{"product_id":"vintage-gumby-pokey-mini-figurine-set-bendable-vinyl-toys-green-and-orange-claymation-characters-ornament-🍎","title":"Vintage Gumby \u0026 Pokey Mini Figurine Set Bendable Vinyl Toys Green and Orange Claymation Characters Ornament 🍎","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBiwK3gqE9c\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🟢 Remember When a Little Green Lump of Clay Could Bend Into Absolutely Anything?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong before \"flexible\" was a word anyone used to describe a toy, there was \u003cstrong\u003eGumby\u003c\/strong\u003e — twisting his rubbery arms into a wave, folding himself nearly in half, standing patiently beside his best friend Pokey while an entire generation of kids discovered that clay, and later plastic, could tell a story all on its own. If you grew up with a Gumby propped on a windowsill, or a Pokey tucked in a toy box between the marbles and the Matchbox cars, this little set is a straight shot back to that particular, quiet kind of bendy nostalgia — the kind that doesn't need batteries, doesn't make noise, and never really goes out of style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat you're looking at here is a \u003cstrong\u003eNew Old Stock (NOS)\u003c\/strong\u003e grouping of vintage \u003cstrong\u003eGumby and Pokey bendable vinyl figurines\u003c\/strong\u003e — five pieces total, gathered as they came, never played with, never displayed, held back in storage exactly as they left the production line. There's one teal Gumby figure standing with an arm raised in his signature wave, painted googly eyes, and a small red painted smile. There are two teal Pokey horse figures, each carrying that unmistakable black painted mane and tail and a set of hand-applied googly eyes that give him his sly, knowing little grin — one of these two has \"CHINA\" molded right into the underside of its belly, a manufacturing mark worth its own conversation below. And rounding out the set are two orange-and-brown Gumby-shaped figures, painted eyebrows and all, one with the same raised-arm wave as his teal counterpart. Each figure measures a true \u003cstrong\u003e2 inches\u003c\/strong\u003e tall — genuine miniatures, small enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with a US quarter and still leave the coin looking roomy, which makes this a set built for a shelf, a shadow box, a desk corner, or — just as easily — a pocket or a purse, the way so many kids actually carried their Gumby around in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe exact production year isn't legible on any of the figures, so rather than guess at a single date we'll say plainly what we can prove: these are vintage pieces stylistically at home somewhere across the decades stretching from Gumby's original 1950s–60s television heyday through the 1980s wave of licensed toy production that kept him on toy shelves long after his first television run had ended. That's a wide window, and an honest one — and honestly, it's most of Gumby's living history as a toy, which tells you something about just how long this little green guy has been bending his way into American toy boxes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🎬 The Studio Behind the Clay\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGumby and Pokey didn't start as toys at all — they started as an experiment. Their creator, \u003cstrong\u003eArt Clokey\u003c\/strong\u003e, had studied filmmaking at USC under the influential montage theorist Slavko Vorkapich, and it was there that Clokey put together a short experimental film called \u003cem\u003e\"Gumbasia\"\u003c\/em\u003e — a burst of clay shapes moving and morphing to a jazz soundtrack, made just to see what stop-motion clay animation could do. That little reel became the seed of everything that followed. Working alongside his wife Ruth, Clokey built out the idea into a full character with a name, a personality, and a slanted, lopsided head — lore among Gumby fans holds that the character's distinctive tilted head shape was inspired by Clokey's own father's cowlick, a small, personal detail baked right into the design of one of American television's most recognizable silhouettes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe operation that produced Gumby started life as \u003cstrong\u003eClokey Films\u003c\/strong\u003e, a small outfit based in Hollywood. As the show grew, so did the studio: by 1960 it had been renamed \u003cstrong\u003eClokey Productions\u003c\/strong\u003e and relocated to a larger facility in \u003cstrong\u003eGlendora, California\u003c\/strong\u003e, where the Gumby series and its sister production, the Lutheran Church-produced stop-motion series \u003cem\u003eDavey and Goliath\u003c\/em\u003e, were both brought to life for years. When that Glendora studio closed at the end of the 1970s, Art Clokey and his second wife, Gloria, didn't stop — they opened a new studio called \u003cstrong\u003ePremavision\u003c\/strong\u003e in Sausalito, California, and kept producing new Gumby episodes on into the 1980s, introducing the character to a whole new generation of kids who'd never seen the original run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🏙️ Minneapolis: America's Quiet Toy Capital\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Hollywood and Glendora were where Gumby came to life on film, the figures themselves have a different hometown entirely: \u003cstrong\u003eMinneapolis, Minnesota\u003c\/strong\u003e. It was there that \u003cstrong\u003eLakeside Toys\u003c\/strong\u003e — later reorganized as Lakeside Industries, a division of the toy company Leisure Dynamics — won the license to manufacture Gumby and Pokey figures for the retail market, striking that deal in the mid-1960s after noticing just how well an early Gumby doll was already selling out west. Lakeside's bendable line, marketed under the \"Super-Flex\" name, went on to sell in the millions of units, and old toy-industry lore passed down among collectors holds that few licensing bets in the history of the Twin Cities toy trade paid off quite as well as a little bendable green man from a California clay studio. It's an easy story to overlook today, but for a stretch of years, one of the most recognizable toy characters in America was quietly manufactured out of Minneapolis rather than the coasts most people assume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🌏 The Mark on the Underside\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the two teal Pokey figures in this set carries a small but telling detail: the word \u003cstrong\u003e\"CHINA\"\u003c\/strong\u003e molded right into its underside. It's a reminder that as Gumby and Pokey merchandise continued selling for decades after its original American licensing runs, production of these bendable figures — like so much of the American toy industry in the back half of the twentieth century — eventually moved to include overseas manufacturing. Look closely at this set and you'll also notice something collectors love to point out: a difference in paint finish between the teal figures and the orange-and-brown figures, the teal pieces carrying a glossier coat and the orange pair a slightly more matte one. That kind of variation is a small window into toy history in its own right — it suggests these figures may represent different production runs, or even different manufacturers working from the same licensed character molds, made at different points across Gumby's long merchandising life. Rather than a flaw, it's a genuinely interesting detail for anyone building out a collection: proof that no two batches of licensed toy production are ever quite identical, even when the character on the package never changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🐴 Gumby, Pokey, and the Whole Clay-Come-to-Life Idea\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGumby's whole premise — a piece of clay brought to life who could bend, stretch, and reshape himself to fit into any story — was genuinely novel television when it debuted, and it made him one of the very first stop-motion clay characters most American kids ever saw move on a screen. Pokey, his loyal horse companion, became just as beloved a sidekick, instantly recognizable by that same black mane-and-tail treatment you see reproduced faithfully on the teal Pokey figures in this set. Together they anchored a show that mixed gentle adventure with a kind of homemade, hand-shaped charm that no purely drawn cartoon could quite match — every episode looked like it had been built, literally, by hand, because it had been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe character's staying power is part of what makes pieces like these worth holding onto. Gumby went on to become such a fixture of American pop culture that he was still being referenced and parodied decades after his first television run — famously so, in fact, that \"I'm Gumby, dammit!\" became one of the most quoted lines in American sketch comedy history, introducing Gumby all over again to viewers who'd never watched his original show. That kind of cross-generational recognition is rare for any character, let alone one built from clay in a small California studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🏡 Glendora Still Remembers\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe town of Glendora, California — \u003cstrong\u003efounded in 1911\u003c\/strong\u003e — still claims its piece of the Gumby legend today. Even though the original Clokey Productions studio there closed at the end of the 1970s, Glendora hosts an annual \u003cstrong\u003eGumby Fest\u003c\/strong\u003e in honor of the years the little green guy called that town home, drawing collectors, animation fans, and longtime residents alike back to celebrate a character that quietly put their small California town on the map for a whole generation of television-watching kids. It's the kind of local civic pride that doesn't show up in most toy histories, but it's exactly the sort of detail that keeps a character's real hometown story alive long after the cameras stopped rolling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🖼️ Display Ideas\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e🪟 Line the whole set up inside a small shadow box for a wall-hung tribute to classic television toys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e📚 Perch Gumby and Pokey together on a bookshelf beside other mid-century TV and cartoon memorabilia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e🖊️ Set one on a desk or office shelf as a small, smiling nod to a favorite childhood character\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e🎁 Tuck a figure into a gift alongside a card for a fellow lifelong Gumby fan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e👜 Slip one into a pocket or purse as a pocket-sized good-luck charm, the way plenty of original owners did\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e🌿 Nestle Pokey among small potted plants or a mini terrarium scene for a playful, unexpected accent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🎁 Who Collects These\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis set draws in a wide range of collectors: longtime \u003cstrong\u003eGumby and Pokey enthusiasts\u003c\/strong\u003e chasing the different color variations produced across the character's long licensing history, \u003cstrong\u003evintage television and claymation memorabilia collectors\u003c\/strong\u003e building out a broader mid-century pop culture shelf, and \u003cstrong\u003eminiature and shelf-display collectors\u003c\/strong\u003e drawn to genuinely small-scale figures that pack real personality into just a couple of inches. It also appeals strongly to \u003cstrong\u003enostalgic gift-givers\u003c\/strong\u003e — parents and grandparents looking to hand down a piece of their own childhood television memories to a new generation, and toy-history hobbyists who appreciate a set that tells a real, three-town story: Hollywood and Glendora, where Gumby came to life on film, and Minneapolis, where he came to life as a toy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e❓ FAQ\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIs this set New Old Stock?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes — this is genuine New Old Stock (NOS): figures held back in storage rather than sold and played with at the time, never displayed, exactly as they came off the production line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow big are the figures?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach figure measures a true 2 inches tall — small enough to stand comfortably alongside a US quarter, and easily sized for a pocket, a purse, or a small display shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAre Gumby and Pokey the same size in this set?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes — the Gumby figures and the Pokey horse figures are all built to the same small 2-inch scale, so they display naturally together as a matched grouping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy are there two different colors of Gumby figure?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGumby was produced in more than one colorway across his long licensing history — this set brings together a teal Gumby and an orange-and-brown Gumby, letting you see two different production choices side by side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does the \"CHINA\" marking on one of the Pokey figures mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a manufacturing mark molded into the underside of that figure, reflecting the broader shift toward overseas manufacturing that touched much of the American licensed toy industry over Gumby's long merchandising run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow old is this set exactly?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's no legible production date on the figures themselves, so rather than name a single year, we place them within the wide window stretching from Gumby's original 1950s–60s television era through the 1980s wave of licensed toy production that kept these characters on shelves for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAre Gumby and Pokey actually bendable?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes — these are bendable-style vinyl figurines, made in the same posable spirit as the original \"Super-Flex\" Gumby and Pokey toys that made this pairing a household name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1980s-spy-bendable-poseable-skeleton-toy-figure-halloween-decor\"\u003eVintage Bendable Skeleton Figure 💀 NOS Poseable Bendy Toy 1960s-1990s Ornament\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-bendable-poseable-dog-toy-figure-anime-promotional-item-1978-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1978 Bendable Poseable Dog by Nippon Animation\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1950s-tin-special-police-badge-original-card-treasures-antique-gifts\"\u003eVintage Special Police 🚔 Toy Badge Mid-Century Japan Embossed Silver-Tone Shield on Original Card\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Set 1","offer_id":48435074728148,"sku":"43654073286888","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Set 2","offer_id":48435074760916,"sku":"43654073319656","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2309\/8324\/files\/il_fullxfull.6593604705_3dji.jpg?v=1786064009","url":"https:\/\/role-players.shop\/products\/vintage-gumby-pokey-mini-figurine-set-bendable-vinyl-toys-green-and-orange-claymation-characters-ornament-%f0%9f%8d%8e","provider":"Role-Players","version":"1.0","type":"link"}