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I’m wearing Doc Ock’s arm.

I’m wearing Otto’s arm.
While “Hulk Hands” and “Thing Feet” may forever lead the pack as far as the coolest wearable Marvel Comics toys go, the “Doc Ock Arm” is a nice bronze medal. Though the decision to make Doctor Octopus the lead villain of Spider-Man 2 was met with some concern initially, the character ended up being completely entrancing. Whether this means kids are up for the challenge of dressing like Doc Ock is up for debate, but I can’t imagine many people of any age turning down a giant plastic claw arm – especially a giant plastic claw arm that really works.

Retailing for under ten bucks, the arm has a handle control that both conceals your hand and allows you to make the claw seize and let go of things at will. It’s not large or sturdy enough to pick up anything terribly cool (wash away any fantasies about drinking a one-liter Coke with it), but it’ll grab hold of enough little things to impress your friends or annoy the holy hell out of any house pets unlucky enough to have a tail.

Not a bad little toy. You may want to wait for the big clearance (I suspect these will be marked down quite a bit when the time comes, as they’re not shaped for standard shelf space), but yeah…picking up junk with Doc Ock’s arm…neat. More pics: Package header. - YEEEHAW. - Claw in action.

Posted by Matt on 04/12/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 46 comments

I think you could consider ALF pongs to be nostalgic!!!!!! But anyway, that thing looks cool. I’d like to run after someone with that going "Fear the wrath of the CLAW!" Hey, it would be great to reenact scenes from "Inspector Gadget" with that thing. His name was DR. CLAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did he actually have a claw??? I can’t remember! Oooh, that was brilliant.

Anyways, I gotta go to class now to learn about Radio. Coolness! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 04/13/2005 3:26 PM

Pimps could wear these instead of carrying a cane. An idea perhaps…

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 04/13/2005 3:28 PM

I found a Ghostbusters II storybook full of actual pictures from the movie. There’s an awesome shot of Slimer chowing on some donuts in the Ghostbuster Headquarters, and a full page shot of the infamous Ghostbusters are Angels painting. Anyone interested?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 04/13/2005 3:50 PM

That claw looks like it’ll provide entertainment for about 20 seconds. They should have waited for Halloween to release that thing!

Allison, if I recall correctly, didn’t Dr. Claw have a removable hand/claw? Didn’t he have a removable hand with a kit of spare tools to attach. For instance, if he needed a knife he would remove the hand and put on a knife attachment. I could be mixing this up with Dr. Klahn (sp?) from the Fistful of Yen portion of Kentucky Fried Movie. "This is Dr. Klan. We not home right now. Please leave a message when you hear the beep. You have our gratitude. GONG." I digress.

WTF was Dr. Claw’s cat’s name? He would always beat the crap outta that cat when he got pissed at Inspector Gadget.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 04/13/2005 4:08 PM

MAD-cat. In the cartoon, Dr. claw was just an unseen Evil Overlord-type. He did wear metal gauntlets, but not a single claw.

Maxwell Smart: Who are you?
The Claw (in thick asian accent): The Craw!
Smart: The… Craw?
The Claw: No! Not The "Craw," (holds up claw) The CRAW!
Smart: Oh, The Craw.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/13/2005 4:29 PM

Not too much longer and your site will be right at home for "christmas in july"

Chestnuts roasted by Ant @ 04/13/2005 8:32 PM

These things were no sale at my TRU at half off. They used to be $11.99. Now there $6.99

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 04/13/2005 11:34 PM

Joker, you suck at typing.

Chestnuts roasted by Batman @ 04/14/2005 9:16 AM

I’m dying laughing here, kingklash! I used to LOVE Get Smart. I haven’t seen it in forever.

I wanted to weigh in on the POG thing mentioned by Allison. Here in the midwest at least, Pogs didn’t come around til the early 90′s. Even then, they never really got big. I remember Kmart and Walmart would continously discount those things, trying like hell to sell them. I think they may have eventually marketed them as chair leg coasters. (okay, maybe now).

As Yoda would say, "Nostalgic, they are not."

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/14/2005 9:45 AM

Whenever I’m at flea markets, I keep an eye out for dusty piles of POGs. I’m still hunting for what I consider the "Ultimate POG" which would have a skull, Yin-Yang, eight-ball, flames, Ace of Spades (preferably in a Dead Man’s Hand), and maybe a snake all prominently displayed. I have a couple of close ones, but no Ultimate. I have the Apllo 13 rocket Hardee’s gave out a long time ago with A13 POGs.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/14/2005 11:29 AM

I would think that a new smurfs cartoon would be considered nostalgic on some level, so why not old characters from the past on new things. ie alf on pogs.
btw what did one do with pogs?

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 04/14/2005 11:50 AM

You played a game where you stacked a bunch of pogs face up and then slammed a slammer (a big, thicker pog) down onto the stack, and however many pogs flipped over, you got to keep.

Chestnuts roasted by TJeremy @ 04/14/2005 12:03 PM

Keep the Christmas theme alive until August in a tribute to the great "Crazy" Eddie Antell. I remember he used to have a Christmas in August sale. I used to look forward to that sale as a kid, just for the goofy commercials. His prices were INNN-SSAAAAANNNNNNEE!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 04/14/2005 1:20 PM

Has any one else had the Star Wars Pop-Tarts? The whole thing is RED!

Chestnuts roasted by shadowofdoubt @ 04/14/2005 1:28 PM

I have a couple of POG videos (I saw that Matt had one of them in one of the various photos of his room), and I think the best one would make X-Ers chuckle thanks to who hosts it.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 04/14/2005 1:36 PM

Actually, Steve Allen is on The Ultimate POG.

And remember ALF? He’s back…in POG form!

Both simpsons references ^_~

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 04/14/2005 2:46 PM

Yo Matt,

Come out drinkin bro.

Fox and Hounds, Menlo Mall

good times bro.

Chestnuts roasted by Egress @ 04/14/2005 4:30 PM

This is from http://www.thedigitalbits.com about He-Man

In other news, BCI Eclipse has announced that they’ll be releasing the complete, classic 1980s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series on DVD over the next two years. The first release, due 7/12, will be a 2-disc The Best of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe 10-episode collection. It will include 5 first season episodes, and 5 second season episodes, along with documentary interviews with a variety of talent involved with the original series, including writers, directors, artists and others. It will also include a pair of 4" x 6" art cards by Bruce Timm and Adam Hughes. There’s even better news from BCI’s press release:

"Beginning this fall, BCI Eclipse will begin releasing the complete, 130-episode series in multi-disc “season” box sets, each including an abundance of extras that, altogether, will make up the most comprehensive collection of extras ever produced for a classic animation DVD series. Consulting with BCI on the project and providing extra content is Val Staples, the owner of He-Man.org, the internet’s largest portal for the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe fan community, the owner of MVCreations graphic design company, and the publisher of the recent Masters of the Universe comic. Producing the special features documentaries and most of the extra content is entertainment writer Andy Mangels, a best-selling novelist, and author of Animation on DVD: The Ultimate Guide."

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 04/14/2005 4:46 PM

Okay RAS, taken in the context you’ve given as an example (Nostalgic Characters on new items) I’d agree with you. But Pogs alone???

It made/makes me laugh though, you asking what one did with pogs. I don’t think I personally ever knew. Thanks to TJeremy we’ve been enlightened. I still like my idea of using them for chair coasters.

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 04/15/2005 10:13 AM

Even before I got to that part in the text I was going to say that thing would be great for terrifying pets

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 04/17/2005 9:48 AM

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