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Sideshow Collectibles was established in 1994. It originally created toy prototypes for major toy companies such as Mattel, Galoob and Wild Planet. In 1999, Sideshow began marketing its own line of collectible and specialty products under the Sideshow brand, beginning with the Universal Classic Monsters 8" Action Figure license, which sold through Toys R Us and other mass market retailers. [1]
In modern times, sideshow performers are often individual professionals or groups. A greater number of "Single O" attractions still tour carnivals. In the 1940s, Ward Hall began the World of Wonders Amazement Show, which is still running today. It is the oldest carnival sideshow organization in America and is currently owned and ran by Thomas ...
Minnesota Iceman. The Minnesota Iceman is a sideshow exhibit and elaborate hoax that depicts a fake man-like creature frozen in a block of ice. It was displayed at shopping malls, state fairs, and carnivals in the United States and Canada in the 1960s and early 1970s and promoted as the "missing link" between man and Neanderthals.
Hot Toys Limited is a Hong Kong production house for designing, developing, and manufacturing highly detailed collectible merchandise to worldwide markets. They are known for their high end 1/6th scale figurines of licensed properties, like Marvel and Star Wars, which must be preordered. Hot Toys collectibles are primarily available to purchase ...
World Circus Sideshow. The World Circus Side Show was a sideshow owned and operated by "Professor" Samuel Wagner from 1922 to 1941 on Surf Avenue, Coney Island, New York. Known as "The Godfather" of the Coney Island Freak Show, Wagner was a contemporary of other sideshow and circus legends, such as the Ringling Brothers and P.T. Barnum.
Geek show. Geek shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow. The billed performer's act consisted of a single geek, who stood in the center ring to chase live chickens. It ended with the performer biting the chickens' heads off and swallowing them. [1]
David Caraccio. September 30, 2024 at 12:11 PM. Screen image from Fox - KTVU. A man’s clothes caught on fire after he was hit by a car during a sideshow on Sunday in Vallejo, California, a video ...
Freak shows are a common subject in Southern Gothic literature, including stories such as Flannery O'Connor 's Temple Of The Holy Ghost, [64] Eudora Welty 's Petrified Man and Keela the Outcast Indian Maiden, [65] Truman Capote 's Tree of Night, [66] and Carson McCullers 's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.