As I’m looking back at the things I’ve collected over the years, I can’t help but notice that I’ve gotten a lot of Pac-Man stuff. That shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, even though I’m pretty sure he’s not as popular as he was a few years ago, he was absolutely huge in his day, and I was around for most of that day. But he’s still around, and tends to pop up from time to time in the most bizarre places. For instance, take a look at this:
What we have here is a couple of bears wearing 3D-glasses (you know, like everyone did in the 80’s), and on their bellies, we have… Inky and Pinky?
A closer look at the tags reveals that these are a product of the Peek-A-Boo Toy Company
Which has only been around since 1995, meaning that these can’t possibly be authentic 80s toys. They don’t appear in their current catalog, either, and I can’t find anything else on the Internet about them, so I’m forced to make the following conclusions:
- These were made for a carnival or fair and distributed as prizes
- They’re some kind of throwback, retro thing to get parents to spend money to try and win a reminder of their childhood
- They’re totally rad to the max!
But now I kind of think I need to try and find the other two… assuming there are two more.
