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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: StormGiant on December 01, 2005, 05:22:20 pm
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Besides the arcade, growing up in the 80s also meant a love for Calvin & Hobbes. As luck would have it, our 3 year old son is the spitting image of Calvin. Funny, because I look like a cross between Ralph Macchio and the guy who played Imhotep in The Mummy. The mailman though...
Anyway, I know that Watterson never licensed Calvin & Hobbes for toys or anything else. I'd still like to get him a stuffed Hobbes for Christmas. Seeing as how this board is full of fellow 80s-90s type dudes, anyone have any luck finding a Hobbes lookalike? Anyone hear of such a beast? I'd take either incarnation of Hobbes - Calvin's view or the "real-world" stuffed view.
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Oh, there were tons and tons of knockoffs...
...but you're better off getting him a bunch of stuffed toys and letting him choose his own Hobbes.
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Oh, there were tons and tons of knockoffs...
...but you're better off getting him a bunch of stuffed toys and letting him choose his own Hobbes.
Brilliant point. Giving him a Hobbes is probably more for me than him. Since he's the only boy - he's got older twin sisters - he is not hurting for toys.
Just noticed this is only post 12. Seems like I've been reading this board regularly forever. I must be what the kids call a "lurker".
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We did that with both of my sons.
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...but you're better off getting him a bunch of stuffed toys and letting him choose his own Hobbes.
When I was a kid my Hobbes was George the gorilla. My mom got him for me when I was around 5 I think. I still have him, he's one of the few surviving relics from my childhood. He lives in my gameroom and guards my cabs for me now.
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I had a bear named Brownie. I still have him, he sits on a small easy chair on a bookshelf in my bedroom.
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Back on topic, I was surprised to see this at the book store last week:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740748475/qid=1133558437/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5693158-1651866?n=507846&s=books&v=glance
(To the click-impaired, it's a huge COMPLETE collection of every C&H ever, in 3 huge and heavy hard-cover volumes).
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I always thought Hobbes was supposed to be a Tigger the Tiger doll with Calvins big healthy dose of imagination.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TIGGER-13-PLUSH-FISHER-PRICE-DISNEY-NEW-IN-BOX_W0QQitemZ6018667081QQcategoryZ2991QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
This is pretty close to a Hobbes imho.
-Dweebs