Capsule ‘Pods
gumball cephalopods, originally uploaded by Cryptonaut.
Here are two of the littlest cephalopods in the collection–a six-armed squid (another one!) and a very surprised looking octopus.
If memory serves, these came from one of those toy capsule “gumball” machines at Toys R’ Us (or was it K-Mart?)…you know the kind that usually have shoddy Pokemon knock-offs, Hannah Montana stickers, or, if you’re lucky, Homies.
This would have been in the late 1990s, around the time my cephalopod collecting mania was really picking up steam. I don’t know how many quarters I fed into the machine just to get these two little guys, but I’m sure that somewhere I have an entire shoal of tiny rubber sea creatures with similar wide-eyed expressions.
Incidentally, I used a dime for scale because President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a well known amateur malacologist.
And yes, that was lie.
