# Summer Fun Cthulhu Plush Toy -- I MUST OWN THIS!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693 "2003-02-26T18:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/1 "2003-02-26T18:22:17Z")
I’m considering selling my body for the cash to buy the Summer Fun Cthulhu plush, along with the Santa Cthulhu. [Summer Fun Cthulhu](http://www.trollandtoad.com/products/product.php?prdetid=168435) [Santa Cthulhu](http://www.trollandtoad.com/products/product.php?prdetid=161462) Was there EVER a cooler thing on the WHOLE PLANET?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/2 "2003-02-26T18:29:53Z")
Opal, you find the coolest swag! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/3 "2003-02-26T18:32:07Z")
Wouldn’t selling your soul be more appropriate? I’m just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/4 "2003-02-26T18:35:10Z")
Sniff ☹ All I’ve got is a plain old vanilla Cthulu dolly. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/5 "2003-02-26T18:40:11Z")
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] ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/6 "2003-02-26T19:02:43Z")
Nifters! A Lovecraft and Sanrio joint venture. I myself am holding out for the Shuggoth Cuddle-kin™ (“they make damnation fun!”). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/7 "2003-02-26T19:12:42Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/8 "2003-02-26T19:17:57Z")
There is a CafePress store [not mine] that has “Hello Cthulhu” designs. Cthulhu in Hello Kitty style drawing. It’s precious. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/9 "2003-02-26T19:26:46Z")
[Cthulu](http://www.nyder.com/cthulhu/cthulhucomic.html) [is](http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html) [unknowable](http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/cthulhu/) [and](http://www.cthulhu.org/) [terrible](http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/campus.htm) [to](http://www.cthuugle.com/) [behold](http://www.delta.edu/dlhutchi/behold) ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/10 "2003-02-26T19:32:37Z")
If you go [here](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html), you can also pick up [Nyarlethotep](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/nyarlethotep.html). They say Secret Agent Cthulhu and Super Hero Cthulhu are also in the works. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/11 "2003-02-26T19:39:42Z")
[Tales of the Plush Cthulhu](http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/12 "2003-02-26T19:50:26Z")
But if you go [here](http://www.sjgames.com/miniatures/pokethulhu/) you can complete your [Pokethulhu](http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/pokethulhu.htm) miniatures collction ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/13 "2003-02-26T19:51:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > \*\*If you go [here](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html), you can also pick up [Nyarlethotep](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/nyarlethotep.html). \*\* Somehow I never figured the Crawling Chaos would look quite like that. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/14 "2003-02-26T19:52:41Z")
What, cute and plushy? It’s all the rage this eon. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/15 "2003-02-26T20:41:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Tales of the Plush Cthulhu Yes! That’s exactly what mine looks like. > [@](#): > > ## quote: > > ## Originally posted by Olentzero If you go here, you can also pick up Nyarlethotep. > > Somehow I never figured the Crawling Chaos would look quite like that. > > * * * 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/16 "2003-02-26T21:13:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Obsidian Flutterby \* > \*\*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] \*\* 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](http://www.ask.com) ) yielded this website: [http://www.hplovecraft.com/](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](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. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/17 "2003-02-26T21:18:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > \*\*If you go [here](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html), you can also pick up [Nyarlethotep](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/nyarlethotep.html). They say Secret Agent Cthulhu and Super Hero Cthulhu are also in the works. \*\* I’m still waiting on Issac Azathoth and Gnarly Hotep (the surfer with a thousand toes). ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/18 "2003-02-26T23:56:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-fun-cthulhu-plush-toy-i-must-own-this/157693/19 "2003-02-27T03:24:27Z")
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.