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Greg Mishka
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 Vintage Salamander Shoes Rat Dude
Picked this up in a flea market in Berlin! Pretty rad!  
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JoeMan
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Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:29 am Posts: 3818 Location: NY
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Pretty fucking rad indeed. How tall is that guy?
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DeJesus
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damn that is awesome! how much did it run you?
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Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:33 pm |
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Greg Mishka
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he is about 11" tall, and I paid 30 euro. Which i thought was a good deal!
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JoeMan
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Seems like a good deal to me. Are you going to keep it at the store. I want to check it out next time I'm by.
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vintagevinyl
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never knew there was a vinyl rat . very cool pick up and i will have to keep a look out for that now .
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Autopsy
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Does it show the year/maker on the figure?
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efp3
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Joined: Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:55 am Posts: 2467 Location: Valley of the Sun
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Very cool indeed!
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poysntixels
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cool and most likely unique or near it...is it a store display for the shoes?
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joshuajh
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amazing.
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uberboy
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this guy rocks. he's got a great individualistic look while still fitting right in with the rest of the cartoon mouse/rat characters from old school cartoon shorts. that is to say, he doesn't look like a cheap knockoff of mickey (although that was probably the plan). shoe company, huh? weird. i think he would look great with this vintage guy as his sidekick   its some random "wooden bat fish decoy" i found on craigslist today, made me think of your ratman. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/clt/1283513150.html
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vintagevinyl
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 looks like there are at least three in this line up. just got this in with the rat and salamander.
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idle.
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Joined: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:39 am Posts: 172 Location: Kassel, Germany
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Ohh, I've grown up with this character and his friends. I always loved the little picture books and thus always wanted to go to Salamander shoe stores. I did a bit of googling and it seems your character is from the 60s. Later versions are a lot more mouse-like and look a lot less realistic than this one here. Though, imho this one here is cooler than the newer versions.  Here is a LINK to a full set. Clocks in at 250 Euros! wikipedia wrote: Lurchi is the advertising comic character of the German Salamander shoe factories. Fittingly, he is a fire salamander. His adventures are told (in German) in small booklets titled Lurchi’s Abenteuer. They are targeted mainly at primary schoolers, written in calligraphic handwriting in simple rhyming couplets.
Five friends help Lurchi in his adventures: Hopps the frog, clearly Lurchi's best buddy, ever curious, cheeky and adventurous. Piping the dwarf, the elder of the group, cautious and conservative, but also a tinkerer. Mäusepiep the mouse, fearful and sometimes clumsy. Igelmann the hedgehog, homelike and relaxed. He's the only character whose species plays a role in the stories every now and then, due to his spikes. Unkerich, the Yellow-bellied toad, generally the "strong man" of the group, he also loves eating and is sometimes shown a bit clumsy. Sometimes also Trine, Lurchi's sister (and naturally also a salamander) appeared.
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Greasebat
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the one black and yellow salamander, who is completely nude except for his shoes...that freaks me out
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idle.
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Greasebat wrote: the one black and yellow salamander, who is completely nude except for his shoes...that freaks me out Weird, ain't it? And the green frog and the yellow toad wear just as much. Still, even as a kid I thought that "Lurchi" was looking kinda freaky with just the shoes on. The strangest thing though is that the same thought never occurred to me with Donald Duck. He doesn't wear any pants either!
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vintagevinyl
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thanks for posting all the info. never knew there was that many characters made, or that there was stories that went with them.
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LamourSupreme
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Joined: Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:19 pm Posts: 4010 Location: now
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Aggh, more stuff to hunt down. I need that gnome now.
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Dean
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Joined: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:53 pm Posts: 6232 Location: 415
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Deeply rad rat dude. Wow.
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Greasebat
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Joined: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:48 pm Posts: 2415 Location: NE OHIO
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I kinda like the Oi! Oi! hedgehog
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idle.
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Joined: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:39 am Posts: 172 Location: Kassel, Germany
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LamourSupreme wrote: Aggh, more stuff to hunt down. I need that gnome now. Well, if you need any help with shipping in case the seller doesn't want to ship outside of Germany then let me know and I'd be glad to help.
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kopponigen
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Wow I love that salamander. Actually they all are pretty rad. Although the gnome-dwarf dude freaks me out.
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Greg Mishka
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i could of gotten the salamander and procupine, but passed on them..bad choices
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Anti Social Andy
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Greg Mishka wrote: i could of gotten the salamander and procupine, but passed on them..bad choices The skinhead Porcupine looks hardcore! 
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GERMS
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idle. wrote: Greasebat wrote: the one black and yellow salamander, who is completely nude except for his shoes...that freaks me out Weird, ain't it? And the green frog and the yellow toad wear just as much. Still, even as a kid I thought that "Lurchi" was looking kinda freaky with just the shoes on. The strangest thing though is that the same thought never occurred to me with Donald Duck. He doesn't wear any pants either! According to the story the toad is "yellow bellied" so that must mean he's wearing some kind of cut off onesie, with co-ordinated spots. and i think that frog is probably the biggest freak out of the lot of them, that dude is zoned!
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