Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Rubber Duckie Phenomenon

The Rubber Duckie - it has been around for a very long time, and everybody knows what they are...they even have rubber duckie races. Today's images are mostly rubber duckies, but there are a couple of other toys included. My husband collects vintage toys, so I have a lot of material to put to use for the future. One of today's is a vintage duck, while the others are recent purchases, just for this purpose. There's a selection of duckies in different caps...something to suit almost anyone, and a couple of collectible toy cars.

The first image - this Canadian quarter (25-cent piece) created especially to honour breast cancer victims has the breast cancer logo in the middle (the pink ribbon), and is emblazoned with raised silver ribbons around the edges. This image is here today for someone who has a blog on coins and collecting, so this was especially for them to use, but of course anyone is welcome to use it in their blogs.

canadian quarter with breast cancer pink ribbon

vintage yellow rubber duck with googley-eyes

vintage rubber duck with google-eyes from a different perspective

These two images are the vintage rubber duck. The name is a little off, because the duck is actually a hard plastic with google-eyes, but it's purpose is to entertain the kiddies in the bathtub, just like all the other duckies. This one, however is quite a bit larger. The two images are from different perspectives.

collectible toy cars and vehicles

collectible toy vehicles

Another set of images from two different perspectives. These are a few more recent collectible type cars and vehicles. The airplane was a handout from the Bank of Montreal and is made of sponge, while the small red car in the front (Mattel) is a crayon, made of wax. The green plastic truck is a vintage piece (my husband has two others the same in different colours) and the little yellow car with Goofy clinging to the top is a Disney toy. The blue car from the movie "Cars" pretty much explains itself.

small rubber whales bath toys

While these aren't exactly "rubber duckies", they fall into the same category as rubber duckies. These two rubber whale toys (mom and baby) are bath toys for babies.

a lineup of rubber duckie toys with different hats

Here (and below), finally, is the rubber duckie lineup. As you can see we have two "plain" rubber duckies - a larger one, and a baby one with wings. There's also a postman (mailman), a fireman and the one with the green baseball hat is a kid on it's way to school...he has a backpack which you'll see in the next pictures.

another batch of rubber duckies

two rubber ducks from a sideview
Anybody feel like a bubble bath?