# ID This Weird Toy Figurine
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 16, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987 "2012-04-16T19:02:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/1 "2012-04-16T19:02:27Z")
It has tentacles. It has a single red eye. It has a harp. It looks Japanese. What is it?
[ ](https://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/doccathode/?action=view¤t=CIMG4993.jpg)
[ ](https://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/doccathode/?action=view¤t=CIMG4991.jpg)
[ ](https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/doccathode/CIMG4990.jpg)
[ ](https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/doccathode/CIMG4986.jpg)
[ ](https://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/doccathode/CIMG4996.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/2 "2012-04-16T19:47:55Z")
How big is it?
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/3 "2012-04-16T19:50:18Z")
It is three and a half inches tall.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/4 "2012-04-16T19:57:08Z")
Does it have any marks on the bottom?
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/5 "2012-04-16T19:58:12Z")
There are no marks on the bottom.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/6 "2012-04-17T06:26:55Z")
Isn’t that one of the bad guys from Power Rangers?
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/7 "2012-04-17T13:18:43Z")
What’s it made out of?
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### Author:  [@bartleby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartleby)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/8 "2012-04-17T13:18:43Z")
It is Jean-Paul Sartre.
The alternate mega platinum version.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/9 "2012-04-17T13:29:06Z")
Its Moguera, Arch-Bishop of Japan…
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/10 "2012-04-17T15:38:41Z")
Actually, what it sort of reminds me of is Wormface from Heinlein’s _Have Space Suit, Will Travel._ But only sort of. (Interestinlgy, I’m not finding any illustrations of Wormface on the netz.)
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/11 "2012-04-17T17:24:29Z")
Looks Lovecraftian. Are you sure the “harp” isn’t one stylized wing, and the other might be broken off or missing? 'Cause it brings to mind the “Elder Things.”
[Several Elder Things](http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=843&q=lovecraft+monsters&gbv=2&oq=lovecraft&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=img.3.1.0l10.7531l8970l0l10842l9l9l0l4l4l0l46l205l5l5l0.#hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=lovecraft+elder+things&oq=lovecraft+elder+things&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0.119435l122890l0l122969l12l12l0l5l5l1l386l1256l4j3-3l7l0.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=360d97f103b4bb5f&biw=1280&bih=843)
[Toy version of Elder Thing](http://www.flickr.com/photos/32892731@N02/3184021714/)
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/12 "2012-04-17T23:50:04Z")
Damnedest thing…😕
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/13 "2012-04-18T00:07:20Z")
Heh–I put the image into google search and it came up with this thread as a match!
The “visually similar” matches were interesting, but I didn’t see anything like the mystery object.
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/14 "2012-04-18T00:27:23Z")
> [@Sailboat](#):
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> Looks Lovecraftian. Are you sure the “harp” isn’t one stylized wing, and the other might be broken off or missing? 'Cause it brings to mind the “Elder Things.”
>
> [Several Elder Things](http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=843&q=lovecraft+monsters&gbv=2&oq=lovecraft&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=img.3.1.0l10.7531l8970l0l10842l9l9l0l4l4l0l46l205l5l5l0.#hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=lovecraft+elder+things&oq=lovecraft+elder+things&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0.119435l122890l0l122969l12l12l0l5l5l1l386l1256l4j3-3l7l0.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=360d97f103b4bb5f&biw=1280&bih=843)
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> [Toy version of Elder Thing](http://www.flickr.com/photos/32892731@N02/3184021714/)
I noticed a resemblance. But I don’t think it’s an Elder Thing. The harp might be a wing. But there is no mark where another wing would have been.
**TDN** It’s made of some sort of plastic.
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### Author:  [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/15 "2012-04-18T22:22:42Z")
It makes me think of a gashapon toy - those little toys you get from the vending machines. But I’d have no idea what series it would be from, it reminds me of either Yu-gi-oh or something like Shin Megami Tensei.
Where’d you get it?
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/16 "2012-04-19T00:35:49Z")
My immediate thought was “Japanese warrior whose head is being chewed off by an octopus”
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/17 "2012-04-19T00:46:07Z")
[This looks just a little bit like it](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_UYXZmDL5GmY/SzPcbvzbMzI/AAAAAAAAAkA/UGu7VincrlQ/IMG_0077.JPG) – [from this discussion board page](http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/101731/the-art-of-war-the-answer-is-always-tentacle-pink/p26).
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/18 "2012-04-19T18:20:21Z")
> [@kushiel](#):
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> Where’d you get it?
I bought it at a toy show in Florida. There was no packaging or documentation and the seller didn’t know what it was either.
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/19 "2012-04-19T19:52:25Z")
> [@kushiel](#):
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> Where’d you get it?
A blasphemous altar in the Mountains of the Moon?
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> I bought it at a toy show in Florida. There was no packaging or documentation and the seller didn’t know what it was either.
Oh. Well, kinda similar.
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### Author:  [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-weird-toy-figurine/618987/20 "2012-04-20T15:08:57Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> I bought it at a toy show in Florida. There was no packaging or documentation and the seller didn’t know what it was either.
God help me for knowing how to Google this, but it’s a Power Rangers villain.
> **[Izzy](https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Izzy)**
>
> Izzy can refer to:
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