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Elvis
A rubber duck styled as Elvis in his white rhinestone jumpsuit, guitar in one wing and microphone in the other, a real DUCKY CITY bath toy sold directly on Amazon.
The Full Story
Elvis owes his entire existence to a company holiday party in the mid-90s that got, by every account we've been able to piece together, considerably more out of hand than anyone had planned for. A cover band was hired. The cover band was, reportedly, extremely good, and leaned hard into the King's back catalog. By the end of the night, at least two members of senior leadership had attempted to duplicate the hip-shake choreography, with mixed structural results for the buffet table.
The following Monday, someone taped a sketch of a duck in a white jumpsuit, guitar in one wing and microphone in the other, to the break room fridge with the caption "never forget." It stayed there for almost two years before product development got around to it. When they finally did, the guitar was sized and shaped after a real vintage model borrowed from an employee's brother, who has brought up the loan in conversation at least once a year since.
The hip-swivel pose the duck ships in is fixed, not adjustable. An early prototype allowed you to rotate the torso for a "more authentic performance," and it turned out to be, in the words of one internal memo, "deeply, deeply unsettling."
Customer Reviews
The little guitar is genuinely well painted, you can see the wood-grain effect if you look closely. A really fun, well made piece.
Not a big deal, doesn't affect how it displays. Still very happy with it.
He has it sitting right on his amp now. Exactly the reaction I was hoping for.
It's the standard duck size, I just pictured it feeling bigger somehow, which doesn't really make sense in retrospect. Still a nice duck.
I know this sounds silly written down, but I genuinely thought there'd be a sound chip based on how it was described online. There is not. Lesson learned.
I play in a very small, very unsuccessful garage band and I now bring this duck to every practice as a joke mascot. He's gotten a better reception from our neighbors than we have.