Octopus Chair

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Octopus Chair

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i wouldn't want it in my house, but it's pretty cool.

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It looks hideous! Like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean.
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I would TOTALLY put that in my house. But my wife wouldn't let me.
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yeah! that's wickedly cool. It'd be bitchin in the mancave!

I wonder if the tenticles are poseable?
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Waynne Fowler wrote:I wonder if the tenticles are poseable?
i don't think so. it looks like it was carved from compressed foam blocks and then painted.
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Waynne Fowler wrote:yeah! that's wickedly cool. It'd be bitchin in the mancave!

I wonder if the tenticles are poseable?
Looks like a tripping hazard! But if it were posable and you could put things in its arms; that be one bad ass display in the dive shop.
Man cave!? Where's that?
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Re: Octopus Chair

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Winter wrote:Man cave!? Where's that?
Poor thang.
I can dream... right?....

um... I mean.......

can I have a mancave?
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