Editing Knucklebear

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Knucklebear was [[Touma]]'s first creation to be produced in vinyl form.

The original design was an 8" figure produced by [[Toy2R]], creators of the ever popular platform toy - [[Qee]]. Originally planned to be a one-off figure, the orignal design featured a dark, greyish-brown bear with a white muzzle and tattoo one one paw. However the platform proved extremely popular and was shortly followed up with the 'Waver' design, now considered a classic Touma piece and highly sought after. The Waver design opened the path to many more Knucklebear variants, predominantly by Touma himself though a couple of other artists were also granted permission to work on the platform, [[Voltaire]] and [[Yoyamart]].

The popularity of Knuckle Bear led to it being given it's own Qee form, the Knuckle Qee. The Knuckle Qee featured the standard Qee body and legs but with a large Knuckle bear head and arms. Only 2 official series of Knuckle Qee were ever produced, although there were a few special editions and later an 'Elemental Set' was released. Series 2 also brought in two sculpted variants of the Knuckle Qee, the 'snarling' and 'closed mouth' heads.

The Knuckle Qee proved even more popular than it's bigger brother as a collectible and a platform for customisers that it got made into a limited edition D.I.Y 10" Qee. No Touma designs were ever produced on the larger Qee, though 2 [[Frank Kozik]] designs were - the 'Digi-Skull' and 'Skull2Knuckle' designs.

A [[GID]] [[DIY]] Knuckle Qee was handed out along with a Chrome finish 2.5" Egg Qee to all those who entered their custom Qee into one of the Toy2R [[DIY]] Qee shows, it was never for sale on the primary market.

In recent times the Knuckle Bear form has been given a new burst of life with Singapore based producers [[Play Imaginative]], or "P.I".

This has seen many new forms of Knucklebear, or Rebone Knucklebear, with many variants in mouth and arm sculpts as well as the new paint jobs and colour ways, there was even an extremely limited run of Knucklebears wearing Touma's trademark style shoes. The new Knuckle bears comes in a wide range of sizes, ranging from 2" capsule toys to 5" collectable art toys and even 18" monsters!

Knucklebear has also made the occasional appearance as plush and on the toy platform '[[Trexi]]'.

Knucklebear's latest appearance is in the upcoming mini series from P.I and Touma called "Touma's [[Little Trickers]]' which will feature miniaturised, kawaii versions of Touma's classic designs. Also included in this series will be [[Snout]], [[Skuttle]], [[Hellhound]]s and others.

At many shows and signings of his work, Touma will often be found wearing a luchadore style wrestling mask in the shape of Knucklebear!

Knuckle Bear may not be appealing to all but it is arguably one of the most iconic designs in the art toys scene and will always remain popular among fans and collectors of Touma.

== Editions ==
=== 2" Capsule Knucklebears ===
These were released as capsule toys in 2006.
*Series 1
*Series 2

=== 2.5" Knucklebears ===
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The 2" Knucklebears have been well integrated into [[Qee]] series from 2003 onwards.
*Black
*Silver
*Gold
*Dark
*[[Qee]] Series 4 UK Ice, 2004
*[[Qee]] Chapter 1 Series, 9 designs, 2004
*[[Qee]] Bear Warrior - United States of Qee Series, by [[Chad Mount]] 2005
*[[Qee]] Roqee Racoon - United States of Qee Series, by [[Tmboo]] 2005
*[[Qee]] Chapter 2 Series, 12 designs, 2005
*[[Qee]] Elementaler Series, 6 designs, 2006
*MTV Asia Awards - by [[Phunk Studios]], 2006

=== 3" Baby Knucklebears ===
This new mould was released in 2009.
*Black - 50 pieces
*Blue
*Red
*Purple
*[[Zac Pac]] Yellow - 50 pieces
*Baby Pink - 30 pieces
*White Pearl - 30 pieces

=== 5" Rebone Knucklebears ===
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Knucklebears were given a remodel and a new look in 2006.
*King - 2010
*Peace - 200 pieces, 2009
*Iron - 2008
*Lightning Spider - 2008
*Scar Bear - 2007
*White - 2007
*White [[Flocked]] - 250 pieces 2007
*Black Tattoo - 2006
*[[SDCC]] Black Grinning Tattoo - 500 pieces 2006
*Black [[Flocked]] Grinning - 150 pieces, 2006
*Navy Blue [[Flocked]] Grinning - 150 pieces, 2006
*Waver - 2006
*FTC Tribal - 300 pieces, 2006
*Real Bone - 2006
*Spanky - 100 pieces, 2006

=== 6" Rebone II Knucklebear ===
This 6" tall Knucklebear was first released at [[Dcon]] in 2014.
*Cosmic - 45 pieces
*Kanaloa - 28 pieces

=== 8" Knucklebears ===
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*Tower Records Iron Gold, 2004
*Tower Records Tattoo, 2004
*Tower Records Black Guardian, 2004
*Tower Records King, 2004
*Iron Orange, 2004
*Iron Blue, 2004
*Blue Tattoo, 2004
*Ice, 2004
*Waver, 2004
*Bone, 2004
*Red Guardian, 2004
*White Guardian, 2004
*Black Guardian, 2004
*One-Up Battle Damaged, 2004
*Black, 2004
*[[SDCC]] 8" Sleezter Bunny, by [[Voltaire]], 2005
*Yoyamart Maori Bear, 2005

=== 10" Knucklebears ===
*Digi Skull - by [[Frank Kozik]], 2005
*Skull2Knuckle - by [[Frank Kozik]], 504 pieces, 2005

=== 18" Knucklebears ===
2007 giant sized bears!
*Brown [[Flocked]] Tattoo
*Diamond Previews Exclusive Red Crest - 450 pieces

=== Plush ===
*Brown - 7", 2008
*Black - 7", 2008

== Knuckles Featured Elsewhere ==
*[[Trexi]] - 10" Bone Knuckle with 3" Brown Knuckle inside
*[[Trexi]] - Plus Series 2, Knucklebear Bone
*[[Trexi]] - Plus Series 2, 3" Knucklebear by [[Joe Ledbetter]]
*[[Trexi]] - 3" Waver Knucklebear with Touma book

== Images ==
<gallery>
Image:Kbcapsule-s2red.jpg|2" Red Capsule
Image:Kb-elementfire.jpg|2.5" Elementaler - Fire
Image:Kb-elementice.jpg|2.5" Elementaler - Ice
Image:Kb-elementinferno.jpg|2.5" Elementaler - Inferno
Image:Kb-elementlightning2.jpg|2.5" Elementaler - Lightning
Image:Kb-elementgouriki.jpg|2.5" Elementaler - Gouriki
Image:Kb-elementvolcano.jpg|2.5" Elementaler - Volcano
Image:Kb-elementwind.jpg|2.5" Elementaler - Wind
Image:Kb-chapterone-blackguardian.jpg|2.5" Chapter One Black Guardian
Image:Kb-chapterone-redguardian.jpg|2.5" Chapter One Red Guardian
Image:Kb-chapterone-whiteguardian.jpg|2.5" Chapter One White Guardian
Image:Kb-chapterone-secretpanda.jpg|2.5" Chapter One Secret Panda
Image:KB-Chapter2-IronBlue.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Iron Blue
Image:KB-Chapter2-IronOrange.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Iron Orange
Image:KB-Chapter2-IronGold.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Iron Gold
Image:KB-Chapter2-Tattoo.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Tattoo
Image:KB-Chapter2-Tattoo2.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Yellow Tattoo
Image:KB-Chapter2-Waver.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Waver
Image:KB-Chapter2-Grey.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Angry Grey
Image:KB-Chapter2-Grey2.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Angry White
Image:KB-Chapter2-Purple.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Another Waver
Image:KB-Chapter2-Bone.jpg|2.5" Chapter Two Bone
Image:Qee-s4uk-knucklebearice.jpg|2.5" Series 4 UK Ice
Image:Knucklebear-2inch-gold.jpg|2.5" Gold
Image:Knucklebear-2inch-silver.jpg|2.5" Silver
Image:BlackKnucklebear.jpg|2.5" Black
Image:Qee-unitedstates-tmboo.jpg|2.5" United States of Qee
Image:DarkKnucklebear.jpg|2.5" Dark 
Image:BabyKB 01.jpg|3" Baby Black
Image:Babyknucklebear-pinkandwhite.jpg|3" Pink & White
Image:Knucklebearwhite.jpg|5" White
Image:Knucklebear-peace.jpg|5" Peace
Image:Knucklebear realbone.jpg|5" Rebone
Image:Knucklebear-rebone-king.jpg|5" Rebone King
Image:Waver_rebone.jpg|5" Waver 
Image:Knucklebear-flockywhite8inch.jpg|5" Flocky White
Image:Navyflockedknuckle.jpg|5" Navy Flocked
Image:Sdccknuckle.jpg|5" SDCC Black
Image:Knucklebear5-lightningspider.jpg|5" Lightning Spider
Image:Knucklebearscar.jpg|5" Scar
Image:Spankyknuckle.jpg|5" Spanky
Image:Cosmicknucklebear.jpg|6" Cosmic
Image:Boneknuckle04.jpg|8" Bone 
Image:Icebearknuckle.jpg|8" Ice Bear
Image:Ftckb.jpg|8" FTC Knucklebear
Image:Ironblueknuckle.jpg|8" Iron Blue
Image:Knucklebear5-iron.jpg|8" Iron Orange
Image:Knucklebear-redguardian.jpg|8" Red Guardian
Image:Knucklebear rwhiteguardian.jpg|8" White Guardian
Image:SleeztervoltaireKB.jpg|8" Sleezter [[Voltaire]]
Image:Knucklebear waver.jpg|8" Waver
Image:Knucklebear white tattoo.jpg|8" White Tattoo
Image:Knucklebearoneupscar.jpg|8" Battle Damaged One-Up
Image:Maorikb.jpg|8" Yoyamart Maori
Image:Skull2knucklebear.jpg|10" [[Frank Kozik]] Skull2Knuckle 
Image:Kozikknuckle.jpg|10" [[Frank Kozik]] Digi Skull
Image:Touma_knucklebear_18.jpg|18" Brown Flocked Tattoo
Image:Knucklebear-plushblack.jpg|Plush Black
Image:Knucklebear-plushbrown.jpg|Plush Brown
</gallery>

=== Trexi Knucklebears ===
<gallery>
Image:Trexiknucklebone10.jpg|10" Bone Trexi
Image:3trexikb.jpg|3" Trexi
Image:Trexiplus2_toumaknuckle.jpg|3" Plus Series 2 Trexi
Image:Jledkbtrexi.jpg|3" KB Trexi by [[JLed]]
</gallery>

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