CHOMPER - Bearbrick - 2003
Released at Japan’s a-nation festival in 2003, CHOMPER gave Bearbrick a glossy blue bite and KAWS’s trademark attitude. It remains one of the rarest—and most expensive—KAWS figures on the market today.
Retail Price: NA
Edition Size: 500
KAWS took the Bearbrick silhouette and stripped it to its boldest essentials for CHOMPERS, released exclusively with a-nation in 2003. The design arrived as a set of two figures in 100% and 400%, popping with a slick blue gloss, a jagged grin, and the instantly identifiable X eyes. It is sharp, simple, and quietly irreverent, a figure that does not need loud graphics to leave a mark.
A larger 1000% version followed at roughly 70 cm tall, turning that minimal face into a sculptural statement for living rooms and shop floors.
By anchoring its release to a massive J-pop festival, CHOMPER became more than a collectible. It marked a shift—where vinyl figures became event-based, experience-tied objects. Few early pieces from KAWS’s archive feel as culturally embedded or as quietly influential as this blue brute.
RESOURCES:
BE@RBRICK x KAWS Chompers 100% and 400% — Sotheby’s
BE@RBRICK a-nation × KAWS “CHOMPERS” 1000% — Medicom Toy
