Is this your day?
[Found here].
Tag: toy
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The Colour of Don Don, The Cactus Channel (2012)
The Cactus Channel is/was a hip hop funk & soul group from Melbourne AU. Nice Stax/Volt influence. The 7-10 piece group has apparently disbanded to pursue other projects.
Fugu [via Bunkerville].
“People have raised concerns…”
Asteroid City [via Mme. Jujujive].
In ’71, after I graduated high school…
“What’s your source?” [via Mogadishu Matt].
The last Woolworth’s Lunch Counter [h/t Paul Y.]
Carnival of Venice, Mosé Tapiero on ocarina, 1908.
Making ocarinas in South Korea [via Memo Of The Air].
California’s 3rd largest city is a ghost town [h/t Paul Y.]
Beautiful rendition of the Theme to Titanic [h/t Charlene J.]
[Top image: 1954 Hubley’s Atomic Disintegrator. A weapon like this may fetch $300 or more at auction.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 799 – Scratch Tapir, Do the Bonky Dance & A Travel Poster
A.I.-Generated Translucent Robot Animals
[Found here.]
Last Minute Gift Ideas – Christmas Weaponry
The .Gif Friday Post No. 744 – Eatin’ the Cherry, Wigglin’ the Kitty & Rockin’ the Monkey
Picnic Bear has seen some shit.
[Found here, h/t Pam M.]
Dental Office Plushies From Hell
How to instill a lifelong fear of the dentist in children.
[Images found here. It’s a Russian website with mostly funny stuff. Sort of like the Bored Panda of Moscow.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 706 – Into & Out Of of the Jet Age, Coming In Hot & Cat Reduction
Glass’ & Reed’s Contribution to the World – Mr. Machine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Mr. Machine is a once popular children’s mechanical toy originally manufactured by the Ideal Toy Company in 1960. Mr. Machine was a robot-like mechanical man wearing a top hat. The body had a giant windup key at the back. When the toy was wound up it would “walk”, swinging its arms and repeatedly ringing a bell mounted on its front; and after every few steps emit a mechanical “Ah!”, as if it were speaking. The toy stood about 18 inches tall (roughly 46 cm).
The gimmick of Mr. Machine was that one could not only see all of his mechanical “innards” through his clear plastic body, but one could also take the toy apart and put it back together, over and over, like a Lego toy or a jigsaw puzzle.
Mr. Machine was one of Ideal’s most popular toys. The company reissued it in 1978, but with some alterations: it could no longer be taken apart (owing to the tendency of very young children to put small pieces in their mouths which could be accidentally swallowed or present a choking hazard), and instead of ringing a bell and making the “Ah” sound, it now whistled “This Old Man”.
This later version of Mr. Machine was brought back once more in the 1980s. In 2004, the Poof-Slinky Company remanufactured the original 1960 version (using the actual Ideal molds whenever possible), which made the original sounds and could be disassembled, and with the intention of being marketed to nostalgic adults as a collectible.
[U.S. Patent image found here. Unfortunately it’s only a single page, but it refers to related patents. Description and more found here.]
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