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Subject: What is this thing called?
Written By: Moosie on 03/09/08 at 10:30 pm
I have some small give-a-ways from the 80's that I believe had a specific name to them at the time. the only name I could find on Google was Fuzzball and that doesn't ring a bell. They are smaller than a quarter yarn balls with eyes and feet glued to them. The ones I have also have PG&E hard hats but I seem to remember their being rather popular for a while. Can anyone tell me what they were called?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Interesting site!
Subject: Re: What is this thing called?
Written By: ladybug316 on 03/10/08 at 12:00 am
Welcome, Moosie. We had a thread a while back about these. Here it is:
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=29418.0
Subject: Re: What is this thing called?
Written By: rsbryswrrl on 03/10/08 at 10:16 am
We got those for selling magazines in middle school for a fundraiser. I guess that was back in the days that your parents would actually let you roam the neighborhood unattended and try to harass your neighbors into buying stuff from you.
Subject: Re: What is this thing called?
Written By: Moosie on 03/10/08 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for the replies and for the link. Someone on the link thought they were called Weebles and that's the name that I remembered too but I know weebles are a don't-fall-down kind of toy. maybe these things came first or were spelled differently. I was just wondering how to list them on eBay. Oh well, I'm a procrastinator so I'll probably never do it anyway! LOL! ;D
Thanks again for your help!
Subject: Re: What is this thing called?
Written By: Henk on 03/10/08 at 4:49 pm
Weebles is close... They're actually called Weepuls. Check out the Wikipedia entry.
Weepuls (or Wuppies, as they're called over here) are still popular in my country.