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>What do you get when you combine anime, figurines, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Bronx? The answer is Rios Palante, a Bronx-based toy designer who uses his anime-inspired FU-Stamps characters to showcase heroes influenced by his community.
>“I want to design for the people, my culture, I want to design for the hood,” Palante told HYPEBEAST of his work and roots in the Bronx.
>“I want to give back a little something and it’s a way of telling—giving a voice to the people that don’t really have one.”
>”People come to me and say, “Thanks for this hero.” I hope it blows up. I want my son to look up to a kid who looks like him, not a Ninja Turtle.”
Y’all... I’m tearing up. This is so fucking powerful. As a white man, I’m going to be the first to say that we whites on /toy/ need to do better when it comes to PoC representation in our figures. It cost me over $200 but I just ordered all the variants.
https://hypebeast.com/hb3twxk
>“I want to design for the people, my culture, I want to design for the hood,” Palante told HYPEBEAST of his work and roots in the Bronx.
>“I want to give back a little something and it’s a way of telling—giving a voice to the people that don’t really have one.”
>”People come to me and say, “Thanks for this hero.” I hope it blows up. I want my son to look up to a kid who looks like him, not a Ninja Turtle.”
Y’all... I’m tearing up. This is so fucking powerful. As a white man, I’m going to be the first to say that we whites on /toy/ need to do better when it comes to PoC representation in our figures. It cost me over $200 but I just ordered all the variants.
https://hypebeast.com/hb3twxk
