Plastic Toys with Funny Captions (10 pics)

funny pics with captions

Horses Gonna Horse

Last time we caught up with Aled Lewis he was making us laugh with his mischievous 8-bit characters and now he's practically making us roll on the floor with these funny plastic toys! It's all part of Make Something 365, a self-initiated project where he attempts to create something every day of the year. (See a selection of his ongoing 2011 work here.)

While visiting toy stores, he became fascinated by all the detail in rigid plastic toys so he decided to start this series of funny pictures with captions.

“Most of them are very banal and uninteresting – but it's that banality juxtaposed with an unusual or subversive context that makes them fun,” he tells us. “I guess it started when I was imagining the more mundane farm animal meeting fantastical creatures and I figured because they are so detailed they would photograph really nicely.

“In the first one, I had a unicorn parading in front of a group of ‘regular' horses. (See immediately below.) The rest of the photo set really stemmed from that when I began to see new possibilities and new narratives with other figures. In many respects, this series has allowed me to combine my experience with t-shirt design and my love of comic books. It's been a really fun way to express my sense of humor and I'm enjoying the ‘theater' element of arranging them in the photograph frame – experimenting with the most effective way to convey each idea.

“The aim was to create a series of images that people would really enjoy looking through and hopefully find funny! I've been thrilled with the response and I plan to make prints available within the next few days through my website.”

These funny pics with captions use plastic toys in everyday situations to hilarious effect.

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Nobody Likes a Show Off

plastic toys with funny captions
Lone(ly) Wolf

plastic toys with funny captions
Allow Me To Explain

plastic toys with funny captions
Benefits Of Being Inanimate

funny pictures with captions
Teenage Angst

funny pictures with captions
The Upper Hand

funny pictures with captions
Deception

funny pictures with captions
Murder Mystery

funny pictures with captions
Born This Way

Make sure to stop by Aled's website and Tumblr to keep up with his new work. Also, you can follow Aled on Twitter @fatheed.

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