[net.misc] Whereabouts of "Residents Eye" wind-up toy from cult film solicited

jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods) (03/12/85)

# There's something I must tell you,
  There's something I must say;
  The only really perfect love
  Is one that gets away.	-- The Residents, "Commercial Album"

     Demise of the Ralph Records (purveyors of fine dadaism) BBS 
elicits this plea.

     You see, I share in the appreciation of a 200+ collection
of Japanese wind-up toys (all with unique motive mechanisms).
I also partake in the cult of the Residents, an SF-based musical
group whose description is best left as an exercise for the listener.

     At any rate, those of you who have seen the off-beat film 
"Brother from Another Planet" might have noticed (out of the
CORNER OF YOUR EYE) a certain curiosa which crawled across the
protagonist's hostess' kitchen table.  To wit, one "walker" windup
with the unmistakable Residents EYE, rotating in sync with the
stride.

    Please inform me with all due haste the whereabouts of this item
(or clone).  Not only will my toy collector friend Buffy Natasha Velveeta
be reduced to quivering jelly, but you, too, will be well rewarded!

    -- James Alien   {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or, jaw@riacs)

P.S.
    Edward Gorey book, Trockenbeerenauslese, Jesus-freak comix,
NP-complete problem, and 105-lb rubber ball collectors might
also understand the nature of this all-consuming anal retentivity.

keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) (03/21/85)

[........]
If in fact this wind-up toy is available, I'd like to hear about it too.
Unfortuately, I fear they may have doctored and existing wind-up toy
to produce same.

On the subject of collecting, (net.collector?) here are a couple 
items I've been looking for for some time:

1. early 60's spoon-size shredded wheat premium, 'spoon men'.
2. early 60@s Parker Bros. game, 'Trade Winds'.

If any of you out there have either item and are willing to part
with it, please contact me.

Keith Doyle
#  {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd