After discovering Dan Polydoris’ remarkable Death by Toys Instagram account, my eye went directly to the figure called ”Watching Some Kid Almost Die on
account, my eye went directly to the figure called ”Watching Some Kid Almost Die on the ’80s Playground,” complete with one ”expendable kid,” face-planted against the hard earth, its leg bent in a direction where no healthy child’s leg should go. A photo of the playground’s familiar spinning roundabout – complete with useless metal handles – sits guiltily in the background.
Polydoris’ penchant for the ”weird and absurd” has always been there, for as long as he can remember. ”Humor has always played a huge part everything I do in life,” he says. Honoring his love of vintage toys and “all things ‘80s,” he constructed his first custom toys in 2013 – “straightforward tributes to retro video games” – creating old-school action figures to add to his collection.About a year or two later, he began infusing his toys with some of his signature offbeat humor.
“To me, it means you have good taste and appreciate the joy of seeing someone not respect a dangerous piece of equipment and then promptly eat shit,” analyzes Polydoris. “It also says that you braved the lawless wasteland of the old-school playground and survived to tell. So congrats to both of us for not becoming another pavement stain at the bottom of a rusty metal slide.”
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