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Roadkill Toys is an alternative designer toy boutique that was set up in the UK back in 2005 although be warned these are not the kind of toys that you want to be giving your children, if its something cute and cuddly that you are after then these toys are definitely not for you.
Designed for those with a sense of humor all of these toys have a macabre twist to them (for those of you unsure of what macabre means it's basically toys that represent the grimmer aspect of death, toys which have a gory, gruesome side to them) although at Roadkill Toys they prefer to refer to this as squash plush, a perfect fitting as each of their original toy characters from the collection have all literally been run over and squashed.
Splodge the Hedgehog is another member of the RoadKill Toy family. This little Hedgehog was born 29th April 2005. He was a fun loving hedgehog who loved life and there was nothing more he liked to do than to go out rollerblading and kite flying in the Hertfordshire countryside. Unfortunately on the 14th July 2007 at the tender age of two in a freak accident at Silverstone racetrack saw the passing of this fun loving hedgehog, It seems he was just no match for Jensen Button's fast paced F1 Honda car.
This Squash plush toy measures in at 23cms from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail and 21cms between each of his outstretched paws, he was a little overweight for your average hedgehog but this was down to his unhealthy obsession of bread and milk
The material used for Splodge's body gives him a rough and ragged fur like quality, a realistic mangy fur look of an animal thats been run over by a race car. The plush used for for the spikes gives him a realistic yet hedgehog loog but at the same time its of soft quality.
The body itself contains a combination of stuffing which helps to give it that realistic squidgy feel and beads which helps to give the toy a little bit of added weight which helps to weighs him down and make it look like he is realistically spread eagled and squashed!
Streaked across his face and right front paw there's a tyre print which shows you where Jensen Buttons car run over him,his left eye is plastic and bulges out all blood shot where as his right one is closed and hooded over by his swollen eyelid and his tongue lolls out from the right side of his mouth
To each of his sides you will find that there is a zip which once undone allows you to disembowel this poor little heggehog making him look like a true piece of RoadKill.
This internal blood and guts are made using a high tech stuffing and plush which gives it a more realistic squidgy feel to it and on his underside you will find an embroidered red blood splat and a couple of embroided white organs as if you are looking into the carcass of his body
Something which I find quiet quirky about this Squash Plush range is that each toy comes in their very own little translucent zip up plastic bodybag. Splodge fits snugly into the body bag and the fact that its translucent means that you can see the carnage inside before you even open it, Although thankfully it comes without the smell of death when you do get around to opening it!!!
