Bad Dragon vs Mr. Hankey's (2026)

Fantasy dildos are a niche within a niche. Most people shopping for sex toys will never encounter either of these brands. But if you're here, you already know what you're looking for: silicone sculptures that don't pretend to look like human anatomy. Dragons, tentacles, aliens, creatures that exist only in someone's imagination and a very specific corner of the internet.

Bad Dragon is the name everyone knows. They basically created this market segment in the late 2000s, building a brand around fantasy-themed insertables with custom color options, multiple firmnesses, and a community that treats their collection like art. Mr. Hankey's Toys came later, built by a sculptor who thought he could do it better. He was right about some things.

I own pieces from both. A Bad Dragon Chance (medium, medium firmness, custom color pour) and a Mr. Hankey's BFG (XS, which is still ambitious). I've handled several others from friends who are deeper into this hobby than I am. This comparison is based on my direct experience plus a lot of research, because these aren't the kind of products you can test casually. Every piece is a commitment.

Fair warning: this guide gets specific. If you're new to fantasy toys, start with the body-safe materials guide to understand why platinum-curePlatinum-cure siliconeSilicone set with a platinum catalyst instead of tin. It cures cleaner, with nothing left over, and it's the claim to look for on a silicone toy. More in the glossary silicone matters, then come back here when you know what you're shopping for.

Materials & Silicone Quality

Both brands use platinum-cure silicone. That's the baseline. It's body-safe, non-porousPorous and nonporousPorous materials like TPE, jelly and Cyberskin have tiny pores that can hold bacteria. Nonporous ones like silicone, glass and steel can be cleaned completely. More in the glossary, can be boiled to sanitize, and doesn't leach chemicals. If you're buying from either Bad Dragon or Mr. Hankey's, you're getting a safe product. That puts them ahead of the cheap fantasy knockoffs on Amazon, which are often made from TPETPE (thermoplastic elastomer)A soft, cheap material used for most stroker sleeves. It's porous, so it can't be fully sanitized, and a sleeve lasts about a year of regular use. More in the glossary or mystery materials that degrade and can't be properly cleaned.

The difference is in the silicone formulation. Mr. Hankey's uses a denser pour. Their toys are heavier in hand, and the surface has a smoother, almost velvety finish that feels more like skin than silicone. The firmness options (40% soft, 75% soft, medium firm, extra firm) each feel distinct. Their soft is properly squishy. You can deform it with a squeeze and it springs back slowly. Bad Dragon's soft is firmer than Mr. Hankey's soft, which matters if you're looking for that specific yielding quality.

Bad Dragon's silicone is excellent, the best among the dedicated creature makers. Side by side, Mr. Hankey's material is denser and heavier. The color pours on Bad Dragon are more vibrant (they do wild fades and marbled pours), while Mr. Hankey's colors are more muted and realistic. Different goals. If you want a neon purple dragon dick with a teal fade, Bad Dragon. If you want something that looks like it was carved from stone by a very disturbed Renaissance sculptor, Mr. Hankey's.

Firmness matters more than most people realize with toys this size. Too firm and it's uncomfortable. Too soft and it won't hold its shape during use. Both brands offer multiple firmness levels. My advice: go softer than you think you need, especially on anything above medium size. You can always apply more pressure. You can't make a rigid silicone shaft more forgiving once it's inside you. Lube is non-negotiable with either brand. Water-based is the safe pick with both. Mr Hankey's says its toys also work with silicone lube if a drop on the base survives overnight.

Design Range & Aesthetics

Bad Dragon has the bigger creature catalog and it's not close: about 70 creature dildos ranging from vaguely phallic fantasy creatures to elaborate tentacles to things I can't easily describe in a sentence. Each design comes with a character name and backstory, because of course it does. The community lore is part of the appeal. You're not buying a dildo; you're buying a piece of Chance the Stallion or Rex the German Shepherd or whatever your particular fantasy involves.

Mr. Hankey's catalog runs past a hundred pieces, and the approach is completely different. Where Bad Dragon leans cartoony and fantastical, Mr. Hankey's sculpts hyper-detailed pieces that look like they belong in a special effects studio. Their fantasy designs have visible veining, realistic skin texture, and fine anatomical detail. The BFG (their flagship) is a work of art. A terrifying one, but art.

Mr. Hankey's also makes realistic human-anatomy dildos that compete with Vixen Creations on quality. The Perfect Penis and the Boss Hogg are anatomically detailed in a way that blurs the line between sex toy and sculpture. Bad Dragon doesn't really do realistic. That's not their market. They're selling fantasy, and they're the best at that specific thing.

The collector aspect is real with both brands. People display these. Bad Dragon's bright colors and playful designs work as conversation pieces (if your conversations tend that direction). Mr. Hankey's pieces look like horror movie props, which is either a feature or a bug depending on your shelf aesthetic.

Ordering Experience

Bad Dragon has two buying options. Ready to Ship (already poured in specific colors and sizes, ships within days) or custom orders (you pick the design, size, firmness, and color combination, then wait 5-6 weeks for production). New Ready to Ship stock goes up regularly and the community watches it like sneaker releases. Popular designs in popular colors go fast. There's a whole secondary market for rare pours.

The Bad Dragon website is decent. Clean interface, good product photos, size comparison tools. The custom color picker is addictive in a way that will cost you money if you're not careful. "Oh, I could do a blue-to-purple gradient with a glow-in-the-dark base..." Two hours and $180 later, you've designed a fantasy appendage with more thought than your last big purchase.

Mr. Hankey's is made-to-order only. No inventory drops. You pick your model, size, firmness, and color, place the order, and wait. Our Perfect Penis took about two weeks to arrive, and Hankey's own FAQ says US orders typically take 8 to 16 business days, then 2 to 6 in transit. The website is functional but bare-bones compared to Bad Dragon. Product pages have good photos (their photography is excellent) but the ordering interface feels like it was built in 2015 and hasn't been updated since.

Communication at Mr. Hankey's is plain. You get an order confirmation, then a tracking number once the label prints, and nothing much in between. Its FAQ promises email answers within 24 hours, seven days a week. Some people don't mind the quiet. Others find it nerve-racking when they've spent $200 on a custom silicone sculpture, so it helps to know the wait going in.

Returns are limited with both brands. Custom pours can't be returned (obviously; nobody else wants your specific neon tentacle). Bad Dragon takes no returns for buyer's remorse or a size that turns out wrong, ready-made included. Mr. Hankey's only takes back defective pieces. Know what you want before you order.

Size Options & Customization

This is the category where both brands distinguish themselves from mainstream sex toy companies. A "large" from LELO would be a small from either of these brands. If you're looking for size variety that goes from manageable to flat-out extreme, these are your two options.

Bad Dragon sizes most designs from Mini through XL (a few, like Nova and Kelvin, start at Small, and Andre the Mammoth goes up to 2XL). The dimensions vary per design (a Mini Chance is different from a Mini Echo), but generally: Mini is beginner-adjacent, Small is average, Medium is where most experienced users land, Large is ambitious, and XL is a conversation with your body you should have before ordering. They publish exact dimensions for every size of every design, including circumference at multiple points. Use those numbers. Print a paper template. Don't eyeball it.

Mr. Hankey's sizing starts at XS and goes up to sizes that I won't describe in detail because I don't want to be responsible for anyone's emergency room visit. Their smallest size is roughly a Bad Dragon Small, and there's nothing like a Bad Dragon Mini. This is important. If you're ordering your first Mr. Hankey's piece and you pick "small" thinking it'll be modest, you will be surprised. Measure first. Use their size charts. Their smallest BFG, the XS, has a 7-inch insertable length and a 5-inch circumference. That's not small by any normal definition.

Bad Dragon's customization extends to firmness in a way that affects sizing decisions. A soft XL will compress and deform during use, making it more manageable than the dimensions suggest. A firm medium might feel bigger than a soft large because it doesn't yield. Mr. Hankey's firmness options work the same way. Soft + bigger or firm + smaller tends to produce similar actual-use experiences. Both brands offer four firmness levels, so firmness is a tie. The real split is that Mr. Hankey's has more sizes per model, and Bad Dragon has more colors and add-ons, like the cumtube, split firmness and a suction cup.

For anal play, both brands work but neither is designed as a dedicated anal toy. None of their fantasy pieces have flared bases in the traditional sense (some have wide bases or balls that function as a stopper). Use common sense. If it can get lost, add an anchor or don't use it anally. Both companies sell base accessories for some models.

Controversy & Ethics

Can't write this comparison without addressing the room-temperature elephant.

Bad Dragon has years of online drama attached to it. Former employees have alleged a toxic workplace culture, there have been disputes over design credit, and accusations about the founder have circulated on social media and forums for over a decade. None of it has been formally adjudicated, the company disputes much of it, and the founder remains CEO. Some longtime fans have sworn off the brand. Others separate the product from the drama.

I'm not here to tell you how to weigh corporate ethics against product quality. Both brands make safe, functional products. If you'd rather buy elsewhere, Primal Hardwere and Pleasure Forge are the usual alternatives, though their design ranges are smaller. Exotic Erotics is a third option, with a 2025 controversy of its own.

If the controversy matters to you (valid), smaller indie makers are worth exploring. If the product is what matters, both BD and Mr. Hankey's deliver on that front. Your money, your call.

Pricing

A medium Bad Dragon creature dildo is $130 whatever the design (the plainer Shapes line is $80 in medium). A Medium Perfect Penis, BFG or Atlas from Mr. Hankey's is $149.95. Neither is cheap, and that's before you start adding options.

Bad Dragon's Flops are the most affordable entry point: pre-made toys with small cosmetic flaws, discounted (a Mini Chance flop is $60 instead of $75) and sold without a warranty. Regular ready-made pieces cost the same as a custom pour in the same spec ($75 Mini, $95 Small, $130 Medium), so you lose the custom color option and save only the wait. Custom pours add $20-40 for specific colors, and the price scales with size. An XL custom Chance in a complex color scheme can hit $250+. Bad Dragon also runs sales (Black Friday is the big one) where 15-20% discounts apply sitewide.

Mr. Hankey's doesn't do ready-made. Everything is custom, which means there's no Flops-style discount, though the entry price is actually lower than Bad Dragon's $75 Mini. Their smallest pieces start at $65.95, mid-range lands at $120-180, and the larger specialty items push past $300. Sales happen but less frequently than Bad Dragon. The value proposition is different: you're paying for denser silicone, realistic sculpting and more sizes per model.

The secondary market exists for both brands, but especially Bad Dragon. Rare color pours and discontinued designs can sell for double retail. I'm not suggesting you buy used sex toys from strangers (silicone can be sanitized, but still), just noting that these products hold value in a way that mainstream sex toys don't. A used Satisfyer is worth nothing. A Bad Dragon Crackers in a rare, retired color pour is worth more than you paid for it.

Cost per use is the metric that matters. A $150 silicone toy you use weekly for three years costs less than a dollar per session. Platinum-cure silicone doesn't degrade. These are long-term purchases. Buy the one you actually want instead of the cheaper option you'll replace in six months.

Sasha's Verdict

Bad Dragon makes the better fantasy toy, while Mr. Hankey's makes the denser, bigger, more realistic one.

That's the split, and which one matters more depends on what you're buying. If you care about silicone density, realistic detail, the size range, and the physical object in your hand, Mr. Hankey's wins. Denser material, more sizes, heavier construction, and you can order any time. Their pieces feel like they were made by someone who cares about craft. Because they were.

If you care about creature designs, colors, add-ons like the cumtube, community, and the fun of designing your own ridiculous fantasy toy, Bad Dragon wins. Their website is better. The color picker is addictive. The ready-made section, with its discounted Flops, gives you a quick way in that Mr. Hankey's doesn't offer. And the sheer variety of about 70 creature designs means you're more likely to find something that matches your specific fantasy.

First fantasy dildo? Bad Dragon. A medium Chance in medium firmness ($130) is the one I'd start with, a Rex is the pick if you already know you like a knot, and a Flop or an in-stock Mini ($60-75) is the cheaper way to see if this is your thing. The sizes start smaller, and the community is more welcoming to newcomers.

Want a realistic shape or the biggest sizes? Mr. Hankey's. Once you know what you like, its size range and denser silicone take you further. The BFG in soft is one of the most impressive sex toys I've held, and I don't use that word casually about silicone shaped like an alien.