January 28, 2009 – 9:36 pm
Feeling down? Depressed? Have less money in your wallet than you’d like? Use our online Virtual Affirmation Ball to put some spring back in your step! No matter how down you get, our smiling buddy will be there to compliment you and cheer you on to success. (Or, if you’re more into “irony” and such, [...]
January 15, 2009 – 3:47 pm
Tess Donohoe sent us a picture of her awesome new Nunzilla tattoo. The tattoo is by Lisa Murphy and colored by Janine Ashton. Tess tells us that she’s Irish and went to convent school which means that she has had actual encounters with Nunzillas.
January 13, 2009 – 11:57 am
As a company, we feel a certain responsibility to cheer people up during difficult times. The current economic downturn, bad weather and the confusing, lackluster third season of Heroes have all contributed to our decision to release a free, web-based version of one of our most popular products, the Emergency Yodel Button. This is cloudware of the [...]
January 12, 2009 – 2:17 pm
An avid Star Wars collector points us toward a Japanese blog with a picture of the worst selling item in Archie McPhee history, Jabba Jam! The legend was that none of it ever sold, but obviously someone bought one and somehow it ended up in Japan. The text about it doesn’t translate clearly through babelfish, [...]
December 30, 2008 – 9:52 pm
This is one of those products that we love that doesn’t sell at all. The food on these placemats is so incredibly creepy it makes us happy to know they exist. One thought we had about why they aren’t selling is that perhaps we didn’t do a good job of showing exactly how weird and [...]
December 15, 2008 – 8:16 pm
The Seattle Times reviewed our book, Who Would Buy This, today. The review is by Jack Broom, the man who helped make the Librarian Action Figure world famous. Not only did he enjoy the book, he dubbed our boss “The King of Quirk,” a nickname that will be repeated often in our offices. Of course, [...]
December 4, 2008 – 2:39 pm
Mighty Monkey was sent to us as a sample a few years ago and it was love at first sight. We wanted him just as he was, but the makers kept presenting us with options to “improve” him. This picture shows a variety of hairstyle possibilities, from full blown shock wig to crewcut. Even out of context, [...]
December 3, 2008 – 3:52 pm
The Martian Popping Thing is one of our best sellers, why wouldn’t we want to replicate its success? Well, the 20 year old Martian Cuke from our archives pictured above was an attempt to do just that. We tried to make it look a little less phallic by coloring it green, but people still found [...]
December 2, 2008 – 4:05 pm
In the early 1990s, we found some musty boxes of Jabba the Hutts on the third floor of an open air parking garage in downtown Chicago. The guy offering them for sale also had all of the ex-Shah of Iran’s stained glass collection, but we weren’t big enough customers that he would even let us see [...]
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