#novelty toy

[fitsofgloom]

Plenty of Shocks With This

[squidinkarchives]

Flashy Flickers Magic Picture Gun, Marx Toys Source: Boulder City, NV Alo's Auction House

[fitsofgloom]

It Works Like You're Really Bleeding!

[goobersplat]

1984 Pink Sanrio Tuxedo Sam Phone

[millionsknives]

bait / hook / line / sinker

[fitsofgloom]

WOW! LOOK WHAT'S ON THE WALL!

[hickeygender]

reblog for a bigger sample size of former angry, creative, and/or highly dramatic children

[tropicsweet]

▲メロンのクリームソーダの傘

[gingerbreadfrosting]

かわいい傘をミニチュアサイズで楽しめる♪

[fitsofgloom]

Your High-Handed Style

[grudgegolem]

That's right, 2 snipers 😎

@niblets-criblet absolutely chuffed with him!

[tobiasrieper]

Twenty. Five. Dollars? For this piece of crap?

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

it’s not the placement of the characters, it’s how they list the positions so bluntly as if there is absolutely nothing to chuckle about:

[gay-artificer]

I was talking a bit about this but I think part of the reason iterators are designed as these small little doll-like puppets is both to humanize and dehumanize them by the Ancients. The puppet, at is core, is a means for communication with a great biological machine- to give it a face and features and ground it as you ask its advice or it's progress. This massive, world-altering creation simplified down to this little thing that had all the features of a person. But its also small, cute, Ancient-like but clearly not an Ancient itself. They're colorful and simple, like a toy for children. And I think thats largely how Ancients saw them- often not as a person with desires and opinions but as an extension of the Ancient's work, a personalized character that represented their cities and people, whos citizens could like them and were comprehensible to their children, but was not them- and would not reap the reward of being them when a solution was found. Each one pretty and unique to make them individuals, but not seen- truly- as individuals by many- just as parts of their cities, something under the Ancients. Like if every town had its own personal My Little Pony they could ask advice on where the next community center should be built.

[goobersplat]

1985 “Break Glass & Hug” Novelty Teddy Bear Gift

[novelties-and-notions]

Roll up! Roll up! For Novelties and Notions: Everything is genuine– We don't run scam promotions!

Poetical and prosy, We are daft and we are silly; We have things that move and things to read: We post them willy-nilly.

We have puppets, we have whimsy, We have satire, we have funny; There is magic and surrealism– And it don’t cost any money!

Nothing is quite as it seems, So leave the world aside: Get up upon that ferris wheel– Enjoy the merry ride!