Toy News: Custom build by Jan Calleja

Presenting a custom Munny Doll transformed into Voltes V by Jan Calleja. I spent most of my formative years with Jan - Elementary to Highschool. Everybody who has been through highschool or even seen a poorly written high-school movie knows that there really are "jocks", "nerds", "teacher's pets" "bad boys/girls". Everyone tries to find their niche, what they're good at, and more often than not, these niches define us for the rest of our live.

Jan Calleja is an artist.

He's this small guy - really small, but then I'm 6'2 so everyone is small - who did wonders back then with pencils, crayons, pastel and water color. But what he does today is simply magical. He takes completely blank "Virgin" vinyl Munny dolls, re-sculpts them by hand, creatively looks for extensions and add-ons and comes up with what can only be described as art worthy of a museum.



This is what he starts with. A Munny Doll - a vinyl blank slate from Kidrobot that can be purchased on Amazon for around US$ 9.96 (Around PhP 500 plus shipping)

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

And that becomes this:

You have to love the detail that when into producing this Voltes V Munny doll - particularly at the back which he could have just ignored when you think about it, but which Jan Calleja struggled to build. 

This particular Voltes V is a one-off and is a commissioned build - which makes it very rare and very valuable (I'm sure you'll agree). If you want to contact Jan Calleja, look him up on Facebook here. Add him up and you'll spend hours reading the comments that he places in his artworks which includes his creative process.

We've actually featured Jan Calleja before. His Zeroman can be seen here:

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