If you were able to look at that and not wet yourself, you are a much better, stronger, braver person than I am, my friend.
My niece got this thing for Christmas and at first (read: when it was still flat and harmless) it seemed like a pretty innocuous child’s toy.
Then we blew the sumbitch up.
First and foremost, I’ve got a bad lung. I tried to blow it up and I’m fairly sure I died two or three times in the process. That alone caused a bit of animosity between me and the bear.
Luckily, my Mama found an air pump (somewhere between my second and third deaths) and we blew this sucker up.
Once he was fully-inflated, it all become very clear that this wasn’t just some run-of-the-mill child’s toy. You see, that’s when it looked me right in the eyes and stole my f’n soul.
Seriously, is this not the scariest f’n thing you have ever seen?
This thing is the devil incarnate.
My Pappy was playing with my niece and peering it around corners and up over the side of chairs and couches and it was all I could do not to scream like a small child myself and run off crying.
This damn thing is the stuff nightmares are made of, folks. I can imagine this sucker just peering up over the edge of the bed in the middle of the night.
Nothing but his crazy eyes staring at me.
Watching.
Waiting.
It’s twisted stuff, y’all.
Now I gotta know if I’m alone on this one…is this thing scary or not?
its sleeping in your bed right now…..
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By: bentnails on January 4, 2012
at 9:29 pm
f’n scary!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 12:45 pm
Hahahaha so at first I was like “Oh a panda ” then you said ‘crazy eyes ‘ and peering around corners ‘. So I scrolled up for a second look and just about peed. It’s creepy!
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By: dearladiesandgents on January 15, 2012
at 6:05 am
its seems like a mutation of a panda, mickey mouse , cow and an ugly sx toy lol
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By: studiothirstycrow on January 5, 2012
at 1:26 pm
That observation is enough to make me seriously worried about the folks who manufacture toys for a living.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:23 pm
Please don’t view this as icky and gratuitous self-promotion, but instead a common interest in the bizarre: I’m confident you’ll completely relate to the creepy/scary/unbelievable contents of this recent post:
http://mikaleebyerman.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/things-that-make-you-go-huh-wha-seriously-christmas-edition/
Had I seen your toddler toy, it would have TOTALLY made my compilation!
LOVE this post — now I’m off to explore your Blogroll…
🙂
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By: Mikalee Byerman on January 5, 2012
at 1:26 pm
Wow, yeah the Panda of Doom would have fit in pretty well with the gun-toting duck and the creepy clown man.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:26 pm
Ooooh! Huggy Bear just wants to give you a great big ol’ bear hug! And eat your brain. Have you seen his best friend, Elf on a Shelf?
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By: becomingcliche on January 5, 2012
at 1:31 pm
Wowza, I just Googled “Elf on a Shelf” and that is all-kinds of messed up. Definitely goes hand-in-hand with the creepy bear.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:27 pm
LOL. It’s scary.
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By: greceln on January 5, 2012
at 1:42 pm
Sure, I’d agree that it’s scary. Of course, kids are great at making scary things themselves:
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By: ohsweetiethatssocreepy on January 5, 2012
at 1:43 pm
You aren’t messing around, that may be the freakiest Rapunzel picture I’ve ever seen.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:28 pm
My two youngest cousins also received ridiculously scary presents for christmas: two chuckie-like dolls that belong in some kind of haunted castle. I would not like to come across them in the dark!
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By: Hannah Burke on January 5, 2012
at 1:53 pm
Sometimes I wonder if maybe there should be some serious psych evaluations done on the cats who apply to work for toy companies. The number of absolutely frightening toys on the market is mind-boggling.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:29 pm
That thing is pretty creepy – too happy almost sinister – ha! It is like that clown on the USPS commercials – hate, loathe, hate CLOWNS!!! Thanks for a laugh – Congrats on being FP!
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By: cravesadventure on January 5, 2012
at 1:57 pm
Thanks! It feels good to finally crack the front page!
I agree, the smile is really what gets me. He’s totally got “super villain” written all over that face.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:30 pm
Dunno if I would have thought so on my own but when you point it out, hand in hand with your hilarious narrative, yes, creepy it is.
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By: truthistransient on January 5, 2012
at 2:21 pm
Yeah, on the surface he’s easy to disregard, but then you realize the eyes are following you and it clicks that he’s totally possessed. Luckily, he doesn’t have any appendages like “Chucky” did, so he’s largely harmless.
Thanks for the comment, by the way!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:31 pm
The toy does not make sense. Balls in the belly? What the?!
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By: carolinajade on January 5, 2012
at 2:21 pm
I think that’s one of the perks of being a toy designer for kids who are 3 or under, basically it just has to make noise, be colorful and (hopefully) be able to withstand getting manhandled on a daily basis.
Logic on the other hand serves zero purpose. Perhaps I’m in the wrong line of work?!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:32 pm
I agree…that bear is very scary! Like the Teletubbies my little sis fell in love with when she was little! Your description also reminded me of the inflatable pilot in “Airplane”….very funny, creepy stuff!
Can’t wait to check out the rest of of your blog!
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By: Jess on January 5, 2012
at 2:34 pm
Teletubbies were super weird too. Something about not being able to identify what the heck they’re supposed to be always bugged me.
Enjoy the rest of the blog, hope you dig it.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:33 pm
Teletubbies make all my small hairs stand up, even when they’re standing still. My kids once set all the Teletubby dolls in a display off at the same time, and people were actually fleeing the store.
The store still won’t let us come back.
aa.
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By: sisteranan on January 5, 2012
at 11:49 pm
Teletubbies are so weird to me simply because I can’t mentally place what the hell they’re supposed to be. They’re sorta like bears, but not really. They’re sorta like big babies, but not really. They’re sorta like TVs with odd geometrically-shaped antennas, but not really.
Freaks me out.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:54 am
He is pretty scary! Having worked in the UK toy trade for many years I thought I had seen it all but this is a new one on me – I am most scared of the lifelike dolls you can get – I swear most them are chucky like and will come alive in the night and strangle me in my bed!!!
Thank the lord I have a son – so no dolls and he is nearly 6 so less freakyness in the toys – I am living in a world of lego that I keep standing on though!!!
A x
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By: birchwoodrecruit on January 5, 2012
at 2:50 pm
I suppose the one upside is that if the panda does come to life, he doesn’t have any worthwhile appendages to try and go on a killing spree.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:35 pm
I’m weirdly creeped out by the see through window and the balls inside.
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By: Rae on January 5, 2012
at 2:52 pm
I know, right?! It’s like they went ahead and made the creepy panda and then decided at the last minute that it needed just a little something extra to make it even more unsettling.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:36 pm
It’s scary! Maybe not as bad as the baby my daughter sleeps with that has one blinking eye, but it’s scary.
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By: Hillary Manaster on January 5, 2012
at 3:10 pm
Ewwww…baby toys always freak me out. Especially the ones that are supposed to be life like with the blinking eyes and the crying and stuff. Something so very, very weird about ’em.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:37 pm
Reminiscent of “IT” the clown…………Deflate and re-gift immediately
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By: Gwen Sears Bullock on January 5, 2012
at 3:17 pm
I feel like if you re-gift it, it just unleashes the evil upon another household.
I think this is a Ouija board type of thing where you gotta burn it to cast away the evil spirits or something…or at least give it to someone you don’t like.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:38 pm
I can’t believe the vote is almost 50/50. Obviously half the population will be taken in by its seemingly playful smile.
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By: Stephie on January 5, 2012
at 3:23 pm
I gotta agree, it is mind-boggling the number of people who won’t be having nightmares about this thing tonight. Granted, it just means that the bear already got to ’em…poor, poor lost souls.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:43 pm
Honey Badger may not care, but Inflatable Panda will steal your frackin’ soul. Great stuff, my friend.
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By: Howlin' Mad Heather on January 5, 2012
at 3:37 pm
I question whether honey badger would even have a shot against this sucker or if he’d just back off to fight another day.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 3:42 pm
Lol, weird yes, scary no, but I might change my mind if it was watching me across a darkened room.
You’ve reminded me of scary toys I had growing up. The ones that were meant to be cute and cuddly but had hard black reflective eyes were the worst. I remember those eyes following me around the room. *shudder!
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By: SammyDee on January 5, 2012
at 4:08 pm
I’m like 90% sure that all toy designers are actually serial killers.
It just makes way too much sense, right?!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 4:17 pm
It’s kinda goofy looking not scary at all, but then again I am nt scared of too may things,
funny post and congrats on being fp
Cheers,
-Ron
Be A DJ
http://www.beadj.ca
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By: djronstar on January 5, 2012
at 4:17 pm
You might change your tune if you were stuck in a dark room with that thing. Just sayin’…
Thanks for the congrats!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 4:19 pm
It would help to know how big that thing is, but even so, yep, scary.
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By: MichaelEdits on January 5, 2012
at 4:48 pm
I want to say it’s like 3 feet tall or something. Tall enough that if it decide to magically spring to life, I’d be heading for the hills.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 4:50 pm
Hahaha, at least he’s got some balls!
And no, not creepy or scary at all. Just stooopid! I mean, something that you could just poke with a needle and thus totally destroy, nah, that’s got a scare factor of -27.
Fun read though, and congratulations on the FP honours.
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By: Sandra Parsons on January 5, 2012
at 5:01 pm
…I wish the whole “stick it with a needle” thing had popped into my head at any point.
I guess when you’re locked up in paralyzing fear, the most common sense ways of defeating your inflated enemy are easy to overlook.
thanks for stopping by!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 5:17 pm
Pandas are only scary if they aren’t fed a steady diet of candy and hugs.
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By: iheartangrypanda on January 5, 2012
at 5:06 pm
…but what if you’re too scared to hug it and/or get close enough to feed it anything?!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 5:19 pm
take a look at http://www.iheartangrypanda.com if you want to see a dangerously adorable panda.
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By: iheartangrypanda on January 5, 2012
at 6:02 pm
Panda Express new mascot? … lol
-Wrands
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By: Wrands on January 5, 2012
at 5:07 pm
Not unless they want to scare off any potential customers!! 😉
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 5:23 pm
The bear called me, he asked if you would be home alone tonight.
😉
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By: midnitechef on January 5, 2012
at 5:22 pm
I’m not gonna lie, that figures to keep me up all night, with a bat in one hand and some pepper-spray in the other. Not that I’m entirely sure he’d be fazed by pepper-spray?! But it seems like it’s worth a shot.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 5:25 pm
Devil panda!
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By: disseminatedthought on January 5, 2012
at 5:38 pm
super creepy! my son has a few toys that have mysteriously vanished…because they creeped me out. eyes that watched me, or noises that freaked me out, or sharp edges or little pieces that gave me anxiety about his well-being. some toys were just better left unmade.
http://www.icouldntmakethisshitup.wordpress.com
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By: Eva McCane on January 5, 2012
at 5:50 pm
I guess that is one perk with little kids, you can usually make things disappear and it is a very “out of sight, out of mind” kinda thing.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 8:00 pm
Too funny! My daughter would scare our parakeet with it. 🙂
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By: Bethany Pegues on January 5, 2012
at 6:09 pm
I assume any animal that values its soul would be freaked out being near that thing.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 8:01 pm
Those aren’t balls in its belly. They’re nice round souls.
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By: Car Johnson on January 5, 2012
at 6:09 pm
That theory makes a lot more sense…
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 8:59 pm
that’s why god invented BB guns.
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By: rmv on January 5, 2012
at 6:18 pm
Truer words have never been spoken.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 9:00 pm
I could picture this guy as one of Lots-O-Huggins Bear’s henchmen in Toy Story 3. The worst part is definitely the eyes… The way they point in slightly different directions, as if they have the ability to watch you from the front AND the back at the same time.
And the multi-colored balls through a clear plastic window? Is that a way to beckon prey (i.e. children) into its stomach??
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By: Meghan Johnson on January 5, 2012
at 7:01 pm
I know, right?! The whole thing is some sort of gigantic, hella-creepy booby trap of doom.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 9:02 pm
Definitely not what I would want to see on xmas morning. You do realize that the only thing that can overcome such evil is a puppy. The freaky bear has no defences against those needle sharp teeth.
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By: metan on January 5, 2012
at 8:39 pm
That’s not a bad idea. I wonder how my brother would feel about me suddenly gifting a couple of puppies to his daughters to do my dirty work for me and kill this thing off?!
I feel like he’d be less than excited.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 5, 2012
at 9:05 pm
Hilarious! The thing I hate is a doll without a face. I remember several family friends having those weird rag dolls that were displayed hunched over a bed or cedar chest, chair, what have you….
The dolls are face-down. FOR A REASON…..because they have no face. Just blank fabric. I seriously couldn’t sleep at a friend’s condo once because the guest room featured on of these terrible dolls.
Keep writing!
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By: jillianinboots on January 5, 2012
at 10:02 pm
Faceless dolls?!
Undoubtedly that shall haunt me dreams this evening.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:57 am
I have 3 kids and that shit definitely scares me! My kids would love it though. I would ‘accidentally’ find a way to pop it. “Oh-oh, he’s broken, time to go in the garbage!”
Congratulations on making freshly pressed!
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By: illicitexplorations on January 5, 2012
at 10:19 pm
I contemplated the merits of it having an “accident”…but my niece was ALL ABOUT IT. Hopefully she’ll have moved on to something else the next time I’m home and it can disappear…granted, I’d have to make the kill during the day…preferably with witnesses around, on the off-chance it decides to fight back.
Thanks for the congrats!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:56 am
We have almost the same toy… except ours is a penguin. Slightly less scary but still freaks me the frick out.
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By: thebakerbee on January 5, 2012
at 11:24 pm
I hear that, after getting the panda my niece decided she wanted the ENTIRE FREAKIN’ SET of these things. Penguin, monkey, serial killer, etc…all of ’em. There’s no way I can go home again if those things are hanging around, just waiting to kill me like a gang of inflatable, wide-eyed savages.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:55 am
Okay… Pandas were really cute for me… until I saw that THING you took a picture of. Lol. It’s quite creepy if you do imagine it somewhere along the lines of “Child’s Play.” Oh! I don’t even want to imagine it coming alive at night or when you have your back turned… *shudder*
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By: Anna on January 5, 2012
at 11:53 pm
I know, right?! That thing is a TOTAL game-changer when it comes to pandas.
The entire time I was home, that thing had to be downstairs, turned toward a corner with a bag over its head so I could sleep at night…on the other side of a locked door, of course.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:53 am
It has balls rattling around in its see-through crotch.
‘Nuff said.
Scary. And creepy.
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By: bmj2k on January 6, 2012
at 12:11 am
…that pretty much sums it up.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:52 am
Reminds me of those punching bag blow up toys (used to have a similar one when I was young). Give it a few punches and you’ll see it ain’t so scary. 😉
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By: mistersilverio on January 6, 2012
at 3:28 am
Except that it keeps coming back for more…and always with these wide eyes and creepy expression.
Heck, that’d probably make it even more scary!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:51 am
ı got the similiar one 🙂
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By: yurtıdşı eğitim on January 6, 2012
at 4:09 am
So then you have the same trouble sleeping at night without fear of being murdered?!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:59 am
Funny post…. My daughter had some Monster High (kindof vampire Barbie) and asked us to hide it from her at night!
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By: thatboytim on January 6, 2012
at 5:01 am
That’s awesome.
I hope you’d occasionally sneak it back into her room at night…set it on a bedside table or something…you know, because one of the biggest joys of parenthood is having the ability to totally psyche-out your kids.
…right?!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:50 am
I have a one year old boy and have loads of trouble trying to find toys that don’t scare the doo-doo out of me. Since I saw Bill and Ted’s Bogus Adventure as a kid, those toys with the nasty plastic faces have freaked me out (you know the Easter Bunny scene) and this “panda” is reminiscent of that. I have never looked at the easter bunny in the same light since that film. Lol
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By: averybusygirl on January 6, 2012
at 6:21 am
Pretty much all toys for kids three and under are absolutely terrifying…but little kids can’t really tell how scary that stuff is. They just see colors and giggle, all the while I’m too dang scared to get within ten feet of the dang things. It’s just not fair.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:49 am
There are v few freakier things than the faces on toys and the positions of their limbs. Your wonder example’s intestines truly finish it off. Can I assume that it made rolling and other such like noises when moved/shaken? What in all the world the designer thought was appealling about this little monster I cannot begin to imagine. On the more reasonable side, what appears cute to one part of the world can be totally off-putting to other societies: so where was this thing made, for G’s sake?
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By: DoF@theinfill on January 6, 2012
at 6:40 am
I can only assume this would say “Parts Unknown” if I tried to figure out where it’s from.
There’s no way the folks behind this kind of monstrosity want to be located.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:47 am
I was never fond of stuffed dolls or these kind of toys .. They just creep me out .. I think it is because of watching a lot of chucky – inspired movies 🙂 Also my sister ruined it for me when I was little.. She said “If you get yourself become closer to a doll it will possess you ” and I was like “Oh my god !!” .. Ever since I’m always quite tetchy around dolls 🙂
Nice post ! Btw, that doll is actually quite scary !
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By: vandysnape on January 6, 2012
at 7:11 am
The Chucky moves ruined dolls and all even remotely life-like toys for a whole generation of people.
To this day I’m pretty much certain that every toy with arms is waiting to stab me, it makes a trip through the kids section of Target absolutely terrifying!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:46 am
I wonder if any stories scared us, and we jut don’t remember it?
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By: gaycarboys on January 6, 2012
at 7:43 am
That’s a good call, I’m sure if I looked back on a lot of my childhood toys, I’d find them equally freaky as an adult.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:45 am
Scary beyond belief!
And similar to the bizarro kids swing toy I photographed on a playground last winter.
The text in the blog linked below is in Swedish, but it more or less says that I have not done any editing to the image, and that some genious toy-designer must have thought it was a great idea putting red reflectors in the wooden swing-Pandas eyes…
http://cobb.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/83365/
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By: Micke on January 6, 2012
at 8:06 am
Holy crapsticks! That thing is EVERY kind of terrifying.
Toy designers may be the worst people of all-time.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:44 am
Are those hard balls in its transparent tummy? And why? What do they mean? This totally looks like some weird Japanese shiat. It’s not so much that it is scary…not like one of the Monkey Shines symbol clapping toy, it’s just puzzling.
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By: Hot damn, Charlotte Ann! on January 6, 2012
at 8:12 am
I think a lot of the fear is derived from my lack of understanding. The balls could represent trapped souls or lives taken or they could just be balls so that he makes an ominous noise whenever he moves. Either way it is very unnerving.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:43 am
OMG! The balls inside the scary ass f’n bear represents trapped souls!!! The friggin’ thing just became even MORE scary!
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By: Micke on January 6, 2012
at 3:16 pm
I know, right?!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 5:20 pm
I wouldn’t mind having my cat tear that thing to bits. You can just imagine those eyes and that head turning around to face you. I suppose that now I’ve seen someone can get freaked out by a toy, my fear of clowns isn’t abnormal?
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed!
Ashley
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By: TheEverydayMuser on January 6, 2012
at 9:28 am
Clowns are legit scary. I still don’t understand who in their right mind thought kids would be entertained by something so creepy.
Thanks for the congrats!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:42 am
Kill it! Kill it with fire!
My daughter got something similar a while back. It was all fun and games until she pushed it, and realized that sucker could push back. The amount of tears that flowed forth was most impressive.
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By: NinjaMani on January 6, 2012
at 10:33 am
My only hope is that the fire would be enough to kill the evil that undoubtedly lurks within this beast.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 10:41 am
Too funny!!!
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By: Kyle Kline on January 6, 2012
at 10:35 am
Thank you!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 11:00 am
[…] I came across a fun item on a blog (jeremiahgraves.wordpress.com) concerning the appearance of children’s toys, citing a particular example received this […]
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By: Back in the Dark Ages « theinfill on January 6, 2012
at 11:42 am
That is freaky. I’m curious about the kid’s reaction. My daughter got a freaky Christmas toy that I thought would make her scream. Instead she’s in LOVE. Huh. Interesting.
(will be showing photos on the blog later)
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By: seaholta on January 6, 2012
at 11:59 am
That’s exactly it, the little girls both LOVE the dang thing. I’m scared to get within ten feet of it and they think it’s the bee’s knees.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 12:00 pm
Check out the freaky-ass doll I was talking about. Seriously. It is plotting to kill you. http://awkwardlaugh.com/2012/01/06/the-demon-from-the-dead-zone/
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By: seaholta on January 7, 2012
at 12:57 pm
Holy shitballs!
That’s every single kind of messed up right there!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 7, 2012
at 5:50 pm
From a toy stand point, I think creepy is the word you’re looking for – scary just doesn’t do it for me. When I think scary I think “OMG, what the hell were they thinking giving this to a toddler?” My daughters have plenty of creepy toys – like that Furreal Pet Cookie – it makes noises if you don’t play with it. Like hissing noises. Scary shit in the dark. But, hey it’s a dog and they like it.
But yeah, creepy man, definitely creepy.
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By: jbrown524 on January 6, 2012
at 12:25 pm
You seem to built an immunity to weird toys. I find this quite enviable!!
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 12:32 pm
Definitely scary. You can see the contents of his stomach – he eats balls for breakfast!! Eeeeeeeee!!
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By: jessseeker on January 6, 2012
at 6:39 pm
That puts a whole new spin on the scary factor.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 6, 2012
at 7:12 pm
this is scary!
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By: آقا و خانم روانشناس on January 8, 2012
at 12:25 pm
It boggles my mind that children can be scared of their own shadow, but stuff like this does nothing to ’em. Weird.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 8, 2012
at 1:11 pm
Someone did some lines, Red Bull and sniffed some gas before designing this godforesaken thing!
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By: The Hook on January 9, 2012
at 4:08 pm
I’ve got to assume you described the entirety of the “creative process” for most toy manufacturing companies.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 9, 2012
at 4:29 pm
My kids have received some pretty gnarly toys over their short little lives. One was a remote control dinosaur that was terrifying enough it was only turned on once.
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By: Jenera on January 10, 2012
at 2:42 pm
Did the dinosaur suffer an “accident?”
That seems like the right protocol in a situation like that…
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 10, 2012
at 5:36 pm
Bear? Yes I can understand where that idea came from.
Panda? Yep, that makes sense too.
Inflatable? Guess so.
Balls in a see-through stomach? Eh? Anyone who comes up with ideas like that shouldn’t be allowed out without a supervision order, let alone making kids toys. Scary!
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By: Malcolm Newell on January 12, 2012
at 3:02 am
The balls (read: devoured, calcified souls) in the stomach seem to really be the game-changer for a lot of people on this one.
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By: Jeremiah Graves on January 12, 2012
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[…] However, this inflatable bear is not something Jeremiah Graves’ sweet dreams are made of. From Blank Stares and Blank Pages, If you were able to look at that and not wet yourself, you are a much better, stronger, braver […]
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By: Love Shak, Baby » Scary Toys for Kids AND Adults on January 12, 2012
at 7:29 pm
it’s gonna get you..
haha
nice post
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By: 7theaven on February 5, 2012
at 12:42 am
[…] Graves shared his thoughts about a toy his niece received for Christmas. Honestly, I have to agree with him: that thing is creepy. It got me thinking about the toys I […]
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By: Fatherhood on April 8, 2012
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