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Super Mario Piranha Plant Puppet Doesn’t Shoot Plush Fireballs

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If you ever played Super Mario Bros. back in the day, you will remember the sinking feeling of moving through a level only to find a giant fire piranha plant shooting fireballs and set to eat you. If you are a fan of the game and need a new collectible in your life, you can now get this awesome piranha plant puppet.

Rather than ramming your hand up an animal’s bum as you do with most puppets, when you stick your hand up this plant’s pot, you can open and close the month. It’s the perfect way to act out scenes from the Mushroom Kingdom with your Amiibo figurines.

The puppet measures 9-10″ in diameter and 11″ tall. The piranha plant extends 13″ outside the pipe making it 24″ in height at its longest point. You can order one now from ThinkGeek for $39.99, and you should have it in plenty of time for gifting to that Mario fan on your list.

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Handi Squirrel: For Those Times When You Need a Squirrel

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Despite being smack dab in the middle of Chicago, my neighborhood is packed with all manner of woodland creatures. Every time I walk the dog, she wants to chase at least a dozen brown bunny rabbits, a couple of garter snakes, and run up a tree to hunt down a squirrel or three. But what do you do if you don’t have any squirrels in your area? Surely, there must be a solution. Fortunately, there is, and it’s called “Handi Squirrel.”

Yes, now you too can have your very own squirrel whenever and wherever the mood strikes. Simply install the squirrel head, arms, and legs onto your fingertips, et voila! Instant squirrel. Problem solved. Sadly, it doesn’t come with a fluffy tail, but you can remedy that with one of these.

The Handi Squirrel can be yours right now over at Perpetual Kid for the low, low price of just $6.99.

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Super Mario Piranha Plant Puppet: Feed Me Mario, Feed Me All Night Long!

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Back in the day, if you wanted to beat Super Mario Bros., you needed to get very good at timing your jumps over the piranha plants that would pop out of the pipes to eat you as you tried to make your way. Now, there’s a piranha plant hand puppet that you can use to torment your friends, family, and pets.

The puppet has the green pipe and the red and white polka dot plant with big teeth inside. Just stick your hand inside, and the plant can pop out of the pipe and start chomping.

You can pick one up for $19.99(USD) at ThinkGeek. I always thought these piranha plants were a lot like Audrey II, the human eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors.

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Tickle Me Elmo Gets Roasted by a Jet Engine: Melt Me Elmo

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If you’re a parent, you have probably been annoyed by many a Tickle Me Elmo toy. Those talking versions are downright evil. Even if you aren’t a parent who has been subjected to said torture, you’ll enjoy this video of Elmo being burned at the stake in a very modern way.

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This video from Youtuber PowerModz shows Tickle Me Elmo getting blasted with a jet engine that’s been mounted on the back of a truck. I wish I had one laying around. This looks like a lot of destructive fun. As you can see in the video, this little red menace never stood a chance.

How’d you like that Elmo? Did that tickle? The way that the wind was moving Elmo’s hands against his face just before the blast made him look nervous. There’s something oddly satisfying about watching this little guy melt.

[via The Daily Dot via Geekologie]

DIY Low Budget BB-8 Puppet: CHPSK-8

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We’ve seen how you can make a robot replica and a 3D printed figure of Star Wars‘ new droid BB-8. Here’s Caleb Kraft’s low budget version: a BB-8 hand puppet.

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Caleb made the puppet using a 12″ globe, a 6″ styrofoam sphere, four neodymium magnets and some spray paint. Caleb also used an old camera lens as BB-8’s eye, but that’s completely optional. Put simply, Caleb attached a pair of magnets on the puppet’s styrofoam head, then another pair on a wooden handle. He then moves the handle inside the globe to make head move.

Head to Make: to see the full instructions.

Handicorn is a Unicorn Finger Puppet

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Unicorns are what little girls’ (and some little boys’) dreams are made of. If you’re bored and happen to have six bucks lying around, then you might want to blow it spent it on the Handicorn. It’s a clever play on words, but it’s basically a teeny tiny finger puppet unicorn. Just insert all parts–er, legs–on four of your digits, and put the head on your middle finger, and you’re ready to go finger-corning.

Need it? No. Want it? Yes. The Handicorn is available online for $6.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Incredible Things ]

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Guy Builds Amazing Gremlins Puppet

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Gremlins was one of my all-time favorite childhood movies. It featured just the right proportion of slapstick humor, gore and action for a teenage boy. In tribute to this classic popcorn flick, one talented artist has created a fully-functional puppet version of Stripe, one of the eponymous gremlins.

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RPF contributor Batgremlin built this DIY gremlin using cast flexible foam, and built mechanical moving arms with articulating fingers, and even moving eyeballs for the little green dude. Check him out in action in the video below – my favorite part is when the puppeteers are revealed against the greenscreen.

Batgremlin doesn’t share too many details on how he built it, but I’m betting he made a Gizmo puppet first, then fed it after midnight.

[via The RPF]

Puppet Capaldi: Doctor Who Puppet

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We have a long wait ahead of us before we can watch the new season of Doctor Who, which is Peter Capaldi’s first season. What do you do while you wait? Well, to pass the time, one fan has created her own 12th Doctor puppet.

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Alisa Stern has a web series starring Doctor Who puppets that you can watch right now. She has made puppets for each Doctor since Christopher Eccleston, which she then uses for stop-motion animated shorts. Nothing starring the Capaldi puppet just yet, but I’m sure we will see him in action soon.

She nailed the new Doctor’s look. Awesome. I just hope the real Capaldi isn’t a puppet to Steve Moffat’s ego like Matt Smith was.

[via zap2it]

Knit Sarlacc Pit Hand Puppet: Where’s Boba Felt?

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Hand puppets are fun for kids, but these knitted toys really don’t quite hold the appeal today that they had in say, the 1500′s. So, how do you jazz up hand puppets so that people actually want to play with them today? Star Wars of course. More specifically, a Sarlacc pit.

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Everyone wants to stick their hand inside a pit with a giant freaky monster living inside of it. Go ahead, put it on your hand and chomp down that Boba Fett figure. While you’re at it, go for young Anakin, and really get Jar Jar good. And Sarlacc pits love Ewoks too!

The knit Sarlacc pit hand puppet was made by pandacatification and unlike the real thing, it won’t need a thousand years to digest it’s victims. Take it to the beach and bury it, surprising your friends.

[via Play with Your Yarn via Neatorama]