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Pac-Man Ghost candy tin (link roundup)

Pac-Man Ghost candy tin on sale for $6 at Amazon.

And a few more links:

1. Photos of people coping with historically-high flood waters in Venice. Via.

2. Steam Crow's Daniel Davis draws Robot 13.

3. Photos of San Francisco's Lombard Street being turned into Candyland.

*Previously: $150 edition of Clue.

*Buy board games cheap at eBay.

James Jean Mints

Coming "soon" to Giant Robot, mints in packages designed by James Jean. James also recently designed skateboards for Giant Robot.

*Previously: Logo for the Tin Caps baseball team.

*Buy Fossil tins at eBay.

Packaging for Ô Water

Packaging for Ô Water by Axygene, which has a Tumblr blog, where I found this ominous toy phone:

Via these sites.

*Previously: There's such a thing as a "water sommelier?"

*Buy Fossil tins at eBay.

Clever hardware packaging (link roundup)

Packaging for screws, nails, etc by Lina Brunzell.

And a few more links:

1. Famous doctors say throwing curveballs when young ruins your arm, But two independent studies says that's not true.

2. Dark Horse is bringing back Magnus, Solar, and Turok, and Jim Shooter will be doing at least some of the writing.

3. Members of AKA, the oldest predominantly black Greek-lettered sorority, have sued national president Barbara McKinzie, claiming she misappropriated funds and commissioned a $900,000 wax figure of herself. You can see the figure here. Via.

*Previously: Portland General Store packaging.

*Buy Turok toys at eBay.

Potland General Store

Great packaging on display in the Portland General Store for men and women. Via.

*Previously: Highly desirable cigarette packaging.

*Buy the Little Book of Big Packaging Ideas at Amazon.

The Mariner and his digital camera (link roundup)

Webbed fingers star in this ad for a Fuji underwater camera.

And a few more links:

1. Yet another article about how fast plastic toys decay, but this one actually lists recent toys with well known, highly visible decay. Via.

2. British Robocop.

3. Some tips on designing paper toys.

4. Great packaging on a bottle of absinthe cocktail by Stephanie Hiser.

*Previously: The video camera for tentacle monsters.

*Buy Robocop toys at eBay.

Highly desirable cigarette packaging (link roundup)

DJ Stout designed some cigarette packaging that would theoretically comply with new government regulations. But wouldn't you be more likely to buy cigarettes if the packaging looked this good?

And a few more links:

1. Life for divorced X-Men.

2. Stilt walker in a Jack Skellington costume (I think).

3. 40 newspapers, "including, after a personal appeal, al-Jazeera," kept the kidnapping of reporter David Rhode a secret for months.

4. Kidrobot teases it's late July releases.

*Previously: It's illegal for this gay couple to get a divorce.

*Buy Nightmare Before Christmas toys at eBay.

Tentacled, cyclopean robot (link roundup)

One-eyed found item robot, with tentacles by Scott Sauer.

And a few more links:

1. Supposedly the Golem has experienced a "surge in popularity" in Prague.

2. The Brandt Peters Serv-o-Matic mini figures I mentioned on Sunday are now available for preorder at Tenacious Toys.

3. Wow, the old packaging for Rice Krispies was terrific.

4. If you have the patience to look through it, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln library has a digital archive of comics published by the U.S. government, dating back to the 1940s. Tiny thumbnails and pdfs were enough to send me running away. Via.

*Previously: Packaging for Villainess toiletries, cosmetics and tea.

*Buy books about golems at Amazon.

Water bottle lighting (link roundup)

The video shows how someone harnessed sunlight with water bottles to light a large room. Apparently each bottle threw off as much light as a 50 watt bulb. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Rex Crowle's Grip Wrench is on Twitter. Sample Tweet:

Punching a unicorn in the eye. Stupid unicorn.

2. Tropicana's hideous redesigned packaging caused its sales to plunge. Via.

3. Keypad with different buttons for the vocal samples from Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."

4. Free toy with every order at Tenacious Toys in April. I recommend Horvath's Bossy Bear, Doktor A's Mechtorians, and Tokidoki's death's head plush.

*Previously: Daft Punk's "Something About Us" performed with a DS and theremin.

*Buy Daft Punk posters at eBay.

Yellow Submarine Juice Boxes

Yellow Submarine-style Beatles juice boxes. The concept is by Marc Valega, and you can see more of his work here. Via these fine sites.

*Previously: Ninjas in a yellow submarine.

*Buy Beatles toys at eBay.

Unicorn Drops, for those nagging coughs

This is the package for Unicorn Drops, a product from 1853. The package says "For coughs, colds, hoarseness, affection of the throat, lungs, etc" and promises "As these drops are harmless, they can be eaten freely." But if they cure "hoarseness," shouldn't the lion be winning? Thanks for the tip Shawn.

*Previously: Princess Unicorn, my horn can pierce the sky.

*Buy unicorns at eBay.

Day of the Dead-inspired packaging (link roundup)

Day of the Dead-inspired packaging for sugar cane - - a concept by Camille Forget. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, says "the Guantanamo detention center is a well-run, professional facility that will be difficult to close."

2. Go here to order custom fortune cookies. Via.

3. Girl with a bazooka in a post-apocalyptic hot rod.

4. How to make chalkboard place mats.

*Previously: Day of the Dead-style bandit mask.

*Buy hot rods at eBay.