Dear Santa,
I would like the
href="http://www.spawn.com/toyfair2001/catalog.jerrygarcia.page1.html">Jerry
Garcia action figure for
Christmas.
Love,
Dichroic
I was just at Toys'R'Us,
or ToytarUth, as the kids I babysat used to call it before they all morphed into
fully functioning adults with college degrees and life plans and all that. They
really do carry the Jerry figure, but, unfortunately, not the Bob and Doug Strange
Brew figures I went to look for. The latter really exist, too, because I've seen
them, and they come with extra beer bottles. And if you push a button, they say,
"Good day, ey?" or something similarly Canadian. I didn't really think TRU would
have those, though, even though I'm informed Kaybee toys does. But i won't believe
that, either, until I see them.
By the way, the existence of a Jerry
Garcia action figure (not to mention ones of Jim Morrison and the entire band of
Metallica) becomes less improbably once you realize that Todd McFarland has his
own line of toys now.
I am left with one other inescapable question
from wandering around the toy store: who let Barbie start shopping at Frederick's
of Hollywood? And why?