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by Miel Margarita Paredes
Evil Stick
A mother in Dayton, Ohio was shocked this week when she purchased a toy wand for her child at a dollar store only to find it ran not on unicorn hair but a picture of a child slicing her arm open. In fairness to the dollar store, the product was named 'EVIL STICK', though the pink lettering, fairies, swirls and snowflakes on the packaging ensured it would catch the eye of toddlers. The fact that the wand emits a cackling laugh when activated is probably permissible, the horrific hidden image less so. "It's a picture of a girl slitting her wrists. I'm outraged over it," mother Nicole Allen, who bought the toy for her two-year-old daughter. "I want to know how they think that that is suitable for a child. There was barbie dolls on one side and baby toys on the other side, and these were right in the middle."
Mugen Peri Peri
Opening presents is a great feeling…why not replicate it forever? Mugen Peri Peri (Infinite tearing open) is the latest “infinite action” gadget that simulates the feeling of opening packages such as Fed-Ex envelopes, Pocky, and boxes. No money to buy packages to open? Have a shopaholic friend who just loves opening new boxes? Mugen Peri Peri is the solution to such addictions.
Classic Wrecks Beat Up Car Toy
Don't give your child false hopes with a toy car in the form of a Porsche or Lamborghini. Be more realistic with this rusted 1984 Chevy Citation.
Slip 'N Slide
The Slip ‘N Slide had a design that made people above a certain weight vulnerable to possible neck fractures. The original manufacturer, Wham-O, discontinued the product in the 1970s after three reports of broken necks. But after Wham-O was sold in 1982, the new owner brought back the Slip ‘N Slide, leading to additional deaths and injuries resulting in quadriplegia. Lawsuits brought the danger of the Slip ‘N Slide to public attention, and as a result the company stopped making the product, recalled products from retail shelves and issued a safety alert.
Evil Vinyl
Here are the “Evil Vinyl” from the British studio Evil Corp, which designed some beautiful toys inspired by characters from cult movies and series! You will find of course Clockwork Orange, The Shining or Freddy, but also the characters of IT Crowd and The Office, the characters of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in the Cornetto trilogy or even tributes to the roles of David Bowie and Bill Murray.
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The Strange Change Machine
This "electrical toy,” manufactured in 1967 is actually but a small hot plate or heating chamber of sorts. What this comes down to, essentially, is this: with a pair of blue plastic tongs (included), you would insert small red, yellow and green "capsules" into the heating chamber (and on top of the hot plate). As they heated up, the cubes would unfold in glorious slow-motion into, as the box copy reads, "Membrane Men, Fragments of Space Creatures... Crawlers... fliers... Skeletons of Human Types.... Mummies... Robots." This Mattel invention also came complete with a "compressor" on the red heating unit so you could crush the 16 hidden wonders back into their original cube forms and start all over again. The box implored kids to: “CREATE 'EM! CRUSH 'EM! and CREATE 'EM! AGAIN AND AGAIN In the STRANGE CHANGE MACHINE.
Fighting Ear of Corn
Marx Toy Soldier Casualties
I first remembered these toys during a conversation, some recent years back, with a friend of mine who was going through a seemingly inexplicable, plastic dinosaur freak-out. The discussion set my mind to ruminating over my own childhood’s crappy plastic dinosaurs, cowboys and Indians, and army men. I voiced having once had some WWII figures that included both American GI’s and Germans. Not only that but *dead* Germans and wounded Americans. My friend was dubious of this assertion, not daring to believe that a toy company of the time would have made anything as heinous as a wounded American GI – but my mental image remained – I knew it to be true. Were they a rarity, manufactured by some weird, little company? A few creative eBay searches later and I am rewarded. There they are and more than I had remembered: the stretcher bearers with patient, the crawling wounded Marine, the injured soldier slung over a compatriot’s shoulders, the shot soldier with his flapping helmet and dropping pistol.
Evil Boy
Building upon Die Antwoord’s one-day exhibition at FIFTY24SF Gallery this summer, Upper Playground has once again teamed up with the famed South African hip-hop group and vinyl figure company Good Smile to release two new colorways of the Ninja designed “Evil Boy” figure. Previously only available during shows of Die Antwoord’s continuous world tour, Upper Playground is pleased to announce a “Red” and “Black" and "Green" edition of "Evil Boy". The “Evil Boy” Red Edition was made in a limited release of 168, and stand at 6″ tall. The Black Edition was made in a limited release of 216, and stands at 6″ tall. The Green Edition was made in a limited release of 96, and stands at 6″ tall.
Cinema of Fear
Cinema Of Fear was a toy line of action figures, plush dolls, "screen grab" dioramas, and limited edition toys based on New Line's horror franchises: Friday the 13th, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Rob Zombie's Halloween II remake.
Ryan Sheckler Omnitech Skateboard Figure
The Ryan Sheckler Omnitech Figure is the most realistic skateboarding action figure ever made! Instead of holding on to your action figure, the patented Omni Tech handle allows you to take your hands off the figure and flip, spin, and grind the board in any combination.
Coarse Toys
Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk started Coarse, a company that creates resin and vinyl toys, both and small and life-size. Up until now their toys, like most toys on the market, have remained inanimate (and I don’t just mean battery-operated). Their latest release, however, breathes new life into the world of toys, literally. The project is called Oops, and it arrives on your doorstep as a seven-inch embryo. There’s a whole line-up of embryos to choose from, iconic Coarse characters in their most infantile state so fans can experience the birth, growth and eventual death of their favorites. The embryo starts out as a spore and then becomes a shoot, then a fruit and, finally, flesh. Once it has reached this stage it emerges from its protective pod and life begins.
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Buried Passion
Milky Bliss
Sprouting Noop
Moon Shoes
Toy Piano
Shimajiro Toilet Training Tiger
The Shimajiro Toilet Training Tiger videos feature an animated tiger struggling with potty training and his animated personified waste. The accompanying toy attaches to the toilet paper roll holder and yells out encouraging phrases while you go.
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Untitled (Lamp/Bear)
Cutting-edge contemporary artist Urs Fischer's monumental outdoor sculpture Untitled (Lamp/Bear) achieved $6,802,500 at the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York on 11 May 2011. The price established a new world auction record for the Fischer, six times the artist’s previous record.
Remco Baby Laugh-a-Lot Doll
Dog Toy Eyeball Squeaker Toy
It's not fun and games until your dog pokes someone's eye out... and then plays with it. Inside the toy is a squeaker and stuffing. My crocheted toys are more durable than your average store bought fabric toy so your doggy will be able to enjoy it longer! Meowadays' toys have been tested on Lydia, a pug, who gives it her seal of approval. Lydia received her dog toy a year ago and still enjoys playing with the intact toy to this day. Meowadays' dog toys are recommended for smaller breeds of dogs.
Tuttuki Bako Finger Game
Tuttuki Bako Finger Game is a small box with a screen that begs you to stick your finger in its hole and see what happens, and although that would normally be a terrible idea the Tuttuki Bako makes poking around fun again! Each stage features something you interact with by poking it. Stick your finger in the box and a digital representation appears on the screen mimicking your motions. From what we can tell the various stages of the game include terrorizing a tiny stick man, poking a girl in the face and flicking a tiny panda.
Remco Toy Drive-In Theater
We can all bewail the loss of drive-in movie theaters, but perhaps some of our more enterprising readers will invest in a theater of their own. This Remco toy might be a little smaller than you were thinking, but here's a drive-in theater that's ready to go... no messy dealings with movie distributors, and no cleaning up after your little plastic patrons. For just south of a thousand dollars you can pick up this mint boxed toy drive-in from 1959. It includes toy cars, changeable movie marquees, and most impressively it has a built-in projector for showing filmstrips taken from actual movies.
Piglet Weapon
A mother who killed her three-year-old daughter by suffocating her with a Piglet toy is facing life in jail. Mum-of-four Helen Caudwell, 42, murdered Bethany in October with the Winnie the Pooh character. She had led a double life, convincing two men they were the girl’s father. Caudwell, of Stockport, was convicted at Manchester Crown Court despite claiming she had been suffering an “abnormality of the mind”.
Statue of Liberty is Too Free
One of Japan's newest toy lines features the Statue Of Liberty feeling all kinds of free, just like a real life lady! She lounges around looking at her tablet, bends over backwards in some sort of Yoga position and generally defies the stereotype that she's a big stiff.
Space Shuttle Columbia Kit
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New line of knitted, stuffed toys for Fall 2015
Jarts
Lawn Darts were a game from a simpler, more naive time. Sure, they could embed themselves in your little sister's head just as easily as the lawn, but they were fun. Now they're back. They're back thanks to the unfortunately named Jarts In Your Heart web site, which sells the banned items thanks to a little bit of legal gymnastics. You see, since lawn darts (or "Jarts" as they're known here) transform so easily from an innocent backyard game into deadly weapon depending on who's holding them, Jarts In Your Heart has to sell the plastic fins and metal tips separately. Sad.
God Jesus Robot
This strange all knowing Japanese toy debuted in the 80’s and answered your questions in a magic 8-ball style.
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Potato Chips Tank Scary Prop Toy
Do you want to be the superstar during the party? If do, this toy will be your best choice. Carrying this, you will be the most horrible, insane, and the king/queen of scare. You can carry it on parties, masquerades, birthday parties and wedding occasions. Carry this and feel the fun. It is suitable for girls.
Dangerous Popsicles
Would you lick a popsicle if it was in the shape of a deadly virus or bacteria such as HIV, MRSA, E. coli or the chicken pox? Designer Wei Li created popsicle sticks, which she calls Dangerous Popsicles, in the shape of these viruses to see if a person's preexisting knowledge of something would effect the way they perceive something else. "You look at the popsicle and you are intrigued by what it will taste like," Li told the Daily News. "At the same time, your brain is bringing up all of these other associations."
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Charles Ray 'Firetruck'
Best known for his sculptures of almost imperceptibly altered, or wildly exaggerated, familiar objects, Charles Ray creates mesmerizing, disorienting works that challenge perception. With Firetruck (1993), for example, Ray enlarged a toy Tonka truck to the proportions of an actual fire truck and “parked” it in front of the Whitney Museum in New York. From afar, Firetruck looked real. It was only upon approach that viewers saw that it was not.
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KFC Chicken Keyboard & Mouse
Because fried chicken is the greatest thing in the history of the world, and considering Japan is from the future, it's surprising they got their first KFC only 30 years ago. To celebrate that anniversary, the franchise is currently holding a contest on Facebook and Twitter with probably the most amazing prizes ever. The first prize is a KFC Original Keyboard - a specially-designed keyboard that looks like a KFC plastic tray with lots of chicken on it. Every single key has been designed to have a chicken drumstick, a thigh piece, or a chicken wing sticking out of the key. Although the actual definitions of the keys are in white next to the keys, for the most part, it's a sea of chicken, with only the letters "K", "F" and "C" as actual letter keys. The KFC logo replaces the Windows key and the keyboard also comes with a miniature Colonel Sanders standing by, as well as a KFC milkshake and a KFC bucket on the edges. If that's not good enough, you could also hope to walk away with a signature KFC wired PC mouse, which is shaped like a chicken drumstick, or a USB memory stick, which has a USB connector hidden in the middle of the plastic chicken piece.
Incriminating Lego
Lucille Johnson, 78, was strangled and beaten to death in her Salt Lake City home in February 1991. The murder has been unsolved for the last 23 years. Last year it was reopened and investigators made a breakthrough with DNA found on some Lego toys taken as evidence from the house linked them to John Sansing, 47, a convicted murderer. Fingerprints on the toys matched that of Sansing's juvenile son. Police believe the boy was playing with the Lego in the house when Sansing killed Mrs Johnson. Sansing is currently on death row in Arizona for the murder of a church worker who was delivering a charity food package to his family.
Freeny Anatomical Cartoon Dolls
An artist has created a series of gruesome anatomical dolls stripping family favourite cartoon characters down to their bare bones and internal organs. American designer Jason Freeny, 43, claims his gruesome dolls of the likes of Papa Smurf, Barbie, Hello Kitty and Family Guy star Stewie Griffin, were designed to reveal the inner character of some of the world's most famous fictional faces. But buyers of the dolls should be prepared to pay a hefty sum if they want to take one home, with most characters costing several thousand pounds.
Rupert's corpse
Last night, Rupert, joey of Rowena the toy kangaroo, was badly mauled and mutilated. By the time we found him, he had severe facial trauma and half an ear missing. My plastic surgery skills weren’t up to the task, so unfortunately, we had to pronounce Rupert dead.
Toy Tank
A visitor looks at artist Amy Cheung’s full size wooden ‘Toy Tank’, which visitors can climb into and operate, at the ‘Hong Kong Eye’ exhibition at Saatchi Gallery on December 4, 2012 in London, England.
Scary Car for Children
This toy car is not good for child as they may scared of it.... But this cool baby is so brave that he rides of that car...
Pachi Pachi Clappy
One handed clapping is now ridiculously easy thanks to the Pachi Pachi Clappy toy, the toy that does all the clapping for you! Pachi Pachi Clappy has two "big soft squishy hands" on top and a funny lil' face in front, so you can carry your own private cheering section around with you wherever you go!
Marx Whistling Spooky Kooky Trees
1960s. 13" tall tin litho with soft plastic simulated leaves on top. Wonderful design and actions including whistling sound, moving leaves, eyes move up and down, mouth opens and closes, arms move up and down and bump and go action. Works well. Dark brown variety. Scattered light wear with a few small scratches here and there. VF appearance. In the top ten of battery toys.
Monster Science Colossal Water Balls
This recall involves marble-sized toys that absorb water and grow up to 400 times their original size. They were sold as Monster Science Colossal Water Balls. Monster Science packages contain eight balls and “Growth Powder.” The balls were sold in an assortment of blue, green, orange, purple, red, yellow or clear colors. Many children ingested the delicious-looking toys, which their genius designers made capable of expanding within a child’s body. Woe be to those who also choked down the ominously labeled “Growth Powder.” From there they caused life-threatening episodes of vomiting and dehydration. To top it all off, these things were impossible to X-ray and required surgery to remove.
Junkie Jane
Ooze It
Here is one of the most obscure 1970s toys ever. It is made of latex and does get filled with a type of syrup. Ooze it was thought up and designed by a family in Metairie, Louisiana and produced overseas in Hong Kong. Oooze It Incorporated produced only this toy that has become its "one hit wonder". Ooze It is so incredibly rare that only 5 are currently known to exist at the present time.
Lucky Dog Unchoken
If money is burning a hole in your pocket, then let it burn a hole in this pooch's powerful digestive tract instead. Just pop a coin in his greedy gaping mouth and watch as he eagerly snaffles it up. His wide eyes dart about, his tail starts to wag and his hind legs begin quivering frantically as he spins round, squats and "deposits" your cherished coin into the box beneath him.
Small World: Meg Williams
I don’t know why I started collecting toys. They could be worthless and broken but they had to have a certain look and I haunted Camberwell Market looking for figures with this essential quality. Some time after I have finished a picture I usually realize what it is really about, and it’s generally something quite serious, but I never know its purpose at the time of painting. It’s a message sent to me from my unconscious, via the toys.
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Aqua Dots
Aqua Dots would seem inadvisable for little kids even if the toy didn’t release a date-rape drug when ingested. The thing’s basic component is small beads. Using a smart-looking applicator, kids arrange the beads on a grid in little crafty patterns. Then you spray the beads with water and, voilà, they fuse together. The finished product looks something like three-dimensional beady works of needlepoint. Kids love Aqua Dots! In Australia, where they’re sold under the brand Bindeez, they were named the country’s Toy of the Year. Let me say this again: Aqua Dots are small beads that look like M&Ms. It’s kind of like a toy involving candy cigarettes, except that the cigarettes aren’t made of candy but tobacco. And they’re made of a date-rape drug. In a fantastic piece today, the New York Times’ Keith Bradsher explains how doctors in Sydney, Australia, spent a couple weeks getting to the bottom of the menace posed by Aqua Dots — leading to international recalls of the product, including one in the United States this week by the Consumer Products Safety Commission.
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