This week, Sanrio makes a South Park joke become reality with the release of “Hello Kitty Island Adventure” on consoles and PC. Timed with this release comes an unrelated product from Pop Mart, their second collaboration with Sanrio as well as an artist from Hong Kong, Kenny Wong.
In 2006 Wong created Molly, a kawaii-looking girl with big eyes and a pouty mouth. The character soon became what’s known as an ‘art toy,” a design that gets made into lots of merchandise the way Hello Kitty was. Pop Mart has now merged Hello Kitty and Molly, and for good measure made them both astronauts.
Introducing the “HELLO KITTY MEGA SPACE MOLLY” line. Molly’s in outer space, and because she wants to be fashionable there, she’s wearing helmets that look like Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters. There are six figures in the main line: Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, Kuromi, My Memody, Pochacco, and HK herself. A seventh figure, Hangyodon, exists, but the odds of obtaining it in a blind box are one in eighteen.
These figures are larger than they look — each one measures 11 to 15 inches — and the price isn’t small either. Each box, which contains one random “Hello Kitty Mega Space Molly” figure, costs $269.90. Those who don’t want to gamble can get the entire set for $1,619.40. I don’t know how many of our readers want to spend that much on Hello Kitty, but the market must be out there.
The Hello Kitty Mega Space Molly line becomes available starting today on the Pop Mart website.
