Spook Central Video Review - Running Press' Desktop Inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Running Press just released the Desktop Inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. This item is the star of Spook Central's FIRST EVER video review! Read on to learn more about it...

Here is the official product description.

Prepare to meet the most adorable destroyer of worlds with this officially licensed 16-inch tall miniature inflatable of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, ready to stomp your desktop or any surface. Set also includes a USB power cable (that can be plugged into a powered on computer or a 5V/1A plug) and a mini book of full-color stickers featuring characters and scenes from the classic film.

Before you watch the 16-minute video review embedded below, a couple of notes... This was recorded entirely unscripted and improvised. Everything I said was completely off-the-cuff, and as such, I misspoke a few times. Mainly, I used the wrong word here and there because I couldn't immediately think of the correct word. When talking about an altered image, I said "logo" instead of "label". Several times I called it a sticker "album" instead of a sticker "book". I said "Macy's Day Balloon", completely leaving out the word "Thanksgiving". Where I said "bandanna", I meant "bib". (I think that's what the blue & white thing Puft wears on his shoulders is called.) I should have said "Mr. Tubby Soft Squeeze" when I referenced the 2009 video game. Loose "hair" should have been "thread", as I correctly said a few seconds earlier. When referring to how underinflated he was, I kept saying "solid" and "hard", when "firm" would have been the more appropriate word. (I dubbed in a correction at one spot, but couldn't easily correct all instances.)

Also... The audio might get a tad louder here and there, though I made a lot of effort to try to manually normalize it all. The "music videos I edited together" that I mention at the start of the video can be found here, and the article about the altered photos can be found here. (A before-and-after comparison of the exact altered image of the guys used in the sticker book can be found in that article.)


The Desktop Inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man carries a suggested retail price of $19.95 and is available to PURCHASE RIGHT NOW.

Running Press made many other Ghostbusters miniature products over the years, all of which have all been previously reviewed on Spook Central: Ghostbusters Light-Up Slimer, Ghostbusters Ghost Trap, Mini P.K.E. Meter Deluxe Mega Kit, and Ghostbusters 2016 Mini Proton Pack Replica. They also released a full size book: Ghostbusters: A Paranormal Picture Book.

So, this concludes Spook Central's first ever video review, which may or may not be the first of many Spook Central video reviews. For something that looks like it was quick and easy to do, it turned out to be much more work than I expected. Lessons have been learned should I ever do another one.

This item has been provided by Running Press for review on this site.