{"id":464,"date":"2025-07-23T07:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/?p=464"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:21:48","slug":"new-folk-toy-shop-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/new-folk-toy-shop-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Folk: Toy Shop Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toy Shop Boy thrives on nostalgia.<\/h2>\n

He mines the bright, optimistic static of consumer culture \u2013 old packaging, toy catalogues and\u00a0forgotten ads. Keitai flip phones, a solved Rubik’s Cube, that dusty ’02 Nintendo mag: these often discarded artefacts become essential. He describes his art as a \u201cvirtual toy shop\u201d built from these pieces.<\/h4>\n

A personal shift during the pandemic led Toy Shop Boy back to a childhood obsession: toys, and the pure joy they sparked. Today, he researches and revives these objects. He still collects relentlessly \u2013 pouring over every inch of packaging.<\/p>\n

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Toy Shop Boy\u2019s work surfs the same wave as upcycled fashion, 90s-inspired music videos and grainy old iPhone pics \u2013 an urge to rewind and recover our past selves. His personal projects, like the old-school animated ad series<\/a> are awash with sepia-tinged nostalgia, from pink pocket phones to\u00a0concept motorcycles.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s currently adding legendary brands to his collection: from Game Boy-inspired Hash Browns for McDonald\u2019s to sneakerhead unboxings for BAPE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now, with The Different Folk<\/strong>, he\u2019s set to take his virtual toy shop global. Or should we say: to infinity and beyond!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toy Shop Boy thrives on nostalgia. He mines the bright, optimistic static of consumer culture \u2013 old packaging, toy catalogues and\u00a0forgotten ads. Keitai flip phones, a solved Rubik’s Cube, that dusty ’02 Nintendo mag: these often discarded artefacts become essential. He describes his art as a \u201cvirtual toy shop\u201d built from these pieces. A personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loscaballos.xyz\/tdf_test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}