Here are a couple of pics of my monkey. He is in really bad condition. Well worn and stained, and the batteries had rotted out…so he does not work. However, I find that the worn nature of him works well for the character and his location…and I only paid seven dollars for him…which was a steal compared to the other auctions at the time…and some of those higher priced monkeys were in worse condition than this.
I gotta say that monkey just doesn’t work for me. He’s one scary looking toy. It’s bad enough I have to look at myself in the mirror but to see that in the background…hideous.
That was a great price. Of course, now that the movie is out, the price has gone way up, even for non-working ones.
keep up your good work, Wampar, you r d best
im very happy when i saw your collection,and your spirit on making the toy story come “true”
i will be verry happy if you post the picture if all your collection done
special request (LOL)
take a photo on:
-Andy’s toy (TS, TS2)
-Round Up gang
-Bonnie’s toy (before and “after”)
-SunnySide toy
-and the last… ALL of it…
haha will be very cool n groovy
we will be very gratefull that you can make all the toys come true in real life and we can see it 
Thanks for posting that, just bought one.
when will it be done I know your busy just asking how much I have to wait Im kinda one those inpatient people but I can wait its not going anywhere lol
That is one scary monkey! He gave my 4 year old cousin nightmares, and he hasn’t even seen the film yet. -Omar
I haven’t even started yet. Sorry. I work all week. I might be able to do it over the weekend but I’m not making any promises.
Hey Tyler,
Any thoughts on creating more mouths for your Mr. Potato Head? I was thinking of doing something like that myself, trying to recreate his subtle dormant feature. I know the mouth uses a distinctly different peg than most of his other facial features so any ideas?
I saw the movie at 12:01 on Thursday night. Was home by 2:30, and had placed a bid on this monkey by 3:00 am. Even then, with practically no one knowing he was in the movie, other people were already asking hundreds of dollars for him. There were three posted at the time with a minimum bid under 50 bucks When I placed my bid on this one it was $4.50. I was a lucky lucky boy.
Tyler, how did your technique differ once you did it yourself versus the advice you gave me on ultimate Disney? I have yet to shorten mine, mostly because I’m afraid of doing something wrong or sloppily. I’d like to cut the legs from the base as you suggested, but do you still think that’s the best way now that you have one yourself?
Tyler, your Potato head mods look REALLY good, but I have a few questions.
1- When I look at my Potato Head, the diameter of each leg flares outward at the bottom. When you cut them off, does the thinner leg make a noticeable gap between the leg and the hole in the shoe?
2 - How did you get the triangle screws out? Do you have a TP3 screwdriver? I’ve tried every flat blade screwdriver I own that is near the size of the “slot”, and they are all either just too large or just too small.
3 - Could you explain more about repositioning the hat peg?
It was the best way for me, becasue I wanted to keep the electronics working. I had thought about …This is hard to describe, I’m going to search for those pics someone posted if his guts to draw on.
Those were my pics. you explained it the best you could with diagrams, I’m just wondering if what you did was any different, since you didn’t actually own one at the time. I too want to keep the electronics.
Someone posted this on one of the other sites…but I haven’t seen it mentioned here…Disney Store Hamm is finally available online for those without a Disney Store nearby:
I thought that was you who posted the guts, but couldnt remember. I was wanting to draw on the pic, because there is a way to make the shoes removable, but it requires a bit of modding and some scrap sheet styrene. I chose not to make mine removable, as I’m not going to be moving it around much (once in awhile though, so they dont prank my cell, hahaa).
What I did was first get super mad over the Triangle screw heads, hahaha. But, I solved that by taking a smaller flat head screwdriver to the dremel to grind down a bit of overall length to fit into the triangle. Smaller allen wrenches will work too.
I removed the shoes, unscrewed them from the “legs”. Went ahead and fully took Mr. P at this point, just to have a look. Saw that there would be an option to remove ear and feet movement, but kept them in. Unscrewed the screw holding the blue leg piece in, and measured out my cuts, and took them to a hacksaw.
Put the feet on and used a mechanical pencil to make a mark through the shoe hole, to drill a new hole to screw into.
Put the feet bottoms back on (the rubber keeps the body secure during his wacky movements).
To disable the feet moving, I’ll need to see that pic again. Cant find it.
Heres my pic. I (don’t have the one you drew on on hand)
I been dying for some separate potato head eyes
Anybody know how to make it for the TSC Potato head?
I removed the feet, cut off about 3/4 of the legs. Used a sanding stone to make sure the contours of the cuts and the position in the shoes line up. Took me a couple of tries to align the contour, as expected.
There is no more of a gap there there was when the feet was on, meaning the original toys feet (each foot in the movie) was one piece these are multiple piece.
Here’s results for the monkey on ebay for anyone who wants it:
shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=musica … 86.c0.m301