Spök-spök (Ghost-Ghost)

Web: http://spokspok.com

Daniel Svanberg has created the Spök-spök (Swedish for ghost-ghost) plush line featuring five cute characters, three of the series have snap buttons for creative posing – which makes them very fun to play with. They have a simple shape but it works, they just look so endearing. Spök-spök’s don’t need food (since they are ghosts) but they need lots of hugs and kisses !

We have a three of them here and they are strange but adorable.

There is Spökelina – She is a pink ghost and is always happy and smiling.

Her boyfriend is Spök-spök - The blue ghost – he is shy but very curious.

Of course Spökelina has a best friend, a toofhairy from Scotland ! There is also a very nice little mini-toofhairy !

They also have some other fun friends including Morot the carrot and Baron Von Con the blue traffic cone.

I especially like the way they can be posed in all different positions and the strange and quirky mythology that has developed about them. The Spök-spök come from Orebro where they lived in a castle, however the castle was turned into a factory which made road cones and now the Spök-spöks travel the world. However the road cone turned out blue and the factory closed and even it has joined the Spök-spök world. When they are not travelling the Spök-spök live in a forest surrounded by flowers, pine trees and red cottages ! In the air balloons constantly circles – there is even a reindeer in the forest, but he is rarely seen as he is very shy !

For a list of retailers see: http://spokspok.com/html/buy.html (online sales will be available soon)

This review will appear in Volume 2 No.2 (2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.

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