Prototypes and Unreleased Merchandise
Throughout Mo'Wax's timeline there have been more than enough merchandise released to keep even the most hardcore fans happy, but there have also been several ideas and collaborations which never happened, such as plans to work with Lego, and creating the first Mo' Wax shoe with Clarks.
Unreleased Clarks collaboration
| Year | 1996 |
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| Type | Shoe |
In 1996 Mo' Wax proposed a collaboration with shoe company Clarks for what would have been the first Mo' Wax shoe collaboration, but which was left unreleased and unrealised.
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Mo' Wax Clarks unreleased show from MoWax 21 Book
Unkle 77 Prototype
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| Availability | 1997?– |
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The Unkle 77 Prototypes were designed by Ben Drury and were based on the pointmen artworks of Futura2000. They would eventually become the Unkle 77 Toy released in 1998.
The prototypes were featured on a page in the December 2001 issue of Lodown Magazine, and one of the prototypes was later shown at an exhibition of UNKLE related work in 2003 at the ICA, London. The Urban Archaeology: 21 Years Of Mo' Wax book released in 2014 also featured several images of the prototypes across two pages, and dates the prototypes as being designed in 1997.
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Prototype models
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Drawing of prototype
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Prototype figure
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Prototype figure with stand
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Prototypes in MW21 Book
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Prototypes in MW21 Book
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Prototypes in MW21 Book
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Prototypes in MW21 Book
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Prototype drawings in MW21 Book
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Prototype drawings in MW21 Book
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Prototypes in Lodown Magazine 2001 #29
Mo' Wax Lego
| Availability | 1999– |
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In 1999 Mo' Wax proposed a collaboration with toy company Lego which would enable people to use blocks of samples to build their own songs. The concept was designed by Ben Drury, Andy Holmes, Tony Feltwell, and B. Weaver according to the Mo' Wax 21 book. In May 2020 James Lavelle described the ideas as follows:
"The one collaboration which has nothing to do with sneakers or anything like that, but would’ve been the ultimate was when we were looking to try and do something with LEGO, where we’d get the bricks and each brick was going to be a sample. And then you could make tracks out of the bricks. So you could buy The Prodigy, and you make Firestarter out of the bricks or something. So we wanted to do a sort of Mo’ Wax Lego collaboration that we were developing, but that didn’t happen."[1]
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Lego proposal drawing from MoWax 21 Book
Figure by Giovanni Estevez
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| Availability | 1999– |
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In 1999 Mo' Wax proposed a collaboration with Giovanni Estevez who had previously featured in Mo' Wax's URBAN ARCHEOLOGY exhibition in 1997, the Urban Archaeology: 21 Years Of Mo' Wax exhibition from 2014,[2] and 2014's Nike X Mo’ Wax Build and Destroy Collectioncollaboration with Nike.[3]
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MoWax Giovanni Estevez proposal from MoWax 21 Book
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Giovanni Estevez
Unreleased Vans collaboration
| Year | 2001 |
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| Type | Shoe |
In 2001 Mo' Wax proposed a collaboration with shoe company Vans but it was left unreleased. The shoe was designed by Ben Drury.
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MoWax Vans shoe from MoWax 21 Book
Figure by 3D
| Availability | 2001– |
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In 2001 Mo' Wax had plans to release a figure designed by Massive Attacks's 3D, but it remains unreleased. The figure was designed by Ben Drury based on artwork by 3D.
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Figure from MoWax 21 Book
External Links
Ben Drury feature containing Unkle 77 prototype images (archived)
Image of Unkle 77 prototype at ICA 2003
Image of Unkle 77 prototype with stand at ICA 2003
Interview with James Lavelle discussing collaborations