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Love Meter
AKA hand boiler. An exotic bit of hand blown glass with a bulb at top and bottom connected by some zippy tubing that spirals, loops, and/or jogs. In the closed system is some colored liquid (methyl chloride) that is very light. Hold the lower bulb in you hand and as the air in the system is warmed it pushes the fluid through the loops to the upper chamber. When all the liquid is pushed out of the lower bulb, expanding air will bubble through the tubing making it appear that the liquid is boiling. WARNING! The glass is fragile and the liquid is nasty. If you drop the thing on e.g. the kitchen tile, it will eat the finish off the tile and the stain in the liquid will permanently stain the floor. So don't let kids handle this item unsupervised. About 7" tall, it is a favorite in our stores.
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6199 LOVE METER |
Dancing Strangled Chicken
Our finest-ever insane dancing chicken. Makes our last dancing chicken sound like the Boston Philharmonic. This foot-tall fowl clucks, flaps and dances to the "Cluck Cluck Polka" (by Polka Association Hall-of-Famer Frank Liszka) in an out-of-control frenzy. But wait, there's more. Grab it by the throat and choke it, and it makes, well, the sounds that a throttled chicken would make.You add a quartet of "AA" batteries. (Open the chicken suit in the back to insert.) On/off switch under the chicken, press the left wing to activate. Choke at will.
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39330 STRANGULATED CHICKEN |
9-In-1 Optical Transformer
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
For ages 8 and up, this "Optic Center" toy from TeleScience® snaps apart and unfolds for (9) separate optical uses. Look and learn with binoculars, a compass, magnifying glass, stereoscope, monocular, signal mirror, linen tester, mini-flashlight (you add a "AAA" battery) and a whistle. Has a pair of 2-5/8" dia lenses and another pair at 1-1/4" dia, a focus adjustment, and a lanyard to carry it around. Lotta basic optical fun for five bucks.
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38184 OPTI-TRANSFORMER |
Brain Benders
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
A box of illusions: make big objects look small, and small objects look big; change black and white into color; turn drawings into old-style movies - just for starters. You get a motorized zoetrope/spinner with discs and strips, and a really amazing "altered perspective chamber," along with directions for a dozen optical activities. It's really mind-bending - but don't forget to buy (2) "AA" batteries for the zoetrope. Spinning it by hand just doesn't work as well! For ages 8 to adult.
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91773 OPTICAL ILLUSIONS |
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Ambivalence Eliminator
Trouble making decisions? Just ask the electronic Lady Luck magic fortune teller and save your brain for later. It's credit-card sized x 3/16" thick, with (6) possible answers -- and only one of them is a firm NO, so she's nicer than your mother. Unscientifically proven to reduce the stress of ambivalence by up to a third.
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39491 FORTUNE CARD |
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Moving Sand Art
Black and white sand in a viscous colored fluid. The sand and fluid are between 5-1/2" wide x 3-1/2" high panes of glass, framed on a gimbaled stand. Flip the panel and watch the sand swirl and eddy into endlessly new pictures of dunes, drifts, mountains or moonscapes, depending on your imagination and the pattern they form. The mix of black and white creates a definite third dimension to the images. They come in assorted colored plastic frames (our choice) and are pretty neat, as these things go.
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88881 MOVING SAND PICTURE |
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Eeeek!
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
The mouse is back! After an extended absence (due more to supply problems than to any rodent-eradication program) the gray rubber mouse is once again available. A hair under 3" long with a 4" long tail, he's diminutive and detailed -- and ready to move into Sis's underwear drawer!
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4831 RUBBER MOUSE |
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Levitation Made Easy
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Nothing beats defying gravity for fun. Now you can master levitation with the Fun-Fly-Stick™, an electrostatic wand that comes with (5) foil flyers: a butterfly, (3) spheres, and an hourglass shape. Turn on the 19" long wand and watch the shapes float and dance at your command. Takes a little practice (it's levitation, for Pete's sake) but provides hours of magical fun. You add a couple "AA" batteries and a little practice guided by the 10pp instruction booklet. And if the dog eats the shapes, a full set of refills are available.
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93716 FUN FLYER REFILLS |
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How About A Little Card Game?
Well, alrighty then. Here are some little cards, just 2-1/8" x 1-1/2" in a standard 52-card deck with a pair of jokers. In a little plastic box. Perfect for solitaire at work if they take your computer away again.
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39390 LITTLE CARDS |
LARGER THAN LIFE
Microscope images of household items like match heads, peach skin, and bedbugs. Nifty color and black and white photos, at different levels of magnification. "Did you know?" sidebars provide interesting tidbits about the stuff you're looking at. Published by Golden Books(tm) for the Campbells(r) Soup folks. Softcover (9" x 11" ), 39 pages.
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26792P36 HIDDEN WORLDS BULK |
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Boogie Bot
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
Makes us want to dance every time we wind up one of these clever/goofy fools. The little 3-1/2" tall squarehead with the smiley face does what some of us (of a certain age) believe is a modified bugaloo. Very nice hip action, a rotating tummy, and watch out for those swinging arms. If you've ever said "to live is to dance, to dance is to live," you need this guy. We'll send you a red, grey or blue version, but frankly, you ought to have to a pair, because nobody likes to boogie alone.
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92932 DANCING ROBOT |
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