There's merchandising, and then there's merchandising. Every now and then someone in the 'find all kinds of crap to sell people who like the movie' department has a stroke of genius. First, there was the Nimbus 2000, for female Harry Potter fans of all ages; too bad they had to discontinue it*.
But last night I saw something I really, really want. It's the closest thing you'll get to a real Stitch (of Lilo & fame): a Stitch hand puppet. I can't find one on the web, tragically (this particular item was bought at Disneyworld Florida. Or is it Disneyland? Whatever). Closest I can find is this, but this is obviously a puppet, I mean it doesn't have feet or anything. The one I saw looked like a regular plushie. But the genius of it is, once you stick your hand up his bum, he's alive! I would not have thought I could get so excited by a plush toy. (Then again I was three or four vodkas down by that stage.) It was fetish territory. Seriously. I have to have one. I just have to. Maybe I should start planning a trip to Florida... or would that be going just a little bit overboard?
Ooh! Must start begging favours of anyone I know in the US!
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*Spoilsports. Why shouldn't a 12-year-old have a vibrator?
Wierd. Knowing that Eszter has one, I assumed that it was obtainable in the UK. Nuh uh! Must have been a cunning international Santa.
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