Anomarokarisu!
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: July 30, 2007 6:36 PM, by PZ Myers
I would love to have a plush Anomalocaris, but this site is all in Japanese! Anyone know of an American source?
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Posted by: Milo Johnson | July 30, 2007 6:44 PM
DITTO! Please post the source if you find it!
Posted by: Bob L | July 30, 2007 6:49 PM
That is almost as cool as Darth Tater.
Posted by: K. Engels | July 30, 2007 6:51 PM
I don't ever recall seeing any daikaiju movies staring Anomarokarisu!?
Posted by: Brownian | July 30, 2007 6:54 PM
I can't find any sites in English, but I found out Hank Fox can see into the future.
Posted by: LM | July 30, 2007 7:08 PM
OH.
EM.
GEE.
That is precious! :D Gimme!
Posted by: garth | July 30, 2007 7:11 PM
my pal ikoi is reading the page, and it's apparently custom-made to order, so you'd have to order it thataway.
she says there's not a price on the anomarokarisu but the toy car ones start at $250. that's like eleventy billion yen or something, isn't it
Posted by: garth | July 30, 2007 7:13 PM
here's one you may like just as well
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=TYV12517
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images//AUTOIMAGES/TYV12517lg.jpg
Posted by: That other guy | July 30, 2007 7:23 PM
You also might like to check out http://www.giantmicrobes.com
Posted by: MikeinJapan | July 30, 2007 7:34 PM
Yeah those are custom ordered. In fact it seems like they can make just about anything you want as long as its not a person, trademarked character or your pet.
Posted by: MikeinJapan | July 30, 2007 7:36 PM
I want this one..
http://rocket-craft.com/car/works_car110.html
Posted by: Scott Hatfield, OM | July 30, 2007 7:48 PM
PZ: Me too!
A strange yen, frustrated by the strange yen.
Posted by: VWXYNot? | July 30, 2007 7:57 PM
This guy looks like a Vermicious Knid from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. I might have to get one.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | July 30, 2007 8:10 PM
You can see why theists think we're as weird as all get out.
Posted by: Dan | July 30, 2007 8:15 PM
You could ask Mary Robinette Kowal. She's a professional puppeteer, and she may be able to give you some ideas for either making your own, or she may know someone who could stitch one up for you.
Other than that, I've got nothing.
Posted by: BlueIndependent | July 30, 2007 8:44 PM
SWEET. Can you get the eyes in a glow-in-the-dark color?
Posted by: Stephen Wells | July 30, 2007 9:02 PM
Plush Anomolocaris! KAWAIII DESU YO!
Posted by: Concerned | July 30, 2007 9:14 PM
Neat Cthulhu plushies, but Entertainment Earth's privacy policy sucks. "You give us personal information, we flog it to half the planet."
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/help/privacy.asp
Posted by: garth | July 30, 2007 9:38 PM
concerned: that does suck. i should have grabbed stuff last weekend at the comic con instead
Posted by: wÒÓ† | July 30, 2007 9:44 PM
(.)(.)
Posted by: Concerned | July 30, 2007 9:46 PM
Sorry I didn't make this one post, but the manufacturer can be found at http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/ and they have a list (bizarrely prefixed with a bunch of hex digit gobbledygook) of places to buy their products with much better privacy policies like http://www.trollandtoad.com/privacy.php and http://www.warehouse23.com/info/helpfaq.html#privacy
If you're going to shop for Cthulhu plushies, there are better places to shop. http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=TYVHP517
Posted by: Jason | July 30, 2007 10:06 PM
You could make your own Kiwa hirsuta (Yeti crab). Patterns and sewing instructions are free.
Posted by: DaveW | July 30, 2007 10:09 PM
I saw these instructions for making an origami Cthulu on BoingBoing.
Posted by: Orpheus | July 30, 2007 10:21 PM
Try Hobby Link Japan:
http://www.hlj.com/
They might be able to hook you up.
Posted by: Euprax | July 30, 2007 10:57 PM
This might the Pokeman Anorith, which according to Wikipedia was based on Anomalocaris.
Posted by: Kseniya | July 30, 2007 11:02 PM
Cool site about Anomalocaris
LOL @ "strange yen"
Posted by: Mena | July 30, 2007 11:30 PM
NEEEEED!
Posted by: lulu | July 30, 2007 11:37 PM
OMG, cuteness.
Posted by: arachnophilia | July 31, 2007 12:55 AM
why didn't they have those when i was a child?!?
Posted by: Heathen Dan | July 31, 2007 6:42 AM
Bah, I'm still waiting for an Opabinia plushie. :p
Posted by: maryd | July 31, 2007 8:30 AM
That does look pretty ez to make. How big is it? How about if your put one of those voiceboxes inside-- I have a baby otter that, when you squeeze it, cought, smooches, purrs, whines . . . it is a quantum leap forward, cuteness-wise. (What is the standard unit of cuteness?)
Posted by: RobertC | July 31, 2007 10:05 AM
you know if you put any foreign URL into google, it will offer a 'translate this page link'
the translations vary from spot-on to a bit shaky:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://rocket-craft.com/works_other01.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://rocket-craft.com/works_other01.html%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DIpC
Posted by: Scott Heath | July 31, 2007 10:44 AM
The Royal Ontario Museum has a set of Burgess Shale critters in plastic that are darn neat: http://www.rom.on.ca/collections/toys.php
Posted by: Greg Peterson | July 31, 2007 11:38 AM
Gawd, those giant microbe plushies are so cute. I ordered a brain cell. I saw PZ's lecture on the brain not having a ghost, but if brain cells have cute expressions like that--one has to wonder. (I'm referring to the "dolls" at giantmicrobes.com)
Posted by: Adam Peter Stein | July 31, 2007 12:15 PM
OK, but is the Simplicity pattern on file somewhere? Could somebody with a ruler knock one up? My mom has a sewing machine . . . .
Posted by: Will Von Wizzlepig | July 31, 2007 12:44 PM
According to the 'order' page, the animal you want is available by request- that is, they don't seem to make it and distribute it. I could be wrong, my Japanese is a bit rusty.
I sent the maker's info address and PZ an e-mail in Japanese and English asking how to order it.
Posted by: Digger | July 31, 2007 1:02 PM
Do they carry Hallucigenia too?
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Posted by: weirdbuglady | January 18, 2009 3:13 PM
I make lots of strange plush creatures as custom orders and have been asked for an anomalocaris recently - I'd be totally up for more orders!
http://www.weirdbuglady.com
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