Big Loo was a toy

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manufactured by

Louis Marx and Company Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1980. They made many types of toys including tin toys, toy soldiers, toy guns, action figures, dolls, toy cars and model trains. Some of their notable toys are ...

for the 1963

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holiday season. It retailed for $9.99. The toy, primarily made of injection molded hi-impact polystyrene parts, stood three-feet tall (37-inches), a foot wide, and nine inches deep. Its key features included a sight scope with cross-hairs, two flashing battery-powered red eyes with an on-off switch, a hand-cranked mechanical voice box that played ten messages, two rubber-tipped darts that were fired from triggers on the back, a left arm that held four red balls which were fired from a spring in the left elbow, and a right arm that had a grasping claw able to pick up objects. One foot was equipped with a spring-powered rocket. It could also squirt water from its navel and was equipped with a compass, whistle, bell, a Morse code clicker with chart, and could bend over at the waist . Big Loo was featured on the cover of the Los Lobos album

Colossal Head ''Colossal Head'' is the eighth studio album by the rock band Los Lobos. It was released in 1996 on Warner Bros. Records. Track listing Personnel ;Los Lobos * David Hidalgo – vocals, guitar, accordion, fiddle, requinto jarocho * Louie ...

External links

Marx Museum, The Big Toys
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20060717064211/http://www.toyandtrain.com/museum.htm Toy and Train Museumbr>Big Loo - Your Friend From The Moon
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