An AT-AT gets tagged, becomes the $1,500 Suckadelic Graff-AT

Living in Berlin, the graffiti capital of the world, I do not wonder at the in-universe plausibility of this graffitied AT-AT toy — the Suckadelic Graff-At — currently being auctioned for $1,500 by Christie's. Street artists can tag anything, up to and including a moving mech war elephant in a galaxy far, far away.

Suckadaelic Graff-At [Christie's]

[#1 posted by Enochrewt , June 16, 2008 8:29 AM]

LOL I thought "suckadelic" was your description.

[#2 posted by Ari B. , June 16, 2008 11:42 AM]

I like that the tags appear to be in Aurabesh, the alphabet used in Star Wars.

[#3 posted by Bucket , June 16, 2008 11:45 AM]

Holy overpriced toys, Batman. Further down the page they have an original Kenner Alien listed for $1500-2000.

I had no idea that Christie's was essentially eBay for people with more money than sense.

[#4 posted by Anonymous , June 16, 2008 12:00 PM]

Naah, not taggers, it's urban cammoflage. What better way to be less visble on one of the hive planets?

[#5 posted by Antinous , June 16, 2008 7:30 PM]

My experience has been that "people with more money than sense" is code for "people with more money than me".

[#6 posted by PFlint , June 17, 2008 7:22 AM]

Diorama with troopers shaking their heads while Rebel punks take off snickering ('yo') = funny.

Auction item opening at $1500 = not funny.

[#7 posted by arkizzle , June 17, 2008 6:49 PM]

Honestly, I think this could have been done a lot better.

I know, I know, "why don't you do one then?", but really.. this could be done beautifully, and as it stands it's only ok.

And when you add the price.. ouchy.

[#8 posted by Agent 86 , June 17, 2008 11:24 PM]

Maybe they were going more for authentic than for artistic?

[#9 posted by arkizzle , June 20, 2008 7:42 AM]

Agent, even at that - I'm putting forth this could have been done more authentically.
I'm pretty well acquainted with graf styles, and this doesn't do it in my opinion.