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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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