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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 7h

Weebles are so good at getting back up that they can play football without feet

Wendy (Caucasian girl with straight black hair wearing yellow shirt and green bottom) and two other children are kicking a black and white ball around on a soccer pitch while Willie (boy in red and white striped shirt, blue bottom, and red and white paneled ball cap with red W insignia) watches from behind the touch line. None of the children have legs.

Still from Weebles episode "The Weeball Game" (2017)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 26/09/2026

It'd be more like "the world at their bottom". Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 21/09/2026

Disney needs to cool it with the rapid-fire live-action remakes already. They just remade PINOCCHIO in 2022, and now four years later, Disney's 20th Century Studios is rehashing the Monstro🐋 sequence into WHALEFALL.

Pinocchio (a wooden boy) clings to a raft in the foreground with Monstro (a whale) in the background. Still from Disney's film PINOCCHIO (2022)

Blue-tinted scene of diver inside a sperm whale. Still from trailer of 20th Century Studios' film WHALEFALL (2026)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 19/09/2026

Is there really a Weebles fan club? Where do I sign up?

Three Weebles figures wearing striped shirts. From left to right:
Winston from Jazwares Weebles Winston & Wobbly Boat (2016). Caucasian boy with green eyes, blond hair, and no legs, wearing a light blue and white striped shirt, a blue bottom, and an American-style "dixie cup" sailor cap with anchor emblem.
Highway from Playskool Weebles Gas Station (1989). Caucasian boy with teal eyes, light brown hair, and no legs, wearing a blue and white striped shirt and a red bottom.
Willie core figure from Jazwares Weebles Neighborhood Friends (2016). Caucasian boy with blue eyes, curly blond hair, and no legs, wearing a red and white striped shirt, a blue bottom, and a red and white paneled baseball cap worn with the peak to the rear.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 10/09/2026

That's actually the case, in a way. The Weebles cartoons show characters lying down under weighted blankets.

Blue rabbit with no hind legs wearing a yellow shirt, pink sleeveless nightgown, and pink bow between her ears, lying in bed under a red blanket with orange floral prints.

Still from Weebles episode "Birdie Lee's Colorful Day" (2005)

Wendy (Caucasian girl with no legs, black hair, and a green bow) is lying in bed under a blue blanket with light blue trim with her eyes closed. A dog plushie with no hind legs and a round bottom lies next to her pillow. Clock and "Keep Wobbling" poster in background.

Still from Weebles episode "Sleeping in Your Own Bed" (2017)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 04/09/2026

Noomie for comparison Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

Noomie Whirligiggles figure from Weebles Weemobile set (2005). Orange cat with no legs wearing a light blue dress with yellow collar, purple bottom, and purple bow, holding a green phone.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 04/09/2026

Was Grandma Wolf in the collection?

Big Bad Wolf figure from Weebles Storybook World Little Wobble Hood Pals set (2006). Canine with brown fur and no legs wearing a light blue house dress, a yellow bottom, and a light blue mob cap.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 03/09/2026

Was it the 1989 Weebles Fire Station? Or the 2004 Wescue Wagon?

Weebles Fire Station playset (late 1980s) in action, with added figures from other sets.

Tooey Winkington (turtle) and Zeebo Weebitty (Dalmatian dog) are in the front seats. The included firefighter and fire chief are in the subcompact fire engine. Egg #15 and the firefighter and dog from Little People Lil Movers Fire Truck are on the upper floor. Plug (red fire hydrant) and Hozay (yellow hose/snake thing) are in the rear seat. Jack (boy in purple overalls) and Jill (girl with pigtails in yellow dress) are in the break room watching training videos. The rear ladder bridges the fire station to the large building with Luca (boy with brown hair, glasses, and light blue shirt) on top. Highway (boy with light brown hair and red and white striped shirt) is atop the barber shop, and a They Roll Too girl with black hair and purple shirt holding a doll is atop the small building.

Weebles Wescue Wagon (2004) with two added figures.

Red fire engine with yellow underbody, dark gray tires, and yellow ladder on side. On top is a dark gray turntable ladder with a blue base and a yellow seat. Tooey (green turtle) is in the driver's seat, Zeebo (black and white dog) is in the turntable ladder seat, and Plug (red fire hydrant) is on the rear seat.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 23/08/2026

He'd look like Barleymow from Weebledown Farm, and he'd jump the same way Chilly from Kirby Super Star jumps.

Barleymow the farmer figure from Character Options Weebles Weebledown Farm Wobbily Tractor set (mid-2010s). Caucasian man with no legs, brown hair, and a mustache, wearing a red shirt, blue overalls, green scarf, and a blue flat cap

Artwork of Chilly, a snowman with no legs from the game Kirby Super Star for Super NES (mid-1990s)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 18/08/2026

And do Weebles count as having a monobutt?

Tibby Wobnobbin figure from Weebleville Town Center playset (2004). Lavender elephant with no legs wearing a maroon leotard with a yellow skirt.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 18/08/2026

In the cartoon, Weebles sleep under a weighted blanket.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 18/08/2026

All it needs are the orange skin, floppy hair, unbuttoned jacket, and red cap with white lettering. Oh wait... then it'd be Bumpus

Bumpus Wobbleworks figure from Weebles Weebly Wobbly Tree House playset (2005). Orange sheepdog with brown headfur and no legs, wearing a white shirt, unbuttoned teal jacket, red bottom, and red ball cap with white W insignia.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 15/08/2026

Did the Weebles you played with look anything like this, with the orange skin, floppy hair, unbuttoned jacket, and red cap with white lettering?

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 13/08/2026

Did you have a crush on any of the Weebles growing up?

Tibby Wobnobbin (lavender elephant with no legs wearing a pink dress with yellow tutu and a teal bottom), Tooey Winkington (green turtle with no legs in red and yellow firefighting gear and a blue bottom), and Bumpus Wobbleworks (orange sheepdog with brown headfur and no legs wearing a purple shirt, green bottom, red ball cap with white insignia, and blue mailbag) discuss how to remove mud from the address label of a parcel that Bumpus is delivering. In the background on the other side of the town's central roundabout is a fire station, some other buildings, some trees, and a yellow sky with white clouds.

Still from Weebles episode "Welcome to Weebleville!" (2005)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 11/08/2026

The other option is to make the character scoot around on their hands and bottom

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 11/08/2026

You're right that Wheelin from the late 1980s Weebles Vehicles rally truck set does kind of look like 47. So does Bumpus from the 2005 treehouse playset, with the orange skin, floppy hair, unbuttoned jacket, and red ball cap with white lettering.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 11/08/2026

If I had to guess, maybe he wobbled out there on his hands and bottom like any other Weeble

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 27/07/2026

The Gloworm has the right idea, wearing a hoodie over his sleeping bag

Lullaby Gloworm doll by Playskool, 2005. Caucasian boy with blue eyes in a blue hooded sweatshirt over a green sleeping bag.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 27/07/2026

"Chat" is French for "cat". "GPT" or "j'ai pété" is French for "I farted". In a US grocery store, I saw a book titled "Coloring Cat Farts". I believe ChatGPT is worth just as much.

Front cover of Coloring Cat Farts: 40 Pawesome Prints to Color & Frame, surrounded by other books in the magazine stand at a grocery checkout

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 26/07/2026

GloWorm never really looked like a worm to me. The newer ones in particular read as a little boy in a sleeping bag.

Playskool Lullaby Gloworm soft toy made in 2005. Resembles a boy with blue eyes wearing a green sleeping bag and a blue hooded sweatshirt with a moon and stars patch on the chest.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 25/07/2026

Madeline: "I've got a protein bar with your name on it" Strawberry: "Ooh, let me see" #dolls

Madeline (from Bemelmans' books) and Strawberry Shortcake dolls sitting on a couch, with a Quest strawberry shortcake flavor protein bar next to them

Detail showing part of Strawberry's face and chest and the Quest bar's label: strawberry shortcake flavor, net wt. 2.12 oz (60 g)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 23/07/2026

YoYo says "Yo!" Take that Aunt Fritzi

YoYo says "Yo!"

YoYo Smith figure from CoComelon Weebles JJ and Friends Figure 4-Pack by Character Options (2022). Caucasian girl with brown eyes, orange hair, and no legs, wearing a pink undershirt, purple dress with white polka dots, and maroon bottom.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 20/07/2026

While some people on the internets prefer the newer Weebles

Eight Weebles figures from 1989 to 2023. From left to right:
Highway (1989), brown hair, blue eyes, blue and white striped shirt and red bottom, molded hair and hands
Soccer player (1996), egg with red top and green bottom with blond haired boy in backward red ball cap and hands around soccer ball stamped on
Boy with bear (2001 "They Roll Too"), blond hair, teal sweatshirt with green trim, red bottom, holding orange teddy bear
Tooey Winkington (2004 "Weebleville"), green turtle in yellow shirt, blue bottom, red jacket, and red firefighter hat
Jill (2006 "Storybook World"), redhead with pigtails in yellow dress and green bottom, carrying bucket of water
Dad (2010), clear egg with insert showing black hair, orange button-down shirt, green belt, and blue bottom, holding coffee cup
Willie (2016 "Wonder Club"), boy with brown hair, blue eyes, backward red and white ball cap, red and white striped shirt, and blue bottom with white stripes
Harper (2023), girl with ponytail, freckles, green shirt, and blue overalls with pocket

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 20/07/2026

Artist's conception of Weebles playing soccer, 2017

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 17/07/2026

Jazwares seemed to have the same idea in 2016 when they released the Weebles Wally & Wobbly Rocket toy.

Photo of Jazwares Weebles on the go Wally & Wobbly Rocket set (2016). Wally (boy with light brown skin, brown eyes, and no legs, wearing a light blue shirt with red and yellow rocket emblem and a red bottom) rides a blue rocket with orange wings on a white float base.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 15/07/2026

If not "walking", then what is the name for moving around on your hands and bottom?

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 12/07/2026

Except when they are. The 2006 Weebles Goldilocks' Adventure Cottage set came with 3 chairs, one for each of the 3 bears.

Weebles Goldilocks' Adventure Cottage dollhouse (2006). Includes house with slide to tree and carousel, table, 3 chairs, 2 beds, and Goldilocks, Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear figures.

Interior of Weebles Goldilocks' Adventure Cottage dollhouse (2006) in action. This scene takes place a few weeks after Goldilocks first met the bears. They have since reconciled, and Goldilocks has brought a few friends over.

A table is on the first floor, and Goldilocks (light-skinned blonde girl with purple dress and green bow in hair), Mama Bear (in pink coat and teal beret), and Papa Bear (in blue overalls and green hat) are in chairs. Three beds (red, green, and blue) are on the second floor, as is Luca (light-skinned boy with glasses and brown spiked hair). On a merry-go-round outside below the second floor exit slide are Alex (boy with curly hair and freckles), Bailey (dark-skinned girl with blonde hair in a ponytail), and the Baby Bear they met the other day (in yellow shirt carrying a teddy bear).

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 07/07/2026

I think I found your knight: Winston Hobnobby III from a 2004 Weehicles set. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

Winston Hobnobby III figure from Weebles Weehicles set (2004). Dark gray horse with orange muzzle and mane and no legs, wearing a yellow jacket, blue scarf, and green bottom.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 06/07/2026

Nappa: "What does the scouter say about camera movement in older Cocomelon videos?" Vegeta: "It's over 9000!" Yes, yes, Vegeta. MTV-style cinematography with shaky cam and a cut every 2 seconds like youtu.be/ohHYABXMqUQ is no way to actually teach life lessons to children.

Vegeta crushes his scouter (vitality measuring device) and says "It's over nine thousand!"

Still from Dragon Ball Z episode "The Return of Goku" (1997)

Front cover of Cocomelon Yes, Yes, Vegetables board book, except an Ollie's price tag covers up part of it to say "Yes, Yes, Vegeta"

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 05/07/2026

With the orange skin, floppy hair, unbuttoned jacket, and red cap with white lettering, I know which Weeble 47 looks like: Bumpus from the 2005 Weebly Wobbly Tree House.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 03/07/2026

Episode "Bumpus' New House" flashes back to when Weebleville founder Woodrow W. Weeble first read the Declaration of Weeble Essence: "Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!"

Sepia-toned scene where Woodrow W. Weeble, an anthropomorphic owl without legs, reads from a scroll.

Still from Weebles episode "Bumpus' New House" (2005)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 27/06/2026

Does this count as "a man walking around without legs"?

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 26/06/2026

So basically shaped like Mr. Wobblyman from Noddy or a Bile Demon from Dungeon Keeper

Mr. Wobblyman from Noddy in Toyland. Caucasian man with blue eyes and no legs wearing a white shirt, green and yellow striped bottom, red vest, blue jacket, green and yellow striped bowtie, and green top hat, carrying a tray of ice cream sundaes. Resembles later-generation Weebles toys.

Two Bile Demons from the video game Dungeon Keeper II. They are chubby humanoid creatures with reddish-orange skin, no legs, long arms that they use to push themselves forward, and large horns from which spiked balls are hung.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 25/06/2026

Last I checked, Winston was in the park picking up litter. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

Winston (Caucasian boy with blond hair, green eyes, and no legs, wearing a teal shirt with green frog emblem, a red bottom, and red round-rimmed glasses) carries several empty aluminum beverage cans to a cluster of three bins next to a tree stump: one marked "cans", one "paper", and one "waste".

Still from Weebles episode "Be Tidy" (2017)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 25/06/2026

I've got a Weebles collection stretching from 1987 to 2023. Which generation appeals to you? Let me know and I can help you find them on eBay or Mercari or wherever.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 20/06/2026

Because if it were, it'd look like this

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 18/06/2026

Case in point: Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

Willie, Hansel, Winnie, and Papa Bear figures from various Weebles sets

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 18/06/2026

Here's the closest I have: Bumpus from the 2005 Weebly Wobbly Tree House set. It has the orange skin, floppy hair, unbuttoned jacket, and red cap with white lettering. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 15/06/2026

Nosing is part of a tread (horizontal part) of a stair projecting past the vertical riser. It's helpful for people going down stairs on hands because it allows for one hand on the handrail and the other around the nosing. Being able to wrap the fingers around the end of the tread improves traction.

Pixel art of a staircase with gray sides, orange treads, brown risers, and brown front of nosing, on an aquamarine background

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 11/06/2026

For comparison, the Weebles figured out how to play soccer with no legs.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 05/06/2026

Hasbro should hire you to write the continuing story of Tibby, Tooey, and Bumpus

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 05/06/2026

I'd buy a ticket to a Weebles movie continuing the story of Bumpus, Pendleton, Tibby, Tooey, Zuzie Q., and the rest of the gang.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 05/06/2026

With one exception: Weebles Fire Station (1989) includes a set of three blocks representing buildings. One is a barber shop whose customer has no legs (which is normal for Weebles).

Weebles Fire Station playset includes ride-on mobile fire station, subcompact fire engine, firefighter and fire chief figures, and stackable blocks with apartment building, barber shop, and single-family house decals.

Three stackable blocks from Weebles Fire Station playset (1989). From left to right: apartment building, barber shop, and single-family house. The barber shop has a boy with brown hair and no legs in a red and white striped shirt leaning out the front door and a cat standing in front.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 23/05/2026

In "The Sapir-Worf Hypothesis", Worf tries to help other Klingons understand the human world view, as Klingon and English don't require speakers to observe quite the same things. The crew realize the languages aren't "sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality."

"The Sapir-Worf Hypothesis" as a The Next Generation title card

"Keeping Up With the Cardassians" as Deep Space Nine title card

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 22/05/2026

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

Still of opening sequence from Weebles animated series (2016-2017), showing six 3D animated children with no legs lined up side by side in the park.

From left to right:
Willie (Caucasian boy with blue eyes, brown curly hair, red and white striped shirt, blue bottom, red and white backward ball cap)
Willow (Caucasian girl with blue eyes, maroon hair with purple headband, lavender shirt with pink heart emblem, and purple bottom)
Winnie (Black girl with brown eyes and black hair in twin buns with purple bows, purple and pink striped shirt, and yellow bottom)
Winston (Caucasian boy with green eyes, red glasses, blue shirt with green frog emblem, and red bottom)
Wally (light brown boy with brown eyes, curly dark browm hair, white shirt, dark blue vest, red bow tie, blue bottom)
Wendy (Caucasian girl with purple eyes, straight black hair with purple streak and green bow, yellow shirt with purple flower emblem, and green bottom)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 21/05/2026

I made a test ROM for the Oeka Kids drawing tablet for Famicom based on the description at NESdev Wiki. I had someone with a tablet try it. It didn't work. The tablet's slow MCU requires a lot of waiting in the read routine. Neither Mesen nor FCEUX modeled this slowness. #NESdev #Emulation

The Oeka Kids tablet, a specialized controller for two Famicom games. Most of the chassis is blue. At top right is an anthropomorphic pencil mascot with おえかキッズ (Oeka Kids) written in hiragana. There is a recessed area at top right with a yellow plastic stylus inside. Below that is a row of seven holes used as action buttons: three red, three blue, and one yellow. Below that is a large white rectangular drawing area divided into 16 smaller areas with crosshairs. The bottom of the chassis is wider than at the top, and there is a gray push button along the entire below the drawing area, wrapping around the left and right sides of the bottom one-fourth of the drawing area. A black cord comes out of the top.

Photo by org from https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=273813#p273813

Screenshot of a test ROM for the Oeka Kids tablet. It displays several digits, reflecting the raw values read from the device, above a rectangular drawing canvas in which the words "oeka kids" are written in cursive. A circular reticle in the canvas shows the current position of the pen.

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 21/05/2026

Quote post with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap. The Weeblettes are a girl group from the 2005 Weebles cartoon: Zuzie Q, Tibby, and Noomie

Zuzie Q. (yellow hen with no legs in teal crop top), Tibby (lavender elephant with no legs in maroon dress with yellow tutu and teal bottom), and Noomie (orange cat with no legs in light blue dress and purple bottom) sitting on a parade float waving to the crowd.

Still from Weebles episode "The Weebles Day Parade" (2005)

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 17/05/2026

What would a walk in the park be?

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Damian Yerrick @pineight.com · 17/05/2026

These Weebles accept you for who you are. (Character names in alt text)

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