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3 unusual facts about figurines


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The song "The Air We Breathe" was featured on season 1 episode 13 of the TV-show Gossip Girl.

The band began a North American tour after being nominated for a Canadian Music Week Indie award and has since performed at the Indies ceremony, SXSW, KEXP, and in cities in the US, Canada, and Europe.

When the Deer Wore Blue

When The Deer Wore Blue is an album by Figurines, released in 2007.


Acámbaro figures

The Acámbaro figures are several thousand small ceramic figurines allegedly found by Waldemar Julsrud in July 1944, in the Mexican city of Acámbaro, Guanajuato.

Aki Takanori

As the CEO of Good Smile Company he works together with a number of veterans and newcomers in the hobby industry, helping out where possible and constantly providing new content to fans of character figures and goods.

Archaeological Museum of Naxos

The museum houses finds from the Early Cycladic period including figurines from Naxos itself, Kato Kouphonisi and Keros, from the Late Mycenaean period including stirrup jars and other grave goods from chamber tombs and other graves from the Kamini mound and Aplomata.

Atepomarus

At some of Apollo's healing sanctuaries (as at Sainte-Sabine, Burgundy) small figurines of horses were associated with him.

Beswick Pottery

They are chiefly known for producing high-quality porcelain figurines such as farm animals and Beatrix Potter characters and have become highly sought after in the collectables market.

Boss Coffee

Boss has teamed up with the creators of James Bond and Super Mario offering collectible figurines when you purchase one to two cans of boss coffee.

Day of the Figurines

Day of the Figurines is a pervasive game by Blast Theory.

Ear pick

Figurines: A plastic or wooden figure, such as a small Daruma or cartoon characters are placed at the opposite end of the tip.

Figurine

Genre figurines of gallant scenes, beggars or figurines of saints are carved from pinewood in Val Gardena, South Tyrol (Italy), since the 17th century.

Gashapon

The machines also appear in the Dreamcast game Shenmue, in which the main character Ryo Hazuki could spend yen to collect various figurines, including series of characters from the Virtua Fighter and Sonic the Hedgehog series of games as well as those of other known and lesser known Sega franchises (i.e. Fantasy Zone, Space Harrier, Hang-On etc.).

Kiss action figures

Two variants were made to the guitars featured with the Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley figurines.

These figurines were modeled from ‘true-to-life’ sculpts of each the current band members at the time, as they had generally appeared on stage during the Psycho Circus world tour.

Magi

These figurines, which are dated circa 8th century BC, were discovered during a 1980 excavation of a Zhou Dynasty palace in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province.

Royal Doulton Bunnykins

Figurines by Charles Noke featuring various Bunnykins characters began in 1939.

Schleich

In the early 1980s they added animal figurines and Muppet characters to their range of products.

Its figurines were first released in the 1950s with the development, production and marketing of comic figurines such as Snoopy and The Smurfs.

Scyther and Scizor

Both Scyther and Scizor have been featured in different kinds of merchandise, including the Pokémon Trading Card Game and various figurines.

Shawnee Pottery

The first products were primarily decorative items like figurines, cookie jars and vases which could be found in "five and dime" stores, such as F. W. Woolworth Company, S.S. Kresge and McCrory Stores.

Suleymans Eagle

In the world survived three more similar in shape figurines (in Museum of Islamic Art (Berlin), in the city of Lucca in Italy and in Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt), but only on a copy that is stored in the "Hermitage" the date of manufacture, and perhaps it is the oldest of the four curved vessels.

The Jolly Postman

The "Emil" figurines from Maschler publishers and Booktrust annually (1982 to 1999) recognised the author(s) of one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."

The Union Trade

The band has since shared the stage with notable national and international acts like The Appleseed Cast, The Morning Benders, Neon Trees, Film School, Vetiver, Pela, Figurines, The Pack A.D., Starlight Mints, Dappled Cities, Polysics, Loquat, and LoveLikeFire.

Trzcinica, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

the people of the early European Bronze Age culture created a settlement, and where archeologist found, amongst 30,000 objects, artifacts showing influence of the more advanced Carpathian Basin Otomani-Fűzesabony culture - clay wheels of toy or ritual carriages, clay animal figurines.

Viola Frey

Frey was an avid collector of ceramic figurines and other nick-nacks found in flea markets, and her vast collection of tchotchkes inspired a body of her ceramic works, which she called bricolage sculptures, based on the term used by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in his book The Savage Mind.

Weedle, Kakuna, and Beedrill

It has been featured in several pieces of merchandise, including figurines, plush toys, and in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Z Corporation

Recently, ZPrinters have been used to manufacture custom avatars and figurines from video games such as World of Warcraft in full color.

Zenón Martínez García

Zenón Martínez García (b. ? – d. 2010) was a Mexican potter from Tlaquepaque, Jalisco recognized for his figurines.


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