With Google Street View offering up every inch of the country on your computer screen (even the High Line and Central Park), even the cubicle-bound can go on a little adventure... like this little guy. Tom Jenkins created a stop motion animation short that follows a "lonely desk toy" who leaves "the dark confines of the office" and takes a road trip, using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. The short starts off in NYC, and brings him all the way to the Pacific Coast... blink and you might miss R2D2 looking a little jealous.
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Video: Lonely NYC Toy Takes A Cross Country Trip, Thanks To Google Street View
McDonald's: Nobody Is Forcing You To Buy Happy Meals
Recently, City Councilman Leroy Comrie Jr. floated the idea of requiring fast food meals to meet certain nutritional standards if they include toys. However, his mission is being thwarted by...free will! In a lawsuit, Sacramento mom Monet Parham accuses McDonald's of luring children with toys, but the fast food chain says the case should be dismissed because parents can always choose not to buy the meals for their kids. "In short, advertising to children any product that a child asks for but the parent does not want to buy would constitute an unfair trade practice," they said in a statement. However, not everyone is buying it.
Iggy Pop Becomes World's Most Terrifying Children's Toy
There's a new action figure coming to toy store shelves which will immortalize the singer in plastic... just what children nationwide have always hoped for! Seriously, what is this thing doing at Toys R Us? And whygodwhy did the toy manufacturers give us the 63-year-old Iggy over the youthful 20-something Iggy who started strutting his stuff on stage with The Stooges in the '60s?
Graffiti Collectibles: They're A Thing
Missing the days that every surface of every moving thing in New York City was covered with graffiti? There's a new collectible to help you get through these squeaky clean modern times: the graffiti truck! The creator of this thing tells us he's "dropping a new truck with NYC artists 2esae and Ski (these guys kill it around NYC)." But where's the Banksy and Shepard Fairey toys?
Man With Fake Gun Was Drunk, "Acting Like Rambo"
The 22-year-old who was shot and killed after he pointed a toy gun at a police officer had drunkenly attempted to steal cough medicine from a pharmacy hours before the fatal confrontation. "He reeked of alcohol," said 33-year-old pharmacist Maya Basin, who claims she forced George D'Amato Jr. out of the Nostrand Houses Pharmacy after he tried to steal Coricidin. "I could tell something was off right away ... He was out of it."
Recall! Staten Island Ferry Toy Inaccurate
The folks at NewYorkology spotted this Staten Island Ferry toy (what every child wants!) at City Store today. Can you spot the problem? There haven't been cars allowed on the ferry since 9/11/2001, but this toy comes with three cars (and a photo showing them on the ferry). Oversized cars at that—proportionally these are all wrong. There's an elf out there that needs to be fired.
Robotic Hamster Might Give Kids Cancer
The season's hottest Christmas toy is a robotic hamster that could cause cancer in children, according to a consumer website. The rodent in question, named "Mr. Squiggles," belongs to the Zhu Zhu Pets brand and allegedly contains a high level of the chemical antimony, which the GoodGuide reports "may be linked to cancer, lung, and heart problems."
Invisible Dog Walkers Invade Cobble Hill
Yesterday the Improv Everywhere gang took 2,000 dogs for a walk in the Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn. Invisible dogs, that is. You remember those old invisible dog toys, right? Turns out the circa-1970s toy was manufactured in a Brooklyn factory, which now contains the Invisible Dog art space! The space loaned the pranksters the vintage dog leashes for their afternoon of good clean fun; and if you want one yourself they still seem to be for sale online. More photos from Katie Sokoler, here.
Breastfeeding Doll For Junior Lactivists
Hey kids, you can get kicked out of the library and IKEA now too! Meet Bebe Gloton, which translates to Greedy Baby, or more accurately: Creepy Breastfeeding Baby Doll. A Spanish toy company created the toy, which comes with a bra-like halter top featuring flowers where the milk would come from. Allegedly it's "latched on to the petals, where it emits a suckling sound, before it has to be burped to stop it from crying" (as demonstrated in this video). The View ladies discussed the controversial doll, which is currently only sold in Spain, and Elizabeth Hasselbeck admitted that her daughter imitated her breastfeeding. The creator said that they realized girls were, in fact, imitating the action, and the doll garnered a positive reaction amongst them; "Their faces of happiness said it all." Well, breastfeeding is linked to lowering cancer risks. And the world awaits the Park Slope Parents message board thread...
Smash Bernard Madoff (The Doll) For $99.95
The annual Toy Fair has set up camp at the Javits Center and many of the toy makers are showing off what they hope will be big hits with kids and adults alike. Like the creator of the Bernard Madoff doll that you can smash with a golden hammer—if you really want to smash something that costs $99.95, which might be too rich for Madoff's duped investors! Perhaps annoyed Madoff Matt Lauer will want to get one, though.
Opinionist: Toy Theater Festival
While moviegoers pack theaters for summer blockbusters like Iron Man and Indiana Jones, it’s refreshing to find big crowds flocking to an entirely different spectacle, one celebrating the Victorian-era phenomenon of do-it-yourself “toy theater” kits. The cavernous St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO was packed on Saturday night for the eighth annual Toy Theater Festival, presented by Great Small Works, a company dedicated to coaxing big ideas out of tiny materials.
Goodbye Alphabet City Toy Tower
The farewell party for the famous "Toy Tower" at the Avenue B and 6th Street community garden took place yesterday. Vanishing New York estimates about 100 well-wishers were in attendance to eulogize the found object art tower, which rose to a height of 65 feet over the course of two decades. The eclectic structure is the work of the colorful East Village character Eddie Boros, who passed away one year ago this month.
Heath Ledger "Joker" Toy Selling Fast
The new Joker action figure modeled after the late Heath Ledger has started arriving in stores and is reportedly flying off the shelves, as toy collectors scoop up as many of the snuff toys as they can get their hands on. After completing filming on The Dark Night, Ledger died in January from a prescription drug overdose.
The Cloverfield Monster is Coming to a Store Near You
By now you've either seen Cloverfield, or decided you didn't need to see NYC destroyed yet again. But with a sequel on the way, this monster just isn't going away anytime soon. To be sure of that, Hasbro has now created a Cloverfield monster toy (photos are after the jump for those who haven't checked this guy out on the big screen yet).
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