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Yes, you can now purchase the Always Enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver!

Mar 3, 2010, 1:15 PM EST

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If you’re like me, you were watching the Winter Olympics closing ceremonies and dreaming of having an Always Enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver of your own. Here’s the backstory on TAEGIB for those three people on the planet who are not familiar with the greatest inflatable animal ever invented. And now we learn that he can be yours, for $5,000 or thereabouts. There are actually six giant inflatable beavers, which you saw parading at the closing ceremonies along with inflatable hockey players, mounties and a giant inflatable William Shatner (may have been the real thing). They were produced by Dynamic Displays of Windsor, Ontario, which began making them in October under a veil of secrecy that made the Manhattan Project look like an arts and crafts project.


Updates: The Always Enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver was mentioned on the Dan Patrick Show; and now has 3,914 fans on its Facebook page. Yes, it’s a popular idea to friend the giant inflatable beaver.
From Sharon Hill’s story in the Windsor Star:

The Windsor company, which has been in business since 1962, had to keep its Olympic production under wraps. “We were sworn to secrecy,” said owner Steve Thomson, who was in Vancouver Tuesday. “It was killing us.”

The giant inflatable beaver is so popular it has its own Facebook fan page and Dynamic Displays is taking calls from prospective buyers.

The Olympic props are being trucked back to Windsor this week and you could own one for about $5,000 or more for the larger moose.

Thomson, 40, said they will be for sale.

It should go well with my new dresser.
Here are the beavers in an NBC highlights video, at the 4:45 mark. And here’s a photo gallery of the inflatables being produced.
If the Portland Beavers have not already made a bid on one of these, they’re missing a golden marketing opportunity.
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Made in Windsor: Those show-stealing giant beavers, Mounties, moose and hockey players [Ottawa Citizen]

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  1. M. Anderson - Mar 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM

    What, Canada didn’t have any giant baby seals so the hocky dudes could slam ‘em over the head? And… is everyone in Canaday White?

  2. moAb - Mar 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM

    Are you blind? There were Asians galore, a black Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, Sikhs and others from Central Asia. Canada is an incredible melting pot.

  3. GrooveDaddy - Mar 3, 2010 at 5:49 PM

    The US is the melting pot. Canada is a Cultural Mosaic.
    Canucks come in all shapes sizes colours and flavours.
    Dig it.

  4. The Naked Redhead - Mar 3, 2010 at 7:19 PM

    If you can’t afford the beaver, maybe you can afford the t-shirt?
    http://skreened.com/thenakedredhead/the-always-enjoyable-giant-inflatable-beaver?direction=asc&field=order&query=&start=0&count=12

  5. Leigh-Ann - Mar 3, 2010 at 9:43 PM

    As MoAB mentioned, there were tons of non-white Canadians in both the opening and closing ceremonies. I specifically noticed the Sikh police officer in the stands during the opening ceremonies (reminded me of living in Toronto), and Vancouver’s huge Asian and Native communities were also visible. I guess you’ll see whatever you’re willing to look for.

  6. Steve King - Mar 4, 2010 at 1:07 PM

    I have to admit that I thought it was all white folks at first, then I realized that I had been drinking too much LaBatt’s and that it was just the fact that they were all dressed in white. Well at least the lot dancing on the floor was in all white.

  7. Lary Waldman - Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM

    I do not have actual numbers, but I believe that per capita, Canada is the most ethnically diverse country in the world. We have people up here in colors not yet seen in the USA. If you applied M. Anderson, and you don’t have a record or a history of gun violence you to could become Canadian. Think of all the money you would save on Health Insurance Premiums ?
    Lary Waldman

  8. Gary - Mar 6, 2010 at 4:30 AM

    personally I thought it was stupid, the closing ceremony. I might have felt different had i been there maybe.
    This is Canada’s face to the world
    in my opinion someone smoked too much bc bud before coming up with the concept of the closing ceremonies

  9. Hugh - Mar 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM

    You might have missed the opening comments, or are just plain ignorant. The closing
    production showed to the world what americans(usans) think when the word Canada is mentioned to them, not reality. In the city of Vancouver, English is spoken at home by only 49% of the population but is not ghettoized like large american cities.

  10. The Turtle - Mar 9, 2010 at 2:26 AM

    I kinda wish I had five thousand dollars. Even in Canadian dollars, it’s a little out of reach right now. I did end up with the “giantinflatablebeavers.com” domain, though, so I guess the week worked out OK. Come visit us if you get bored: http://www.giantinflatablebeavers.com

  11. Ray - Mar 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM

    According to Statistics Canada, whites may become a minority in Toronto by 2031.
    http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/473629–changing-faces

  12. mutuelle - Sep 10, 2010 at 3:26 AM

    For sure having a giant beaver is interesting if you have a giant garden. I prefer the miniature one that we can settle on the top of the Tv and the T-Shirt.

  13. Jarrett Salvesen - Oct 18, 2010 at 11:11 AM

    Cool stuff indeed, i’d love one of thoe beavers

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