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Friends With You's Wish Come True toys

David Pescovitz at 8:36 pm Thu, Apr 3, 2008

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Design collective Friends With You and wonderful toy maker Strangeco created this delightful series of characters called Wish Come True. Like old-school Weebles, the toys rock back and forth. Each one also has a little bell chime inside. Unlike most designer toys, Wish Come True characters are safe for little kids 18 months and up. I know my two-year-old will dig them! Link to Strangeco, Link to Wish Come True video

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • Tenn

    WEEBLES WOBBLE BUT THEY DON’T FALL DOWN.

    Takuan, stop destroying my childhood memories!

    I would play with these and I’m 17.

    Edselpdx,

    I will go into the zoo! I want to see it, yes I do.

  • Shawn Wolfe

    !!!!!!!

  • Antinous

    I would play with these and I’m 17.

    You only made it worse.

  • Tenn

    Antinous,

    I am going to kill you in your sleep with one of these.

  • Antinous

    Well, you can’t hit me with one since they chime a warning, and I can absorb them if you try to poke me, so it won’t work.

  • Tenn

    Fie on you!

    Off to bed, now. Still an innocent girl and all that who watches Winnie the Pooh and has no idea what Ben Wa Balls are.

  • jennfrank

    So I completely flipped out today when, while doing a google search for King Albino, I found videos of the Friends With You -designed King Albino hotel room, room #102, in Hotel Fox, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • knifie_sp00nie

    Goatse man would love these things.

  • tikal2k

    (ding ding)

  • raya

    They’re adorable and the video makes me happy (in a completely innocent and nonsexual way, y’all), but trying to parse this post’s title nearly exploded my head.

  • edselpdx

    Nice creatures. My immediate response was that the biggest one reminds me of the critter in Put Me in the Zoo, which I hadn’t thought of since I was about 4 years old. http://www.amazon.com/Put-Me-Zoo-Beginner-Books/dp/0394800176My
    My 11 yr old probably won’t want to play with these little lovelies, but at least I have an excuse to buy Gama-Go, Kidrobot, and dunnies.

  • David Pescovitz

    @EDSELPDX, your Amazon link had a type-o in it. Here’s the correct Link. That looks like a fun book!

  • Takuan

    this is some kind of arch joke,right? Especially the internal bell chime clappers?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wa_balls