
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
It could have been called an Alabama Buzzer after Alabama Vest, the man who invented it. Or a Clegghorn, after Thaddeus Von Clegg, the clock master who fabricated the first one. But the hand-crafted 4-3/4" long steel instrument was a simple amusement, and the 1840s were a simple time. So it's simply a kazoo.
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92395 KAZOO |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Pressed-foam butterflies with printed details and 6" wingspans come in assorted butterfly colors. In theory, and with minimal assembly, they're toy gliders. In reality, they make exceptionally pretty mobiles, table decorations, etc. Start with a package of (10).
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35379 BUTTERFLY GLIDER |
Mega-cool toy air cannon. Birthdays will never be the same! The instructions on the AirZooka" say it blasts a gust (ball?) of air up to 20 feet but we blew out a candle at 30 feet, and it only took us three tries. (And you can hear the near-misses as they blow past--which is the mega-cool part.) Plastic, 11" dia x 10 1/2" deep, like a bucket with a pistol grip and a fold-down sight. The (3) segments unscrew and collapse for storage between birthdays. We'll pick fluorescent blue, green, magenta or orange, and you'll need two if you want to have air wars.
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92620 AIR CANNON |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Or singing suppositories. The pair is very magnetic, whatever they are. The 1-3/4" long oblate spheroids look like highly polished black hematites. Hold them an inch apart in your palm, toss 'em into the air and listen to them make a sound like the cyber-crickets. Or an electrocuted chicken. The manufacturer suggests keeping these mega-magnets away from computers, pacemakers, TV sets and credit cards.
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92593 RATTLESNAKE EGG |
Along with five of your friends with these new-age-appropriate chokers-unless you're all interior linemen, in which case these are bracelets. They're made of braided twine, 19-1/2" long, each with at least a couple of beads. The one we saw had (3) large multi-color-embedded-in-black ceramic beads, but yours may differ. Made in India.
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36262 BEADED CHOKER |
The manufacturer calls it the Thunder Tube". We call it indispensable for the amateur Foley operator. It's a 7" long x 2-1/2" dia PVC tube with a resonant head at one end attached to a 17" long x 3/16" dia extension spring. Shake it, scrape it, wiggle it, use your palm to muffle it and you generate creaks, deep warbles, rumbles, weird heterodyne-ish gong effects, wa-wa's, rude noises, and, yes, realistic thunder. A perfect musical companion to your cuica and rain stick--and good, clean fun around the house. Don't make a sound-track without it.
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92686 THUNDER TUBE |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
is best done with the sacred mother of all novelty items, the original Whoopee Cushion. Marlon Brando owned one. Of course he did, they're both American classics, except the cushion was born in Toronto. Ours is the classic 8" version.
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36603 WHOOPEE CUSHION |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
THE American classic novelty item (even ahead of the whoopee cushion and rubber vomit, we think) is a set of chattering choppers. Auto-dentures. Invented by Eddy Goldfarb in 1949, a man who made the Toy Industry Hall of Fame ahead of Milton Bradley, these are, not to put too fine a point on it, the sine qua non of gagdom, the ne plus ultra of spring-driven frivolity. Ours are 2-1/2" dia, with a wind-up key.
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92824 CHATTERING TEETH |
Pick from a pair of little packs. The black nylon fanny pack was made for a personal stereo but is just large enough, at 6" x 4-1/2" x 2", for a wallet and keys and a few extras, plus it has a cell-phone-sized, zippered 3-1/2" x 2-1/2" compartment alongside the main one, and an adjustable, 34" long strap with a buckle closure. As a bonus they might even have a little left over adhesive on the pack from the label after it is removed. The waist pack is also zippered black nylon, 5" x 4" x 1-1/2" with an adjustable 36" buckled strap and a keyring snap on the outside, but is lightly padded inside to protect your sensitive electronics.
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37079 FANNY PACK |
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.
Free the dinosaur skull buried in this 5" x 3-1/2" x 1-1/2" plaster block. Use the little sticks and brushes that are included to uncover the head of a T-Rex, spinosaurus, deinonychus or triceratops. It will be a surprise, just like in Montana. Mount your trophy on the pedestal that's also included, unlike in Montana. Ages 8 and up, from "dig it outâ„¢"
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93019 MINI DINO DIG |
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