🧠 Drippey Mouse by Kloes: Reconstructing Mickey in the Art Toy Movement #00003 TNoTToys Publications

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Some artworks aren’t made to be understood.
They are made to disturb, to fracture Memory, and to force You to see culture sideways.

That is what Dutch artist Kloes (Joël van Egmond) achieves with Drippey Mouse: an 8-inch polystone resin figure that amputates Mickey into a yellow shoe fused with a dripping glove, twisted into a crooked “C.” It feels like a relic smuggled out of a lost cartoon reel, wrong and yet unmistakably right.

That is the genius of Kloes: you don’t need the face to know the mouse. You only need the fragments.

We can say this is not a collectible. It’s a mutation of Legacy.

Legacy & Mutation

Mickey was designed to be flawless. A repeatable, eternal smile: safe enough to sell happiness in every corner of the planet.

But in Drippey Mouse, Kloes dismantles that eternity. He shows You that even when the face is gone, the fragments still burn into Your mind.

Nike taught You to “Just Do It.”
Apple taught You to “Think Different.”
Kloes teaches You that icons don’t survive by perfection. They survive by mutation.

Like Banksy cutting through Sotheby’s walls, or LEGO rebranding childhood into adult collectability, Kloes rewrites an icon to survive in another century.

Why This Matters to You

If You’re a collector, You don’t want another resin figure that just warms a shelf. You want a piece that rewires the room. Drippey Mouse does exactly that: a fragment so strange it asks questions louder than full figures ever could.

If You’re an artist, here’s Your proof: culture can be dismantled, melted, rebuilt and still roar louder than the original. No one gave Kloes permission to corrupt Mickey. He just did it. Because Legacy only mutates through courage.

If You’re a curator, You already know exhibitions aren’t neutral spaces; they’re battlegrounds of Memory. And this piece? It’s a weapon. A deceptively simple form that detonates meaning in every direction.

If You run a gallery or shop, stop pretending you sell resin. You don’t. You sell Story. And when someone buys Drippey Mouse, they’re not buying a “mouse.” They’re buying the audacity to corrupt the most controlled icon of the 20th century.

If You’re a brand, you understand: scarcity beats saturation. Three hundred pieces. Hand-painted. Signed. No mass-market safety. No easy path. Just friction, because friction creates desire.

And if You’re part of a fair or museum, don’t be fooled: this isn’t a toy. It’s cultural archaeology. A shard of pop history, showing how the most recognizable character on earth survives even without a face.

Artist & Brand

Kloes’ journey matters. From a turbulent youth to studying at the Graphic Lyceum Rotterdam, to co-founding Mintyfresh in 2008 (the very brand that produces Drippey Mouse), his story mirrors the piece itself: collapse and reinvention.

Mintyfresh was never “just a shop.” It became a dream factory, linking subcultures and the art toy community across Europe. In 2025, together with Kloes, it brings You this piece: not nostalgia, but Resistance.

Kloes himself describes his work as blending the raw energy of cartoons with the bold simplicity of 1930s graphics. Drippey Mouse is that philosophy in resin: playful, but merciless.

Final Thought from Art Toy Gama

The Art Toy Movement is not built by the safe. It’s built by those willing to touch nerves, to disturb, to be misunderstood.

Drippey Mouse doesn’t decorate your shelf. It infects it. It turns Your collection into a statement about what survives when perfection collapses.

Because one truth remains:

👉 Indifference kills Movements.
Controversy feeds them.

And Kloes just handed You controversy, sculpted in yellow and white.

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