Hello World, from the toy room workshop! My name is James Wiley Garcia, and I’m a photographer and graphic designer living in the PNW. I’ve mostly been known as a toy photographer, but recently started creating my own custom and bootleg toys. My goal is to use this blog to capture the journey, share my process as I learn this new hobby, and show my finished pieces. I hope you’ll follow along and enjoy the fun! We have a pretty chill vibe here in the workshop as you can tell.
Thanks and stay tuned. I’ve been posting pics and videos to instagram.com/wileycyrustoys
There are so many of these for some reason, and while there probably aren’t videos for all of these, there are videos of some of them playing “Around the World” by Aqua.
I’ve seen the boxes for some of these, and it looks like they are official.
Here’s a photo from one box (taken from eBay)
Here are photos of another one’s box which state the toy is licensed:
A picture of the toy’s base from another eBay listing
Even though the battery covers don’t have copyright information, it looks like they’re still official toys that used an Aqua song without permission.
Here are the ones listed in the beginning of this post:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM - A collaboration between my brother and I for our mom’s birthday in 2021!! I’ve always admired my brother’s art style, so I had him draw and write out the card, and I sculpted a little figure of our mom in his art style. Follow him @therealquinnzack on insta if you dare!!
I am really happy with this piece, anything I make with my brother or mom involved is always a favorite of mine :}