Over 50 different (mostly bootleg) Mogwai to choose from! I'm partial to the ones whose facial spacing makes them look like The Hills Have Mogwai. I'm not selling this hard, but these plush things are so fucked up, I don't feel like I have to.
And for good measure, an uglier-than-usual Gremlin:
All of these were grabbed from eBay in a relatively small timeframe. I suspect if I spent a month collecting this stuff, this post might be 10 times as long. That is to say: There's a lot of shitty Gremlins merchandise in the world. Joy to it.
(Also, my boyfriend could kill me if I didn't credit him with the idea of collecting this stuff in the first place, so there you go. Merry Christmas, baby.)
Wow - the one with the zipper! I assume it was once filled with puffball/Mogwai eggs (?), so you could re-enact the scene where Gizmo spawns all the others...which, as you know = FUN.
Posted by: nofoofaraw | November 23, 2011 at 09:20 AM
I scrolled through 3 times because I was sure Rich would throw in a photo of Winston.
Posted by: Sarah | November 23, 2011 at 10:12 AM
wow wow wow wow
Posted by: sarahspy | November 23, 2011 at 10:17 AM
The "Hills have Mogwai" line just "outed" me at work for slacking off. I'm pretty much crying from laughing so hard. Thank you.
Posted by: Vicki | November 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM
I wouldn't know most of those were supposed to be Mogwai if you hadn't pointed it out.
Posted by: investigatoryjournalist | November 23, 2011 at 02:41 PM
I had one of these as a kid! The second one down, but mine had both ears. It scared me so much that I went to obsessive lengths each night to make sure that it was well hidden under a large pile of stuffed animals. If I could see even a little of that scary tan fur I'd have to rearrange them all again. Terrifying beast.
Posted by: ingo pixel | November 23, 2011 at 03:05 PM
I had a plush one as a kid too, a normal one tho =) I had a Stripe (he was the bad one right?) doll that I kept wrapped in the bag at the bottom of my toy box because I was afraid of him attacking me (and my Barbies).
Posted by: CP | November 23, 2011 at 06:18 PM
I had no idea Mogwai was in A Chorus Line
Posted by: ger | November 24, 2011 at 01:16 AM
I thought this might be something you would be interested in.
http://youtu.be/bAWP-c4M66Q
Lego music!
Posted by: Jay Gillespie | November 25, 2011 at 01:33 AM
this is just awesome.
Posted by: Jessie Wells | November 26, 2011 at 12:22 AM
These are cute ones. I love it.
Posted by: grow eyelashes | November 26, 2011 at 03:39 AM
I actually own one of the ones (nine from the bottom). It's gigantic. If this Gizmo existed in the movies, the Gremlins wouldn't have been able to do shit because he'd be bigger than all of them combined. Of course, if he failed, the world would have ended in the sequel because his fat-ass wouldn't fit in the ventilation system to go all Rambo on the ringleader.
Posted by: Robert | November 26, 2011 at 01:59 PM
I had one with a zipper as a kid, and yes, it was full of Gizmo spawn. It seemed really innocent at the time that I was fascinated by Gizmo's insides but I bet it would make really great backstory fodder in a true crime documentary.
Posted by: Andrew | November 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM
These are hilarious, except for the 8th one down - that poor thing just looks depressed. Cheer up little buddy! You don't look nearly as, let's go with special, as some of the others!
Posted by: Jill | November 28, 2011 at 12:34 PM
I love the frowning one, heh. My (bad) mother took me (godless, nine) and my UBER Christian bff to see Gremlins. Poor girl was not allowed to see anything above a G rating before this. She had nightmares for weeks.
Posted by: SJ | November 28, 2011 at 11:18 PM
I saw this post and had to go get my Gizmo from the bookshelf. Then I made my own special kitty cuddle Gizmo so I could take a picture.
She's going to murder me later.
unhappy cat plus gizmo...
Posted by: Kate R | November 29, 2011 at 07:20 PM
what is true .i 'm lost.
Posted by: uggs for cheap | December 20, 2011 at 01:28 AM
Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Blue Screen | January 26, 2012 at 01:11 AM