Petey the Cymbal Monkey

I have a great story for you.  Back to the post I added when i was in Florida enjoying life as it should be lived, in shorts, 90 degree temps, and unemployed.  Remember the one with the mechanical monkey that never surfaced in FL pawn shops?  Well, guess what.  Someone took the time to find Petey on ebay and actually bought it for me.  I now have a second petey that I can use for parts and completely fix the original up.  This is an actual picture of my Petey.  As if seeing this thing in my office doesn't scare most people, now it will soon clap the cymbals and shriek like he was destined to do.  

Some of you are saying, no way, I have seen him before.  Some of you are saying that you have never seen anything like that.  You are wrong.  Unless you have lived under a rock for the past 30 years, you have actually seen petey in some pretty big roles.  Thanks to the TV Tropes Wiki, I now have a full biography and list of works that petey has participated in.  He has played a stirring role in pop culture.  From Nirvana's Sliver video, to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to Rugrats, to the Simpson's movie, to Disney's movie Aladdin, to the Kim Possible movie, and finally all the way back to James Dean and A Rebel Without a Cause. 

Now that you have been properly educated, I would like to at least show you the real thing...  My Petey is not yet rehabbed.  I am working with stealth like qualities of an antiquities restorer, but soon and very soon, you will see a new video of a working Petey on my shelf.  But until then, here is someone else's to wet your appetite...