You are left with the same puzzled face as when you saw Toni Cantó’s new program. In this attic Santa Perpetua de Mogoda (half an hour from Barcelona) you can see more Famous per square meter than on any red carpet. There is Shakiralooking like he’s swearing Pique. One step and you meet Rigoberta Bandini, Ibai Llanos, the whole troupe of ‘The Money Heist‘that is Ed Sheeran? We just need Elon Musk entering through the door with a sink. Cristina looks at you, she looks, she opens and closes drawers, she moves her hands at the speed of a magician. Put on the table worn jeans just like the ones you’re wearing, the same sweater, rolled up sleeves, your haircut, horn-rimmed glasses, a pen to take notes, do you want a cell phone? Click, click, click. she makes you a playmobil miniclone in less than they change the prime minister in the United Kingdom.
Cris Alvarez She is a technician in early childhood education, 37 years old. In her spare time, dismembers bodies in your office with more agility than Dexter. His house would make the de’ salivateITUC‘: drawers and drawers full of arms, heads and bodies. Has more accessories of those that Tamara Falcó could assume. handfuls of tablets, cameras, horsesan arsenal of weapons that Putin already wanted. in networks is @YouAreClick. “Aficionado of transforming Playmobil in famous people, friends or in yourself -summarizes his biography on Instagram-. I accept challenges”. At the moment, it has already passed to click format until XXL bow tie Amy Winehouse and the braids of Pippi Longstocking. “For me – he confesses – it is like a therapy & rdquor ;.
still retains the clicks with whom I played when I was 5 years old. The victorian mansion, the treasure island, the pirate ship. “Those are sacred,” she laughs. Those do not touch & rdquor ;. He played like any other kid of the 80s, at most he changed the spiky hair, and parked them in some box at his parents’ house. Until 8 years ago, when she started working in a grocery store toys. One day he found a doll with huge sideburns like his boss’s. “Look – he said –, it could be you & rdquor ;. She put a blue shirt on him, the one he always wore, glued the store’s logo on it, and made his first mini Me in a plaid shirt that he used to wear. “It’s you two!” & rdquor ;, the clients began to tell him. “And there already I came up&rdquor ;, Cris smiles.
By now, they’ve been liking their mini clones since Shakira until Torrent wave Hillary Banks of ‘The prince of Bel Air‘. They have shared them in their ‘stories’ Candela Penathe dog whisperer Cesar Millan, the actresses of ‘eye to eye‘. Cris personalizes clicks out of devotion and on request. He hangs them on networks and exhibits them when he can in exposition: clicks of music (of the spice to the Beatles), of series (of ‘stranger things‘ a ‘friends‘), in March he will do one of cinema. He also uses the dolls as vindicationnotes: “Social issues, LGBTI, the day of autism… So that people become aware & rdquor ;.
You’ve already lost count of how many clicks you’ve tuned. “It’s a challenge -assures-. I love self-improvement & rdquor ;. there you have Marilyn with her click legs in the air and her white dress flying, Freddy Krueger with the plastic face burnt, to Alexia Putellas with his last ballon d’or, Fito&Fitipaldis with beret and sideburns. ‘Your face sounds familiar’ in Playmobil version. “Now I even go down the street and see someone and… Oysters, this person could easily do it & rdquor ;.
He usually always carries his mini Me. “Sometimes I try to dress the same & rdquor ;, he laughs. Have duplicate jerseys. “From some music group not very well known –he details-. This is how I publish them & rdquor ;. He has come to go to Nerja just to be able to take a picture of their clicks of ‘Blue Summer’ in front of the boat backgammon. He also got to give his mini clones to Juanjo Artero (Javi) and Michael Young (Titus). “Tito works as a tour guide in the caves of Nerja -Details Cris-, and Javi was shooting a spot that day & rdquor ;. It is what makes him most excited, he says: meet the artists which miniaturizes
Find whatever in seconds between hundreds of heads, arms, pants, accessories. It’s all arranged as if it just happened marie condo. Cris always tries to use original parts. To maintain “the essence of Playmobil& rdquor ;, justifies. “The only thing I do is paint over it or put a sticker on it.” and throw him imagination, he snorts. She had to use some Indian’s mini-axe to hack the bird-shaped handle of her umbrella. Mary Poppins.
Recomposing a character is as laborious as a puzzle. The most repeated question: How long it takes? “If I have the pieces at home -he details- it is relatively fast, disassemble and assemble. Depends on whether the part is discontinued or is it hard to findif I have to to paint or do stickers…”. design them with Photoshop, takes them to a printing press, pastes them with the patience of a craftsman. “There is a lot behind.”
“That’s a Playmobil?”, they usually ask him. “No –she answers them-, it is THE Playmobil. I tell them: ‘You try to do it. Find where these pieces come from. Maybe this head that you want comes out in the mansion, which is worth 150 euros. Are you going to buy it just for this face? Or this hair -points to a very long mane- It only comes out in the horse riding of Playmobil & rdquor ;. The ones that have cost you the most? “the poisonthe Kiss‘Stranger things’ or Mary Poppins”.
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Where do you get the pieces from? “It’s secret & rdquor ;. She laughs, but doesn’t reveal the source of it. “Now I have some contacts that they sell me loose pieces -he says with a black market tone-, but before I had to buy a box… You imagine & rdquor ;. In summary: “I spend a lot & rdquor;confess.
have to pull wallapopfairs, internet, second hand. He wanders around the shops and touches the surprise envelopes of Playmobil to find out what’s inside. “As I want concrete things…”. He shrugs. Series. “There are more geek people like me who do it & rdquor ;.