These were amazing puppets. My brother and I got them for Easter one year. I know, Easter? They were all rubbery and weird looking. They had really cool names like Dwork, Drool, Vlob, Squidge, Shlump, Shlurp, Sponk, Squawk, Squeel, Plunk, and Flurp. They also had movable glow-in-the-dark eyes, and could even blink!

They were expanded into a ton a variations: Small Boglins, Soggy Boglins, Baby Boglins, Halloween Boglins, Acrobat Boglins, Bash ’em Boglins, Action Boglins, Baby Squirt Boglins, Hairy Boglins, Talking Boglins, Glow Boglins, Batty Boglins, and even Ric Flair Boglins.

I think we liked them so much because they were so monstrously gross. They were like little old wrinkly men with missing teeth, strange sores and missing legs. Their faces, tails, and arms were all floppy and stretchy. They had a very distinct smell too. I think it might have been the rubber they were made out of because we still have ours, but they have completely deteriorated.

Did you ever know anyone who had Boglins? Why don’t they make cool puppets anymore? Do you think Boglins are really from a bog?

7 thoughts on “Artifacts of the Analog Age: Boglins

  1. Lamar the Revenger says:

    I saw one at a thrift store for a buck. I almost got it but the rubber REALLY smelled bad due to age. Yuck…

  2. Benjamin says:

    I remember the Boglins. I had two of the big ones, a full set of the Small Boglins & Soggy Boglins, and both Halloween Boglins. But I did not know about the other Boglins sets.

    1. gabe says:

      Me neither until I read about them! I wonder if they are really as cool as the pictures…

  3. Manny says:

    Found one recently and the latex had kind of lost it’s cohesion and was kind of melting. The same thing happend to a Freddy Krueger and Batman mask I had from the late 80’s. They just kind of turned into a pile of goo….as if reverting to its original liquid state.

    1. gabe says:

      Ha! Yep, I guess time melts all rubbery things 🙂

  4. travis says:

    Boglins were so dude-ical. I still remember the gross rubber smell. I always wished they would come to life and take me to their bog!

    1. Gabe Swarr says:

      Wow! That would be amazing! I wonder if all the trees in the bog are made from the same rubber…?

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