Okay, so in the early 2000s there was a kids toy called Crazy Bones or Gogo's Crazy Bones.

Crazy Bones were little hard plastic dudes that you threw at the ground as a kind of unfair dice. Depending on how they landed, sometimes you got to keep your crazy bones after, sometimes you didn't.

There was also a cartoon that never went into production: https://archive.org/details/gogoscrazybonespilot

They were popular in Europe apparently.

This is background information.

In the 2010s the same company released a series of small pokemon knock-off toys called Bungees Flick to Stick.

In the US these were distributed by Jazzwares.

They were not successful. I only ever saw them for sale at a Bargain Hunt, which is like a Freds or a Big Lots or something like that.

But they were these little soft vinyl figures that had magnets in their bottoms.

Those are the only bungees I've ever seen. I have two of them stuck to my fridge.

I had three or four of each of those figures, because I got them for $1.

I saw mine on my fridge today, and was led to figure out what the fuck it is.

I've never looked that up before, and didn't care enough when I bought it to remember.

I *think* you were supposed to like... flick them at playing cards that had metal bits in them?

It doesn't matter.

What matters is that there are *dozens* of these little fuckers: https://bungees.fandom.com/wiki/Series_1_(US)

So I've been reading about Bungees.

There was a cartoon (of sorts) on youtube 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92AA5t2wCl8&list=PLeZm9agCPPcIZXOFNbXl9Buk32imPfMgT&index=1

Anyway, these are neat toys that were entirely let down by their gimmick.

Little dudes with magnets in the bum could be really neat! I can think of a few different ways to make that compelling.

As far as I can tell gogos and Jazzware managed to miss all of those.

Anyway, I'm thinking about these little guys partly because there is one on my refrigerator, and partly because I am working on ideas for the future toy lines from @MountainTownToys

Specifically, my wife is working on a line of vegetable characters, and I've been toying with the idea of doing some robot versions of those characters, vaguely inspired by Medabots.

So I was looking through toys that I have that kind of fall into styles that we could use for veggie characters, or veggie robots, and I landed back on these little magnet guys.

I also have a veggiebots theme song, the lyrics of which are:

Veggiebots, vegetable robots. Veggiebots are the future.

BECOME THE VEGETABLE ROBOTS, TO HELP THE VEGETABLES GROW.

Veggiebots, vegetable robots. Veggiebots are the future

Which is in no way a rip off of the digimon theme song (mostly because I can't play guitar well enough to play the digimon theme song, so this is much musically simpler.)