
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 |
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 |
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 |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Newspaper Sudoku not tough enough for you? You show-off. Try solving the Sudokube®, the evil spawn of a rogue Rubik's Cube® and a wayward Sudoku maiden. You twist away at the 2" x 2" black-and-white plastic cube, until each of the (6) sides displays digits 1 through 9. Extra credit if they're all in the right order with the numbers facing the same way. Only took us 12 minutes, but we used a hacksaw and some epoxy. Packaging says it's "For Ages Over 5." Right.
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92950 SUDOKUBE |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Our PC-9 rubber-band powered styro airplane boasts a big, long rubber power plant, plastic prop, and landing gear. Measures 15" nose to tail with an 18" wingspan. Takes some light assembly but, the directions say, "when you play this plane very proficiently, you will find that it can be made more wonderful flying ways." Indeed. Rated for 200 feet of flight (80% longer than the Wright brother's first flight!), but we'd avoid really windy days for the best proficiently flying.
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93538 RUBBER-BAND PC-9 |
Once upon a time, a copywriter put this little magnet next to his computer monitor and got really pretty, wavy, aurora-like effects. And then got a new monitor! Don't try this at home. Our shiny, silver-colored 1" x 1" x 1/2" neodymium magnet looks innocent, but is industrial strength, pulling something like 25 lbs with enough strength left over to erase all your credit cards. And wreak havoc with your monitor.
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38694 KILLER MAGNET |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Only over-the-hill spies use lemon juice. Your modern spooks carry these. Our each is a set of (2) ultraviolet writing instruments (one for you, one for your control), 5-3/8" long pens that write invisibly and have ultraviolet LEDs hidden in the caps to reveal the message. (They run on non-replaceable button-cell batteries.) Very similar to refillable "security pens" that sell for $10 apiece.
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93570 SECRET WRITING SET |
You know, those 15 squares in a 16-slot frame, where you slide them around to put them in the right order. They usually have numbers or a picture on them, but these are blank white squares so you can write, draw, or paste you own puzzle on them. Each is 2-3/8" square. The monitor puzzle is set in a computer-monitor-shaped back; the bulb puzzle in a hand-friendly lightbulb-shaped back.
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39002 BULB PUZZLE | |
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39001 MONITOR PUZZLE |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Our very favorite new pet at AS&S goes by his Japanese name, Hamusuta, and runs around and around in his translucent, 5" dia plastic ball. Or you can take the happy little hamster out and watch him scurry all over the place, redirecting when he hits obstacles, like a tiny, furry roombot without the vacuuming. He's 3-1/2" long, in authentic beige and white with little pink ears and nose. Packs an enormous amount of cute into a small furry package. You add (1) "AAA" battery.
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93703 HAPPY HAMSTER |
A whole new take on wooden toys. You get plans for (28) toys that "whiz, spin, pop, and fly" in Bob Gilsdorf's 223-page instruction book. Good for adults, even better for adults working with kids, the projects require only basic hand tools, including a coping saw and miter saw. You'll make shooters, launchers, games, toys, gumball machines and much more. Includes an appendix with basic woodworking lessons. Full color, lavishly illustrated with easy-to-follow directions and photos of the zany paint jobs on the finished products.
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93842 WOOD TOY BOOK |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Itty-bitty dominos, not short, bossy women. Just the thing for traveling fun, and small enough to use on an airplane tray table, which is available for dominos now, since they're not going to serve you any food on it. This standard 28-piece game set (and you'll get 4 sets) has plastic dominos measuring 1" x 1/2" x 1/8" thick, in a plastic pouch with a weird Jolly-Roger head, and no, we don't know why.
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39679 MINI DOMINOES |
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