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Brain Benders
A box of illusions: make big objects look small, and small objects look big; change black and white into color; turn drawings into old-style movies - just for starters. You get a motorized zoetrope/spinner with discs and strips, and a really amazing "altered perspective chamber," along with directions for a dozen optical activities. It's really mind-bending - but don't forget to buy (2) "AA" batteries for the zoetrope. Spinning it by hand just doesn't work as well! For ages 8 to adult.
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91773 OPTICAL ILLUSIONS |
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Break Your Own Geodes
Pop one of these roughly 1-1/4" dia stones into the toe of a sock, smash it with a hammer, and be the first person ever to see your real-as-Nature-makes-it geode!! Ninety percent of them have the familiar beautiful white crystals inside. Formed by volcanic action, they are found all over the world, but ours are from Mexico. There is no way to tell from the outside if they have crystal centers, but we will send you two just to raise your odds, and we haven't had a dud yet in our stores!! Much much more fun and satisfaction than buying one already cracked.
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88823 GEODES |
Radiometer
Another oldie but goodie. 5" high evacuated clear glass stand 3" in diameter at the top. A four bladed vane is balanced on a needle inside the sphere. Because opposite surfaces of the vanes are black and white, incident radiant energy is absorbed or reflected to a different degree. The result is a spinning vane. The brighter the light, the faster it spins. Simple, but compelling. Brief explanatory instruction sheet included.
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3817 RADIOMETER |
Cinema Vérité
Hey, Coppoletta! Add realism to your home flicks with a Hollywood director's slate board. This 8" x 7" version is wood, painted black with white lettering. The traditional striped arm on top cracks down on the palimpsest where you chalk in the Production, Director, Camera, Date, Scene and Take. Very Vérité
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92253 HOLLYWOOD SLATE |
Roving Eye
Look at the kids eyeing this bobble toy! A green claw holds an approx 2" dia eyeball too garish to be truly yucky, and they both rock on a particularly springy spring with a self-adhesive metal base. It'a a dashboard (or skateboard) toy made for the prepubescent (or permanently pubescent) driver.
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35130 BOBBLE EYEBALL |
Duck! It’s A Flying Chick!
How many chicks would a Chicken Chucker chuck if a Chicken Chucker could chuck chicks? At least the (5) 1–1/2” rubber chickens that come with it, and as many more extra hens as you chuck into it. The Chucker, a 5–3/4” long gun that shoots pullets instead of bullets, looks like a plastic water pistol, and can catapult miniature poultry up to 15 feet. The perfect little chickens look like standard rubber chickens that have been playing with Rick Moranis’ kids. Not for children under three or omnivorous pets, who might choke on a chicken bone.
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Puff the Magic AirZooka
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 |
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Good, Clean Eyeball Fun
Push in the front of your big rubber bloodshot eyeball, set it on the desk and watch is pop a good 4 to 5 feet into the air with a very satisfying "pwaaaaap" sound. Soars above the tallest cubicle walls for those slow afternoons when the boss is gone for the day. A hollow half-sphere 2-1/8" dia, it would also make a nice Cyclopsian third eye for your forehead-or buy a pair and glue them to your glasses for your next driver's license photo. Bureaucrats love a gag.
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92799 POPPIN EYE BALL |
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Helmut! Your Pants Are Dancing!
Nothing quite says pure Bavarian goofiness like a nice pair of hopping lederhosen. There's no actual Bavarian inside, you understand, just the (literally) stand-alone, peripatetic pants. Wind them up, watch them hop around the desk or the brauhaus tabletop. The "happy sort of short trouser" stands 3-1/2" tall, with suspenders. Unterhalten, ya?
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93035 HOPPING LEDERHOSEN |
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Whimsical Hip
You'll remember these wooden guys-they're from before plastic. And electricity. Push the big button on the bottom of one of these articulated figures and it flops over in a heap; let go and it stands up proud. We've got a set with a red dog, a black cat and a particularly appealing reindeer. They'd make great props for telling stories to kids, and they'd be the soul of whimsical hip lined up in a row on the mantel. All approx 4-1/2" to a bit over 5" tall. Our each is a set of (3) different.
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34753 PUSH PUPPETS |
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Gloopglass
Like an hourglass, but with multicolored oozy gloop instead of sand. Much more fun to watch. They're called "Shining Timers," but they're pretty vague as to the timing part. The 8" x 3-1/8" dia timer, tripartite like Gaul, has red, blue and yellow gloop in the divided acrylic chambers. Runs out in about 20 minutes, give or take. The little guy is 5" tall x 2-1/8" dia, bifurcated with blue and clear gloop in the half-round chambers, and takes approx 5-6 minutes.
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