Video: Mysterious Murderous Rubber-Faced Axe Statuette
Chris writes:
I thought you might like this "thing." My brother bought it at a yard sale about 15 years ago. He gave it to me. I wondered if you (or your readers) might know anything about it. It features an interchangeable rubber face. That's about all I know about it.Here's what I know about it: aaaiiiyeeeee! That is one deliciously terrifying thing, made all the more disturbing by the fact that it's playing "When the Saints Go Marching In" as the background music. I have no idea what it is, but it's a winner. Save it to perch at the end of your child's crib.
(The video is safe for work, but perhaps not safe for your soul.)
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I haven't seen one of those guys in years!
When I was a kid (a scant ten or fifteen years ago, maybe), we had one of the faces. Looking at the back, there were holes which I always thought were for fingers. Looking back now, though, the holes weren't big enough for any normal human.
I had no idea there was a rig that actually moved the face around. I've lost touch of the rubbery face but I'd love to find another.
As a kid we had several of the rubber faces. I'm pretty sure that they were sold as hand puppets for small kids. They holes in the back certainly fitted my fingers when I was little. It strikes me that this is just a device for "showing off" your puppets.
Bat Boy found in cave!!!
OMG! It's a MAGIC MONSTER!! Or as I like to call him, "Happy Fun Robot!" :D
I saw my first Magic Monster when I was 18. On my 28th birthday, a good friend of mine found a broken one, bought it for 50 cents, fixed it and gave it to me.
Mine came in the original box. It was made in Taiwan and has no branding or traceable info other than a Patent # 25814 and Lot # LS-020
You are the ONLY other person I know of who has one of these. You are indeed fortunate! Display your Magic Monster with pride as it "ya-yas" back and forth, spreading its message of mayhem!
BTW - The rubber faces ~are~ finger puppet heads and are available in weird little tourist-type toy shops. (They also graced the cover of an Anthrax album... See? I am a fountain of useless knowledge!) They were probably purchased in bulk by the makers of Magic Monster to use as the face.
I bought several replacements a few years back.
Chiming in to say that I also had several of the three-finger rubber puppets, but had never seen the base before.
To everyon interested,.. apparently those above,..
I'M SO VERY EXCTIED to meet everybody so exuberant and so delighted over a "thing". ...especially a "thing" such as this...
The truth is, our stories are nearly identical, (Lolagrrl).
My brother purchased the damned thing at a yard sale, in it's origonal box!!! (which was promptly lost)
At least we all now know from wence it came...
I used to have a few of these rubber faces. I have no idea where I got them from though. I do remember having this face, and then another face which had a hat and a rounder face. I think I might have had a third as well. There are two holes behind the eyes, and another sort of by the chin below the mouth.
Ahhh, I think I remember where I got the faces... from a bin in the gift shop at the Science Museum of Minnesota on field trips.
OMG! He has returned! I bought one of these from a street vendor in Bensonhurst Brooklyn over 20 years ago. My family was obsessed with this, I mean, why "When the Saints Come Marching in?" Why a red ax? My brother's theory was that the song is actually pretty darn scary when translated into Chinese, something like, when my ancestors rise from the dead, or something.
We have one but it's rubber face dried out in the basement, so I think he's long gone. I too would love to find another one.
Thanks for posting this!