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I got lots of head!
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11/16/2004
hehehehe I plan of giving a few away but the rest will be bunched up and hung above the bar. Does anyone have a good pic of the "head salesman" in the Jungle Cruze? I'd like to see how the heads are bunched. There is one white guy. Why, I don't know. Maybe he was the first one made and the color went wrong. He is a bit taller than the rest.
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hiltiki
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11/17/2004
Ayyyyyyyyy. |
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Raffertiki
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11/17/2004
Hang one over the tip jar. Noone would dare cheap out on you. |
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Tikiwahine
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11/17/2004
GREAT score!! A good head is so hard to find these days :wink: |
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ElDiablo_Rojo
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11/17/2004
Very kool score. Which flea market did you go to? |
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Tangaroa
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11/17/2004
Hey Eeeeeeee-laney!
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ZebraTiki
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11/17/2004
I think there's some really amazing examples of shrunken heads on pariartspaul's website. Those are soooo cool! What swap meet did you go to? Regarding the "head salesman" in the Cruise, I think there's a stack of heads in a sort of pyramid shape, stacked on the ground, near his campground, as well as groups of them hanging all over on spears that are stuck into the ground. It must have been fun walking around the swap meet thinking, "I've got a bag full of shrunken heads!" |
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TikiGardener
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11/17/2004
Rainy Sunday...hmmmm My money is on the Pasadena Community College Flea Market. And I got to that one late! But I did at least get a small HIP tiki. If only I had had the luck to stumble on that trove of shrunken heads... Sigh. Congrats. You should have Tiki Farm make a mold off of one of them, and we could have a lidded zombie mug. Zombies!!!!!!!! More Zombies! TG |
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laney
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11/17/2004
Thanks for the pics Tang. I like the idea of a basket of heads too!
Actually it was the Melrose flea market. Thanks to a reccomendation by MT Kahuna. The guy said if it wasn't raining, they'd be $5 each but he was selling them 2 for $5 he ended up giving me a better deal $30 for all! But don't go looking for tiki as I didn't see any, or heads as I did buy all the heads he had. But it is good for interesting Hollywood people watching. I also think one of these would make a killer lidded mug. Especially if the inside was red or pink. Not to take away from Sam's shrunken head which is more cartoony. A gruesome realistic shrunken head mug would rock! [ Edited by: laney on 2004-11-17 04:02 ] |
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virani
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11/17/2004
I think the white one is an albinos, that's all... |
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Kon-Hemsby
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11/17/2004
Nice score Laney. What are your plans for all them boys? |
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Johnny Dollar
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11/17/2004
this website for the temple of doom f/x suggests under item 10.1: "...the shrunken head. We actually plugged the hair in with a needle, directly into the latex, to create the effect of correct density in such a small area."" |
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11/17/2004
I am so jealous! I have been looking for a shrunken head or two for my bar for a while. I figure they are likely easy to find through Johnson catalog or something. But those are too cool! |
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11/17/2004
Does the fact that I knew what this thread was about before I opened it mean that I'm hanging around here too much? |
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TikiGardener
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11/17/2004
I just had a sick idea for this as a mug. Instead of having the straw go through the lid, why not have it go through a hole in one of the eyes? It would reduce capacity, but look awesomely gruesome! I'd be willing to spring some dough to see that kind of eye-dea to fruition! Holden you reading this? TG [ Edited by: TikiGardener on 2004-11-17 14:01 ] |
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11/19/2004
It'd be kool for a limited. For mainstream, we'd get many stores returning them saying... "I don't get it" and "it spilled all over my macrome doile (sp?) that my grandma made". We've got to "dummy it down" for our wholesale to the stores pieces as, well, some people are lame... you'd be amazed. |
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TikiGardener
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11/19/2004
I bet the folks at Otto's Shrunken Head might buy some. But even as a limited, it'd be tres cool. TG |
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tikitony
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11/19/2004
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MTKahuna
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11/20/2004
Laney....... But I know where you got those... I Know... I Know... I'm Still lookin for the place where the vintage bras and panties live.... MTK |
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Bargoyle
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11/23/2004
Swanky (and anyone else interested) http://www.realshrunkenhead.com/ a few different styles... all pretty hip |
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MTKahuna
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11/24/2004
Laney, He no have mo heads. MTK |
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Deery Luau
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12/01/2004
They sell shrunken heads at the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, MD. Heads or no heads, what a great little museum of oddities! 1808 Maryland Avenue [ Edited by: Deery Luau on 2004-12-01 11:46 ] |
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MaiTaiMafia-Old
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12/08/2004
I like the "heads" .. I noticed all of the ones you have are of males... you can tell them apart from the females very easily: the females are the ones with their mouths open... (some really old "Jungle Cruise" humor, circa 1966) MTM |
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