The Hello Kitty Stratocaster

[MarkRhodes]

Fender(R) x Hello Kitty(R) Pink Stratocaster(R) | Squier Electric Guitars

[joe2758]

that is one expensive pick guard.

[Mick-7]

that is one expensive pick guard.

Yes, this will be an easily duplicated and thus heavily counterfeited item.

[Hep To The Jive]

Finally, Is Strat Good For Jazz? question can be answered with resolute YES!!

[RJVB]

So what's next, Taylor making a Tom & Jerry guitar, Chibson a Tweetybird one, and Martin ... an Olivier B Bommel dreadnought?

[jim777]

I had one of the original ones years ago. I put a white EMG 81 in it, and is was a metal machine that got a lot of laughs and stares from the crowd It was fun, and I sold it for more than I had in it. Fun times!

[Artichoke]

I’m totally here for this. If it gets kids (or grown ups) interested in playing who otherwise wouldn’t be that’s a good thing.

- AC

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

Best of all, the Fender webpage says that this one has “next-level quality” !

[Doctor Jeff]

I don't understand the Hello Kitty thing, but then I'm a 60-something y/o guy. Lot's of pop culture things I don't understand.

[RJVB]

I’m totally here for this. If it gets kids (or grown ups) interested in playing who otherwise wouldn’t be that’s a good thing.

It'll get them playing -maybe- and then what when they move on from the HK fad? It gets relegated to the trash or a yard sale with all the other must-have HK stuff they never look back to?
To me this is not the right way to motivate kids to take up an instrument - it's mocking the entire thing. If kid motivation is the goal and they really have to pick up an electric, bring out kid versions of the instruments played by the artists they might be fan of at their age...

This thing looks full-size ... so not even targeted at kids of the HK age?!

[Doctor Jeff]

It'll get them playing -maybe- and then what when they move on from the HK fad? It gets relegated to the trash or a yard sale with all the other must-have HK stuff they never look back to?
To me this is not the right way to motivate kids to take up an instrument - it's mocking the entire thing. If kid motivation is the goal and they really have to pick up an electric, bring out kid versions of the instruments played by the artists they might be fan of at their age...

This thing looks full-size ... so not even targeted at kids of the HK age?!

Uh the 30-something RN in my clinic is a HK fanatic. Her car is decorated with about 10 HK stickers.

HK started in Japan (like a lot of weird things outsiders can’t comprehend). They understand the Venn diagram intersection of things that kids love and things that adults are amused by because they’re so ridiculous and nonsensical.

[starjasmine]

This pic is at least a couple of years old - JK on the cutting edge again!

Gear — jonathan kreisberg

[Tal_175]

I'll buy it if Fender makes one with a single neck humbucker.

[GNAPPI]

I'll buy it if Fender makes one with a single neck humbucker.

Make that two.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

^ You disrespectful fellas always attach so much importance to every little fucking detail in your archtops and now you want to shit Hello Kitty's head with pickups -- unbelievable...

If you need a strat with PUs different from the HK then get one.

[Jimmy blue note]

I have seen many guitars that I now regret having not purchased, including that Jimmy D'Aquisto for $9K when I lived in NY in the 80's. But by far my greatest regret is not having scored a purple Hannah Montana single cutaway uber tele type guitar when she was the rage (pre Miley Cyrus).
I still fantasize about gigging a jazz performance with purple Hannah... let's take a page from the Ed Bikert playbook and turn it up a notch.

[mr. beaumont]

Holding out for the Keroppi Jazzmaster

[RJVB]

HK started in Japan (like a lot of weird things outsiders can’t comprehend). They understand the Venn diagram intersection of things that kids love and things that adults are amused by because they’re so ridiculous and nonsensical.

I was going to say "define adult" but then realised that domesticated animals also never become true adults but retain child traits in their relationships with us. Guess that works both ways for the Homo sapiens kids growing up with even virtual pet animals.

I don't know what a "RN in your clinic" does but unless I were convinced that the stickers on her car were there for her kid I wouldn't trust her with my health.

[Tal_175]

HK started in Japan (like a lot of weird things outsiders can’t comprehend). They understand the Venn diagram intersection of things that kids love and things that adults are amused by because they’re so ridiculous and nonsensical.

Like Pui Pui Molcar. The first season is a masterpiece in absurdity.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

Holding out for the Keroppi Jazzmaster

Me waiting for the Paw Patrol Flying V

[jim777]

I think it is worth remembering these are actually a re-issue of the ones from the early 2000s that are now going for near $1000 on the used market. Lots of metal guys bought out the first run back then if memory serves at this point.

[chris32895]

It's not that deep, just a fun little guitar. It's worth pointing out it's one of the only hardtail strats I see Fender/Squier sell. A bit pricey for a Squier, though.

[MarkRhodes]

A Levi Clay Guitar Practice Routine workout on his YouTube channel and uses the HK guitar he just got. (Meaning, he's playing the new one, not one from several years back.)

Start around 5-minute mark and he talks a bit about the guitar and plays it. (The first 5 minutes are start up nattering, as this was a live thing.)

[mr. beaumont]

One of my old guitar students had one of the original Squier models. It was a great, basic, rock and roll machine.
Squier has made a few guitars over the years that were just "too good." I wish they'd bring back the '51.

They caught on here they could bring back Kitty with "Fender" on the headstock and charge a lot more.