next generation squedgehog

greetings

so, another service station (off of a motorway), another purchase off of a vending machine located at it. not that i buy any old thing from them. just hedgehog shaped items, look you see. 

indeed this is the third (3rd) such instance this year (2022) of me doing so. actually, no, technically the 4th, and yes i do seem to purchase non-hedgehog things, recalling the elephant of donington. forgive the error. whilst at it, also forgive the exact provenance of this particular purchase slipping from mind. as i recall this latest (i shall show it now) was bought at tibshelf services (not bad), but my short term memory appears to have gone went to f***. likely a sign of something wrong, but we go on. 

and there it is, presented of course in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode. for what it is in this instance, it is the spherical, quasi egg like plastic container what i obtained from a service station somewhere on the M1 (UK variant), for the cost of £1. perhaps if at some point in her illustrious life Greta had thought to get one maybe she would see not all plastic is bad. actually, maybe her parent or parents (i will be f****d if i am looking up her history) refusing to purchase her one is the reason of motivation for her quest. that or it has all been a ruse to meet that lad what does the films; the one what was too thick to survive the boat sinking. 

perhaps the title of this post is somewhat (slightly) misleading, for it is not necessarily so that this is indeed a "next generation" of squedgehog. except, well, it clearly is. here, gander at the picture below, and you shall (possibly) see what i am making reference to.  

rather than being branded "next generation squedgehog", which would be quite class, it is called squishy hedgehog series 2 (two). oh. well, i am going to assume, or take it as a given, that it was a bit of re-branding or what have you off of them what make these. so far as i am aware i have not ever seen a squishy hedgehog series 1 (one) for sale, and believe me i have looked. it is entirely possible that them what make these felt they were selling nowhere near as many of them as they had hoped (which one might assume to be all of them) and concluded "squedgehog" was too ambiguous a term for the target demographic of people what buy stuff off of vending machines at service stations. makes sense when you recall exactly how many (mostly British) films have to be re-named for the American market. 

how does this one look? like this -

for some reason that picture has come out of a predominant orange shade. not, thankfully, the infamous Trump shade of orange, but still. likely my phone camera settings. in the "real world", whatever that is, it's rather more brown looking in colour, actually almost "natural hedgehog" colour. except yeah, it is a multicoloured affair, presumably to make it all look like more fun. indeed it is squishy, for one can squeeze it and then it (more or less) returns to the shape intended. 

i am led to believe that these false 3D, quasi panoramic, three hundred and sixty degree immersive type of image video things are popular on the internet. so, yeah, go on then, i have (kind of) done one of them for your pleasure. below. and in Commodore 64 mode. 

on the off chance anyone has (impressively) read this far and as is wondering just what the hell all of this is about, well, i suppose some links would help. my first adventure in buying a squedgehog is documented (if not in an exhaustive way) here, and on my word i cannot believe it was as far back as April, or maybe March and i only wrote of it then. next came a non-squishy but suitably impressive one called needle. looks like i procured that one in August and wrote of it in September. highly likely i was just filling the void left by anything else i had become used to observing with happiness that month.

certainly i have taken a picture of the three (3) together. and what a very revealing one it is too. looks like the magically word of "shrinkonomics", where what you get is reduced rather than the cost being increased, applies to the world of squishy hedgehogs, for the next generation of them are about, and no this i not a scientific measure, 50% smaller ("fewer") than the original.

no, i am not sure what that suspicious white powder residue before the original squedgehog is, but it is very unlikely that it is what you think. i am just not that interesting, really. probably some sugar off of some sweets, or whatever that stuff is - flour, i think - what one gets on certain pizzas. 

going on stats it would seem needle is the one you all prefer. at the time of writing this, the original squedgehog post has been looked at by 172 people, whereas a whopping 903 have elected to have a gander at needle. my best guess at why this might be is due to the flashing light thing what needle does. on the off chance i have that right, then you may well dig the below animated thing. 

extremely unlikely, i would think, that i shall be getting to purchase another of these this year. well, no, as in yes, i will be going past service stations and they may have them, but no, i wouldn't do another post on the subject this month, for there is only so much i can write on the subject. which you have likely worked out by now. so, if i do get one, i will write about it next month / year (2023). 

upon looking back, for looking forward would reveal nothing specific in this regard, being able to buy three hedgehog tributes and one elephant one off of service stations across the land is pretty impressive. certainly it is a good deal more than i thought would be achieved this year. what's a heaven for if it exceed man's grasp, etc. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!