Food Chain Friends

So, I spent the last few days with The Kid™ and Wife™ in Vegas, where the elder lady was (and still is) working her company's booth at the ABC Kids convention. It's a show dedicated to children's products, from cribs and pacifiers - oh, so many pacifiers - to toys and other gear and just about everything in between. I walked the floor a bit on Sunday and Monday, and while photos were pretty much prohibited, I did see some things of interest that a wrote down to share over the next few weeks, here. Quite literally, these guys are the first things on my list.

Meet the Food Chain Friends, a line of plush creatures whose main claim to fame is that they come in different sizes and shapes, all designed to eat and/or be eaten by one another. The smallest of them measures about 6 inches in length, the largest seemed to be closer to 20-24 inches, and you literally feed them to each other in order of size, from smallest to largest.

The creatures are incredibly soft and fairly cute, but the big appeal is obviously their circle of life gimmick. My daughter seemed to be interested in them more, actually, once I told her that the big ones were meant to eat the little ones. They seem to be available either alone, in pairs or in big sets of 5. I'd recommend just ponying up for a full set if you go for them. Otherwise, it's like buying a baseball glove and bat without a ball.

Food Chain Friends are produced by Pint Size Productions, not to be confused with the other Pint Size Productions who also produces stuffed animals and kids things.