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Weird blue and purple humanoid superhero keychain with "Z" chest emblem, X-eyes, and trident head
After scouring the internet and coming up with nothing, I finally found the answer in the most unlikeliest of places: my aunt’s house. There, by complete coincidence, I saw this keychain:
My aunt ...
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What is this plastic toy?
This looks like a fairly cheap model of the Gothitelle Pokémon.
I found this similar but better quality Takara Tomy model for sale:
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What is the first story to contain toys that are alive?
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is from 1816
From Wikipedia:
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und
Mausekönig) is a story written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. ...
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What is the first story to contain toys that are alive?
Vasilisa the Beautiful is a Slavic fairytale that features a living doll given to Vasilisa by her dying mother. The doll protects Vasilisa from her stepmother's plots against her and later helps ...
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Teddy made me do it short story
This is a guess, but how about "I Always Do What Teddy Says" by Harry Harrison. Description sorta fits:
"the name of an old (70's maybe?) sci fi story about a future where
children ...
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Demonic looking samurai action figure from Bandai made of sticky rubber that wore white armor from the 90s
I think the toy might have been an Giraya Ninja, a Japanese toy that was manufactured in 1990 by Bandai, it was also known as Tacky Stretchoid Warriors in the USA.
The toy consisted of a stretchy ...
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Can anyone identify this Decepticon toy?
Looks like that character is Snow Cat, a Decepticon from Transformers: Energon, which was a follow-up to Transformers: Armada.
Snow Cat is a powerful Decepticon who can overcome any environment. He ...
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What is the first story to contain toys that are alive?
I had found interesting document on Anthropomorphic dolls and its appearance in folklore: Anthropomorphic Dolls as Otherworldly Helpers in the International Folk Tale by Avard Jivanyan
It seems that ...
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What is the first story to contain toys that are alive?
What about The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, a 1816 story by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, about a nutcracker toy soldier that comes alive and fights off an army of mice?
It's a story...
...in ...
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What is the first story to contain toys that are alive?
The earliest one that I know of is The Steadfast Tin Soldier, written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1838.
It is somewhat like Toy Story in that the toys come to life when the ...
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Double-sided action figure, early 80s?
That would be the Power Lords series of toys by Revell. There was a comic run, even a video game, but never any cartoon associated with them. The particular character you describe is the main one, ...
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Kids' science fiction, 60s or early 70s, moon worms
That figure sounds like Matt Mason and this link confirms there was a tie-in book with moon worms:
The writing is iffy at best but wildly, and I mean WILDLY imaginative:
moon rabbits, moon worms, &...
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Are these plush dolls based on a fantastical character or creature?
As best I can tell, they are not depicting any particular fictional work, but rather the general depiction of a Plague Doctor.
A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague ...
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Which Star Wars character is this figurine?
This is a repainted version of Queen Amidala (Naboo) from the Episode 1 toy line. Her maroon robes have been repainted white, and the gold stripe down the side has been repainted black. It also ...
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Toy identification: Transformer knockoff - Big Blue Head
It's Fright Face from GoBots!
Fright Face is a part of a larger robot called Monsterous, of whom he comprises the head. The packaging refers to him as the "Giant Monsterous Head" which is ...
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Does the First Order's "Heavy Scout Walker" / "AT-HS" exist in any official fiction (besides Lego sets)?
In the same way that this walker was cut from The Force Awakens, this toy was probably from a planned scene that was deleted or altered. Keep in mind that the books and toys have to be planned out ...
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Which of the original Kenner Star Wars vehicles were to the correct scale of the action figures?
I think the landspeeder is perhaps the closest to scale.
A movie still:
An image of the toy:
Obviously not to scale are:
the X-Wing fighter, Tie fighter, Millennium Falcon, ATAT
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80's-90's toy line- fighters move along string
This is likely Kenner's Sky Commanders.
Heroes have yellow vehicles:
You can see the string hook on the guy's arm.
Villains are purple and grey:
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Why was Gloria Baker's Shark never released as a toy?
Unlike a lot of other Kenner toys of that era, the toy series was designed in concert with the TV show. I think there's some various dynamics that played into this, but none that stand out as the sole ...
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Does the First Order's "Heavy Scout Walker" / "AT-HS" exist in any official fiction (besides Lego sets)?
It actually does have a real picture on Crait that must have been cut from the movie. It's shown in the background of a picture of the superlaser siege cannon in The Art of Star Wars, The Last Jedi, a ...
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Why was this Onslaught toy sold as Red Skull?
This is Red Onslaught from the 616 comic continuity
in Uncanny Avengers #2 A Red Skull Clone stole the brain of the Professor X and grafted part it to his own so he could have his powers.
Then in ...
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Why did Hasbro's Combiner Wars Superion toy originally contain the Decepticon Dragstrip?
This combination of four Aerialbots and Dragstrip was never actually sold as "Superion".
While Dragstrip was shipped alongside four Aerialbots in the first wave of Combiner Wars toys, and the art on ...
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Toy identification: Transformer knockoff - Big Blue Head
The physical description sounds like Scourge and the Sweeps, from The Transformers (1986):
The Transformers Wiki page for Scourge (G1) shows this image and later variations of the character.
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What is the first story to contain toys that are alive?
Though not as old as fairytales and stories, a Czech animated film by Hermína Týrlová Vzpoura hraček (The Revolt of Toys) from 1946 or 1947 is quite early in movie history.
The movie shows wooden toys ...
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Toy from a story about a boy and his friends who are very small and live in a tree
Sounds somewhat similar to Tree Fu Tom, though he doesn't wear a bandana that I can recall; here's an example from his toy line:
Tom's friends do live in a tree, though Tom himself doesn't live there....
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Looking for the name of an anime character with spiky red hair and a big red robotic glove
This seems like the child or teen version of Hellboy as seen in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. He had biggish horns (which he ground in adulthood, "to fit in") that might have been mistaken for spikey ...
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A short story involving discrimination based on size
Suspect this is "Teddi" by Andre Norton.
There are the "littles" (small people) and the bear-like "Teddis".
I have it in the 1973 anthology Way Out, edited by Roger ...
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Cartoon where a little kid controls a huge robot which used to be small toy using glove
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Orphaned American boy Joey lives with his grandmother, working at a restaurant in the West Coast city of Center City (センターシティ Sentā Shiti, based on Los Angeles), while going to school. Upon ...
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Weird blue and purple humanoid superhero keychain with "Z" chest emblem, X-eyes, and trident head
The coloring and the shape of the helmet are reminiscent of the Marvel character Galactus. (Although the logo on its chest and the cape don't match up so well.)
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