Who wants WOOT MONKEYS?
10Look - it seemed like a fun idea at the beginning. Screaming monkeys are cool, they have crazy capes, and LIMITED EDITION or something.
That was a horrible idea. For literally 10 years, I’ve been carrying these monkeys from house to house, taking up space in the basement. Some of the shipping boxes hadn’t ever even been opened!
So I’m getting rid of them one way or another… whatever they sell for on eBay, they’re leaving my house. Anyone interested??
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For a while I ordered the max number every time they sold monkeys, pre the cheapshit monkeys with plastic noses and Woot going full amazon. Every Christmas the “Monkey Uncle” sent many monkeys to family members with associated stories, and later with cans of “Anti-Monkey Butt” powder. When monkey supplies ran low I sent individual monkeys with printed orders stating they were drill sergeant monkeys that would whip all the earlier ones into shape and make them stop wasting the precious Powder.
I think I’m down to three or four of the 2012 Monkey Games monkeys and the one Christmas sock monkey… and a couple of the keychain minimonkeys.
I wonder how much the zombie monkey (the one and only) and note from ThreePieceWoot! would go for…
https://forums.woot.com/t/bindle-of-carrots/68988/892
@duodec is there a picture of said zombie monkey or am I missing it?
@RiotDemon There were, but it appears my old hosting service is offline. Can’t even get to mindspring.com any more and I can’t get any support until tomorrow to find out why.
@duodec @RiotDemon
Is it this?
@Kyeh @RiotDemon That looks like it
There was a series of pics in the disclosure post concerning receipt, examination, attempts to re-animate, and eventual guarding of the zombie-like monkey by the one single reliable guard monkey.
Sadly, to date, I have not been able to reanimate it, and use it to bring forth the zombie monkey APOCALYPSE! Bwwaa haaaa haaa!
Sorry. Sometimes the old fervor just comes over me…
@RiotDemon Apparently Earthlink decided to stop providing personal web space with its service accounts last year “due to covid”. What relation there was between Covid and this was not explained, and I don’t recall being informed. Now I’ve got dead picture links in older postsall over the net. Meh.
@RiotDemon
@duodec @RiotDemon I did find and read your write-up - it was hilarious! Zombie monkey is definitely a treasure!
I used to buy the max of the monkeys every time they sold and would give them away too. I freaking loved them. After the sellout and they became garbage I stopped buying. I was very sad about it. I still have two left - one tie dyed and one purple. Neither screams anymore and they certainly don’t stretch. But I still love them.
Post these on Woot! I can almost guarantee you’ll have a number of takers in no-time.
I love my screaming monkey! But he is very lonely and would love some companionship. Try as I might I still am unable to find the Woot! Screaming monk-E-harmony(or monkey-tinder or banana lovers Hot or Not etc.)
Send them back to Woot and they will put them up for sale as “refurbished”
@Sardinicus Well by now all the rubber arms will be so brittle they will just fall apart. Mine are barely hanging on, certainly can’t shoot them.
@raccoon81 In other words, perfect refurbs
@Sardinicus Precisely
@raccoon81 @Sardinicus I found a monkey that had been sitting in a box for ten years. For the hell of it I tried pulling the hands to fire him and one snapped right off.
THEN the screaming started.
There’s a fairly good chance these would be cheaper than the BullyMake toys my stinker destroys in 10 minutes, but I can’t bring myself to throw them to the house piranha.
@brainmist Probably best for piranhas not to get their teeth into the sound box, and I don’t know about yours but the after effects of our departed chewers swallowing chucks of surgical tubing and artificial fur were… kinda gross…
@duodec Can’t be much worse than the bras she keeps eating. And my albuterol inhaler… And that lightbulb. And the grout.
It would be pretty hilarious to watch her go to town on a pile of screaming monkeys, but someone will surely want them in a non-destructive way.
Hang on to at least one. A Mehrican IRK Exchange is in the works. I’m working on da rules and details to post in the next couple of weeks.
@ironcheftoni Or send some to @koolhandjoe. I am sure he’d do something diabolical with them.
@ironcheftoni @Kidsandliz I can think of a few ways to creep them out
@Kidsandliz @Koolhandjoe many people think they are creepy on their own.
Once my sister posted one of those memes on Facebook asking different questions. One was fears. Her fears are sock monkeys and clowns. It took me hours to find it but i found a photo of a sock monkey dressed as a clown. Yeah, I’m sick like that!! Feel free to run with that idea
Hi! Do you have any left? Our cat Muji’s favorite toy is his woot monkey. Unfortunately he’s totally ripped it apart and it’d on it’s last legs. I’ve been looking everywhere for a replacement for him, but I didn’t realize people would be trying to sell them as collectibles, so I’ve had a hard time finding Muji another one. He would absolutely love a new one to throw around
I’d love a woot monkey
I have several woot monkeys hanging in my office and just recently all of the hands started falling off one by one.
Apparently the rubber gets brittle after 5 or so years and they just snap.
So now I have monkeys with no hands.
& I’m ok with that.
@RogerWilco Yeah, same. All the old ones are really so brittle can’t play with them. should just take batteries out of them when I get them as dogs hate the scream anyway.
Looks like I have about a dozen hanging here.
I just threw away the 10 I had yesterday. I did not realize they were desirable. facepalm
I have at least 4 I know of that I’d be willing to sell in a bundle with a never-worn set of red, white, and blue woot! sweatband/armbands combo. Let me know if you’d like pictures and I’ll go take some.