Mudpuppy Magnet Monsters in a tin

Cory Doctorow 9:13 pm Sun Apr 27, 2008

Mudpuppy's Magnetic Monster figures tin is a great gift for the monster-loving kid in your life — it's a set of lovely illustrated magnetic monster body-parts to mix and match into your own gruesome creations. Comes with four reversible backgrounds for enacting monstrous dramas of your choosing — and the tin is just the right size to stick the backgrounds on and build monsters upon — great for car trips and the like. I found mine at the wonderful, friendly kid store Hello Sunshine in Toronto, but they don't seem to have it in their webstore, so here's a US retailer that'll sell you one over the web, for those of you not local to the shop.

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