Bobble dog
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A bobble dog is a replica of a plastic dachshund , whose head is suspended in a pendulum-like manner in the collar ring, so that uneven movement of the figure causes the head to wobble and turn. Typically, wobbly dachshunds stand on the parcel shelf or the dashboard of a car , so that the acceleration forces of driving lead to nodding, turning and turning of the head, as far as the movement of the assembly allows.
Generalized one speaks of a bobble head dog , more generally from a bobble head or loose figure.
history
The bobble dog has been around since 1965. An accessory for the car in the 1970s , the bobble dog celebrated a comeback at the end of the 1990s, triggered by an Aral commercial. According to the Coburg manufacturer Heinze & Co., over 500,000 copies were sold in eight months in 1999.
In 2001, the dachshund was the subject of a legal dispute: The Heinze & Co. company sued the Bielefeld designer Wolfgang Budwell, who had designed the first drafts for the dachshund and registered it with the German Patent Office as a protected design. After consulting experts, the Hamm Higher Regional Court recognized the designer's claims to authorship in the second instance. Sometimes you can also find models of other dog breeds that work on the principle of the bobble dog.
Wobble Elvis
Similar to the wiggling dachshund , the wiggling Elvis is also a decorative item for the hat shelf or the dashboard of a car. The wobbly Elvis is an approx. 15 cm high Elvis Presley doll, which is mainly hung from the head by a suction cup on the windshield or rear window with a string and with one or two balls of the ball (in the commercial) or one from the sole of the right foot 5 mm far protruding needle point (not in all versions) touches the parcel shelf or the dashboard from above. Horizontal accelerations let the figure bend in the articulated hip and dangle as a whole around the vertical axis. In addition, the left arm is stretched out and can swivel a little up and down, while the right arm holds the microphone at an angle. Hip and shoulder joints are formed by helical springs into which plastic bolts of the body parts, designed as screw threads, are screwed. These act as a coupled spring pendulum with characteristic oscillation frequencies.
The wobbly Elvis was developed in 2001 as a gold-colored prototype for an Audi commercial (slightly modified in several language versions), in which Karina Krawczyk plays a driver and an Elvis impersonator and his wobbly Elvis figure after a car breaks down, who takes the figure with her immediately in the car. The joke of the commercial is that because of the continuously variable transmission in the vehicle, there was no “wobbling” due to gear changes - and so the figure does not turn at all, despite its sensitivity to jerks, but only makes small rocking movements in the hip and rather the arm movement of a car stopper . In response to customer inquiries about the spot, the Wackel-Elvis was produced in growing editions a total of 550,000 times.
Colloquial use
In the professional environment, nodding dachshunds are often referred to as people who only constantly express consent, primarily to the opinions of superiors.
Others
A nodding dog flies from New Zealand as a mascot with the German spectrometer FIFI-LS in the flying observatory SOFIA in June / July 2016 .
Similar objects
- A toy in which a standing figure collapses when the floor is pushed in is referred to as a wobbly or push figure.
Web links
- www.wackeldackel.com - Travel photos of nodding dachshunds
- Thomas Tuma: Overrun by success . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2001, p. 94 ( Online - May 28, 2001 ).
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↑ Judgment of the OLG Hamm of October 4, 2001, file number 4 4 U 87/01
- Press release of the OLG on the judgment ( Memento from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Information on the judgment on openjur.de
- ↑ Karina Kravczyk: TV commercial for Audi (New A4) (2001) - Internet Movie Database (2001) - October 2016 no longer available.
- ↑ Thomas Tuma: Overrun by success . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2001, p. 94 ( Online - May 28, 2001 ).
- ↑ fatamorganaclub: Audi Wackel-Elvis commercial (2001, German) for: "multitronic / The first stepless automatic from Audi", Youtube, Video (0:42), July 22, 2007, accessed October 5, 2016.
- ↑ Down Under: SOFIA flying observatory with three instruments in New Zealand dlr.de, June 7, 2016, accessed July 26, 2020