The group show "JBCB - JUKEBOX COWBOYS" will open its door this Saturday April 12th 2025 / 6pm

Running for a month at the "ALTER WARTESAAL" in HERNE/DE. Located right at the central train station.

All details see the flyer:

DOKUMENT PRESS just released a small but great new book for all you sticker-heads out there!

"THE GRAFFITI STICKER BOOK"

100 pages / size 16x16cm / feat. more than 300 "real" stickers from more than 50 graffiti artists

Available here:

Dokument Press Webshop

For the 3rd time i joined forces with my friends here in Hamburg and we set up a sweet little group show at the K-OZ GALERY here in the center of Hamburg St.Pauli hood.

"4UC - 4 URBAN CHARACTERS"

28.03. - 05.04.2025

K-OZ Galerie

Beim Grünen Jäger 11

Hamburg St.Pauli

Featuring the art of LZRWRST, BLTR_DESIGN and KNUSPERLAF.

Again we released a new colab-of-4 print design and new single design posters.

I will have felt-over copies available in the Bigcartel webshop soon when the show closed down.

I got in a few copies of the latest release from TREXII:

"Flying Förtress Red Edition"

Going to sign and number them exclusively.

They will be available in the webshop then soon.

Still waiting for a few other things to arrive to i will update everything at once an will send a out a mailing to the Early Birds first.

TREXII figures are available here:

https://trexii.myshopify.com/collections/all

The second version "Blue Edition" will hopefully make its way to me soon too!... stay tuned!

UPDATE March 05th 2025:

SOLD OUT! thank-you for all your support!

(my 5pcs are sold-out but ChrisRWK will release the other 5pcs soon via his channels, so check his Instagram or so!)

We just released the next colab series of ChrisRWK (ROBOTS WILL KILL) and FLYING FÖRTRESS.

Available here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com

Details on the artworks series:

"RWK x FÖRTRESS - Series 02 Blue"
The second colab series of 10 single original artworks by ChrisRWK (ROBOTS WILL KILL) and FLYING FÖRTRESS from 2024/2025.

- "RWK x FÖRTRESS - Series 02 Blue" / edition of 10
- original handpainted artwork by ChrisRWK and FLYING FÖRTRESS
- acrylic, spray & marker on canvas cardboard
- size: 9.0 x12.0 inches / approx. 22,8 x 30,6 cm
- year: 2024-2025
- signed on backside by both artists!
- comes with a MASSIVE mixed sticker-postcards-pack from both artists!
- NOTE: the artwork is NOT framed!

We have 5x pcs in our Bigcartel shop, while the other 5x will be available directly from ChrisRWK. The first series went really fast, so don't hesitate to pick your artwork!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com

By the way... Join our "Early Birds Mailing List" to be the first to get informed about future new releases!

Just send a quick "Hello" to: fortress@teddytrooper.de

"PLOCHI E.T.420“
The latest release of gimmicks of FÖRTRESS' tribute to the old S-train model from his home city Munich. "ET420" is the train model number, "Plochi" is the nickname due to the train factory in the city of Plochingen.

Main release was the "keychain" limited edition set. That set contained the limited keychain figure handmade by MUFFINMAN, a t-shirt (printed on front and back), a pin set-of-3 new designs an die-cut stickers of the "Plochi" character.

Regular keychain set came in an edition of 20+3A.P.s.Also we had a super small edition of the "Red Variant" showing the current ET420 train design color scheme on the last existing trains in service. This edition was exclusively available to our DISCORD community! Join us:

https://discord.gg/XFhY59yE79

T-Shirts & Pin set is also available separately. We do have a last set (XXL t-shirt) in stock in our web shop:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/plochi-et420-t-shirt-pin-set

FÖRTRESS and ChrisRWK from ROBOTS WILL KILL join forces again. After a few colab sticker design over the last 2 decades they released a series of 10 colab pieces. Framed nicely and ready-to-hang!

First series sold out immediately! But the guys are already working on series 2 so keep your eyes open! Maybe join our "Early Birds Mailing List"!? Just send a quick "Hello" to: fortress@teddytrooper.de

The "Family Cartoon Troops" print is now also available here at my gallery partners:

https://www.urbanshit-gallery.com/en/art/family-cartoon-troops/

https://affenfaustgalerie.de/en/shop/item/flying-foertress-family-cartoon-troops/

https://www.oxymoron-galerie.at/shop/p/flying-frtress-family-cartoon-troops

We are super excited about 2025! New things are already in the pipeline to hit shelves this year! So, let's make 2025 a colorful blast!

"Trooper In The Woods - Mushroom Aqua"

This is No.4 from an ongoing series of new artworks by FLYING FÖRTRESS. Troopers painted on some patina-ized wooden boxes.
Same basic sketch of that lying-on-the-ground Trooper.
But each individually finalized.

This is the latest artwork from the series with mushrooms and details in aqua colorway.

Details:
- "Trooper In The Woods - Mushroom Aqua"
- original handpainted artwork by FLYING FÖRTRESS
- acrylic & marker on wooden box
- size: 50 x 40 cm (Depth: 3 cm)
- year: 2024
- comes with free sticker-postcards-pack

Available here in the web shop:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/trooper-in-the-woods-mushroom-aqua-artwork

FÖRTRESS went all family-guy himself so here is his special tribute to everybody's favourite golden cartoon family of all time!
Featuring some full-color FÖRTRESS' style couch gags all over his classic "Pulk Trooper" layout from the "Travel Memories" series.

Details on the edition:

• "Family Cartoon Troops" / print by FLYING FÖRTRESS
• highly pigmented fine art print on satin matte white 300g/qm paper
• signed & numbered by FLYING FÖRTRESS
• embossed FÖRTRESS logo
• size: A2 / 42,0 x 59,4 cm / approx. 16.5 x 23.4 inch
• year: 2024
• limited edition of 100
• comes with free sticker pack (incl. "Family Cartoon Troops" stickers and postcards)!

Live and screening here now:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/family-cartoon-troops-print

We are super proud to have the Teddy Troops vinyl figures on the shelves in the famous STRAAT MUSEUM's gift shop now.

Exclusively hand-customized 6" Teedy Troops — signed and doodle logos by FLYING FÖRTRESS — now available via the museum's webshop here:

https://shop.straatmuseum.com/en/brands/flying-fortress/

"WERNICE VENEZIA"

Big group show with a massive line-up of graffiti writing artists in wonderful Venice/Venezia IT.

Opening is tomorrow April 20th 2024.

I will have a new canvas artwork up on display.

If you are on a visit to Venice just have a look for it!

https://www.wernice.com/

"REBELZER x FÖRTRESS"

New colab print by Hamburg's legendary REBELZER and his "Freaks" and the FLYING FÖRTRESS' "Teddy Troop Pulk".

WE DO HAVE THEM IN STOCK IN OUR WEBSHOP NOW!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/rebelzer-x-fortress-print

print details:
• "REBELZER x FÖRTRESS" colab print design
• highly pigmented fine art print on satin matte white 300g/qm paper
• signed by both artists / numbered
• size: 29,7 x 42,0 cm (A3) / approx. 11.7 x 16.5 inch
• year: 2024
• limited edition of 50

First orders will get a mixed sticker & postcard pack filled with stickers from both artist. As stock last!

Available here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/rebelzer-x-fortress-print

"REBELZER x FÖRTRESS"

New colab print by Hamburg's legendary REBELZER and his "Freaks" and the FLYING FÖRTRESS' "Teddy Troop Pulk".

Release date: Thursday 18.04.2024 live at the REBELZER'S FLAGGSCHIFFSTORE in Hamburg St.Pauli.

Remaining copies will be available in our online store(s) afterwards.

print details:
• "REBELZER x FÖRTRESS" colab print design
• highly pigmented fine art print on satin matte white 300g/qm paper
• signed by both artists / numbered
• size: 29,7 x 42,0 cm (A3) / approx. 11.7 x 16.5 inch
• year: 2024
• limited edition of 50

Available here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/rebelzer-x-fortress-print

4 new FLYING FÖRTRESS Teddy Trooper canvases with some little color-switch confusion happened to them. So which one fits your collection best?

Artwork details:

- "Color Switch Troopers" / series of 4 artworks
- original handpainted artwork by FLYING FÖRTRESS
- acrylic on canvas
- signed on backside (no titel written)
- size: 30 x 40 cm
- year: 2024

Available here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/artwork

NOTE:

use discount code KONJUNKTURFLAUTE2024 to receive a 15% off on these new artworks! (valid for the next 2x purchases only!)

Visited my partner over at the URBAN SHIT GALLERY in the Hamburg city center this week. Spend a good time chatting and also customizing & signing some 6" Teddy Troops vinyl toys stock.

Doodling some stuff on the figures and the boxes.

Head over to their online shop to grab one of these exclusively pimped figures!

https://www.urbanshit-gallery.com/en/shop/category/artist/flying-foertress/

a bunch of affordable "little things" will be up for auction to raise some fund for the MEDtiopia project.

A charity project to bring direct help in form of medical supply to Ethiopia.

MEDtiopia and the artist RANDOM_EXP set up the charity event at the "Art Of Buna Galerie" in Cologne Köln/DE for the dates of March 2nd & 3rd 2024.

(see flyer for details)

100% of the raised funds will go directly to the charity project!

URBAN SPREE in Berlin just released the first edition of their coloring book. Featuring a couple of illustrations in b&w from FLYING FÖRTRESS.

So get your copy and take out your markers & crayons and add some "bunt" to the pages!

"Urban Spree Coloring Book Vol.1" available here:

https://www.urbanspree.com/shop/books/urban-spree-coloring-book-vol.1.html

Text from their website:

If you missed out on our "Anglerfish Trooper" and "Sea Devil Trooper" NFT release...

try to fish a copy on secondary market:

https://www.jpg.store/collection/teddytroopsthecabinetofcuriosities?tab=items

As a collector and holder please make sure to visit our DISCORD and CollectorsPortal now and to keep being updated on all the upcoming releases!

All the best for 2024!

Thank you all for your strong support over the last year(s)!

Let's make it a good one!

WHile i am working on the next drop of the free "Deapsea Trooper" series (redeem your Teddy Points!) i came along of a little fun design.

Wanted to start frequent seasonal themed drops already since a while but...

so here we go with the "Gingerbread Trooper" as first!

Available tomorrow on Sunday December 10th at 8pm CEST exclusively(!) to ALL verified holders of an OG Teddy Trooper collection via our Teddy Troops Collectors Portal website.

Limited edition of 100 maximum & live for 14 days to grab your cookie!

(for all the details please check our Teddy Troops Discord channel!)

Enjoy the tasty cookies & Plätzchen for snowy X-mas time!

4 new artworks on canvas cardboards from the series "Cropped Stars Variants": the "Crooked Stars"... with some family-friends color scheme (as painted within a big commissioned family bear portrait once... you know it, Chris!)

Up in the FÖRTRESS' webkiosk here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/artwork

There are some new framed prints now online at URBANSHIT GALLERY's website. Some mixed "FDC - First Day Cover" prints from serveral print sessions on nice handpicked FDC letters with great original stamp and print designs.

Also a very rare "flip flop" (mis)print (the orange "Wing-Logo"

)!

All framed and ready to hang to your walls (or someone who you want to gift it to!)

Available here now:

https://www.urbanshit-gallery.com/en/shop/category/artist/flying-foertress/

New limited print edition out now!

"Rasselbande III"

We are happy to announce the new chapter of the "Rasselbande" graffiti life story of FLYING FÖRTRESS (...and some unnamed friends...)!

In colaboration with AFFENFAUST GALERIE in Hamburg St.Pauli.

Rasselbande.... "little rascals". A nickname for cheeky kids as "rassel" refers to the sound of a baby's rattle... but also describes the sound of a spraycan when shaken.

From the first "Rasselbande" print design the gang now turned older and mature (aka Dad-life-boring...). So this is the next (but not the last) chapter of FÖRTRESS' graffiti life history and a hommage to tfe that changes while it moves forward unstoppable. So again the design features some vintage oldschool spraycans enjoying their days.

Print details:

- "Rasselbande III" by FLYING FÖRTRESS

- size: 70x50cm

- high pigmented giclée print

- signed and numbered by the artist

- embossed FÖRTRESS logo

- year: 2023

- edition of 50

- without frame / shipped rolled

Price: 120€

plus additional shipping

Available only at the gallery's website here:

https://affenfaustgalerie.de/en/shop/item/flying-foertress-rasselbande-lll/

There is also a special deal on the "Rasselbande I & III" set:

https://affenfaustgalerie.de/en/shop/item/flying-foertress-rasselbande-set/

"Rasselbande I-III" is currently on display at AFFENFAUST GALERIE for the group show "Mistaken Identities". FLYING FÖRTRESS also painted the "Rasselbande III" as a big wall mura inside the gallery.

"FAT CAP JAM“ / new limited edition set

It has been quite a while since we released a new edition of our infamous "Keychain Set" edition by MUFFINMAN & FLYING FÖRTRESS.

So…. Here we go again!

Set contains 1x "Fat Cap Jam" keychain in bag with header-card and 1x "Fat Cap Jam Trooper" digital art print. Limited handmade edition!

details:
- the keychain Teddy Trooper is filled with blotted "NY Fat Caps"

  used by FLYING FÖRTRESS on hid spray paint adventures
- keychain handmade & molded by MUFFINMAN
- design concept & print design by FLYING FÖRTRESS /
- set contains: 1x keychain ”FAT CAP JAM” & 1x art print "Fat Cap Jam Trooper"
- limited edition of 20 sets (+ 2 A.P.s)
- art print "Fat Cap Jam Trooper“:
  highly pigmented fine art print on satin matte white 300g/qm paper /
  size: A4 (21x29,7 cm) / edition of 20 / year: 2023 /
  signed & numbered by the artist / embossed FÖRTRESS logo
- keychain is numbered on backside of the header card
  (KC & artwork will carry the same edition number!)
- comes with a free sticker set
- IMPORTANT: only 1x set per customer!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/

(uodate: SOLD OUT!)

Blub!

Blub-Blub!

The next design from the kind-of "Underwater World"-themed series is ready to be dropped (into the ocean!)!

"Deepsea Scuba Trooper" will be released as the "regular version" of the design. Exclusively for all Teddy Point holders! (see details in our Discord)

And there will also be the "variant version" of it called "Deepsea Commando Trooper" which will be available for all public at the same time.

All holders of the "Deepsea Commando Trooper" NFT will also have the chance to win a 1/1 IRL art print of the same design in a raffle after the mint window had closed.

Release date will be tomorrow:

Thursday September 28th 2023 / at 8pm CEST

Both are limited edition of 100pcs each. Time window to redeem and mint will be 14 days.

It all gonna happen at our Collectors Portal here:

https://collectorsportal.teddytroops.io/

So see you there tomorrow, blub-blub!

A little same-same-series is available now.

"Zeelanders Basic Red" / Edition of 4 original artworks painted by FLYING FÖRTRESS live in the webshop here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/artwork

4x little artworks from the series "Cropped Variant" available here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/cropped-variant-artwork-series

Still a few days left to grab a "Nautilus Trooper" NFT (regular version) for FREE by redeeming your Teddy Points over at our Collectors Portal!

(you need to log-in via your Discord account).

Also you can mint the variant version "Nautilus Red Sea Trooper" NFT for a few ADA coins. Holders of the "Nautilus Red Sea Trooper" also have the chance (each NFT counts as one "ticket"; so multibles possible!) to win a 1/1 IRL art print of the artwork, signed by FLYING FÖRTRESS.

Mint is here (scroll down):

https://collectorsportal.teddytroops.io/

All details/announcment in our Discord / mint ends Monday July 7th 8pm CEST

signierstunde.

Hour of signing.

i will be at the URBANSHIT GALLERY tomorrow Friday July 7th 2023 from 7pm.

Signing my new Teddy Troops 6" vinyl figures "Shaved" & "Shark".

Also we will also have a little selection of original new & known artworks, prints and new merch (new pins!) on display!

The signed Teddy Troops will be available exclusively here:

https://www.urbanshit-gallery.com/de/shop/kategorie/artist/flying-foertress/

Finally!

The 2x new 6" Teddy Troops just arrived at the ARTOYZ's port!

The brand new (re)designed 6inch "Shark" and the "Shaved" Teddy Troopers.

With these being released we do have the set-of-3 complete.

Like with the 6" Basic Red Teddy Trooper we have all 3x original designs from the very first release in 2004: Basic (Red) - Shark - Shaved.

Just BIGGER! (6inch instead of 3inch)

...and BETTER! (the new 2.0 shape by MUFFINMAN and with the removable helmet)

Available here now:

https://artoyz.com/en/products/teddy-troops-2-0-6-shark
https://artoyz.com/en/products/teddy-troops-2-0-6-shaved

And see all the other Teddy Troops vinyls from the ARTOYZ's warehouse stock:
https://artoyz.com/collections/teddy-troops

"Vintage Toy" or "Cinema" colorway?

Which one is your favourite?

"Bob Trooper Vintage Toy Colorway" available here now:

https://www.urbanshit-gallery.com/en/art/bob-trooper-vintage-toy-colorway/

"Bob Trooper Cinema Colorway" (private collection)

May the Fört be with you!

"Cropped Star Trooper" / series of 4 single artworks by FLYING FÖRTRESS.
Looking good together as a set of 4 but also as a single piece in your collection!

Artworks going live later today:
April 27th, 2023 / 7pm CEST (10am PST)

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/artwork

New stickers and a new canvas series of four "Spiked Star Troopers".

SOLD OUT!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/artwork

With a bit of delay due to the Covid restriction the last years here is the 10-years-plus-2,5-years anniversary of AxSxA Amsterdam Street Art at the GO GALLERY in Amsterdam.

Opening this weekend September 10th 2022.

https://www.amsterdamstreetart.com

Check the nice artist line-up!

To start my new partnership with URBANSHIT GALLERY Hamburg we are releasing a new limited print edtion today!

"Waldo Dazzle Trooper"

Based on the "Where Is The Waldo Trooper" cNFT that i designed for a free mint a few weeks ago, you now can purchase the art print version IRL here:

https://www.urbanshit-gallery.com/en/art/waldo-dazzle-trooper/

Print details:

• titel: "Waldo Dazzle Trooper"

• size: 30,0 x 30,0 cm (approx: 11.8 x 11.8 inches)

• limited edition of 50

• archival pigment giclee print with additional 2x letterpress colors

• on 300g GMUND Cotton paper white

• signed & numbered by the artist & embossed FÖRTRESS logo

• printed by NOKISS.PRINT

• year: 2022

"Finally (like really finally!) i was able to finish this art piece this year!

I started way back in 2003 to sew those helmets made of felt fabric for a set of 4x skateboards. But i never finished it back then. So the helmets ended up in a box in my basement. So in 2021 i was invited by ROLLING VINYL to contribute askateboard art piece and i decided to gat my hands back on this set. It took me literally another 12 month to have it ready then.... what a fight!!

So here we go: it's up on the RV webshop:

https://www.rollingvinyl.store/product/flying-fortress/

- titel: "R.E.S.S. Set Decks" (yes... K.I.S.S.!)

- artist: FLYING FÖRTRESS

- in colaboration with ROLLING VINYL STORE

- set of for handpainted skateboard decks

- year: 2003 & 2022

- comes with signed certificate card

"Schnapsteufel" Troops No.01-04 / from a limited edition of 10

...just got minted!

First drop from our The Cabinet Of Curiosities collection.

Join our DISCORD to enter our FREE-giveaway contest on these first 4x NFTs!

"A bizarre and funny mishmash of outtakes, outsiders & outlaws. A special collection of your beloved Teddy Troops — just pure art, entertainment & amazement!"

See all NFT curiosities here:

jpg.store/collection/TeddyTroopsTheCabinetOfCuriosities

Check out our "DIY TEDDY TROOPS Mint-Generator" now!

It's LIVE now and you can play around untill Saturday to create your personalized Trooper and decide which one you gonna mint on Saturday MAY 7th 2022 then ;-)

btw: you need to join our Teddy Troops DISCORD for all details and infos to verify your wallet for the mint!

Joion our Discord to get all the details right in time for this exclusive mint next Saturday May 7th 2022!

https://discord.com/invite/teddytroops

- Date: 7th May 2022

- NFT Supply: 541

- Price: 100 Ada each

- limited to warranted collectors only!

- see DISCORD for all infos!

Our webshop is back after a few month of "pause" as FÖRTRESS was busy with the Teddy Troops NFT drop. All products are back live.

Also we just put up the "Travel Memories No.10 - The Bounty Hunter Tales" A.P. Edition copies.

Find the filthy space scums here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/the-bounty-hunter-tales-a-p-print

Details:

"Travel Memories #10 - The Bounty Hunter Tales"

• highly pigmented fine art print on satin matte white 300g/qm paper
• signed by FLYING FÖRTRESS
• embossed FÖRTRESS logo
• size: A2 / 42 x 59,4 cm / approx. 16.5 x 23.4 inch
• year: 2021
• limited edition of 50
• comes with mixed sticker-set & 1x free enamel pin (various designs)

Note: we will pack & ship all prints in about 2 weeks in mid August!

Today at 11am CET we are releasing a new limited print edition!

A colab print design by ELIOT-THE-SUPER and FLYING FÖRTRESS!

"Pooper Trooper"

These 2 guys know each other from their growing-up in their hometown Munich in the mid 90s when the local graffiti scene was small and conspired.

Now they worked on this colab print together. Bringing together screenprinted parts combine with stencil art.

So with the hand-painted stencil layers each print becomes unique!

Released with our long-term partners&friends at the URBANSHIT GALLERY in Hamburg.

Details:

- titel: "Pooper Trooper"

- artist colab: ELIOT-THE-SUPER x FLYING FÖRTRESS

- 2-color screenprint with multicolor hand-painted stencil (spray paint)

- size: 50x70cm

- paper: 250g IGEPA "Caribic" Art Paper

- signed by both artists / numbered

- year: 2022

- edition: 33

- comes with COA (Certificate of Authenticity), signed by both artists

Available exclusively here:

https://www.urbanshit-gallery.com/en/art/foertress-eliot-pooper-trooper/

Back on track here...

A big THANK YOU again to all the community, followers, supporters, fam & frens to make our Teddy Troops NFT drop so successful!

Thank you!

If you missed the mint or if you want to flip'n'flop your NFTroops you can check the whole collection of the 5410x Teddy Troops NFT series on the secondary market any time.

(NFA - No financial advice! DYOR - Do your own research! Anytime!)

On CARDANO blockchain only!

https://www.jpg.store/collection/teddytroops

Are you ready, Troops?

Only 6 days left for our big Mint Date on:

March 5th 2022 / time: 7pm CET / 6pm UTC

Finally bringing the NFT Teddy Troops to the Cardano blockchain.

All details on the mint on our WEBSITE and DISCORD here:

https://teddytroops.io/

https://discord.com/channels/917769922724106250/925603633133944922

JOIN OUR TROOPS NOW!

Our website for the "NFT Teddy Troops" is LIVE now!

All infos & details like the "Gallery" / "About" / "Team" and "Roadmap" can be found there. Check it out!

https://teddytroops.io/

Also don't miss to join our discord channel to enter for early birds infos and raffles...

https://discord.com/invite/teddytroops

Head over to our new DISCORD!

Everything related to the TEDDY TROOPS NFT release will be announced there first!

Also we have a lot of extra things planned.

Like some giveaway raffle to get pre-released limited NFT editions.

Or exclusively FÖRTRESS signed new vinyl toy figures!

Or some vintae "hard to find" collectors items to win!

.... and, and, and!

Also: this is the place to get pre-sale list and mint details first!

So JOIN THE TROOPS NOW!

https://discord.com/invite/teddytroops

And don't miss our TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/TeddyTroops

Find my little NFT collection right overe here:

https://opensea.io/collection/fortressheritage

A big thank-you to the Anonymous who picked up my "First Förtress Sticker" NFT over on Opensea.io

In a way this is like a "late refund" for my very first investment to get stickers done to hit the streets in 2001. It was a bit more hustle to get some offset stickers back in those days...

Literally i had to start collecting a bunch of designs from artist friends to set up a whole sticker-paper-panel to drop the price on the single sticker designs.

And i still running this sticker game 20 years later.

But not alone...

I just started to move to this new space.

#NFT #meta #space

https://opensea.io/TeddyTroops

NFT...?

Why?

Förty, why?

Whenever i do new things there are these voices...

"Why you're spraying these Teddy Troops flops now instead of classic Graffiti letters with arrows and bubble-background, Förty? you used to do sick styles and so cool monster characters!"...

"Because i love this new space, i am multi-discipline and i want to move... move new directions. move forward."

I also remember those voices saying a bit later:

"Why you're doing stickers/posters now, Förty? you used to do cool flops!"...

"Because i love this new space, i am multi-discipline and i want to move... move new directions. move forward."

And the same voices later on my first steps into the vinyl-/designer-toy space:

"Why you're doing these vinyl toys now, Förty? you used to do cool stickers!"...

"Because i love this new space, i am multi-discipline and i want to move... move new directions. move forward."

And now like another déjà vu over again:

"Why you're doing NFTs now, Förty? you used to do cool vinyl-toys!"...

"Because i love this new space, i am multi-discipline and i want to move... move new directions. move forward."

So... did i listen? ;-)

Did i keep standing still?

Did i move?

...

Thank you all for the strong support over the last 2(!) decades!

I will keep moving forward. I am promising this to those voices!

Feel free to keep following me on my travels and journeys.

This new space will be new fun together!*

And btw: it's not like "a totally new" space. Almost all of my work is created digitally and this is the tool & space where my things "come to life"!

Follow up to see the NFT Teddy Troops start marching soon in Q1-2022!

Everything will happen in the Cardano blockchain space and this is the HQ:

http://teddytroops.io

(*sooner or later i will drop some more words & thoughts here about the NFT and meta space... why it is a "move to it" space. benefits for me as an artist... and for you as a fan/supporter/collector. one important thing right now to say is that it's time to give up some bad old habits -  like to create so much (digital) work for free - only to help building up Marc's Butterberg empire.. it's time to take back your own profitability and bring it to a decentralize space... and! there will be new vinyls, stickers & flops in 2022, too! promised!)

For the first time in the new meta space the Teddy Troops jooining forces for some cool new colaboration designs. Togehter with the mind-blowing Acidcats we have a series of 9x 1/1 NFT minted on Opensea.io to start your collection!

Acidcats are brought to you by Josh Thorsen aka Teens On Acid. We released this drop on his Opensea.io account.

See & grab them here:

https://opensea.io/collection/toacidcat

Thank you for the support on our new travels to move things forward!

(1/1 Grey Variant is already GONE!... be quick!)

#nft #nftart #digitalart #nftcollector

The new KRANKY series by SUPERPLASTIC is live now. And for all the Troops followers there is a special 3-4-2 deal on their website.

Used code FFXKRANKY and put 3 blind boxes in your cart and you will pay only 2!

****People who want to use your offer will need to add THREE single blind boxes into their cart in order for the code to work!! 

 

LINK: https://bit.ly/flyingfortressxsuperplastic

CODE: FFXKRANKY

This code will be live  12/10/16 @ 12:00 AM EST until @ 12/16/21 12:00 PM EST

https://bit.ly/flyingfortressxsuperplastic

Good Luck! ...on the blind-box-raffle to grab and get a FÖRTRESS' one!

"TannenTrooper" / print design by FLYING FÖRTRESS

Not exactely meant for X-mas...

but it happened to have the print being released at this time of the year.
But maybe this print ends up as a lovely gift under your Christmas tree....?
Made for a solidarity and fund-raising project for an artist friend's creative project called "Tanne". But that project never happend so we have the prints here in stock.

• 3-colors screen print
• size: 30,0 x 42,0 cm (approx. 11.8 x 16.5 inches)
• signed & numbered by the artist

• embossed FÖRTRESS logo
• year: 2021
• limited edition of 20
• comes with 1x free enamel pin (various designs) and sticker set!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/tannentrooper-print

... to conquer and occupy the meta galaxy in early 2022.

More infos soon!

Everything will happen on:

www.teddytroops.io (soon!)

Follow the Troops on TWITTER to be updated first!

https://twitter.com/TeddyTroops

so this one is called "Nobody's alone!" and is up in PENFOLD's web-kios:

https://penetpaper.bigcartel.com/product/nobodys-alone

Have a look at this amazing set of custom "Samurai" Teddy Troops by AlexArtwork.s !

See them all in details in the Custom Gallery 5

Follow him on his channel:

https://www.instagram.com/alexartwork.s/

We just dropped the first series release of the 6" Teddy Trooper. Going with some classics first... some "basics" to build the bridge!

"Basic 6" Teddy Trooper" - Red - Blue - Grey - Black

4x color-variants with individual insignias on the Trooper's head.

OUT NOW!

Get them at the headquarter:

https://artoyz.com/shop/en/316-toyz/s-1/designer-flying_fortress

FLYING FÖRTRESS will be live at the ARTOYZ store&gallery tomorrow on Saturday September 18th 2021. We will release the new 6" Teddy Troops then. FÖRTRESS will be cuffed to the shop's desk to sign the new vinyls for you there!

https://artoyz.com/shop/en/content/28-artoyz-paris

Artoyz Paris

83 rue Saint Honoré

75001 Paris

Mail: shop@artoyz.com

Tél: 0142332670

Metro: M° Louvre-Rivoli ou Chatelet - les Halles

A bad moon's rising because if it lies - it dice!

Alert! Something is finally landing this Saturday September 18th 2021! Paris - be aware! :-)

"Travel Memories #10 - The Bounty Hunter Tales" by FLYING FÖRTRESS

Or "My Trip In Carbonit"... to all my favourite creatures from the other galaxy.

Limited edition of the new print design from the "Travel Memories" series by FLYING FÖRTRESS.

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/the-bounty-hunter-tales-print

Details:

"Travel Memories #10 - The Bounty Hunter Tales"

• highly pigmented fine art print on satin matte white 300g/qm paper
• signed by FLYING FÖRTRESS
• embossed FÖRTRESS logo
• size: A2 / 42 x 59,4 cm / approx. 16.5 x 23.4 inch
• year: 2021
• limited edition of 50
• comes with mixed sticker-set & 1x free enamel pin (various designs)

Note: we will pack & ship all prints in about 2 weeks in mid August!

Available in our shop here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/the-bounty-hunter-tales-print

Not just another "warehouse clearance/foundling"...
This Kaiju Trooper has been on my personal collection wall since 2010...
But now it's time to let him/her go.

To do more colorful destruction at someone else's place!

Originally from 2010 but pimped-up with a color-fitting "shadow frame" right now in 2021 for a final tough.

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/kaiju-trooper-artwork

- "Kaiju Trooper"
- original handpainted artwork by FLYING FÖRTRESS
- acrylic, spray & marker on canvas
- inside black & custom color "shadow frame" (approx. 5,8 cm deep)
- ready to hang
- size: 40x50cm (canvas) / plus "shadow frame"
- year: 2010 & 2021

- comes with free sticker-set (also the "Kaiju Trooper" stickers) and 1x pin-set
- free worldwide shipping!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/kaiju-trooper-artwork

A big Trooper coming in a big "classic Förtress" colorway (see also on the classic "MOTHER" print and other work from FÖRTRESS... it became a little "signature colorway").

"Multona" colors on the Trooper and inside the "shadow frame".
Just a colorful crunched spray-can Trooper!

- "Big Multona Trooper"
- original handpainted artwork by FLYING FÖRTRESS
- acrylic, marker & industrial marker on canvas (4cm deep)
- inside black & custom color "shadow frame"
- ready to hang
- size: 60x80cm (canvas) / plus "shadow frame
- year: 2021
- free worldwide shipping!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/big-multona-trooper-artwork

People keep asking for some "small Trooper canvases"... so here we go!
We have a series of 5x identical (same-same-but-different) blue Troopers on canvas.

"Blauer Börsen Bär" - "Blue Exchange Bear"

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/blauer-borsen-bar-artwork-series

We will do an "stock-exchange"-style release here... supply and demand!
Angebot und Nachfrage!
A bit like a bargain "share issue" release price at the beginning... with rising stock prices one after another to reach "regular value".

Once the first is gone, we drop the next one... and so on.
So be quick to be an early trader!

No. 1/5: issue price: SOLD!
No. 2/5: price: ...?
No. 3/5: price: ...?
...

ALL SOLD OUT!

- "Blauer Börsen Bär"
- original artwork series by FLYING FÖRTRESS
- series of 5x "same-same-but-different" canvases
- size each: 40x40 cm / approx. 15.7 x 15.7 inches
- material: acrylic paint on canvas (clean AF!)
- year: 2021
- comes with free pin & sticker set

Additional shipping.
Insured shipping / tracking-number provided.
(DE/EU VAT included)

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/blauer-borsen-bar-artwork-series

Also i finished this canvas i started in 2016-or-so for my ongoing artwork series "Train Model Trooper". This "The Big AKN" is one of the 3x bigger artworks i did (beside the "Colibri" and "Istanbul"). These "AKN" train models were running on a private line in Hamburg/DE and got sold to a scrap yard place. It was a fun action night to paint them at an un-usual stop-over place at the habour, on their way to the graveyard. We gave them some colorful "last funeral cortege". As these cars were "just trashers", this Trooper on canvas got the "rusty industrial marker" outlines.

Write an email if you are interested in the original artwork:

fortress@teddytrooper.de

Also we found this last set of 4x canvases in the back of the storerooms... And FÖRTRESS finished them finally. The last concert of the KISS cover-band!

- "R.E.S.S. Troopers - The Last Concert of The KISS Cover-Band"

- set of 4x artworks by FLYING FÖRTRESS

- year: 2013-2021

- acrylic&marker on canvas cardboards

- size each: 30x40cm

SOLD!

But we have others...! ;-)

Feel free to write a postcard or an e-mail if you're interested in owning an original artwork for your home or tresor:

fortress@teddytrooper.de

See what i found while doing some warehouse clearance....

I need to give them to a new home.

I first wanted to do a "bidder battle" but i am too laty to handle the communication that comes with such a thing. So i just put them up in the shop...

- 1x "Skull Variant" / 3" Teddy Trooper 1.0 / Series 3 /

- 1x "Buffmonster 10" customized Teddy Trooper" (from the 25 edition)

Sharp like a samurai sword!

Deadly like tiger claws!

An amazing wow!-wow! 10" custom Teddy Trooper by avatar_chakal.

Samurai! Aiii!

Follow him on Instagram for more sharpness:

https://www.instagram.com/avatar_chakal/

Sgt. Teddy's head with helmet turned into some new pin release. Comes in the classic "Basic Trooper" color-way and it's flip-flop variant.

• set of 2x "Sgt. Teddy's Head" pins / red & blue
• soft enamel pins with black painted nickel material
• size each pin: ca. 2,7 x 2,5 cm / approx. 1.1 x 0.9 inches
• 2x rubber clutches on each pin's backside
• on display-card

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/

Here we have some brandnew photos of the "just landed" customized "classic 10-incher" Teddy Trooper.

It's an "update" colaboration of FLYING FÖRTRESS and LYRIC_ONE.

Originally the "SAIGON SQUAD" was made in 2006 by FLYING FÖRTRESS (one of his rare handpainted original customized Teddy Troops figures!) for a group show of custom TTs.

But then he got lost.... missing in action.

And returned damaged and wounded a couple of years later...

So last year FÖRTRESS joined forces with LYRIC_ONE to update the Trooper by turning all these bruises-by-accident into some rusty-weathered-look-in-purpose. So here we have the new but old-looking "RUSTY SAIGON SQUAD" Trooper...

Back from the fields!

Big Thank-You! to LYRIC_ONE to "proper messed him up"!

The drunk crash-pilot has landed!
"SPEC OPS" Teddy Troops / special edition!
"Blue Camo" or "Sand Camo" variants available now.

Brought to you by FLYING FÖRTRESS & ARTOYZ.FR

EXCLUSIVE OFFER in our shop!

We only have a few copies in stock.
But these vinyls are exclusively signed by FLYING FÖRTRESS!
Each vinyl figures is signed with black marker (on the backside) .
And also each packaging-box is signed on the box's front.
A bit more pricy but "Ready-to-go" for a big cut at the second-market on ebay...! ;-)

• 1x "Teddy Troops SPEC OPS" vinyl toy figure
• choose your variant: "blue camo" or "sand camo"
• size each: approx. 4" / 10cm
• each figure comes in special new window box
• made by ARTOYZ.fr
• helmet is NOT REMOVABLE!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/teddy-troops-spec-ops-vinyl-toy

"FDC Feldpost & FDC Luftpost" / print set by FLYING FÖRTRESS

Printed on unique original vintage "FDCs - First Day Covers" by

Deutsche Post/German Post (a thing from "stamp collecting").
Each print is unique due to the different stamps & designs of the FDCs!

The "FDC Feldpost Basic" edition comes in 4x different colors to choose from:
orange - grey - silver - blue / ...and has 1x original stamp on each letter.

The "FDC Feldpost Green" has a totally all-new green print colorway and is printed on FDCs with 2x or more original stamps on each letter.

The "FDC Feldpost Yellow" is printed on FDCs with 4x original stamps on each letter (the "rare and hard to find"-ones from stamp-collecting...)

Comes in a set with 1x individual "FDC Luftpost" print.

The "FDC Feldpost" prints will be sent well protected in an extra cardboard envelope/parcel.
The "FDC Luftpost" print will be sent seperately as a "regular letter by post" with new stamps, stickers & your postal address written by hand on it!
So the "FDC Luftpost" might carry some bend&bruises as it has been trough a Post-journey and tells an individual story then ;-)

The idea was to give those "deadstock collectors' letters" a chance to do their "duty" and become a real letter finally once in their life-time!

To help to fullfill their original destiny!

Sets containing:
• 1x "FDC Feldpost" print
• 1x "FDC Luftpost" print / sent seperately "by Snail-Mail/Post"
• "FDC Feldpost" prints: 4-colors silkscreen print (green colorway)
• "FDC Luftpost" prints: 3-colors silkscreen print
• size of each print: approx. 16,4 x 9,3 cm
• all prints are printed on original & individual vintage FDCs
• both prints signed by FLYING FÖRTRESS
• year: 2021
• limited edition / not numbered
• comes with free stickers & postcards

Available now live in our shop:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/prints

We got in another few boxes of the DIY CMYK Troopers sets.

Also with that original hand-drawn customizing job on it (f you prefer...)!

As stock last!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/teddy-troops-diy-cmyk-set-vinyl-toy

This "Verjagt den Sprühdosenteufel!" design is a rip-off/tribute from FLYING FÖRTRESS of an old 80's BRD-style sticker design. First made to appear as a sticker design in the ongoing "sticker pack" selection. And now available for pre-order to have it on a t-shirt!

Together with illhill.de we collect pre-orders for the next 7 days. After that illhill will print the shirts/orders in their very own screen-print workshop.

So don't hesitate to get your copy quick for the upcoming spring and summer time!

Here is the direct link:

https://illhill.de/produkt/t-shirt-by-flying-fortress/

„SPAM Musubi Hawaiian“ / limited edition / keychain & artwork set

Another deliciouscolab project from FLYING FÖRTRESS and MUFFINMAN.
Specially created for the upcoming toy convention "ALOHA CON" at the "From The Heart" venue in Honululu on Island Hawaii.

Release date: March 6th 2021

Set contains:
• based on FLYING FÖRTRESS’ travel memories toHawaii Island a few years ago
• design concept by FLYING FÖRTRESS / "Trooper Keychain" & "Spam Musubi" handmade & molded by MUFFINMAN
• "Trooper Keychain" contains 1x handmade „Spam Musubi“ by MUFFINMAN inside!
• set contains: 1x keychain „SPAM Musubi Hawaiian" & 1x handdrawn „SPAM Trooper“ original artwork
• limited edition of 20 sets only!
• original artwork „SPAM Trooper“ by FLYING FÖRTRESS / multi-color marker on paper / 220 gm Hahnemühle D’Aqua paper / size: 24x17 cm / edition of 20 / signed & numbered / year: 2021
• keychain is numbered on backside of the header card (KC & artwork carry the same edition number!)
• comes with free „SPAM Trooper“ stickers

IMPORTANT: only 1x set per customer!

SOLD OUT!

We just released the 2nd print from our 2x colaboration print project with COLORMAKERZ.CH

"Airosol Plane" by FLYING FÖRTRESS.Another crazy 9(!)-colors screen print beauty printed by COLORMAKERZ.CH in Switzerland.

• 9(!)-colors silkscreen print
• size: 40,0 x 30,0 cm (approx. 15.8 x 11.8 inches)
• on 300 g/m²  "Conqueror Connoisseur" 100% cotton acid free paper
• embossed FÖRTRESS & COLORMAKERZ logo
• signed & numbered by the artist
• year: 2020
• limited edition of 33

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/prints

Also we managed to smuggle some copies of the "Squidron Trooper" print from Switzerland and have them also in the shop!

As i am continuing to play with the STAR WARS theme we have the icecold snow monster Wampa Trooper here. Spray & sticker medium. Also new enamel pins are already on the way from iceland...

Stickers are included in the current restocked "Lunchtime" Sticker pack!...

This little robot with a rose (and heart).

While the first "Star Wars - Jawas" related series of hand-drawinn Troopers was purely for my "personal consumption" (buying "LEGO Star Wars" for the kids&me to kill some time during lockdown no.2)...

...this first series of 10x "R2D2 Troopers" will raise money for charity!

All profit made goes to "Förderverein Winternotprogramm für Obdachlose" (shelter & warm food for Hamburg's homeless people during this freezy winter times).
So 100% of the brutto coins made with sales of these little robots will be donated!
VAT & PAYPAL-fee from all sales is on me — i will take that to make it a round sum! I will provide donation-receipt later then on my social media channel (see Instagram).
Thank you to help helping!
Bleep bleep!

UPDATE:

i just send the collected donation straight to the charitable society!

This is the first set of 10x drawings (plus 2x additional A.P.s extra / they have a few "weird extra ink" on it... test run... see photos). I made it a total series of 22 (... R2D2... you get it!). Not sure if i have the nerves & time to draw the missing 12x pieces... let's see. So you better grab it now to make sure you own it and you helped me to help! :-)

• original handdrawn artworks by FLYING FÖRTRESS
• alcohol-markers on 220g/qm Hahnemühle FineArt Aquarell D'Aqua paper
• size: 24 x 17 cm / approx. 9.4 x 6.7 inches
• signed by the artist
• edition of 22 / 10 available now
• year: 2021
Additional shipping.

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/product/r2d2-troopers-original-artwork

Due to the upcoming "ALOHA CON" Toy-Con event on island Hawaii we restocked the "Travel Memories 02 - Hawaiian Formation" A.P. 2020 Edition in the shop for a short time only

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/prints

More news on the event here soon.... Something very sick is coming its way from Muffinman's kitchen to be served!

Finally we got these back in stock!

Lazy on ordering frames & passepartouts for the sets...

But here we go, both print editions "Winglogo Blue" & "Winglogo Yellow" from 2019 on classic dead-stock "UK Royal Mail" stickers are back up in our shop!

As long as frames last...!

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/prints

Just a little sneak peek on some details of some upcomig releases...

we are still cooking it up for 2021!

SOLD OUT!

A few sets were up in our shop. Custom handsigned job by FLYING FÖRTRESS on each figure and a signed box.

Finally we are happy to be able to release our "DIY/CMYK" 4" Teddy Troops series. 4x strong colors right from the "Offset" and inkjet printing job.

Head over to ARTOYZ.COM to grab your set!

During the lockdown period in Spring 2020 FÖRTRESS joined forces with Thomas from COLORMAKERZ.CH to work out a colab project to keep the wheel spinning and turn the upcoming crisis into a chance.

Here is the first of 2x print designs that is now up exclusively at the COLORMAKERZ webshop: the "Squidron Trooper"!

A super clean and neat 9(!) colors screen print.

Limited to 33 pcs! Size is 40x30cm.

Printed on Conqueror Connoisseur 300g paper, 100% acid free cotton.

Signed by FÖRTRESS / numbered & 2x embossed logos.

Price: 110,- CHF (plus shipping & handling)

Words from Thomas/COLORMAKERZ about the project/print:

"A couple of month ago our good friend Flying Förtress heard my " MAYDAY " message on social media due to the pandemic situation. He decided to help by sending the "Squidron Trooper" as reinforcement to fightback with colourful artillery.

I am extremely thankful to have worked, once again, with Flying Förtress, since our first collaboration in 2006.

All proceeds will go to Colormakerz workshop to help continue to spread love and colorz all around.
Thanks everybody for the support!"

Get your colorful copy here:

https://shop.colormakerz.ch

... just NOT right in time for X-mas shopping...

We added a bunch of new gems in the shop.

Orders will be collected untill Sunday December 13th to be sent out (maybe not to arrive in time for X-mas...). We will pause the shop for the rest of the year to take some.... rest.

We just released the "Rasselbande" print 2020 limited edition with Affenfaust Gallery Hamburg. Originally the "Rasselbande" artwork was painted on canvas for FLYING FÖRTRESS' solo show "Will Spray For Good" and the first very limited print edition was released as a digital print at that time.

Now the "Rasselbande" is a 7-color screenprint, highly detailed to catch the all the original flavour from the painting. Comes in a nice 70x50cm size. Signed, numbered by the artist and an embossed AFFENFAUST logo.

Head over to their online gallery shop to make sure to grab your copy this time:

https://affenfaustgalerie.de/en/shop/item/flying-foertress-rasselbande/

"Mr. Bacon's Screenprint Art Calendar 2021" by Mr.Bacon aka Mr.P-Grfx.

All pages (12+1) are multi-colored handprinted artworks! What a massive piece of handcrafted work! Check out the slightly "foam-ish" finish on the black outline on the Förtress' design/page!

Available in a limited edition print run here:

mrp-grfx.com

Featured artists:

Louis letters – Flyingförtress – Skao – Hedonism – Mr. P – Chrissekunst – Manoo stich – Rudolph – Möser – Rumillusion – Akut – Pilpiled

What a nice x-mas gift idea and a glimps of better days to come in 2021!

"Montana Goldzilla" / letterpress print by FLYING FÖRTRESS

Have a look on these nice embossed letterpress details!
Makes GOLDZILLA looking really realistic! King Of The Paint!
Also this letterpress print has "edge painting"/Farbschnitt with original Montana GOLD spraypaint, so it looks even more rad when framed in a "floating" passepartout!

In colaboration mit MONTANA CANS GERMANY.
Printed in Germany by NoKiss.Print (instagram: nokiss.print)

Details of the "Montana Goldzilla" print:
• 3x PANTONE color letterpress print
• edge painting / Farbschnitt in orange-red
• size: A4 / 21,0 x 29,7 cm (approx. 8.3 x 11.7 inches)
• on GMUND 300 g/m²  cotton linen paper cream
• embossed FÖRTRESS logo
• signed & numbered by the artist
• year: 2020
• limited edition of 100

Available now in our shop!

You can but the single print or we also offer a set-price for the print together with a big "Big Stick II" stickerpack.

Stickerpack is a 111pcs mixed stickers monster pack!

Time by time we stock the shelves with some easy-doodle works... Förtress' marker collection had to be re-activated...

A little random selection below.

Some are available here:

https://teddytroops.bigcartel.com/category/artwork

Several Teddy Troops related visuals for FÖRTRESS' little pop-up show/shop "Eendagsvlieg" at the SIDEWALK GALLERY — the "smallest gallery in the Netherlands"! — in Leeuwarden/NL last weekend.

Contact the gallery for available art/prints/merch.

A little stack of the "FDC Wingman NL Edition" prints made it in our shop:

www.teddytroops.bigcartel.com