Friday, March 7, 2008

Giant Space Crocodile


Space Crocodino is enormous, stupendously huge, so impossibly big that it is hard to imagine, take the biggest thing you can think of....etc. Of course I'm paraphrasing Douglas Adams here but Space Crocodino really is big. It is thought that he was a lap dog to some impossibly gigantic and powerful forgotten elder race of monsters. He, or she, or it (nobody is quite sure) is as enthusiastic and playful as a lapdog, which kind of bears out this theory. Of course enthusiasm and playfulness is not always a good thing if you are so large that an accidental twitch of the tail can level an entire city block.
Despite it's huge size, Space Crocodino does play chess rather well. It is thought that the strange creature did not learn to play in the conventional way, but had the rules of the game imprinted on to it's tiny walnut like brains as an amusement for it's long dead masters. This of course brings up certain paradoxes in relation to the true origins of the game of chess. It might strike some as strange to label such an enormous hideous brute as a cute character, but you have to kind of look beyond the asteroid-scarred, radioactive meters thick armoured hide to the playful puppy soul beneath.
Although, barring unfortunate accidents of the aforementioned city block-levelling kind, Space Crocodino is a good soul and gets on well with almost everyone. It does regularly argue with and get into altercations with Giroid. This is quite unfortunate in itself as Giroid is a giant robot and the little disagreements between the two can result in an entire City being reduced to rubble. As usual you can get the t-shirt by clicking the image below.test

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