Nanco Plush Traveling Matt & Sprocket

[matleo]

I like the Sprocket in that picture. He's kinda cute, but doesn't look quite like Sprocket. More like a Muppet Baby version of Sprocket. Still cute though.

 

[JJandJanice]

I actually did win the FOUR (not five since again there was no Mokey) from the claw grab games. I play those too much.

 

[beaker]

From Muppet Wikia

That's the only pic there is, and I don't know if it really was released or not (after all, you'd have to frequent arcades or carnivals to see them). They do look decent... not great (shame Sababa never got the retail push it needed to get Mokey and Matt out there).

I really hope the Manhattan Toy license turns out well enough for them to add Matt and Sprocket to the line up. I'd buy a Matt on sight.

You kidding? Those look FANTASTIC! I honestly do not care at all for the new Fraggle plushes.

Its alllllllll about the 2003 Sababba ones!

 

[beaker]

Finding them in an arcade machine is one thing. Winning them is quite another. I mentioned it somewhere else, but I actually had a streak of actually winning these things (three times I tried I actually won... twice in one day, actually) and NEVER won anything ever again ever ever. Not to mention those awful times when the thing's pressed up against the glass, almost mocking you.

Of course, there's always the alternate route... if you see one hanging on the walls of an arcade, you can take a couple hundred dollars and play whack-a-mole or something until you get the 20000 tickets to get one.

1. Just call the plush delivery operator. I got a rare Rizzo plush from a decade ago that was in such a claw machine. Called em up, and they delivered the plush free of charge to the grocery store the machine was at. Its funny, I saw claw machines all over in the 1980's, and now they are back and ubiquitous as ever. I just wouldnt dare spend a darn nickle on them.

2. These are often also at carnival midways. Most carnies will give you whatever plush you want for 5 bucks, as theyre so desperate. These things literally got a few cents to make in sweatshop factories overseas, and have no real value. Sadly, Pepe Nanco goes for over a hundred dollars due to his scarcity.

 

[Foodie]

they are supposed to come out this spring! :

I got a few of them now, Gobo & Red. They're kinda big & very squishy. They have plush eyes though which is different. They made it look like Red has white eyelids as the backside of her eyes is textured differently than the front. Neither of them look particularly happy though. They may be " EMO " fraggles. * shudders at the term *.

I should be getting Mokey & the Gobo hand-puppet soonish.

 

[Drtooth]

1. Just call the plush delivery operator. I got a rare Rizzo plush from a decade ago that was in such a claw machine. Called em up, and they delivered the plush free of charge to the grocery store the machine was at. Its funny, I saw claw machines all over in the 1980's, and now they are back and ubiquitous as ever. I just wouldnt dare spend a darn nickle on them.

Well both this and the next part have to beg the question of "Where do you come from?" I only see crane machines in Malls I don't frequent, TRU's I have trouble getting to, and arcades that disappear quicker around me than anything. And even if I do find one, they usually have those ugly off brand things. Sometimes I'll find something GOOD but it's wedged between the walls. however... if somehow you can get you hands on a Mega Man, I'll trade/buy it off you.

2. These are often also at carnival midways. Most carnies will give you whatever plush you want for 5 bucks, as theyre so desperate. These things literally got a few cents to make in sweatshop factories overseas, and have no real value. Sadly, Pepe Nanco goes for over a hundred dollars due to his scarcity.

Again... where do you come from? I've tried that once, and no avail. If that worked, I'd have a Heathcliff plush by now. And an Alf. I guess it depends on who's running the carnival or whatever.