
Or the Swanee whistle. Whatever you call it, this little slide whistle (just consider it the smallest trombone in the universe) has an outsized musical history. No elevator has ever fallen in a cartoon without its accompaniment, and no jug band is complete without one, but Louis Armstrong also played one on his Hot Five recordings, and Ravel even required one in an opera score. In assorted plastic colors with a steel slide, 6-7/8" long x 1/2" dia.
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93011 SLIDE WHISTLE |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Direct from the confluence of kooshy toys and elongated insects come the absurdly stretchy, spiked caterpillar and centipede, the answer to a bored entomologist's dream. The stretchipillar is about 3" dia x 11" long, with big googley eyes, but he'll stretch to about 10 feet. The skinnier stretchipede is 9" long with 1-1/2" long soft spikes and will also reach about 10 feet when pulled in opposite directions. Both are cute as bugs and both have that comforting kooshish feeling when fondled. We'll select from assorted bright colors for you. Ages 8 and up, since eyeballs are easily swallowed.
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93477 STRETCHIPEDE | |
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93476 STRETCHIPILLAR |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
We're sorry. You pictured slinging a sow into your neighbor's backyard, didn't you? Hurling a Hampshire over a 6-ft fence. Do we look like agricultural terrorists? Do you think we want to turn someone into a bacon burger? Our 6" long pistol-shaped launcher flings 3/4" pink-plastic pigs -- gently -- up to 15 feet. Fired responsibly, the pistol poses no threat of destroying a silk purse, or anything else, with a sow's ear. It just offers a fun time lobbing (20) tiny swine at a target -- or maybe at a bowl of sauerkraut. Out of pigs? Buy some extras for only (2) bucks!
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89389 3/4" PIGGIES | |
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92177 PIG CATAPULT |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Our most seductive tabletop walker...er, make that slitherer. The Sidewinder is a 5-1/4" long, plastic, triple-hinged wind-up snake that does indeed sidewind along surfaces. The fascinating darting (and forked) tongue action is just a bonus. We'll pick one of (6) assorted models and send it along, but we strongly recommend ordering several for lunch-hour snake races. Also recommended for driving cats bananas.
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93536 WIND-UP SNAKE |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
We have a set of molded plastic D & D type figures, all around 1–1/2” to 2” tall and unpainted. The grey set includes (2) gargoyles, (3) skeleton grim reapers in kilts and leggings and (1) strongman giant holding a box or block. Our Teal set has (4) Norse type axmen, (3) Norse type swordsmen and a giant hairy Yeti. All nicely molded, still on their sprue. In each case, you get (2) sprues, each of which has the full set detailed above.
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30179 GREY D&D FIGURES | |
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30212 TEAL D&D FIGURES |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
For ages 8 and up, this "Optic Center" toy from TeleScience® snaps apart and unfolds for (9) separate optical uses. Look and learn with binoculars, a compass, magnifying glass, stereoscope, monocular, signal mirror, linen tester, mini-flashlight (you add a "AAA" battery) and a whistle. Has a pair of 2-5/8" dia lenses and another pair at 1-1/4" dia, a focus adjustment, and a lanyard to carry it around. Lotta basic optical fun for five bucks.
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38184 OPTI-TRANSFORMER |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Amuse and amaze your friends with this 3-3/4" long x 3/4" wide lozenge of glow-in-the-dark acrylic (so it's not a stone; so sue us) that will only spin counter-clockwise. Try it the other way and it wobbles to a stop and reverses itself. How does it do that? Go ask a wizard. And be careful around toddlers; it's swallowable.
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88910 WIZARD STONE |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Children under 8 yrs. can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons. Adult supervision required. Keep uninflated balloons from children. Discard broken balloons at once.
Bright and bouncy, these thick colorful balloons inflate to a super 30" dia! Great for homemade weather balloons, giant whoopee cushions, fun in the pool, or just kicking around the yard. Need strong lungs to inflate, so these aren't for smokers; swallowable, so they're not for kiddies under 8 either. Assorted colors.
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91130 SUPER BALLOON |
Do we have to say it? Yes, we do. DON'T PANIC! We have more. Regulation ASCII-sized red panic buttons with white lettering, ready to self-stick to a spare spot on your keyboard or anywhere else where you regularly lose control.
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92937 PANIC BUTTON |
From Sun Catcher®, a transparent prismatic sheet, roughly 4-1/4" x 5-1/4", inside an oval frame, roughly 10-3/4" x 8-1/4" with a variety of motifs. We'll pick (1) of (3) diffraction patterns inside (1) of (6) heavy cardboard frames: undersea critters, fairyland, jungle life, a wizard, dolphins or a garden with butterflies and a hummingbird. It will "transform light into an explosion of multiple hues," and who doesn't like that? Comes with a suction cup to mount in your window, and if you're a minimalist you could cut the cool prism out of its frame and we wouldn't tell a soul.
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92684 SUN CATCHER |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Because you never know when the wind's gonna pick up. This rainbow-colored, strut-less, dual-control stunt kite measures 44-7/8" x 19-11/16" when in flight, but folds up into its own 6" x 9" drawstring pouch. Includes a pair of round handles/reels and line. Flying it, we're assured, is a breeze.
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93294 STUNT KITE |
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