#quarter machine toys

[quartertoys]

Alien Nation, producer unknown

[yranigami]

Freaky Geeks;

[goobersplat]

Here’s a collection of Sqwishland (a special interest of mine.) I found this seller who had most of them, but their prices are high so I wouldn’t recommend purchasing from them.

Your best bet is too buy in bulk directly from Sqwishland.com, sadly they’re very expensive too but it’s still a better deal for your money compared to the people who price hike them on second hand sites. Resellers can really bother me :/

Anyway, I like using this blog to document childhood toys that are hard to get your hands on. Reseller slander aside I try to be positive on here so please enjoy these little guys! I loveeee the blue turtle in the fourth picture he’s so cute.

[wrenn0002]

I got another one :3

Random thing I have been collecting number one. Poppy playtime/Garten of banban figurines from the grocery store. I have the little frog sheriff somewhere but I CANNOT find him anywhere lmao I’ll either find him or get another one I’m sure

[andy-clutterbuck]

6x15 | East

[maxphotoarchive]

Would've bought a crazy chicken, but I didn't have coins

[fullslack]

Vendall Monstor vending machine (c. 1980s)

[quarter-machines-seattle]

May 9th, 2023

All the machines (claw machines and bulk vending) inside the Walmart in Oak Harbor, WA

Prices vary

[xaallo]

If you put a stick of celery in front of Xaallo's snout while he's sleeping, he'll eat it without even waking up

[the-acid-pear]

enamoured w this pic

[disregardcanon]

i've been reading catching fire for the first time this year and i don't, personally, think that the quarter quell was a "smart move" for snow and the capitol even if things went the way that he wanted them to and katniss and peeta and all the rest died and he got a victor he could control. sure, it would have taken out katniss. but taking out katniss wasn't actually going to be the quick fix he wanted it to be.

because even the capitol citizens were upset about all of this. the capitol citizens, who had grown so used to having pretty victors to smush together like dolls and gush over and show that people from the districts CAN do something and make their lives better. it's the american bootstraps ideal made hideously manifest.

yes, they've been fed this propaganda diet that the games are proper retribution for a crime that happened a lifetime ago, but they're also supposed to bring out these Ideals TM the capitol claims to hold to and then the Beautiful Shiny Model Minority winner gets fame and fortune and safety and a promotion into capitol society. because they beat the odds and they won all these things! they *deserve* this!

now all of the privileged masses have these strong parasocial relationships where they thought they'd see their favorite athletes become safe and glamorous and happy. the social contract says that the capitol citizens get to have these lovely dolls to play with and now he's taking their toys away in a way that shows the propaganda never held any truth in the first place. if we don't actually value these people and what they represent, then why do we actually do it? (it's the cruelty. but the average capitol citizen doesn't understand that the cruelty is the point, because it took snow years and years and years of building up that Capacity for Cruelty, and most people never get to that point. there has to be a pretty facade over this for it to run smoothly for those average citizens like the prep team. and now it's not there anymore.)

and that's not even mentioning the different sort of horror this becomes for the districts, as the idea that's been sold to the wealthier districts is that if these children win they get fame and fortune and protection for life. but you're dragging them back into the horror that was supposed to buy their eternal glory? the careers aging out this year don't even have their "chance" in the arena to make their mark and gain their fortune. they'll just be losing some of their mentors in a pointless rehash.

in the poorer districts, perhaps there is some relief because their kids are safe this year but that means their only victors are being shipped off to die instead. and then their kids who won't have a chance in hell next year! because the hunger games are a perpetual motion exploitation machine, and the only way people were able to be numbed to it was figuring out the rules and then gritting their teeth and living their lives. but the rules are out the window, now. those rules that were supposed to make this terrible system something they could navigate and grit their teeth and suffering through are being blown to bits because snow tried to stomp out the tiniest embers instead of letting them burn out.

[quartertoys]

Mini Aliens, A & A Global Industries

[yranigami]

Comic book day for Knuckles!

Freaky Weirdos, 2010 -Hoppin Hydrants

[gremlingottoosilly]

Easily irritated reader trying to shoo König away

Trying to shove your colonel away because you're a little brat and because you are very displeased with him...it won't work that well, of course. this guy is a powerhouse by definition, so no matter how many times you're trying to punch him and to get him to leave, he won't budge...you're doing something on your computer? He is right here, ready to put you on his lap and cling to you like a lost puppy while you're typing something. You just want to eat in peace? He will show up with his dinner, far nicer than whatever slop they are serving you just so he could feed you by a spoon and laugh as you bite into the poor utensil and try to take the bowl away from him so you could feed yourself. Konig soon finds out that one of the quickest ways of getting you relaxed and to make you shut up is to start fingering you. You can't shoo him away while he is knuckle-deep in your pussy, and he knows you well enough to press all the right buttons and drive you crazy. He flicks your clit between his calloused fingertips, and you shake down a moan. You don't want to be that girl and pull down your defenses so easily, but he knows what he is doing. Irritatingly so. Your colonel is a fucking snake in disguise because everyone knows him like this a bit stand-off-ish dude. Like a creepy guy who is actually pretty fine and chill, just a bit quiet. You know his real side thought - a man who is not afraid of pushing you in the nearest supply closet and fuck you next to the old machine oil cans because you were glaring at him from across the room angrily, and he needed to fuck that irritation out of you. Konig likes your best when you're out of breath, too tired to move and to act, when you can only stare at him in a trance. He likes to tire you down, so you'd allowed him to be all clingy and gross - to make out with you in his office, in the colonel's quarters, on the shooting range while no one was around. You're such a frustrated little thing; he can't help but want to squish you like a toy.

[hatdude5236]

So y’all know how that scary Batgirl who can kick bad guys asses in 5 seconds? Yeah she’s definitely terrifying but she just walked into my job and we have those old capsule toy machines with spin dial thing and she just?? Pulls out quarters from her utility belt?? And buys the toy capsules and opens them on the floor until she gets the one she wanted? (It’s was a bat keychain btw) And then freaking BATMAN comes in and tells her that they have to go home now??? And she’s like ‘no’ and comes up to me and orders a number 5 in sign language, which I took in high school, and then Batman sighs and orders himself a burger and fries and I just stare at the striking resemblance between Batman and Batgirl, like I know people called Batman mother but this is crazy, and just mumble a ‘that’ll be $10.52, would you like to round up for the Thomas and Martha Wayne foundation?’ And Batman pulls out a HUNDRED dollars and says ‘keep the change’ so I’m like, ok??? And since I’m the only one working at butt fuck 4 in the morning I make their food myself and then hand Batman the tray and then Batgirl takes his hand and drags them over to a table and they eat together? Like a really cute father daughter date thing?? And they talk in sign, which most of which I can’t read one because I don’t wanna eavesdrop on this father daughter bonding time and two I’m not fluent in sign, anyway they leave and I swear Batgirl smiled at me through her stitched mouth covering so now I can say I served Batman and Batgirl? Also that Batgirl might be my favorite vigilante now

[andy-clutterbuck]

5x12 | Remember