WILD THINGS figures

I haven't seen the movie version yet and I'm not much of a toy collector, but I'm a little drooly over this new selection of figures based on Where the Wild Things Are. I'm a little sad, though, that from now on we'll probably be stuck calling these characters Carol, KW, Alexander, etc. While they were unnamed in Maurice Sendak's original book, years later Sendak revealed that they were named after his relatives: Tzippy, Moishe, Bruno, Emile and Bernard. How did Spike Jonze imagine that Carol was an improvement over Moishe? Nothing's an improvement over Moishe. (Click pic to embiggenate.)



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