Dimensions: 7.0cm x 8.0cm x 5.0cm

In 1999, the sketches were discovered by Piranha Studios, a leading character giftware company who turned them into collectable figurines. They began with just six figurines on sale in the Gadget Shop - at this stage the bears were being hand-cast and painted by home workers in Newcastle upon Tyne.Within the first year the range increased to twelve, and due to increasing demand in the following months, production was moved to a factory and a collectors club was launched to provide a point of contact for the growing hoards of Bad Taste Bear fanatics!Hundreds of collectables and tens of thousands of collectors later and here we are, together, involved in something that we never thought would be such a phenomenon.