Knocking Off Website

Knocking off is a website that posts a lot of funny bootleg products from a wide variety of sources. Anything that is a blatant trademark infringement seems to be fair game on this website and they have plenty of really good examples posted on their blog. The site is run by Robert Cop and Special Man, knock offs of Robocop and Superman if you needed to know who they were knock offs of. The most notable categories they have on their website include video games, products, movies and TV. Don’t worry, they have a toy category to and the toy category has more than double of the entries the 2nd highest category has in it I don’t even think I can describe knock off toys they have showing there. There are plenty of toys which are combinations of two or more things that you just have to see to believe. You’ll just have to go and check it out, Knockingoff.com. They also take submissions if you happen to have any funny knock off items you want people to see, but have no other way to get them online. Unless you have some toy related knock offs, then feel free to send them...

Anakin Isn’t The Chosen One You’re Looking For – SWFOTF

Unfortunately, it’s been a while since I have posted one of these because I have been busy. Not much of a page of the week. Anyway, this is the first non-maze activity I have posted. The mazes were just so much more fun, but there were others like this one that weren’t mazes and quite funny. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace introduced many fans to the midi-chlorians which were microscopic organisms that lived in people’s cells. According to the Star Wars Wikia, a normal human has about 2,500 per cell and the highest one known belonged to Anakin Skywalker with over 20,000. Now here is the activity, the midi-chlorian count. You have to count how many midi-chlorians Qui-Gon found in Anakin’s blood. So Qui-Gon finds 74 and decides it should be sent off to Obi-Wan and his reading says it is over 20,000 from the equipment on the ship. Again, the wiki page talks about how the testing was prone to fault and how Wil Jhonems, the marketing guy for Spotts Tradechip Company who makes the tradechips, stated that the concept of midi-chlorians is unclear to them. They don’t know what they are looking for so they probably multiplied the reading or just gave a random number just to sell more units. This is Anakin with a 74 midi-chlorian count. Ah, some of the stuff people put on...

Spin-A-Mals Farm and Safari Puzzle Recall

Small World Toys has recalled 4,000 Ryan’s Room brand Spin-A-Mals Farm and Spin-A-Mals Safari puzzles because of a choking hazard. The boards have wooden pegs in them to hold the gears and animal shaped pieces. These pegs can become loose, fall out and if a child puts it in their mouth they can choke. These toys are for children over 12 months in age, or over 1 year old, but fortunately no injuries were reported. The only thing reported was that the pegs were falling out. They were sold at various toy stores from May 2012 to October 2012 and they were being sold for $25. The only remedy for the toy is a replacement, hopefully better made than those ones. For the whole report and pictures of the toys, go to the CPSC page...

Basic Beat Egg-Shaker Toy Recalled

There was a recall on an egg-shaped toy instrument last week. The Basic Beat egg-shaker was recalled because the top of the egg is actually glued on and it can come apart from the egg. A child could choke on such a small piece if they put it in their mouth. They are not to be mistaken for candy or chocolate eggs you get at Easter. Only 6,500 of them were actually sold and they were available for sale in five colors: purple, yellow, blue, green and red. This doesn’t help the association with Easter. They were made in China and sold at various music websites and stores as with Amazon.com between July 2012 and October 2012. If you want to get a free replacement, you can contact West Music and get a free replacement, but there is little point in getting a refund since they were only $1.50. The phone number for West Music is 1(800) 397-9378 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday to Friday and by e-mail at service@music.com. They would be a terrible idea to use in an Easter egg...