Post #811620 by swizzle on Thu, Dec 21, 2023 12:12 AM

Couldn't agree with you more Mike. And before anyone says, who am i to talk, what about your Bob'O'Nut?, I made that design around 11/12 years ago now and made it as a joke because most people knew i how much i hate him. I hated him back then, now with all these stupid interpretations, i hate him even more.

Recently on Facebook someone said, "Marrying two quirky things together is kinda amazing", and Sven's response to that was, "Marrying just any pop culture genre with Tiki is not 'amazing', it is dumb. It is the shallowest, laziest form of 'creativity'........" and that applies just as much to all these Bob mugs.

It's like 90% of new mug makers very first mug is a Bob, sometimes even copying ideas that have already been done by others. They can't come up with anything original (and if they do the designs are usually hideous) and just make something that all these new collectors will love because he's 'cute' and they really don't care, or have any interest in, historic/traditional Tiki.