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There are a lot of weird things like this, as I found out when I started making a doll. I found pages and pages of things with names like 'eye beveler.'
FINALLY! I've been looking for a good eyeball removal implement for ages. Something like a sharpened ice-cream scoop would be great, but most are a little too big. Does it say anywhere how is this is to use when the doll is twitching and straining against its bonds?
(For the hard-of-thinking, yes I am SO joking, many times over)
The reborn movement is huge. May I suggest for your viewing pleasure the documentary "My fake Baby".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179892/
They push them around in prams outside. Creepy.
I used to work in a childcare center and one of the gentlemen who worked there found great enjoyment in popping out the dolls' eyeballs halfway and freaking out the kids with them. This is what Secret Santa would have brought him, had I known of this tool.
"Reborn" to "undead" with a just flick of the wrist.
Warning. Do not use after smoking PCP.
Um, where can I get one of those unicorn chasers the rest of you swear by?
You know, that Leonard Nimoy photo is ever so much creepier when you have just seen this.
isaac newton could have found a use for this.
I like how the "baby" in the picture is making, with its one remaining eye, a face that says "Um, dude, this eyeball-adjusting shit is just a little too weird for me."
That touches awfully close to a short story I'm reworking... crazy and creepy!
enucleation is hard, let's go shopping.
Thanks...
Now I'm hungry for some home-made Eye-scream!
This and buying exactly $13 of stuff made my Friday 13th btw.
Geez. Another creepy/cutesy industry that I was living life just fine not knowing about. Now I need a unicorn pony-killer chaser.
Looks like a repackaged clay sculpting tool. Site says it's $5 and sold out. That last part creeps me out (well that's like a drop in the bucket)
john waters has to have one of these.
This was on an episode of Criminal Minds last week.
Except it involved people eyeballs. And a lunatic taxidermist.
They look like generic curettes with a brand name slapped on them.
If so, brilliant idea. I'd love to charge a huge markup to put my name on everyday stuff.
Ludovico?
Looks like they just repurposed a standard modelling tool used in clay sculpture.
Jeepers creepers...
Well now I won't be able to sleep tonight. Thanks, BoingBoing.
This gives me a "It rubs its lotion on its skin ..." vibe
I think what you're after is a Marmalade Spoon - not the nonsensical efforts that come up if you google the term (some kind of long-handled teaspoon with a Uri Geller-style kink in it so you can hang it from the side of the jar), but a proper, honest-to-goodness English styleee one. It's like a teaspoon with a slightly longer handle, but the front of the bowl is sharp has small serrations round it like a breadknife (for cutting up the chunks, you see). I used to have one; it would have made a very fine eyeball gouger/optic nerve severer.
Looks like a handy tool, but keep it away from the chimps.
sometimes we just need a little adjustment.
From the description, it sounds like you're describing a grapefruit spoon. Very useful on those ruby reds (and baby blues?).
I loved those things!
They made the awkward effort to eat a grapefruit while groggy in the morning a lot less painful.
That is, unless you used them to remove your eyeballs. Plenty of pain there.
I get the same disgusting vibe from those Reborn Dolls that I do from Real Dolls. Real Dolls are a creepy way to pander to male sexual urges, while Reborn Dolls are a creepy way to pander to female maternal urges.
The title of the post says 'Eyeball removal tool' but it clearly states in the ad it is the 'Reborn Eyeball Removin' Tool'!! ....Which is not only funnier but funner to say and somewhat country song inspirin'....
Eating grapefruit has occasionally made me want to remove an eyeball. Probably a good thing I didn't have that tool handy.