{"id":62988,"date":"2018-12-06T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=62988"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:52:03","slug":"weird-santa-themed-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/weird-santa-themed-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen These 5 Weird Santa-Themed Toys?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever looked past its holly-jolly trappings to realize how <\/span>strange <\/span><\/i>the whole concept of Santa Claus is?<\/span><\/p>\n

Think about it. Every December, millions of girls and boys fervently hope an old man will break into their homes while they sleep, trusting he\u2019ll only take the milk and cookies on the hearth.\u00a0<\/span>In fact, kids expect he\u2019ll leave them presents – <\/span>if <\/span><\/i>he decides they\u2019re worthy, based on his remote surveillance of their behavior from his secure, undisclosed location at the North Pole!<\/span><\/p>\n

These weird Santa-themed holiday toys and collectibles<\/a> will make true believers and Santa skeptics alike think twice about our annual obsession with old Saint Nick.\u00a0<\/span>Ho, ho, ho – would you <\/span>really <\/span><\/i>go up on the housetop to hang out with these guys?<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone Left out Beans for Santa This Year<\/h3>\n $\"\"$
Image: eBay<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
It\u2019s bad enough Santa<\/a> wants us to sit on his lap and spill our holiday secrets in front of crowds of strangers at the shopping mall. Now he\u2019s trying the old \u201cpull my finger\u201d fart gag? We\u2019d just as soon he keep his \u201cfinger aside of his nose,\u201d like The Night Before Christmas<\/em> says he\u2019s supposed to! <\/span>Programmed with such sayings as \u201cThat\u2019s all you\u2019re getting for Christmas\u201d and \u201cWas that on your list?\u201d as well as his signature sound effect, this plush purveyor of festive flatulence will fill your Yuletide with yuckiness or yuks, depending on your “<\/span>scents”\u00a0<\/span>of humor.<\/span><\/p>\n
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, I Made It out of\u2026 Claus?<\/h3>\n
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Don\u2019t get us wrong: There\u2019s nothing weird about dreidels<\/a>. Spinning the sevivon and winning as much gelt as you can – especially the chocolate kind – is a time-honored Chanukah tradition. <\/span>But what\u2019s Santa doing on this spinning top, let alone the Christmas tree, candy cane, and snowman that have taken the place of the Hebrew letters that belong there? A great mix-up has happened here! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Santa Claws is Coming to Town\u2026 Look Out!<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Here\u2019s one Santa Claus<\/a> whose naughty list you definitely don\u2019t want your name to end up on. Judging from the looks of him, you might find a lot worse than a lump of coal in your stocking – assuming his spikes and razor-like claws don\u2019t shred it to ribbons first!\u00a0<\/span>He\u2019s definitely the kind of Kris Kringle you\u2019d expect from the mind of Todd McFarlane, the comic book artist who <\/span>made Venom an anti-heroic icon<\/span> and created the occult, undead Spawn. Part of the 2007 Twisted Christmas action figure line from his company <\/span>McFarlane Toys<\/span>, this gas-masked and gauntleted Santa sports a soot-stained suit and cap\u2026 which you can remove to reveal his skull.\u00a0<\/span>No disrespect to Jack Skellington, but we think cowering under your bedcovers as you dread the arrival of McFarlane\u2019s sadistic Santa would be the <\/span>real <\/span><\/i>nightmare before Christmas!<\/span><\/p>\n
The Most Relaxed Santa of All<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Be honest, now. You\u2019re not really<\/em> surprised to find out a hard-working guy like Santa has a taste for beverages stronger than milk, are you? This polyresin and PVC statue from the celebrated Kurt Adler collection of holiday d\u00e9cor shows jolly old St. Nicholas making merry at a tiki bar<\/a> in a tropical paradise. He\u2019s traded in his familiar red velvet for a Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts (rendered in soft goods). Maybe seeing Santa take it easy for a change isn\u2019t so weird\u2026 but not shaving that beard of his for the summer? That\u2019s<\/em> a little strange!<\/p>\n
Won\u2019t Someone Please Get This Elf a Tissue?<\/b><\/h3>\n $\"\"$
Image: Cost Plus World Market<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n
Weird Santas deserve weird elves<\/a> (though come to think of it, unless they\u2019re from Middle-earth, are there any other kind?), and here\u2019s one of the weirder we\u2019ve seen. Squeeze this little toymaker\u2019s stomach, and he\u2019ll shoot a ball of green foam from his nose as far as 20 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n
Do you think this is how Santa\u2019s helpers at the North Pole spend every Christmas Eve? The boss is only out of the office one day a year – better stand around shooting elf snot at each other!<\/span><\/p>\n
Looking for some <\/span>Santa Claus toys and collectibles<\/span><\/a> – weird, wonderful, or some of each – to stuff your loved ones\u2019 stockings, or even your own, this holiday season? Let Entertainment Earth help you make your list and check it twice!<\/span><\/p>\n
What\u2019s the weirdest Santa Claus toy you\u2019ve ever seen? Tell us in the comments below!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever looked past its holly-jolly trappings to realize how strange the whole concept of Santa Claus is? Think about it. Every December, millions of girls and boys fervently hope an old man will break into their homes while they sleep, trusting he\u2019ll only take the milk and cookies on the hearth.\u00a0In fact, kids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":62992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[158,1044],"tags":[3398,5695],"yst_prominent_words":[8178,8430,5826,8438,8427,8143,8433,8426,7637,8435,8441,8443,8425,8445,8424,8423,6121,5951,6948,8431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63002,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62988\/revisions\/63002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62988"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}