Comments on: Ed Roth’s Rat Fink (and friends)

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:18:58 +0000

I love these toys, Ed Roth’s art has had a huge impact on me. I designed this t-shirt in his style. Check it out at:

http://www.mysoti.com/mysoti/product/165559

By: Mistuh_t

Mistuh_t — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:52:13 +0000

totally

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:44:47 +0000

Hey Mistuh T, I only paid 40 bucks for the set. I think it was a good deal.

By: Mistuh_t

Mistuh_t — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:56:19 +0000

oh jeese those are to great. they probably are like 50 bucks a piece on the internet by now. how much did you have to drop on them?

By: scott

scott — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:11:00 +0000

i have rat fink, beast and surf fink.. but mine are unpainted. mine also came with a couple different bonuses. one was a mini rat fink and the other im not so sure of. awesome toys nonetheless.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:54:41 +0000

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the insight. The “bleached” package effect definitely fooled me. The packages do look great. I’ve never been the type not to open my toys. In fact, I usually throw away the packaging. And about the 8-ball bubble… i was severely disappointed in what I found behind it. Glad you didn’t have to sacrifice your packaging

By: chris

chris — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:30:08 +0000

hey justin,
they arent sunbleached, the package was meant to look that way, i got my set when they were new and they are just as faded. i’ve never had the heart to open mine, so thanks for letting me finally know whats behind that “8 ball” !!!

kenner made a neat set of ratfink toys that you may wanna check into.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:48:49 +0000

Hey Trent, thanks for the input and links.

I think most people recognize the influence Ed Roth and Rat Fink have had over the years. I featured these toys simply because they are cool, freaky, weird creatures.

Not all the toys here have to be obscure, unnamed pieces of plastic

By: Trent

Trent — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:33:35 +0000

Ed Roth is probably one of the biggest reasons I’m into building traditional hot rods so at first I wasn’t so sure why these were weirdo toys. I had something like these when I was growing up in the 80s. But if you’ve never seen them, they’re definitely weird as hell. I have no idea about the flowers either but I have seen pictures of rat fink with flowers before so it just got taken from there I’m sure. The bonus figures look like flying eyeballs with some extra stuff added. Von Dutch (the man, not the stupid clothes line from a few years ago) is usually credited with the flying eyeball but a lot of people have used it. Here’s a couple pages on Von Dutch with brief mentions of the eyeball:

http://www.ocweekly.com/index3.php?option=com_content2&task=print&id=20364&Itemid=0&pop=1&page=0

http://www.letterhead.com/articles/bob_burns/vondutch/

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:29:17 +0000

And that’s not even all of it. Those’re just the toy areas. There’re a few more rooms and hallways full of comics and junk (unfortunately, I don’t have photos of them).

By: steve

steve — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:58:52 +0000

I could spend the rest of my life in a shop like that.