Summer Fun Cthulhu Plush Toy -- I MUST OWN THIS!!!

OpalCat · February 26, 2003, 6:22pm

I’m considering selling my body for the cash to buy the Summer Fun Cthulhu plush, along with the Santa Cthulhu.

Summer Fun Cthulhu

Santa Cthulhu

Was there EVER a cooler thing on the WHOLE PLANET?!?!

Moirai · February 26, 2003, 6:29pm

Opal, you find the coolest swag!

3trew · February 26, 2003, 6:32pm

Wouldn’t selling your soul be more appropriate? I’m just saying.

Tapioca_Dextrin · February 26, 2003, 6:35pm

Sniff

All I’ve got is a plain old vanilla Cthulu dolly.

Flutterby · February 26, 2003, 6:40pm

Cthulu?

[sub]I know who Cthulu is… in the vague sort of way that I know who the regulars at work are. Don’t hit me.[/sub]

Inky_1 · February 26, 2003, 7:02pm

Nifters! A Lovecraft and Sanrio joint venture. I myself am holding out for the Shuggoth Cuddle-kin™ (“they make damnation fun!”).

CalMeacham · February 26, 2003, 7:12pm

I have a plush Cthulhu sitting atop my computer as I type this. I picked it up at Arisia, one of the two Boston-area SF cons. It’s a plain, unadorned model – no Bermuda Shorts or Santa stuff. Our daughter has one too, and she gleefully takes the noisome and gelid thing to bed with her. She thinks it’s “cute”

OpalCat · February 26, 2003, 7:17pm

There is a CafePress store [not mine] that has “Hello Cthulhu” designs. Cthulhu in Hello Kitty style drawing. It’s precious.

Tapioca_Dextrin · February 26, 2003, 7:26pm

Cthulu is unknowable and terrible to behold

Olentzero · February 26, 2003, 7:32pm

If you go here, you can also pick up Nyarlethotep. They say Secret Agent Cthulhu and Super Hero Cthulhu are also in the works.

tanstaafl · February 26, 2003, 7:39pm

Tales of the Plush Cthulhu

Tapioca_Dextrin · February 26, 2003, 7:50pm

But if you go here you can complete your Pokethulhu miniatures collction

Archergal · February 26, 2003, 7:51pm

Somehow I never figured the Crawling Chaos would look quite like that.

Olentzero · February 26, 2003, 7:52pm

What, cute and plushy? It’s all the rage this eon.

CalMeacham · February 26, 2003, 8:41pm

Yes! That’s exactly what mine looks like.

An artist friend of mine did a picture of Nyarlathotep once. It showed him as an austere-looking Egyptian. “Nyarlathotep doesn’t look like that,” I said, remembering the “Crawling Chaos”. “Yes, he does,” my friend responded. So I looked it up in Lovecraft – in his first appearance, Nyarlarthotep is described as an Egyptian priest. (Hence, apparently, the Imhotep-like name). The “Crawling Chaos” part came later.

Gazelle · February 26, 2003, 9:13pm

Hey Flutterby, I’ve always wondered too. I mean, I figured it was a reference to a mythological god, but never knew the exact reference.

Plugging “Who is Cthulhu?” in Ask Jeeves ( http://www.ask.com ) yielded this website: http://www.hplovecraft.com/

After a few more clicks of links, I found this page:

http://www.netherreal.de/library/lex_entry/c1.htm#Cthulhu

Cthulhu. Leader of the Great Old Ones. Cthulhu exists in a deep sleep of death in the watery depths of R’lyeh silently dreaming, waiting for the day when the stars are right and his worshippers raise R’lyeh from the Pacific Ocean. It is his spells that protect and preserve the other Great Old Ones. Cthulhu has never been directly described, for those few who have seen him go stark raving mad. A description, then, can only be brought from a statue found depicting him. Cthulhu has a vaguely anthropoid outline, but with and octopus-like head whose face was a a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. He is of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and his cephalopod head is covered with facial feelers. Some have said to imagine Cthulhu, one must imagine a squid, a dragon and a man together in one body.

Yeah. That clears it up.

tanstaafl · February 26, 2003, 9:18pm

I’m still waiting on Issac Azathoth and Gnarly Hotep (the surfer with a thousand toes).

Dr_Paprika · February 26, 2003, 11:56pm

I’ve read all the Lovecraft stories, and like them, but in retrospect I don’t really recall him describing any of the evil ones in enough detail to make plush…

“It was horrible! The antediluvian anthropoid had a twisting and faceless mask that shifted grotesquely, opening its monstrous yaw to the ancient rhythms of timeless evil samba bands… Words cannot describe its profound horror…”

Still, pretty cool.

DreadCthulhu · February 27, 2003, 3:24am

I have all of them exept the Summer Fun one- its in the mail. They are really nifty, although they got the shade of green wrong.