toys

More proof that people are strange (in case you needed some): There is a website dedicated to selling toy cars which have suffered toy accidents by crashing into toy (bonsai) trees.
The art pieces go for between $75 - $150.
People are — apparently — grabbing them like hotcakes.

CrashBonsai

I suppose $499.99 is a bit too much to pay for a toy at my age … even if it would be the absolute coolest toy in the history of all time … even if it would be a toy I dreamt of owning for the better part of the first half (fifteen years) of my life … even if it would be something that would, perhaps, escalate me to Level III.

What is sad is that it is a toy that I could probably never explain to my (potential) children. It’s a toy that even now is likely only understood by an ever-shrinking number of still-awestruck twenty-five to forty-one year olds. It’s so, so difficult to explain a revolution to those either too young to have known the world before it or too unlike you to care.

Here’s one for the “weird” file: GIANTmicrobes! I always wanted a stuffed rhinovirus!

We make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes — only a million times actual size! Each 5-to-7 inch doll is accompanied by an image of the real microbe it represents, as well as information about the microbe.

link via 8 Ways to Sunday

NEWPORT, R.I. - Mr. Potato Head is missing, and police want to know who took the tourism-touting tater.

The 6-foot tall, 150-pound statue was stolen Friday from the driveway of a private estate. James Leach called police after he heard his driveway alarm sounding about 3 a.m. He looked outside and saw a vehicle near the street.

The statue was located within the gates of the 17-acre Malbone Estate which were open at the time, Leach said.

In 2000, the Rhode Island Tourism Division introduced the Mr. Potato Head figures to promote the state as a family tourist destination. After the advertising campaign, several of the statues were auctioned off on eBay, with proceeds benefiting charity.

“We are wondering where and when it will turn up,” Leach said. “So far, no ransom note has been found.”

I would like someone to buy me this Snoopy keychain for my birthday. The watch is nice, but I really just want the keychain. Can someone work on that for me? June 26.
okaythanksyou’rethebest.

Just in time for Christmas! Check out Tourette Syndrome Barbie and Leprosy Barbie!

Tickle Me.

These costumed characters were used to promote Boong-Ga Boong-Ga at the Tokyo Gaming Convention. One is a poking finger, the other a poop keychain. Only in Japan…

LONDON — A giant Mr. Potato Head statue given by a U.S. town to its twin town in central England had to be removed because local residents said they didn’t like it.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the “Mr. Potato Head” character featured in the “Toy Story” movies was invented, sent the seven-foot-tall plastic effigy to the town of Belper where it was put up outside the local McDonald’s.

Note: I was born in Pawtucket, RI.

The adventure begins when you receive your live tadpole by mail. First you’ll experience the wonder of metamorphosis as your tadpole transforms into a frog. Then watch your frog kick back on the beach, hang out in Croaky’s Surf Shop and ride the gnarly wave on its own surfboard.

At the Jesus Christ Superstore you can buy a God Almighty action figure.
Sometimes I just can’t believe the things that are on the ‘net. When I was a kid my sister and I used to play with G.I. Joe toys all the time. We’d cover the entire house with bases and battles and we’d make the toys act out scenes from the comics or the cartoon. We had a lot of fun.

There is nothing like a completely useless, meaningless toy to brighten your day.
<big grin>Thanks, Zannah!</big grin>

How could you not want to buy a toy that blows cheese-scented soap bubbles?!

I found this amazingly awesome, incredible book last year and loved it. (I can’t seem to find my copy anywhere …) I bought the daily-planner version for my friend Chris for Christmas.

There are so many things wrong with divine-interventions.com … I can’t even begin to describe it. These people are going to Hell. They will not pass Go. They will not collect $200.