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 Vintage Salamander Shoes Rat Dude 
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Picked this up in a flea market in Berlin! Pretty rad!

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Pretty fucking rad indeed.
How tall is that guy?

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damn that is awesome! how much did it run you?


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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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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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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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Does it show the year/maker on the figure?

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Very cool indeed!

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cool and most likely unique or near it...is it a store display for the shoes?

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amazing.

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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
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its some random "wooden bat fish decoy" i found on craigslist today, made me think of your ratman.
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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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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.
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Here is a LINK to a full set. Clocks in at 250 Euros!

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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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the one black and yellow salamander, who is completely nude except for his shoes...that freaks me out

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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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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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Aggh, more stuff to hunt down. I need that gnome now.

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Deeply rad rat dude. Wow.


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I kinda like the Oi! Oi! hedgehog

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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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Wow I love that salamander. Actually they all are pretty rad. Although the gnome-dwarf dude freaks me out.

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i could of gotten the salamander and procupine, but passed on them..bad choices

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i could of gotten the salamander and procupine, but passed on them..bad choices

The skinhead Porcupine looks hardcore! :D

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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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