Toy Vault 12" Cthulhu Plush Toy

by Toy Vault

Product Features

• Based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories
• A nice addition on the shelf alongside your many Lovecraft novels
• Makes a great gift for any science fiction or horror fan
• Filled with plush and beanies

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006IEX7C
• Item model number: HP003
• Manufacturer recommended age: 14 - 18 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,353 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Finally, a Cthulhu that won't keep you awake all night with fear, this is a very cuddly representation of the Cthulhu depicted by H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu is one of the most popular and haunting characters in Lovecraft's horror novels. This figure can sit on a bookshelf with its legs dangling over the edge. He will be a nice addition on the shelf alongside your many Lovecraft novels. Also makes a great gift for any science fiction or horror fan. This Cthulhu plush is 12" tall and filled with plush and beanies.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, but they changed the description!, November 22, 2008

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TS (Ohio) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Toy Vault 12" Cthulhu Plush Toy (Toy)

Plush Cthulhu used to have the best description of any product on amazon, but they changed it!

It used to read:

-Softest Elder God
-New, improved great old one
-Plush yet all devouring

BRING THE OLD DESCRIPTION BACK! CTHULHU FHTAGN!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eldritch, cyclopean, and cuddly, December 31, 2004

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Jennifer Moquin "Cthulhu owner" (Glenmoore, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Toy Vault 12" Cthulhu Plush Toy (Toy)

This little plush Cthulhu is well-made and adorable. If you can ignore the fact that he is probably secretly dreaming of your madness and destruction, he'd make a fine addition to your cubicle or collection.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What will Cthulhu think of being a green 8-inch plush toy?, January 7, 2005

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Toy Vault 12" Cthulhu Plush Toy (Toy)

H(oward) P(hillips) Lovecraft wrote a whole bunch of short stories for pulp magazines such as "Weird Tales," many of which talked about the Great Cthulhu, a supremely powerful force of evil who was laying dormant deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, awaiting the time when he would return to power and turn the Earth into a waste land. Lovecraft's stories of the Great Old Ones, the cursed book called "The Necronomicon," scholars at Miskatonic University, and the Elder Gods were developed into what is now commonly known as the Cthulhu Mythos (a term coined by August Derleth). Other writers have added to the Cthulhu Mythos, which continues to expand to this day, but at the heart of it all is Cthulhu himself. So the idea that he has been turned into an 8-inch plush toy takes the concept of cuteness to a damp, dark hole where it has not seen the light of day for countless years.

Cthulhu (a.k.a. Fisherman's God, Great Old One, Him Who Lies Dreaming, Him Who Will Rise Again, etc.) was described by Lovecraft as follows: "a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopuslike head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind." In addition to having "a fearsome and unnatural malignancy," Cthulhu is described as having "a somewhat bloated corpulence," which certainly explains why it has ended up as a plush toy, although I am not certain how accurate the green part ends up being.

Given the literary heritage of Cthulhu, it is amazing how much fun is being had with Lovecraft's greatest monstrous creation. There are Cthulhu for President t-shirts, a Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, and a marvelous on-line comic strip, "The Misadventures of Hello Cthulhu" (yes, think "Hello Kitty" with an unknowable evil walking around). I have even seen a Cthulhu made out of Lego parts (the Lego squid makes such things possible apparently). So a Cthulhu plush toy seems rather reasonable, and one of those brilliant examples of how the commercial impulse can manifest itself in diverse sections of popular culture. Can plush toys of Nyarlathotep and Azathoth be far behind? Stay tuned, boys and girls.