Archie McPhee News Blog of Fun

• Animal Finger Puppets: Do They Pass the Vibe Check?

  December 03, 2020

  Each set of Finger Animals comes with 4 colors (and personalities). Made from soft vinyl, they range from 1.75” - 2” tall. CATS The Finger Cats are the tallest and...

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• Podcast: Racing Tardigrades and Meditating Bigfoot

  November 24, 2020

  Shana, Heff, David, and Mark talk about the latest Archie McPhee products. From Meditating Bigfoot to Racing Tardigrades to the Dad's Joke Drawer Puzzle, we've got opinions and we're ready...

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• Seattle Met says we're one of Seattle's Top 20 Essential Shops

  November 17, 2020

   Photograph: Amber Fouts    Our Seattle store is open for curbside pickup and in-store shopping, but it has been hard to get the word out.  We're very excited that Seattle...

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• Archie McPhee After Dark: The Wallingford Beast

  November 05, 2020

  Long-time Archie fans will most likely know the rich history of the Wallingford Beast. If you have been to our physical store, you may have been privy to staff discussion...

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• Podcast: Why PayPal wouldn't let us sell the Tardigrade Ornament

  September 16, 2020

  Thank goodness it's fixed now, but, without letting us know, PayPal was blocking purchases of all our tardigrade products! In this episode, we're joined by Tim Ellis from GeekWire and Dispatches from the Multiverse to...

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• Podcast: Pat Cashman from Almost Live!

  August 25, 2020

  In this episode of the Less Talk, More Monkey Podcast we're joined by Pat Cashman to discuss his excellent new podcast, Almost Live! Still Alive. Shana, Mark, and David talk...

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• Not a Review: Fly Widow Game

  August 20, 2020

  I spent the weekend at a lake cabin with my family so I asked them to play The Fly Widow Game with me. While this is not technically a review, since...

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• We're back! A new podcast episode from Archie McPhee

  August 05, 2020

   We're back with a new Less Talk, More Monkey podcase! We talked about new products, replacement smiles, Jean-Claude Van Damme, the evolution of cockroaches, possums, tardigrade legs and much much...

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• Archie McPhee delivery in Seattle!

  August 04, 2020

  Rejoice Seattle! (At least the parts close to our store in Walingford.) Archie McPhee is doing deliveries on Fridays!  We are also open for in-store shopping and curbside pickup, but we...

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• Archie McPhee is open for business!

  July 01, 2020

  The Archie McPhee store in Seattle is open for business. That means you can go into the store and peruse the over 10,000 items we have in stock! All we ask is...

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• "Weird Al" Yankovic PSA on face touching using Finger Hands

  April 15, 2020

  View this post on Instagram MUST. NOT. TOUCH. FACE. A post shared by “Weird Al” Yankovic (@alfredyankovic) on Mar 6, 2020 at 8:36pm PST   We love "Weird Al", so you...

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• Podcast: Video meetings, what we're enjoying, and a penny whistle

  March 27, 2020

  We're in quarantine! Just like most of the world, we're at home doing our part to make the world safer. We talk about what we've been up to, Shana's surgical...

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