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• 13″ in size
• Animated Mouth
• Animated Body
• Talking several inspirational sayings
• limited edition

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13″ in size, this Presidential Barack Obama doll is animated – moving and ready to be yours…. More >>

Animated Talking President Obama 13″

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Limited Edition collectible cooperstown bobble head. Legendary players. Each bobble is hand crafted with intricate detail. All of our bobbleheads are on closeout. Now’s your chance to buy them now while we still have inventory…. More >>

Pittsburgh Pirates Willie Stargell #8 Cooperstown Bobblehead

• Bring home the Hollywood star
• Collect them all
• Hours of bobble fun
• Official Funko wobbler
• Timeless icon

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Funko proudly brings you America’s favorite iconic beauty of the silver screen. Her legend lives on in this exclusive collectible bobble head figure. This 7-inch tall Marilyn Monroe Wacky Wobbler Bobble Head comes in an attractive window display box…. More >>

Marilyn Monroe Bobble-Head

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Much has been said about the exponential manner in which technology has been advancing in recent years. I was born in 1970 and I have always been a huge music lover. During my life, I’ve moved from the 8-track and vinyl records to cassette tapes, cds and now iTunes. Cell phones have become an integral part of our lives, but anybody older than 30, remembers a time when telephones where stationary and featured a rotary dialing system. Yes, things have really changed in the last decades, and 2009 marks the centennial of an invention that, in many ways, made all these changes possible. Today, we can’t turn around without encountering something made of plastic. This relentless ubiquity makes it hard to believe that plastic has not always been a part of our world.

The Age of Plastics began in 1909 when Leo Baekeland created Bakelite, a synthetic polymer composed of phenol and formaldehyde. Since then, the world has never looked the same. Toothbrushes, chairs, shopping bags, Nylon shirts, Teflon frying pans, car bumpers, Tupperware containers, sunglasses, GPS navigation devices, Gore-Tex jackets, bobble-head dolls and the very keyboard that I use to type these words, are all entirely or partially made of plastic.

It is ironic and paradoxical that the material responsible for drastically changing the world is also the same one that refuses to change. Before plastics, all natural elements coexisted in a constant and cyclical mutation. The transformation cycles were, in most cases, relatively short. If you threw a banana peel on a field and came back to the same spot a week later, it would have disappeared. Worms, birds and erosion would have quickly reintegrated it into the system. Due to its insolubility in water and chemical inertness, plastic waste can take a thousand years to completely degrade. The ecological consequences of plastic’s durability are just beginning to be understood, but one thing is certain, resistance to the natural process of degradation can be extremely destructive. Still, this is not an article on the ecological consequences of plastic pollution. It is a short meditation on the beauty and necessity of change as it applies to nature and our consciousness.

Compared to plastic, water is one of the most harmonious substances, and it quickly and easily integrates into its environment. The water molecule’s structural simplicity grants it the graceful fluidity that has allowed for life to exist on our planet. Wherever there is water, there is life. The opposite can be said about plastic, its complex molecular structure that refuses to change, destroys life around it. Similarly, in our lives; simplicity, generosity and a willingness to transform ourselves allow us to gracefully interact with our environment; convolution, concealment and rigidity threatens to destroy everything inside and around us.

Water has no fear, it runs, it drips, it waves, it crystalizes and evaporates. Water changes over and over again without ever losing its essence, and its flow brings life and beauty to our world. The Niagara Falls, the River Nile, Arctic icebergs, rainbows and tropical storms are all incarnations of the same flow. We are no exception, water enters and leaves our bodies during our entire lifetime, constantly replenishing 75% of our physical mass. The Niagara Falls have been in me, and a part of me will eventually become a rainbow. So, if change produces so much beauty, why would we want to be plastic? if transformation is life, why would we want to be lifeless?

For centuries, children were allowed to be innocent and the elder were considered wise and respectable. Today, thanks to a phenomenon that advertising and marketing agencies call “age compression”, children strive to look older and the old obsess on looking younger. Age compression is based on making you feel inadequate with your own age and then selling you something that promises to resolve the “deficiency”. The idea is that, there is a perfect age where you are perceived as young, strong, healthy and independent, and you should strive to achieve and maintain it. Whether you are dressing up to pretend you’re not a child or buying a sports car to pretend you are not older, age compression wants a vast majority of the population to spend money in a vain attempt to remain unchanged.

Praising inertness over change may be profitable for advertisers and corporations, but certainly has not been beneficial for society at large. We live in a culture where beings who, for millions of years have been composed of 75% water, are now compelled to replace live tissue and fluids in their bodies with dead and obstructive plastic inserts. Ironically, this ugly practice is done in the name of beauty. But the worst damage is not physical but psychological, living in a constant state of perceived inadequacy has taken a heavy cultural toll.

Once, looking at an ad for V-i-a-g-r-a, a wise old man told me: “Why the hell would I want to go there again?”. When I asked him what he meant, he explained that the reason why our sex drive and potency decreases as we age is because it allows us to become more contemplative and thus more able to focus on the approaching miracle of death. He mentioned that most ancient cultures understood this well, and incorporated this knowledge into their traditions. Their elders were wiser and more courageous because of these contemplations, while, in his view, today’s older generation is just old and afraid.

Of course modern western cultures don’t like to talk about death, let alone regard it as a miracle. Contemplating death would assume aging and in the west we are engaged in the futile practice of denying the passage of time. In order to live a full life, we must prepare to welcome death, let ourselves be water and flow. Plastic, like an expressionless Botox-filled face, is lifeless. Isn’t an instant of transformation worth more than an eternity of lifelessness?

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In 1930, Betty Boop stole the hearts of her audience in Dizzy Dishes. Since then, she has starred in nearly 120 cartoon shorts, 2 television specials, appeared in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ and is one of the most popular and best-known celebrity balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. But this gorgeous 70-something star has no plans of retiring. In fact, Betty Boop’s career is still skyrocketing. In his book, author Leonard Ellis, explores Betty Boop’s appea… More >>

The Definitive Guide to Betty Boop: Memorabilia With Values

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This accurate 6-inch resin rendering features the Creature from the Black Lagoon in a surprisingly appealing and agreeable form that nods and bobs at your every whim. Available at www.entertainmentearth.com

• Licensed Star Wars bobble
• Made of indestructible PVC plastic
• Bobble-head action
• Sturdy base
• Official Funko wobbler

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What a Wookiee! This 6-inch tall bobble head of Chewbacca is based on designs from the original Star Wars trilogy and features the mighty hero’s trademark bowcaster, blue eyes, and shaggy fur. Standing atop his personalized display base, the world’s most beloved walking carpet (and sidekick to Han Solo) is ready to guard over you while you sleep, work, or otherwise engage in guarding-worthy activities…. More >>

Chewbacca Bobble-head

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Dear Reader:

Here’s a quick teaser for you; how many minutes of actual play is there in an average NFL game?

Answer to follow…

A good 80% of the questions I got during my recent “Ask Andrew anything promotion” were about discounting and loyalty! Both of which are very topical in this economy, an economy as bad as most of us have ever seen and one that affects just about every business.

Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers manage to sell 63,000 tickets per game, just a fraction less than FULL capacity (65,000) without discounting! My tickets on the 10-yard line are a long way from the prime locations at mid-field and are still $195 per game, per seat. For the privilege of being able to buy the two tickets per game, I also paid a $4000 seat license, making this year’s NFL season a $1000 per game experience for my son and me. Each few yards you move down towards mid-field, the tickets jump $50 or more until you are at $750 a ticket per game. Even the cheapest seats are $75-$95 per game (as much or more than many green fees) and there are still plenty of people to pay for them, why?

Could it be that we have the best looking cheerleaders in the league?

Or, with the strategic command just a couple of miles away, we get a guaranteed “fly over” every game?

The pregame national anthem and flag extravaganza will bring a tear to your eye (even for a Brit like myself!)

The pregame cartoon on the giant monitors? Where our pirate ship sinks the boats of all the other NFL teams to the tune of ride of the Valkyries (no doubt spelled wrong) same music as in the helicopter scene from Apocalypse Now, for the less musically cultured!

It could be the Pirate ship itself?  Letting off cannon rounds every time we get in the red zone? Or, perhaps the scores of help throwing out free beads?

I am sure we must be the only NFL team with palm trees in the stadium and fresh sushi on demand? Have you ever been to a golf club where they offer sushi?

Anyway, they have great food and drink selections, not just hot dogs and Bud. Although, there seems to be no shortage of people willing to pay $8 a draft even for Bud! The employees seem happy to be there and there’s a great all round atmosphere that’s very festive!

Then, of course, there is the door gift.  Last game a limited edition Mike (The A-Train) Alstott bobble head doll! Others have included visors, golf towels and of course T-shirts, but there’s something to take home every game!

Maybe it’s all the charity work the Glazier family and the organization do for the community?

The tickets themselves are even fun, a 3-D style that makes the players jump off the page.

Did I mention it’s a three and a half hour round trip from my home? No matter, I can’t wait for every game and it’s something I enjoy doing with my son.

I think we will make the playoffs this year and when we do, economy or not, those last remaining 2% of unsold tickets will all be gone!

How in this economy can this be? Because the NFL and the Bucs, in particular, understand that they are in the ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS! Which is a fact lost on many golf clubs!

What do you do at each TOUCH POINT to entertain your members and guests? 

What do you feed them that’s memorable? What do you give them to take home as a souvenir? What, other than your actual course, is TRULLY memorable about their experience at your club? Memorable enough that someone would write a three page letter telling people how GREAT it was!!!!

If you had that in place, bad economy or not, you’d be doing just fine! The majority of people use the economy as an excuse to underperform.  Do not allow yourself to be trapped by this type of negative thinking from others! There are 63,000 people who won’t be playing golf in Tampa this Sunday because someone made them a better, though FAR MORE COSTLY offer for their entertainment dollars!

By the way, there is less than 6 minutes of physical action in an NFL game. Which at $1000 a game, works out to be…well, it doesn’t matter to me and apparently not to 63,000 other people in Tampa every other Sunday because they think it’s worth it! 

For more great ideas on how to entertain your players read Cunningly Clever Marketing!

Funko Wacky Wobblers Lily Munster Bobble Head Retired

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Freedom Bobble Constructed of a sturdy polyresin the armed forces bobbleheads make a great addition to any bobblehead collection…. More >>

USA Uncle Sam Freedom Bobblehead

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