
Nice, if odd, plush marionettes. All (3) are appropriately patterned and good sized. They're about (2) feet nose to tail, and have a goofy, gangly charm, as marionettes so often do, bless their little strings. The odd part is that the zebra and elephant both have small bodies, long legs and really, really long necks-imagine an entire zoo designed by the giraffe. Cute, though, and right at home in a child's imaginative mind.
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36561 ELEPHANT MARIONETTE | |
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36560 GIRAFFE MARIONETTE | |
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36559 ZEBRA MARIONETTE |
Grow your own sea creatures. Big 'uns. These are the best expanding artificial aquatic life we've seen. Little-approx 4" to 5" long-sharks, dolphins, marlins, sea horses, squid and mermaids that grow in all directions-up to 600 percent-if they spend 72 hours in water. Multicolors, with well-defined features. The sort of things someone could toss into a friends' pool while they were gone for the weekend, to see if they have a sense of humor. Take them out of the water (the creatures, not the friends) and they eventually shrink back to pocket-size. We'll pick (2) different ones for you, but we recommend buying in multiples, because sea creatures, you know, travel in schools.
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92796 GROWING SEA LIFE |
The manufacturer says he'll get "ginormous," which is just the way we like our grow-toy lizards. This sleepy-eyed rubbery guy starts out a modest 12" long, tail included, but a few days in a tub of water, pool, or large cooler gets you a three-foot, red, yellow, blue and green guy that we think looks just like the "graceful chameleon" (chameleo gracilis), except large enough to eat small Asian cities. Shrinks to a convenient pocket size when back on dry land (assuming you have large pockets and a lot of time).
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92798 GROWING LIZARD |
Once upon a time in the olden days, back even before there was Pong, primitive peoples still had fun. Really. They played games that required no chips, batteries, game pads, joysticks or car theft. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear with this 8-in-1 travel- size game set that includes chess, checkers, backgammon, snakes and ladders, Ludo, Nine-Men's Morris, "train chess" and "space venture." Comes with an 8-3/4" x 7" plastic game board, interchangeable playing surfaces, assorted game pieces and no instructions-but the rules you don't know already are all available on the web, except maybe space venture, which is self-explanatory, and train chess, which you can make up your own rules for, like we did.
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36542 8-IN-1 GAME SET |
But definitely keepers. Wind-up fish, approx 3" long, will stand up on suction cups and desperately wiggle their tails and rotate while trying to swim through the air, or you can pull off the cups and watch them circle counterclockwise in water with their dorsal fins breaking the surface. Quite Jaws-like. We'll pick (2) different Aquatic Wind Ups" from our school of rainbow and brown trout, peacock and large-mouth bass, bitterling, dusky green and lavender gibel carp, angelfish, and fantail goldfish in red and white, red and silver, and red and gold.
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36863 WINDUP FISH |
They don't? Oh, right, they're mammals. Nonetheless, our sea life critter puzzles, which include orcas, come packed in handy little egg-like containers. We'll pick one with a clever rubber puzzle inside, either a 9-piece orca or an 8-piece dolphin. They're both 3-5/8" long model critters when assembled, cute, and nicely detailed.
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37138 SEA LIFE PUZZLE |
Makes us want to dance every time we wind up one of these clever/goofy fools. The little 3-1/2" tall squarehead with the smiley face does what some of us (of a certain age) believe is a modified bugaloo. Very nice hip action, a rotating tummy, and watch out for those swinging arms. If you've ever said "to live is to dance; to dance is to live," you need this guy. We'll send you a red, grey or blue version, but frankly, you ought to have to a pair, because nobody likes to boogie alone.
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92932 DANCING ROBOT |
This very deceptive little pocket-sized 8X spy telescope has a pocket clip and measures just under 6" long x 5/8" dia. Nobody will ever know you're an undercover agent unless they see the white "SPY SCOPE" lettering on the side, but you can cover it up with your special spy's electrical tape. You can also pull the barrel out and use it as a 20X microscope if you choose to accept this assignment.
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93034 POCKET SPY |
KLEE-klik it says when you push the back of this little metal toy with the picture of a cricket on it. Sounds something like a real cricket, and just like the brass versions that U.S. paratroopers carried on D-Day for communicating in the hedgerows around Ste. Mare Eglise. Also just like the one Sister Mary Inviolata used to coordinate precision kneeling/standing exercises during our Confirmation practice, which was only slightly more organized than D-Day. You will get (6) cricket clickers for $2.95.
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93082 CRICKET CLICKER |
Dive! Dive! Dive this remote control submarine into a tub or a pool for super fun! The 2-3/4" x 2-3/8" x 1-3/8" Super Mini X-Sub moves forward, backward, left, right, up and down, at regular or Super Dive speed! The small transmitter has a 7- to 9-ft range and may be 40MHz or 49MHz. You provide (3) "AAA" batteries (which should power it for approx 150 minutes or more) and a body of water. Comes with a small bag of BBs for ballast, in case your sub is too buoyant. This is a dazzler -- a real kick to play with, according to the junior submariners around here!
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92396 R.C. SUBMARINE |
Or any other letter. Our each is a set of (48) double-headed, A-to-Z alphabet stamps, for a total of (96) stamps to reproduce 3/16" high uppercase letters. You'll get lots of duplicate letters in assorted red, yellow, blue, green and purple. The stamps are self-inking, on both ends of 2-1/4" long plastic capsules, so exercise some caution with curious rug-rats. Ideal for marking craft projects, making kid's stationery, or putting warning messages on your forehead.
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37445 ALPHABET STAMPS |
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