Medicom Toy BE@RBRICK 1000% Grateful Dead Dancing Bear, Multicolour Stripes, 50th Anniversary, About 70 cm
Medicom Toy BE@RBRICK 1000% Grateful Dead Dancing Bear, Multicolour Stripes, 50th Anniversary, About 70 cm
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- Prepared and sent from Tokyo within 7–14 days, often sooner, or as arranged
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- United States · usually 4–7 days after dispatch, insured and tracked Check the Shipping Flowchart here
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A guide for this piece: about $389, based on the 10% US charge on the declared value of goods made in Japan.
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Condition report
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The Bear That Followed the Band
Few music marks have travelled as far as the Grateful Dead's dancing bear, and BE@RBRICK at 1000% gives it the scale of a gallery piece. The banded colours make it one of the most joyful figures of its size. It brings rock history and Tokyo toy culture into the same frame.
Best for: Deadheads, BE@RBRICK collectors and colourful interiors
Condition notes
Light handling scratches on the head and small marks on the lower body and feet; colour bright; no box.
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The Grateful Dead's dancing bear, translated into Medicom Toy's BE@RBRICK at its grandest 1000% scale: about 70 cm of banded colour, from a green crown through sky blue, sunflower yellow and orange to red and deep blue feet.
The Piece
The face carries the bear's wide black grin and small nose, and a black zigzag runs around the chest like the hem of the band's famous marching bears, the figures Bob Thomas drew for the back of the 1973 live album and that Deadheads have followed ever since. Each colour band sits flat and clean, and the gloss on the head and feet catches the light the way the smaller sizes never quite do.
At 1000% the BE@RBRICK becomes sculpture rather than desk toy. The jointed arms, hands, hips and head still move, so the bear can wave, lean or stand square. It was made for the band's fiftieth anniversary, and it reads at once from across a room.
Details
- Maker: Medicom Toy
- Series: BE@RBRICK 1000%
- Design: Grateful Dead dancing bear, fiftieth anniversary edition
- Material: Plastic (ABS and PVC)
- Colour: Green, sky blue, yellow, orange, red and deep blue, black detail
- Height: about 70 cm (27.6 in)
- Articulation: Head, arms, hands and hips
- Box: Not included
Height is the standard figure for the 1000% size; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- Light signs of handling: fine surface scratches on the green head and small marks on the lower body and feet, shown in the close photographs.
- The colour is bright with no fading noted; the original box is not included.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (good, light wear) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Checked and photographed in Japan before dispatch. Dust with a soft dry cloth, keep out of direct sun so the colour bands stay true, and move the joints gently.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
Considered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally. More of the series lives in BE@RBRICK and Medicom and the wider toys and collectibles room.
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