Pulp Parlour
The Pulp Parlour in Connecticut makes piñatas.
Awesome, ass kicking piñatas.
Like the Bat Attack:
The Little Ghoul:
The Flying Monkey
And just about anything else you can think of.
All piñatas are custom made, and are usually delivered within 4 to 6 weeks. And if you can’t bear to break them, they’ll construct them to last.
See more amazing piñatas at The Pulp Parlour
June 23, 2011 at 5:44 pm
This is perfect, because I don’t really like children and I love ruining their birthday parties.
June 23, 2011 at 6:01 pm
I, too, don’t really like children and love ruining their birthday parties. We should have some sort of club that celebrates that… OH WAIT… WE HAVE REGRETSY… here’s a bat, a margarita, and some vicodin… HAVE FUN…
June 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Regretsy: Come For The Craft Snark, Stay For The Vicodin Parties
June 23, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Hokey Pokey will be great. “Put your right foot in..” and you toss in that!
June 24, 2011 at 4:17 am
oh Alice, you always make me laugh, or cringe, but in the end I always laugh…
June 24, 2011 at 12:39 pm
I’m glad, on both counts. I enjoy the cringes more when I can see them so it is good to know my posts ARE causing them, along with the laughs:)
June 23, 2011 at 5:45 pm
So, I could have one made of my ex to celebrate the finality of our divorce? hmmmm….
June 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Where was this in 2009? I made an effigy of my husband’s ex-wife, stuffed it with blood packets, and beat the shit out of it with a baseball bat for a burlesque show. I kinda wished it actually WAS her, though. She was really being a jackass at the time.
June 23, 2011 at 5:45 pm
God damnit. Just as I get the motivation to get off my ass to load the dishwasher and clean the litterboxes, you go and post something and throw my motivation out the window.
You evil bitch.
June 23, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Same story here, I really need to make dinner but that won’t be happening for a while now lol.
June 23, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Those are the most kick ass pinatas I’ve ever seen!!! Beats the sad attempts the grocery stores have. If I had a couple hundred laying around I’d get one!!
June 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Went to the site, got to see 3 pics. THEN WE CRASHED THE SERVER.
June 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Just kidding, I guess one picture was bad. Carry on.
June 23, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Now I can’t get on the site due to “capacity problems”.
June 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm
The Little Ghoul is awesome! I would definitely get the long-lasting version.
June 23, 2011 at 6:27 pm
These would be great for Halloween or just for the home or office that needs a little of the good kind of fuckery.
June 23, 2011 at 5:47 pm
The Little Ghoul one is amazing! I’d love to have that standing in the corner of my apartment to freak the crap out of people.
June 23, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Great minds thinking alike, and at exactly the same time!
June 23, 2011 at 5:52 pm
The Little Goth Girl is amazing, too. So is the Fairy Princess.
June 23, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I love the little ghoul one too! Right up my alley, even though I kinda hate pink. I could get past that though because of her awesome ghoulishness.
June 23, 2011 at 5:51 pm
As an artist, I have one comment to make: *standing ovation*
June 23, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Anyone else think there should be one if April wearing the flip flop hat & the mustache?
June 23, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Abso-fucking-lutely!
June 23, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Too awesome to smash. Especially at $500+ a pop–
You might as well be paper-mache-ing them out of actual dollar bills.
June 23, 2011 at 5:54 pm
They’ll make them sturdier for you to keep as art.
June 23, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Oh, I dunno… years of frustration and worse, no help with college payments… give me the right pinata, a big stick…I’d say sometimes $500 well spent can do what therapy and booze just couldn’t…
June 23, 2011 at 5:52 pm
“It’s ok honey, I told you people were filled with candy. Now, take this bat and go hit that Sarah Palin lady……… Oh, that’s good honey, go for the neck!… I know honey, her candy does look like blood. It’s… um.. big red syrup…”
June 23, 2011 at 5:56 pm
I’m inviting myself to your kid’s party!
June 23, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Well, someday if my partner and I decide to go crazy and get a kid(probably from etsy) then I will be sure to invite you. My child will be raised with the same respect for the morbid side of life that I was, with a mortician for a father I learned many lessons. until then I will just keep knitting.
June 23, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Have you seen the knitted dissected frog?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/8880673/knitting-in-biology-101
My Dad was a high school biology teacher and my Mom a hospital lab tech, so I got used to the morbid lab stuff early on. And that formaldehyde smell takes me back to childhood! But I just wanted to come to your party to smash the evil Palin.
June 24, 2011 at 4:19 am
I AM SOOOO MAKING THAT FROG… I haven’t knit anything disturbing in a few days… I was asked to make a beanie that looks like a bajingo… I’m not so excited. Nothing against the vajayjay, but I’m gay, and that’s really not a turnon…
June 24, 2011 at 12:58 pm
How about making one of those long stocking caps that it looks like a penis? Add a couple of pompoms near the top & instead of a long elf-like point at the end, something more rounded (a sock pattern perhaps?) with long white/ecru fringe at the end. I know from your name you are pro knitter, but I found a pattern while looking for the proper name for “elf hats” so here it is. http://nautiknitter.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/schwartz-stocking-cap-pattern/
June 23, 2011 at 6:22 pm
THAT is a child’s birthday part that I’d attend. I’ll even bring a certificate for two trips to the child therapist as a gift.
June 23, 2011 at 9:03 pm
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June 24, 2011 at 4:20 am
yeah, most of us voted for Obama… and I still stand with him, umm… you voted down!
June 23, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Those flying monkeys have always creeped me out majorly and now knowing they have blue asses, I won’t be sleeping any time tonight.
Oh wait, I have drugs.
Recommense the fuckery.
June 23, 2011 at 5:53 pm
This stuff is why I love where I’m from. Those are amazing. Never to be destroyed!
June 23, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Wow I wish I had $1000 to spend on a pinata! That’s a sentence I never thought I’d say lol
June 23, 2011 at 6:00 pm
If you’ve ever seen “My Super Sweet 16″, this seems a very sensible expenditure by comparison. (I only watched it to discuss the behavior with my daughter.)
June 23, 2011 at 6:54 pm
to hell with the pinata — I just wish I had $1000.
June 23, 2011 at 5:59 pm
I am in love with the Little Ghoul.
June 23, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I need a dozen or so of the flying monkeys. Never mind why.
June 23, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Must have flying monkey piñata. And I would clearly have to pulverize it about the posterior until it started leaking candy out it’s ass.
June 23, 2011 at 6:07 pm
A pinata of a human body gives you the extra added bonus of having it look like a massacre when you’re done. That sounds like a good time. I’d fill mine with red candy.
June 24, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Red jello!
June 23, 2011 at 6:13 pm
I love the foot lying on the ground shot. My kind of party!
June 23, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Great for the next leprosy convention.
June 24, 2011 at 4:22 am
aww…. now that just wasn’t uncalled for… hehe
June 24, 2011 at 6:58 am
ok, people, reread what I wrote… SLOWLY…
June 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Fuck, those flying monkeys were the cause of many a childhood nightmare and I have a feeling they’ll be recurring again tonight.
Bat attack is awesome, I need to get that in the likeness of my least liked person. The Little Ghoul looks pretty cute too.
June 23, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Flying monkey!!!!!!! Assless Chap flying monkey – even better!
Must have!!
June 23, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Wow, those are amazing. I’m another who couldn’t bear to break one of those – once saved a piece of chocolate for a few years as a kid because it was molded to the shape of a violin. Those would be the coolest things to have hanging in an apartment, though… especially the tiger or the dragon.
June 23, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I wouldn’t be able to smash one. Honestly, it might make me cry.
I’m just in awe.
June 23, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Those are fantastic.
I need to get a few of the flying monkeys, fill them with helium and just have them with me, always.
June 23, 2011 at 6:52 pm
I like the way you think! That would be especially great to have when I’m PMSing and in a violent rage, or to get rid of any unwanted visitors.
Annoying Door-to-door sales person/religious nut:
“Oh hi! How are you today? I was wondering if…”
Me: *grunting and pointing to flying monkey*
Annoying Door-to-door sales person/religious nut: “Oh… Ok then… Um… nevermind”
June 23, 2011 at 7:45 pm
If someone comes to my door and I don’t know them, I grasp my German Shepherd’s collar and I open the inside door. She has stranger-aggression from a neglectful home (where we got her) and she lunges at the door, teeth, growling, and barking.
I’ve had people actually step off the porch!
I love that dog. She’s laying under my desk on my feet right now.
June 24, 2011 at 4:23 am
you could turn it into the best game of angry birds EVER!
June 24, 2011 at 7:09 pm
I want them for my office! Someone pisses me off and I can yell “get out or I’ll release the flying monkeys!”
June 23, 2011 at 6:40 pm
OMG they are awesome!!
BUT…they start at $500 and go up from there!! I’m too poor to even think about hitting one of those with a stick. In my trailer clutter ways, that much can buy me a car!! (I’m a slight step above trailer trash…hence trailer clutter)
June 24, 2011 at 7:11 pm
wonder if she’d do smaller versions for less. One really needs to have at least a couple of monkeys.
June 23, 2011 at 6:49 pm
the flying monkey is AWESOME if i could afford it i would attach it to a zip line in the yard just in time for Halloween and let it zoom by at random
June 23, 2011 at 7:49 pm
My grandfather grew up in a house with only an outhouse. He made a dummy and he and his cousin/best friend would set the dummy in the outhouse after everyone went to bed. His mother would get up in the middle of the night to pee, and wait EVERY TIME for “Buddy” to finish up so she could use the outhouse. After falling for the gag a few times, finally she banned Buddy from the premises completely.
So rather than let a good dummy go to waste, they would take him out to the bridge in their little town, stand on either side of the road, wait for a car to drive up, and throw Buddy across to the other side so it looked like he was committing suicide. Scared the crap out of many a driver, and they never got caught. Anyone who tells you kids are rottener today than they were in the good old days is a damn liar.
If I could afford a pinata like this, I would name it Buddy.
June 23, 2011 at 6:54 pm
I could imagine a GREAT market for making piñatas of ex spouses to whack the crap out of on your anniversary…
June 23, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Make it so.
June 23, 2011 at 6:58 pm
I kinda want a flying monkey one to hang in the main hallway and scare my mom every time she comes in the house. Or anyone, really.
June 23, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Wait, fuck that, I want a LOBSTER. Why? I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA
June 23, 2011 at 7:07 pm
I want one!!!
June 23, 2011 at 7:15 pm
I want two, one to use and one to keep! This is the awesomist idea I have seen in at least a week!
June 23, 2011 at 7:22 pm
this is where DIY meets AWESOME.
June 23, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Who else wants to get the long lasting version, stuff it with great candy, give it to a five year old for his party, then bet with the other parents how long it would take for hem to give up or turn on each other?
June 23, 2011 at 7:44 pm
I remember when those stupid dolls that were made to look like kids were in every relative’s home. The ones that were put in corners to make them look like they were playing hide and seek or something. I would get revenge on every one of those relatives by replacing those dolls with ghoul girl. That would so make my day.
June 24, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I love your evil mind.
June 23, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Once I saw a Dora pinata at Wal-Mart.
I wondered whether it would be bought by some well-meaning mother for her daughter’s birthday party, who would then hang a little latina girl from a tree and have children hit her with sticks.
It got even more creepy when I saw this:
I don’t know which is worse – hitting a little girl with sticks or someone wanting to boff a papier-mache llama.
June 23, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Incidentally, if you want one of these t-shirts, they’re here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/67374527/id-hit-that-pinata-funny-t-shirt
June 23, 2011 at 8:18 pm
I once attended a kid’s birthday party where nobody could get the cardboard pinata to open. Well, none of the kids could. I took the stick and started in screaming “Die Cinderella, DIE”. That thing was down on the ground in two bashes, and the kids got in on the act shredding her to pieces BEFORE they went for the candy. It was awesome.
June 24, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I love that mental picture, and the quote.
June 23, 2011 at 8:21 pm
I got a Power Puff Girls one for my daughter’s seventh birthday. The kids didn’t seem at all bothered by whacking the heck out of a little blonde girl hanging from the ceiling.
June 23, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Whatever happened to the Not Remotely Crap tag?
… Or did I imagine that?
June 23, 2011 at 9:07 pm
OMG, I saw the Little Ghoul and clapped my little black-nail-polished hands in a surge of Gothy delight. Except I’d never be able to break it-I would put her in my bedroom with my Living Dead dolls and Bleeding Edge girls and they could all be friends and freak the crap out of everyone. I always tell people “They only eat people’s souls when I order them to”, but somehow most aren’t comforted. I can’t imagine why.
June 24, 2011 at 1:07 pm
I get you. You probably get the same looks I do when I tell people “I don’t have a soul; I’m a lawyer and I traded it in for an extra dose of cynicism.”
June 23, 2011 at 9:20 pm
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June 23, 2011 at 10:09 pm
As far as I’m concerned THIS is the main purpose of Etsy. These have no place in a mass market, yet these artists deserve to have a wider audience. I mean there may be a day when I need a piñata of Julia Roberts hair on Jake Gyllenahaal riding a banana slug (HEY! You ever seen a Washington State Banana slug? Then don’t hate.) And these are the people I would go to.
June 24, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Not hating your slug. I lived in a state where one of the small college tams was the “Fighting Okra.”
June 23, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I’d fill it with red jello, sit back with my martini and watch the kids go to town.
June 23, 2011 at 11:19 pm
I absolutely LOVE these – oddly enough, My kids think they are PERFECT. I have done my job as a parent.
I couldn’t bring myself to smash one but I can see one hanging in my office… Damn it.
June 24, 2011 at 5:23 am
I want a flying monkey! that is just so awesome!
My goal in life when I was 5 was to be a flying monkey (and my parents wonder whats wrong with me now????)
June 24, 2011 at 5:55 am
I live across the street from Karen, the creator of the pinatas. She’s one of those amazingly creative people who never does anything by halves. She and her husband have an anniversary party every Labor Day with one of the pinatas, which is then destroyed by the kids in attendance. The bat lady was actually a kind of self-portrait of the artist. She’s also done a 10-foot dragon and a huge octopus that barely made it into the yard. We give her all of our phone books for the papier maché.
June 24, 2011 at 7:18 am
I’m in love with the eyes on that ghould girl doll. Sweet.
June 24, 2011 at 9:26 am
How about an orange Snooki pinata filled with one ounce booze bottles? That would be fantastic, cause I don’t want to beat April with a stick.
June 24, 2011 at 1:12 pm
I love the concept, but think that I’d prefer to hit the real Snooki with a stick. That way I wouldn’t destroy one of those incredible creations, and I imagine that the original would probably spout booze.
June 24, 2011 at 12:03 pm
$1000 pinata art = awesome
People who can afford $1000 pinatas for their spoiled kids’ to destroy at birthday parties = suck it
June 24, 2011 at 5:34 pm
I actually really like the Little Ghoul one. It looks really cool.
June 24, 2011 at 7:15 pm
The dragon rocks.
June 25, 2011 at 12:45 pm
I would love to have the Little Ghoul – and no, I could not even THINK of damaging it.