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Friday, February 19, 2010

Bad, Twisted & Bizarre Toys


"QUANTUM SHOT" #614
Link - by Avi Abrams



Something went terribly wrong in the Toytown...

Nightmarish, deeply disturbing and bizarre toys can still be found in this world, lurking just around the corner to haunt unsuspecting children... Some people even pay money to get these products.

Continuing the series of Dolls and Toys that Creep Us Out, here is another bunch of toys to steer clear of - or on the contrary, deliberately seek them out for a nifty collection.



(killer rabbit plush via)

But first, let us celebrate creativity, and start with some neat stuff:

Wonderfully Twisted Toys

These are toys that we actually like, and will gladly add to our roster of curiosities... we may even play with them to unwind after work.

Crazy steampunk rabbit - "Woppit & Hare Clockwork Enigma" - made by Doctor A. using the customized "labbit" evil toy from Kid Robot.



(images via)

Artists from Kidrobot display endless creativity in coming up with nameless monsters and kinky apparitions. Check out their catalog - here are some examples:




However, Doctor A. makes the most intense steampunkish toys - check out his site and his line up of "Mechtorians" toys!


(images credit: Doctor A.)

"An Alien Clone Baby" is presented by Martin Dolan. For the grown-ups he's got a very cool deskphone, made from a spade!.. mostly (see image below right):



(images credit: Martin Dolan)

For the curious kids and adults alike, there is a sci-fi styled "womb" with a developing clone inside:



Strange praying nuns (meant for bowling?) - via:



Wonderful site Weird Toys is full of that stuff:


(images via)

Not a toy! "Back to School"... solutions?! -



For really gruesome baby toys, head over here.


From Bizarre to Gruesome, to Obscene?

You think, there is nothing wrong with this rocking horse? Think again! This horse is a dead real horse, "Rocking Horse Winner" - a sculpture made from taxidermed horse, tack, wood, and rug (made by Kathrine Worel):


(image and more info via)

Like they say, this horse "activates the threshold between wonder and horror". It can be forever (undead) yours, for the price of $50,000.

Brilliant ideas:



Speaking about dogs, here is a jigsaw puzzle:


(image via)





Toilet humor: pooping reindeer and pigs (a jelly bean dispenser). What fun! -



(more info and purchase here, via)

These balloons clearly suffer from bad design:


(image via)

Hipsters' most favorite teddy bear (with all these accessories in the set, what do they need the bear for?):


(photo by McDowell Crook, more info)


(get "Mr. Bean with his bear" toy figure here)

"Trailer Trash Doll" (it even comes with the pregnant version), available from Redneck Warehouse:



Stuffed Mummy from "Happy Tree Friends"-inspired art site Cuddly Rigor Mortis:



We have to mention the "strange Museum of Broken Toys", collected by Miquel Angel Joan from Majorca, Spain - click here (mute audio). Here are some examples:




(images via)

For the really extensive collection of weird and wonderful toys, head over to Toys Are Evil site. Here is a "sloshed sloth" toy figure, for example:



Random madness:


(image credit: Shintaro Kago)


(more info and images here)


(left image credit: Pietro Bellini)


(zombie on the right: info and buy here)



Plush Cthulhu and microbes. Get them here:





(originals unknown)

Well... in our opinion, any ugly and scary toy is better than games some families play (or played in the 1950s):


(original unknown)

And finally, a mystery animal toy (how would you call it?) -




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COMMENTS:

26 Comments:

Anonymous dickie said...

don't forget about this giant plush pubic louse. Also available: black death, HIV, herpes and swine flu.

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Blogger sandro.stiller said...

The last animal seems to be a kind ofWolpertinger

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Blogger That Girl said...

The dead cat figure was made by guro manga artist, Shintaro Kago... you ought to attribute that to him.

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Blogger Guy said...

I keep seeing that set of green knives for schoolkids. What's so wrong with a set of cooking knives for schoolkids? What else would they use for cookery?

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Blogger ekchew said...

Hey, I think I know what that dead cat business is all about! When I was a kid in Japan, we used to sing this song about stepping on the cat. It was sung to the melody of the Flea Waltz which anyone learning the piano would probably know.

Ne-ko fun-jat-ta
Ne-ko fun-jat-ta
Ne-ko fun-ja fun-ja fun-jat-ta
etc.

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Thank you for all this info on the dead cat. Updated.

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Blogger Mateusz said...

one ot this toy (you can shave your baby) was made by one of the most popular Polish moder artist - Antoni Libera, so I assume that the rest of it is also some kind of performence.

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Blogger Jeremy said...

If I am not mistaken, the "clone baby" in the tank is from an episode of the "X-Files". The baby, if you look closely, resembles David Duchovny.

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Blogger ppppeettte said...

THe multi-animal would be a kind of Chimera

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Blogger VMOS said...

roadkilltoys.com make an excellent line of crushed cuddlies, they have zips so you can stuff them back in, I have Twitch the possum myself
http://www.roadkilltoys.com/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,flypage_rk/product_id,1/category_id,5/manufacturer_id,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,80/

Also, what exactly is the dog with the removable part?

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Blogger Justin Gammon said...

Wow! Great collection of bizarro toys, and thanks for linking to the Weirdo Toys blog. Glad you liked the toys. Now I get to check out your site....

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Blogger Rin said...

Twisted! I'm pretty sure some of those are not for kids....right?

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Blogger Joel said...

Bob the killer rabbit from Monte Pythons Holy Grail. My daughter has one of those as thats her favorite movie.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some of these toys are really scarry. What insane mind project such things!

Strange Twisted and bizzare is this car from Poland.

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Anonymous Ajani said...

These toys are going to haunt many children, in their nightmares.. for sure.

Lol!

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Blogger Daniel said...

This girl from Montreal, Miss Agonie, also makes all kinds of crazy plush toys, worth a look!

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Blogger Sonja S said...

You didn't have any Little Apple Dolls here, you should see them. I collect them, and I think they're adorable, but some of my friends tell me, that they are creepy. Can't understand why..

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Anonymous Orange said...

Very nice pics!) Crazy steampunk rabbit and Jigsaw puzzle - the best))))

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Anonymous Candidato Gobernador Veracruz said...

Michael Jackson Doll from Susan's Custom Creepy Dolls is terrifying. Scary Michael Jackson is sitting in a rocking chair, staring at you.

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Anonymous Ochoa said...

In japan bizarre and weird is an actual selling point. There’s lots of products pushed out and only the truly insane and weird will really get sold in numbers.

the price tag on some of these are expensive and it has to do with the fact that most Japanese families both parents work. Parents usually feeling guilty give their kids an allowance, this is the same in the US, but the amount given is much higher.

So kids generally have a lot more spending money and they become consumers at a younger age. So they buy all sorts of knick knacks like these toys.

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Anonymous soundchaser said...

Mr. Bean looks like Spock!

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Anonymous Richard said...

Wow..I got creeped out just looking at those toys. I think if I had those in my home I wouldn't be able to sleep at night!

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Blogger ax said...

The would be elephant in fact is Forgotten one from WOW,lol

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The last image kind of reminds me of the Whingdingdilly. One of my favourite books growing up.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The last animal is a Panzeraffant. Got a herd of them in our local zoo.

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Anonymous Mesonoxian said...

VMOS asked what the plastic dog with the removable part was, and I have to admit that I was wondering about that as well. So I looked up the product number and found out what it was: a dog sex toy. The removable part is shown as it's being cleaned after usage! Uuuuughhh (*shudders*). Here's the link: http://www.buyer-buying.com/html-www62/dog-sex-toy-420547.htm

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  • World record note:

    I dont believe you didnt published
    a photo of 500 000 000 000 dinars note (national bank of Yugoslavia), during hyperinflatio in 1993. here it is:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sr/0/0d/500milijardi.jpg
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  • @darko: That Dinar note is far from being world record... Even the posted Zimbabwean note has 3 more zeros, and that's not WR either.
    In terms of zeros, no currency managed to "beat" the infamous Hungarian Pengő I posted above.
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  • Czechoslovakia was not occupied by Soviets in 1949. It was back then only the Soviet satellite. The occupation happened in 1968.

    INVITATION
    See my vintage picture blogs:
    http://mynewoldpictures.blogspot.com
    http://mypetarts.blogspot.com
    http://mynaturepictures-benmil.blogspot.com
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  • One of the reasons the 50 pence and twenty pence coins are multi-sided is so that blind people could tell which coins they were holding. A square pound coin was trialled in Jersey but was rejected in favour if a thick, round one, due to vending machine considerations.

    Good article!
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  • You should also mention Cook islands: scallop shaped 1 dollar, triangular 2 dollars and dodecagonal 5 dollars and one shouldn't forget the banknotes for 3 (!) dollars.
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  • that "100 million" reichsmark bill is actually 100 Billion.
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  • fortunately i own one note showed here. its the first one, the Russian Empire bank note. its an A4 sized paper which i inherited from my grandmother. also i own lots of hungarian pengő, also millions. so practically i'm a multi millionaire :)))
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  • a hundred trillion dollars... it's incredible how poor zimbaue is... there's lots of corruption, and they have an acting dictator, I think his name is mugabe. The guy is completely mad, he forced the population of an entire city to move in the desert and starve or something like that... that's just so bad...
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  • Polish 20 zlotys with Chopin it's limited edition for collectors.
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  • Very neat. I was surprised not to see Canadian money on it near the end, though. It does represent one of the most colourful currencies.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Canadian_bills2.jpg
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  • Prince Charles is an outspoken Royal not a politician.
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  • "Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko " = Premier Aleksei Kosygin during a 1971 visit to Canada.
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  • Thank you Emily - they both had a sour face though at the time.
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  • Oh p-p-p-please give us a series of the "accidental" appearances of The Won with a halo....

    Fair's fair.
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  • haha Putin under the skinned bear was so funny.

    The policy of Mediedev about alcohol was very nice too!
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  • hahah Loooool!))))))) Very Nice pics))) "Serious business" awesome))
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  • thanks for the article. I had forgot that putin was from kgb, the "tourist camouflage" was interesting
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  • All of these were funny or interesting, apart from the Bush ones - it's still painful!

    The Regan/Putin one in particular is incredible - easy to forget that he was a KGB man, and even easier to forget he must have done real KGB footwork at one time. Agreed that Charles isn't a politician, just a... right royal charlie. Mandy looks appropriately uncomfortable, also.

    Love it, Avi - keep up the good work.
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  • Temptation?!?!?
    Peter Mandleson aka The Prince of Darkness is a homo
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  • Peter Mandelson may well be gay, but what's for sure is that he's an oligarchic scuz-bucket.
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  • FIRST!

    people might be interested that the fancy 1942 ‘Concept for Greyhound Coach Lines’ was predated by at least six years... THE GERMANS GOT THERE FIRST... as this link about a 1936 semi-trailer bus proves, (1) semi trailer busses were a reality in the 1930s already; (2) semi-trailer busses did operate in germany in regular public service during the 1930s...1950s; (3) they even had double deckers; (4) they even operated on rails (insular railway of sylt; system sadly got scrapped in dec. 1970).

    wouldn't that page warrant a copycat entry here on d.r.b.? just in order to celebrate the greatness of german semi trailer bus design??
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  • "His latest work is Duel Nature - heavily armed trees wage war for green cause and some oxygen"

    Why would they fight over oxygen? To a plant, that is a waste product. Perhaps you meant carbon dioxide?
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  • He didn't say anything about a war over oxygen, he said it was over "sunlight and nutrients" (nutrients could be minerals in the soil).
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  • These women are imposing.

    We used to see the amazon as the most powerful of all.

    However, now the amazon is too substantial a body type.

    The fashion is now to have a delicate form with the power to kill if necessary, and to lure when appropriate.

    Vincenti

    ToysPeriod is a leading online shop specializing in lego sets and model railroad equipment.
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  • Philip K. Dick might be proud, but Isaac Asimov would be prouder!
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