r/whatisit • u/Embarrassed_Wear_743 • 7h ago
New, what is it? What’s this animal?
Saw this on one of those little carousels outside a supermarket. Can’t for the life of me figure out what’s going on with it lol. Elephant dressed as a duck?
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u/yemrot514 7h ago
Elephuck, very rare
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u/Tickle_Nuggets 7h ago
Not to be confused with Elephunk, which is the 3rd album by the Black Eye Peas
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u/rembunenby 7h ago
This cursed little ride just hit a type of nostalgia I haven't felt in years. Maybe it's a pelican but even when I was a kid I had no idea what was going on
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u/Sigihil 7h ago
Looks like it was an elephant, the trunk broke, and rather than replace it, they made it into a duck?
Edit: either that, or the whole thing was a salvage, given the spraypaint on everything.
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u/Embarrassed_Wear_743 7h ago
Right? But the trunk looks fine and if they were gonna add a duck tail why not fix the trunk instead 😭
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u/Greenbriars 6h ago
This looks like one of those, "I talked to a company about restoring the ride, and they want $5k, but my cousin said he'll do it for $250 and a case of beer" situations. And the cousin started in on the beer as the first step of the job.
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u/Revenga8 6h ago
It looks like a orange elephant joyfully prancing and laughing while wearing the pelt of a pelican it just finished skinning alive..
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u/slapisaur 6h ago
That’s what they call a “child”. Pretty expensive. Sure to ruin your house if you let it inside.
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u/snuggleslut5 6h ago
I'd love to know where this is. 20+ years ago I took a photo for a college photography class of the exact same coin op carousel outside of a now defunct k-mart in rural Indiana. Same colors, same everything. I am so pleased to see this same thing I rode in as a kid is still going strong!
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u/Embarrassed_Wear_743 6h ago
It’s at a market basket in Massachusetts! They have them outside supermarkets still every once in a while. Happy to report it’s still functioning as well
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u/swing_axle 49m ago
They used to have a color variant version of this guy at my local supermarket, in SoCal, back in the late 90s!
He's very well-traveled.
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