Model Toy Misfires: How Do You Follow "The Visible Woman?"

Continuing our series on poorly conceptualized toys:

Revell was quite successful with its model kits "Visible Man" and "Visible Woman." As I recall, "The Visible Woman" (below) had a snap-on pregnancy accessory kit which confused an entire generation of impressionable boys about the mechanics of reproduction.

Far less successful was "The Visible Popeye," since, traditionally, all Fleischer characters were drawn without internal organs.

Donald Duck And His Crappy Cars

For all the progress we've made, there are still unsolvable challenges:

• What is the biological basis of consciousness?
  
• Can the laws of physics ever be unified?
  
• Can no one design a toy car driven by Donald Duck that doesn't look completely stupid?

Car not cartoonish; large head makes windshield pointless


Impractical wheel-bearing unit load ratio uses singular-row angular-contact ball bearings


Beret-wearing duck strains credulity

Not Disney authorized; Duck seems severely injured from previous rollover

Horizontal steering wheel; Duck still recovering from serious sawmill accident

Insufficient budget/expertise: paint


Duck appears to be bathing in pool of red liquid; Driver unidentified

Macrocephaly, Inexplicable cricket; Duck poised for Isadora Duncan-like death

Radical Pre-War Characters

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