History

Late one night in 1994, Peter Underhill, an illustrator and Graphic Designer from Coventry, was designing a range of cutesy bears to be printed onto little girl's pyjamas. To clear his head after becoming "All cuted out" he drew his first ever Bad Taste Bear, "Hey kiddies! Here's the chainsaw bear!" He enjoyed drawing it so much that he started putting a list together and drawing and painting bears in "interesting" situations as a release for his twisted imagination.

In 1999, the BT Bear Company discovered the range and turned them into collectable figurines. They began with just the first six figurines on sale in the Gadget Shop, UK. Within the first year, the range increased to twelve figurines and in the months that followed, due to an increasing demand, they launched a collectors club to provide a point of contact for the Bad Taste Bear fans.

The rest as they say is history...

Hundreds of collectables and tens of thousands of collectors later and here we are, together, involved in something that we never thought would be such a phenomenon.