05-30T13:53:00.000+01:00

So like I've said before Thursdays is Naked Thursday in the office (It's a team building thing apparently) Well I thought it was, but it only lasted one week. So imagine my embarrassment when I turned up yesterday nude to find everyone else fully clothed.
There'd been a memo, but who reads them right?
No this weeks team building thing was Drunk Thursday. The idea being that everyone either turns up pissed or gets pissed once there.
So I turned up late yesterday morning stark bollock naked (having not read the memo) to find everyone totally mashed, but still unwilling to share any cans.
Bastards!

But just when I thought the day was a right off, look what came in the post!
It's a killed bill plush sample! Cool!
Never has Bad Taste Plush been so good. It's great isn't it. Click the pic for more views in Flickr.

They seem to love this stuff in Europe nearly 127000 squashy bears sold in France and Spain so far!
What some?
Well I'm told we hope to get some plush on the website soon. But no Bill just yet I don't think. It is just a sample.

Love and hugs Nigel.

P.S I think they stopped naked Thursdays because I knocked over the photocopier with my cock!

Close up beaver shot.

2008-05-23T15:31:00.000+01:00

Humm Nice Beaver!

This is from the lassie special edition. I can't believe we haven't made a beaver before. I mean we're bad taste aren't we?
Sure we've done a few pussies in the past, but this is our first beaver.
What else could we do?

A bear eating some furry pie?
munching on a furburger?
Didn't we do one with his hand in the honeypot?
A bear in a little boat sailing into the love tunnel won't fit in the box will it.
But one could keep his hands warm in a pair of furry gloves.
We wouldn't do a bear eating a fish taco. That would be going to far.

Or would it?

Nigel.

Ps Click on the Beaver shot for a different view.

It's Christmas!

2008-05-21T13:58:00.000+01:00

Hey well the summer is almost upon us, and with that comes the Summer Event!
(See me if you don't know how to mix brown) So what are we thinking about here at bad taste towers?

Christmas.

Now if you're anything like me. I start to think about what to get for the wife somewhere around December 22nd (Though there was that Christmas 2004 when I got round to it on Boxing day)

Bad Taste Bears, however, like to work a little further ahead. I've just seen a drawing that came through from Pete this afternoon of an idea for the next Christmas Bear! Now usually for any bear there's some mixed opinion in the office. Some may love a particular bear while others may think such and such bear was better. But I can safely say that I have never seen such a positive reaction to an idea. Don't get me wrong, we all love Pete's drawings but this was almost overwhelming!

Would you like to see it?

Well you can't. I'd get the sack in about a second flat!
They even make me write this blog on an ejector seat under a hole in the roof. So sorry, and anyway we're just at the ideas stage anyway.

Back to the Summer Event though. If you are there in the Paint/sculpting tent and you need A hand, that's what we're there for.
I saw this one cute little shy redhead painting her bear green because she didn't know how to mix brown. So I sat down next to her and... er... well to cut along story short there's a court order out against me now.

But forget about that, See you at the Event!

Love but no touching. Nigel

Oops! Collector card misprint.

2008-05-20T17:12:00.001+01:00

So it's all designed here at Bad Taste Towers, and sent via the magic of E-mail and the postal system, to china.
And nothing ever, ever, goes wrong.
Hold on a minute what the funk's this?

Imagine our horror when we excitedly checked the most recent shipment only to find this in with the Tosh bears!
That's not meant to be blue is it? Blue's wrong isn't it? Or is it a blue movie? Ha Ha get it? Blue Movie. See he's got his todger stuck in the TV and there's a blue... er... sorry.

What do you think of this far-eastern mistake, and my joke Mr monkey man?
Mr Monkey man? Mr monkey man? Erm well he's none too pleased. All I can say is sorry, oh and it's not my fault. I wasn't even there when I didn't even do it!

Summer event bear gets smashed to bits shocker!

2008-05-19T16:46:00.000+01:00

"So what do you do with the bits of wax after you make a mould ?" I hear you ask.
Well Okay you didn't ask, but I'm going to tell you any way.
The bears are sculpted in wax, and a rubber mould is made of them.
Sadly taking the delicate wax out of the mould almost always breaks up the wax (boo hoo) So the original thing is no more. You're just left with a pile of bits.
Which means it's play time!
Look what I made out of the bits for the summer event bear!

I'm gonna call him, er, oh, erm....... Mutant bear?
Okay naming bears is not my strong point. Maybe you can do better.

"What do you think Mr Monkey man?"

Oh please tell me you did not just do that!

Everyone's a critic.

Love and hugs Nigel

A load of new Tosh.

2008-05-16T15:04:00.000+01:00

I'm in charge. Don't you forget it!

New stuff in today. Tosh etc. So it's all hands on deck to unload the shipment.
This particular one was delayed by a typhoon amongst other things.
Now I won't be showing you loads of photos of this every time we get another shipment in, but I thought it was good to show at least once.
Click on the picture of the Moody looking dog above, and you will be whisked away to our flickr account.
There you will see everyone helping out. Even the top brass.
(I couldn't actually help myself as I hurt my back the other day in a fight with a bookcase. You believe me don't you?)

Those funny ones amongst you might want to think up a caption for the above photo, either here in the comments, or over in Flickr.

love and hugs Nigel.

P.S The dogs did nothing to help.

The return of the Sculptors bench!

2008-05-15T17:10:00.000+01:00

Two post in one day!
Don't expect this much from me in the future, but I thought it would be nice of me to show you what we're on with at the moment.

There you go.

These guys are for the next installment of the Den of Iniquity. The kitchen.
As you can no doubt tell it's a Chef stuffing his, er... friend.
There's still a bit to do. Wayne needs to sculpt some stuffing for the bowl and Gav or me need to make a table for the guy who's getting it.

What do you think?
I'm doing this for your opinion, but if you don't like it, I don't want you to just say "Crap" or "Don't like it." If you are going to express a negative opinion we need a little more. Like why? If we don't know what exactly we're doing wrong then we're going to do it again aren't we.

Love and Hugs Nigel

Ps click the picture for a slighty closer look.

It's a blog!

2008-05-15T10:27:00.000+01:00

Wahay! It's a blog.
About the Bad Taste Bears. From the Bad Taste Bears.

Right, calm down. It's just a blog, but it is coming out of Bad Taste towers. So you may well get some of that inside info you like. You know the sort of thing, pics of wax sculpts, stories about the development of some of the figures, perhaps a little about who actually works for Bad Taste Bears. And, er... other stuff.

I could make humorous comments about pictures from events...

Hummm, cheeky.

Or maybe I'll tell you what the girls in the office are wearing. (I can't tell you what anyone in the office is wearing today as it's Naked Thursday, and none of us are wearing anything other than a smile. It's a team building thing, but I'm not so sure it's going to last.)

I dunno.

It's early days, and the nature of this blog may change. Because I'd like to please you. I'm like that. I'm that kind of guy. So I'm leaving the comments open for you to say things like "That was interesting, more posts like that please." Or "Anymore posts like that and I'll never read your stupid blog again you arsehole!"

Your's Nigel (I'm the guy who knows how to mix brown in the painting tent)