I am obsessed with ALLIGATOR and Robert Forster and a few years ago when I saw a YouTube video for this game, I thought it was a myth. I didn’t think I’d ever find it, but today while I was typing in random searches on eBay it came up for a super low price! I declare this my eBay purchase of the year for 2009!

The idea of the game is simple. You either TAKE little plastic barrels, boxes, briefcases, etc. out of the Alligator’s mouth or PUT more of them in. The Alligator’s mouth stays open and  a trigger rests under the tongue where you are to put the game pieces. Each person takes turns spinning the TAKE or PUT spinner and if you aren’t steady of hand, the gator’s mouth snaps down and bites you. Rumor has it that the game was pulled from shelves because the gator’s teeth were so sharp that it was actually cutting kid’s hands when it snapped shut therefore making it the coolest game in the world!

I understand that studios want to cash in on merchandise from the movie’s they are releasing, but ALLIGATOR? Really?! This is insane. This goes along the same lines as the Remco Earthquake Tower Playset…two things that nobody was wanting but me.

Anyone that knows me is well aware that 1) I am on eBay way too much and 2) I love Harryhausen. Can you guess how excited I was when I found this up for auction? With a little over 3 days left as I write this, this original Ray Harryhausen model from GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD is going for a cool $20,000. I wonder what celebri-nerd is gonna pick this up? Someone call Seth Green to buy this and put it in Robot Chicken. Enough with the STAR WARS parodies…this is real claymation here. Here are some other pictures. Click on them to take you to the auction link.

If you don’t instantly recall this character from the film, check out the above trailer. She starts messin’ stuff up at about the 1:18 mark.

Also, in other INSANE Harryhausen news, I heard a rumor that Japan’s Bounty x Hunter was carrying this sweater. If you live in Japan, are going to Japan, know someone who is going to Japan or know someone that lives in Japan…get this in a size XL and I will have a son and give it to you.

-Justin

Several months ago, Kayla Kromer attended an after hours screening here at the Alamo of a movie called HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE.

While watching that movie, Kayla was hit with inspiration as the dorms at BusterBurger U.  didn’t have bunk beds or cots or any of the shitty beds that we were all used to sleeping on in college. Nope. They slept in GIGANTIC HAMBURGERS with cheese as blankets and pickles as pillows. Kayla spent the next two months creating the ultimate in food/comfort and then when it was revelaed, it literally broke the internet. It was front page on DIGG, was featured on 100′s of blogs and in dozens of magazines, the funniest being a US Weekly issue where Jessica Simpson was proclaiming  “I’m not fat!” on the cover. It couldn’t have been featured in a better issue.

Kayla has recently had a few personal problems and needs to let go of the bed. Last night she put it up on eBay with a starting bid of 1 cent and as of me writing this it’s already up to over 300 bucks! Want this Hamburger for your bed?! Click on the pic below and plunk down some cash!