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These were christened a Barbie Whistle Torch back in the days on the Compuserve Comics Forum by none other than (now) NY Times Best Selling author Neil Gaiman. I at one time had over 50 of these and traded them at Comic conventions and gave them as gifts to many people in the comics industry.
They were hugely popular for a brief time among many of the congnoscnti in the indutry, at least those pioneers already on Compuserve and other newly emerging comics fora on line. Yes, before the web!

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure Neil Gaiman had one of these at one time. So do a number of other comic book authors/artists.

Many years ago before the web, and web forums, was hot there was the comic book forum on Compuserve and it rocked. Gaiman was there as were many other writers and artists. Somebody found one of these at a dollar store and got everyone else looking for them. I found a ton in a Kansas City store and ended up picking up 30 of them for a fellow member who then mailed individual ones to various people.

I've still got mine. I'll try and get a picture of it.

Edited by author 09-26-2005 05:51 PM
I bought several Fulchou devices in Denver or Boulder as well! I took them to some concerts - not sure what people thought. I gave one to Kim Gordon when Sonic Youth played at Red Rocks!

I never knew it as "fulchau" just as "the barbie floating head of death" as it was called by the person who gave it to me.

He got it from a trip overseas and brought it back as a joke. No original box or anything.

Wow, I had completely forgotten about this "toy" too funny.

Mine was spelled 'Fel-chow'... was given to me as a gift in 1990, and promptly threw me into a 3 day confused haze as I tried to figure out why this item which I'd never seen before was so personal and important in a life-changing way... I mean it was like a witch's spell or something.. that or the side effects of several eyars of ecstacy use...

I took my fel-chow to San Francisco raves for years, then lost her.

O my god. My friends and I found Fulchau in a dollar store in northern Ohio in 1990. Many hours of baffled wonder followed, and somwhere in the intervening time, my Fulchau went the way of all ephemera. And now I find there are others!

The Fulchau's terrible doll head, glowing hotly, will ever haunt my dreams, to the drone of the dysfunctional whistle at her base.

This couldn't be more strange. I too have a fulchau. I will post some pictures soon.

I have the original packaging that includes some "clues"

Great use of the internet!

Ross

I think this company may have a whole line of products, Including something my friends and I found in San Antonio, Texas called a "Funny Lantern". Replace that doll head with a plastic airplane and you have a Funny Lantern. At last, a whistle, spring, light and plastic airplane all in one package.

Attention fulchau owners, please email me a picture of you holding your fulchau and I will post it on the fulchau page.

            Best -- Mark

I just can't believe there are other people in the world that know what a fulchau is. Where are all of you people? How did you hook up?

I'm live in Los Angeles, but I first heard about the fulchau when I lived in Pittsburgh. My friend in Cleveland found them and bought all four that were on the shelf. We were all amazed and revered Tamara differently then. Only now do I do another search for you guys. Horray for Fulchau!!!

Oh, and why hasn't anyone written since Jan 6th?

Holly

The fulchau, when lit, has an eerie resemblance to the image shown from "The Operation", IMO. Scary.

Possibly a misspelling or misreading of Fuchau, which is probably a company name romanized by someone who does not know pinyin very well (pinyin is the standard romanization used in mainland China. Someone educated in mainland China would spell it Fuchao.) So this points away from mainland China to somewhere like Hong Kong or Taiwan. Unfortunately, there are so many similar and confusable spellings of Chinese words, depending on how accurate the romanization is, there are dozens or hundreds of possible translations. The "Fu" part can probably be relied on (wealth, prosperity) except for that troublesome l. The chau part could be variously rendered as chau, chao, chou, zhao, chow, kow, jeiow... it's all up to the person who attempts to do a mapping with zero knowledge of english. FWIW Fuchou is the name of a city in China, and company names (even in greater China) sometimes are inspired by city names in mainland China.

As another poster suggested, it could be a misspelling of Full Chau, if that is indeed a company name... sounds like a quite plausible HK company name.

Also the posting saying this is for hand-held use during a Chinese lantern festival is on the money I think.

Cory

It is a little better,
boingboing now at 23 seconds.
as a reference, fark downloads in 9 seconds.

Send it to the cornfield, Anthony.

Thanks, Mark, for the Fulchau photos.

You just made my day really, really surreal.

The fact that there's a whistle in the base just makes things all the more wonderful.

I made a couple tweaks today (and my server, craphound.com, came back online -- there was a bad ethernet cable and the sysadmin was on holidays) that should speed things up considerably. Is it still slow for you?

boingboing downloads much slower the last couple of weeks.
I am on 56K and it takes my 40 seconds!

probably a toy made for the Chinese lantern festival, which falls in the weeks after Chinese New Year. Many kinds of hand-held lights are sold in the week leading up to the festival - all for children. Cheapo plastic flashlights are available in toy shops with the heads (often attached to bodies) of comic book heros, Japanese cartoon characters, animals, and so on.

I'm in awe of the quality of postings that Xeni and Cory (and David -- ahem!) make here. Boing Boing would suck without them.

There's a company in Hong Kong called Full Chau, a manufacturer of plush toys and other cheap novelties. Could it be a manufacturer name, and not a type of toy?

Edited by author 01-04-2003 11:53 AM
I actually like the mix of postings, including newcomer Xeni. It's gotten to the point that BoingBoing is my first hit of the day, and most other blogs can't compete (not that competition is the point) in terms of variety and weirdness.

Indexes like Blogdex remind me that there really only is a finite amount of good stuff out there.


Shocking, to think of the hidden world outside the search engines. Oh, the memory of sunlight.

Amen to Sakusha--- we need more Mark Frauenfelder! (Well, plus a good bit of Cory!)

I'm with Stefan - gotta see what these are!

I've got one and I've been looking forever to find more.

I wanted to create a "shoir" of them for on top of my bass amp and then make then modify them to glow when triggered by sound.

whoa, flashback. BB was way cooler when you did everything, Mark.

now I want one!

Picture, please?