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| Windups, squishy stuff, and other gizmos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Slightly larger, more advanced toys than the other general gallery. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pumping Heads (2002 and on) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| These are just like all those other squeeze-toys with the unfurling "tongue", except for one obvious difference. There's werewolf and vampire versions with the "tongue" actually in their mouth, but that's not as cool. I believe it's meant to represent a worm for these two, but it could just as easily be spurting blood or a severed nerve. The mummy kinda looks like Rodney Dangerfield. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Gooey squeezey head (2001) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A tough rubber ball full of sticky rubber that bulges when squeezed. I unfortunately never bought the other variety; a skull head with green goo and a dopier, friendlier expression. They had a nice little contrast going. I bet they were comically mismatched friends. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| After nearly four years in a plastic baggie in a knapsack, the gooey mummy head thing has somehow transformed into rock-hard plastic while the sticky material had secreted so much foul-smelling grease into the bag that I simply tore it all out, which took an amazingly long time. And here I am, four years after buying a squeezable monster head, writing an update on its condition after pulling its guts out for ten minutes. WHERE HAS MY LIFE GONE!?! |
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| Mummy Ooze (2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A plastic coffin full of clear puttylike jelly and a sticky mummy on a strand. These popped up in 2000 and became a new tradition. They still make a cool decoration if unopened, which is always the better idea when it comes to sticky toys. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Halloween Magic Lollipop holders (2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| When a button is pressed, the head splits open and spins around. Fairly standard lollipop holders (the laziest inventions known to man), but one of them is an alien pirate. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Assorted Walking Windups (various years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Just some standard windups, my favorite is the coffin (very creative) which I found at a flea market in 2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other Windups (various years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The cloaked guys roll along on wheels while shaking their heads, and were sold at Joann Fabrics with cloth robes glued onto them. Strangely, the walking reaper in the upper pic (and some other walking windup monsters of similar make) was sold in the same box as the wheeled guys and ALSO had a glued-on cloak which I promptly removed because it hid the scythe. The ghost rolls sideways while waving its arms, the fangs and eyeball are typical "hopping" windups, and the small skull at the end just opens and closes its jaw. If placed on a table, the jaw pulls it along, but it's meant to be clipped to a shirt pocket. |
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| Nonsensical Coffins (2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| These are a little hard to explain....when you pull the metal ring on the bottom, the monster and the panel its standing on are pulled out on a string. Release it, and the monster rapidly shakes its arms as it pulls back up. The doors have springy hinges and can be "locked" shut, but this serves no purpose whatsoever as the closed doors either prevent the toys from working or pop back open as the monster flails. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Babblin' Bones (2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Found at a dollar store, this glow-in-the dark skeleton has loose dangly joints and chatters his jaw super fast when you pull the cord/keychain at the top. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Action flashing skull (2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pull the clip and it chatters, flashing its eyes red as it rewinds the cord. One was used as part of a costume in "House of 1000 Corpses" (not a good movie, but if you're a horror fan it's not too horrible) I've seen them sold with bodies, too, the same ones as "Babblin Bones". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Carnivorous Plant Stamp (2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| One of my favorites, this little rubber maneater is less than two inches high and came as the top to a candy-filled tube. Its base is a stamp of the same creature. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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