Weebles Have Returned! [VIDEO]

Neato!  I caught a glimpse of the toy aisles recently on my way to the hardware section, and...uh, okay, who am I kidding?  I was looking at toys recently and I was stunned to see a toy that had played a memorable part in my own youth, and one that I had thought had all but disappeared. 

The Weebles are back, people!!  Forgive me if I'm a little late rediscovering this new, yet old, trend.  I don't get out much, but that doesn't mean that I'm not impressed.  I mean, this is something that will make every 45 year-old kid on your Christmas list, happy. 

Weebles must have come out for the first time in the late 1970s.  They were odd.  I was odd.  It was a perfect match!  The weighted, probably laced with some environmental toxin by today's standards, egg-shaped figurines would leave us mesmorized for almost two whole minutes.  Most of us from Generation X still probably remember the jingle..."Weebles wobble but they don't fall down..."  They did with a hammer, but that's another story. 

I laughed as I was putting together the video segments for this hard-hitting exposé.  One of the comments was "Chuck Norris makes Weebles fall down."  There was another short-lived fad that I loved. 

The point is that I'm happy that today's youth will get a chance to enjoy these classical toys.  I still remember some of my own.  I know I had a version of the treehouse.  It must've been Winnie the Pooh, because I remember a Winnie Weeble and a Tigger.  You could place your Weeble in the treehouse itself, a little hideaway nook complete with door, or send him up the tree on the elevator.  I also had the Weeble Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  Apparently Weeble and Disney had a great relationship.  That one had a car track that zoomed the Weebles around, and a rising and lowering loop from the flag in which a Weeble could sit and which acted like an elevator, which is good.   Weebles needed elevators because they couldn't walk.  They could, however, break windows.  Is it odd that I can still remember some of those details, yet I'll space out something that was very important, tomorrow?   

These new characters are a bit larger, which dimishes the thrill of a choking hazard, but I'm sure they're still fun.

See if these bring back any memories.