Kabuki Show Their Take On Little Red Riding Hood
January 14, 2015 by dracs
Kabuki have published an update on their next Big Sister sculpt Little Red Riding Hood, skipping along with her basket of goodies.
These images give us a much clearer picture of the sculpt than the previews we saw earlier. It's a very promising pin-up design, with nice attention to detail, particularly the frills of her skirt and the bindings of her boots, although I would say that her legs look so thin they might snap at any moment.
Still, this model will be a good painting project and it will be cool to see the final result. I kind of hope Kabuki come up with something for the Big Bad Wolf as well, as it would be interesting to see what they come up with for this legendary fairy tale monster.
Do you like Kabuki's take on this fairy tale?
"These images give us a much clearer picture of the sculpt than the previews we saw earlier."
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That sculpt is really amazing.
So (not so) Little Red Riding Hood goes skipping off to her Grandmother’s House… wearing what appears to be bondage gear? I take it she just got off shift at Spearmint Rhino (one wonders when she arranged that basket of baked goods), and thought that she would just drop in on Granny before going home to get changed, hoping that she doesn’t catch her death on the way through the forest. And that her ridiculous stiletto heels don’t catch on roots and leave her with a broken ankle. Seriously, how can anyone sculpt this kind of thing without seeing how… Read more »
Well this red riding hood is no child, so no it is not creepy.
It is not the first time red riding hood have been portrayed in this way.
Whether as a rite of rebirth, puberty or simply a sexual awakening (whic is why the hood is red), the tale of red riding hood have always had a certain sexual nature behind its message.
“, the tale of red riding hood have always had a certain sexual nature behind its message.”
Hence the scene with the Wolf eating Granny.
Oh my Mr Wolf, what a long tongue you have
That image is now going to be stuck in my head for altogether too long. Thanks for that, chibi… 😛
A very arguable oblique, mythologised sexual reference buried somewhere in a folk tale is fundamentally different from wilfully sexualising an iconic character traditionally depicted as a naive child and then publically distributing that imagery, especially in a societal context of already rampant misogyny. Simply saying ‘well, she isn’t a child here’ (adding ‘if you know what I mean’ and including that annoying Mr Bean GIF being optional) doesn’t really help, since if the childhood imagey was not a component part of the sexual character of the mini, then why choose that particular folktale as your basis? Why not one with… Read more »
I am dreading what they will do for Puss in Boots
Shhh chibi – don’t give them ideas… 😉
OK – perhaps not so much bondage gear (no offense meant to the BDSM community by the way) as a really tight and frilly corset thing, but the point still stands that it is not very practical travelling clothing, especially since a riding hood was in actuality more like a full length hooded cloak.
Obviously very warm weather wherever she lives…
It’s always warm in the Naughty Gnome.
Otherwise the hookers would catch a chill
Indeed. But PERHAPS the goal with the mini wasn’t to make a practical representation of a travelling girl? It’s absolutely pointless to take a mini which is 100% obviously belonging to a certain genre of minis (in this case pin up perhaps?) and then complaint how it doesn’t look like something totally different.
So why bother giver her the vestigial trappings of a girl passing through the woods?
She is even skipping, which also denotes girlish innocence.
Though innocent girls still know how to dress before going to visit their relatives*.
*Except for some folks in Louisiana
Exactly – the clothing is just part of the problem. The deliberate juxtaposition between the trappings and tropes of a fairy tale about a fairly small child on the one hand, and highly sexualised imagery on the other, cannot simply be waved away. Including the skipping just serves to hammer home the child like aspects of this sexualised character.
Spose it’s bit similar to when you get adults dressing up in school uniforms, slutty schoolgirl outfits have been around for years (as well as in the porn industry) yet no one bats an eyelid at it, despite the fact schoolgirls are generally going to be underage, yet nightclubs even put that kind of thing on as a themed night. So a bimbo’d up red riding hood isn’t really anything new.
Skipping + unsupported ample bosom = take a wild guess (any guy raging with testosterone will already be picturing it)
When you put it like that is sounds even more sad and pervy
If you’re seriously concerned about a pervy little statue that floats a select group of guys boats, what ever you do, do not type red riding hood porn into google… Seriously, just don’t.
It isn’t my sort of thing to Google
Just don’t judge me by your own standards.
just don’t
What’s sad about it? We fortunately live in modern times, if someone wants to be a sexual deviant and they aren’t hurting anyone, they are perfectly entitled to do so. Pervy? Yeah, and?
This is not about some imagined puritanical prudishness on the part of myself or chibi matched against a sexually liberated society. One’s personal sexual aesthetics and preference is not at issue here. The production of miniatures that form part of an oppressive, misogynistic cultural construction of womanhood is. There is a world of difference between an adult woman dressing up as a sexy version of Red Riding hood of her own free will for whatever reason on the one hand, and an almost certainly male sculptor sculpting a sexualised version of the character for sale. The former is an expression… Read more »
You are right of course
Nothing sad about ogling a 30mm sculpt and imagining the bubbies bounce.
And a man with his raging hormones needs must posture and pose as a manly man.
What better way to celebrate this masculinity with a iddy biddy toy.
You are welcome to express your sexuality that way.
But I am also entitled to satirise the sexualised depiction of women and attitudes that goes with that.
Its sad to you, yes, but that just your opinion @chibi .Once again, if it isn’t your fun, its wrong. I’m just trying to defend some guys and girls who like this kind of thing and are perfectly entitled to do so irrelevant of your opinion. (yes, womenfolk like them as well *coughs in direction of* @sarahthered28 ) @vetruviangeek same to you, you lament for women everywhere unnecessarily. “The production of miniatures that form part of an oppressive, misogynistic cultural construction of womanhood is.” I agree wholeheartedly with that statement, I just don’t get that from not so little red… Read more »
I don’t think of it pervy. Pervy, a contraction of perverted, implies something deviant or abnormal. I’m no expert but I’m fairly sure that enjoying the female form, especially the naked variety, is quite normal. People who enjoy them aren’t pervs, they’re norms.
her goodies may fallout if she skips through the woods to hard?
Okay, THAT was funny. 😀
Occupational hazard?
“Occupational” hazard? Are you saying she’s a “professional?” 🙂
**Booooo!** **Hissssss!**
This line of discussion seems like it is getting out of control. Time to back away slowly, before I get myself in trouble… 🙂
only for the hour?
That “booo hisssss” was for me, @vetruviangeek , in preemptive reaction to my unapologetic low-brow humor. 🙂
One for Justin?
Well… I guess it explains why the Big Bad Wolf wanted to eat her all up.
“Tra la la la la!” sang Little Red Riding Hood as she skipped merrily through the woods on the way to Granny’s. “It feels awfully draughty around my pretty little basket. If only I had time to get dressed after my performance at The Naughty Gnome Nightclub.”
You have to watch those gnomes – they get almost as rowdy as Leprechauns after they have had a few (though they are less inclined to endlessly insist that their pot of gold must be located somewhere within one or other peformer’s corsets, and so attempt to mount an immediate search – some even bring hidden prisms along and try to claim that the defracted light is the foot of the rainbow). Ogre bouncers would be ideal for dealing with it, but for their regretable tendency to eat the clientele. So we hired a local ex-woodsman instead (poor chap was… Read more »