As always when it comes to zombies it’s best that the children find out about them early. Don’t get me wrong. I understand that the thought of a flesh eating corpse stumbling towards your child to use them as a snack before they get to you is horrifying to contemplate. I don’t have children but I agree – it’s not something I want to have my children be terrified of.
The problem is though you can’t keep your children sheltered when corpses reanimate and want to use them as kiddy giblets. It’s not the right thing to do. When grandma comes back and tries to eat your children they need to know to run in terror and not stick around to try for one last hug. When she rasps “braaiinnss” it’s what she wants to munch on not compliment.
Make sure your children know about zombies. Start them early with zombie toys so they know what signs to look for and what to avoid. It’s common to tell your children to avoid strangers with candy in vans – shouldn’t it also be to avoid zombies?
In Soviet Russia, brains eat you!
Who said dolls have to be cutesy? Bring on the blood n’ brains! Also known as Russian nesting dolls or babushka dolls, matryoshka dolls are a set of dolls of decreasing sizes that fit one inside the next. The word matryoshka is actually a combination of the female name Matryona and the word babushka, which means grandmother. Of course, for geeks like us, the word Matryoshka is followed by “brain,” a la Accelerando by our pal Charlie Stross. One day, we’ll upload our nerd neurons and our plans for world domination will be complete. Mwah ha ha.
This set nesting dolls has an undead twist: they’re all zombies! The biggest one is holding a recently severed foot, the second wields a chainsaw, the third is missing a hand, the fourth is a girl screaming bloody murder, the fifth is a propeller beanie wearing boy holding a severed arm, and the sixth is the baby with hands already covered in blood. They range from the baby at 30mm (a little over an inch) to the severed foot zombie at 114 mm (about 4.5″) in height. They’re really cute, but probably too gory for the wee geeks unless you raised ’em on horror flicks.
Available at Think Geek.
