Here’s a nice toy – your very own cuddly facehugger from the Alien movies. I’m sure you remember how it wrapped around the guy’s face and laid an egg in his stomach and then the egg hatched and burst through his chest.

Now you can get your very own.

I saw this in a toy store in Toronto and have been meaning to post it here, but was finally spurred to do so when I saw it on we make money not art via this blog (who points out there is a chest-burster toy as well. Nice.)

But what I’ve got special for you is the warning label on the package.

Choking hazard!

A prison escapee who was apprehended in Charlotte this week had been living in a Toys “R” Us and vacant Circuit City building for months, eating baby food and watching DVDs, police said Thursday. He lived off the bounty of Toys “R” Us, police said. He decorated his secret room with posters and model toys, played hoops with a mini-basketball net and watched “Spider-Man 2.” He routed water from Toys “R” Us to his new home, police said, and even installed a smoke detector.

(check out the full story for all the devious details)

Seems like a Richard Pryor plot, rewritten by William Gibson…

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