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Not as good as the first book, at least not in the last half of the book. It starts to become unbelievable...even though a talking bear is pretty unbelievable but trust me, things start to get too wacky then it needs to be and the story gets muddled in the process.


Tags : The Toyminator [Robert Rankin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <div>Somewhere over the rainbow and beyond the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town. And things are not going well for the city’s inhabitants. There have been outbreaks of STC—Spontaneous Toy Combustion—and strange signs and portents in the Heavens. Preachers of Toy City’s many religions are predicting that the End Times are nigh and that a Toy City Apocalypse will soon come to pass. But can it be true? Or is there a simple explanation—alien invasion,Robert Rankin,The Toyminator,Gollancz,0575070102,American Science Fiction And Fantasy,Fantasy,Fantasy - General,Fiction,Fiction - Fantasy,Fiction Fantasy General,Humorous

The Toyminator Robert Rankin 9780575070103 Books Reviews

Plenty of humor. I enjoyed the idea of a teddy bear who goes to the pub and has a stash of toy weapons. Book gives some piercing insights into the "real" world and meat-head (human) behaviour. Beware the chickens !!

Backcover Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town. And things are not going well for the city's inhabitants. There have been outbreaks of STC--Spontaneous Toy Combustion--and there are strange signs and portents in the Heavens. Preachers of Toy City's many religions are predicting that the End Times are approaching and that a Toy City Apocalypse will soon come to pass. But can this possibly be true, or is there a simple explanation--an alien invasion, for instance? With the body count rising and the forces of law and order baffled, it is the time for a hero to step forward and attempt to save the day. Well, two heroes, actually Eddie Bear, Toy City Private Eye, and his loyal sidekick, Jack. Our courageous twosome are about to face their biggest challenge yet--to save not only toykind, but the world of mankind, too.

Sequel toThe Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (Gollancz)
The cover copy says this is the "longed-for sequel to The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse." That's a bit of publisher's hyperbole, but after four years, Rankin has indeed produced a sequel. Eddie Bear, Toytown PI (he used to be the bear of the late Bill Winkie), has been removed from the position of Mayor by the kindly, white-haired old toymaker who put him in that job at the end of the first book. Eddie, it appears, is a reformer and his efforts didn't go over too well. So he gets back together with Jack, his human partner (or, possibly, his "comedy sidekick"), who has been washing dishes in a diner (part of Nadine Sprat's franchise operation). At this point, you can see where Rankin's peculiarly English sense of humor is going, if you didn't already know. Anyway, the two get caught up in the investigation of the simultaneous murder of every cymbal-playing wind-up monkey in Toytown, followed by the abduction by chicken-aliens of a club band and the opera's orchestra, followed by an incursion into the meat-head world Beyond the Second Big O. Frankly, Rankin's idiosyncratic narrative style is more fun than the plot itself. (He not infrequently tries too hard.) Myself, I still prefer Terry Pratchett, but this isn't bad.
Robert Rankin's "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" was an insane joyride through the bizarre landscape of the land where toys come to life. It chronicled the adventures of Jack, a meathead, in more ways than one, and his pal, Eddie Bear, as they tried to save Toy City from an evil force. Their adventures a success, Jack and Eddie received their just rewards and went their separate ways. But as time passed, their rewards squandered, Eddie and Jack again find themselves destitute and desperate enough to try to save Toy City and indeed all of its toy inhabitants from extraterrestrial worldwide domination. As if that weren't enough of a challenge, Eddie and Jack must deal with evil doppelgangers that cause them even more grief. At least Rankin kept the scope of this novel small.

"The Toyminator" begins with the travails of Eddie Bear, no longer mayor but still reviled, as he tries to reenter life as unnoticed as possible. Not likely considering that so many inhabitants of Toy City now hate him. However, after the mysterious death of all of the cymbal clanging monkeys in town, Eddie convinces Jack to help him solve these new murders as other similar murders occur. Jack and Eddie soon find themselves out of their league, arrested many times, and even abducted by aliens as they try to solve the riddle of who is sucking the life force out of all the toys in Toy City. This takes them on a quasi-religious quest to the land of the meatheads, otherwise known as Hollywood, where Eddie and Jack become pawns in a movie, not wait, a police chase, no wait, an evil chicken's master plan for total world domination. Confused? You may as well might be confused as... but if you stick with it, "The Toyminator" is a ludicrous, enjoyable adventures. Can a stuffed bear survive in the world of men? Can Jack rescue Eddie from the clutches and clucks of pure evil? One has to read to find out, but make sure you do so only if you've read "Hollow Bunnies" first, although one can follow the plotline without having read that book.

Robert Rankin is a unique comic talent, somewhat like a hybrid of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams on a mixture of cocaine and speed. He thrusts his thoughts into the novel in the form of footnotes that come off like funny asides to the reader. Oftentimes readers may wonder where this story is going, especially once Jack becomes enmeshed in the mumbo jumbo of the Hollywood scene, but Rankin manages to tie all loose ends together, albeit a little too quickly at the end. I would definitely read other Rankin works besides this, and would even welcome a third story involving the exploits of a plush bear who likes to stand on his head to get drunk and his meathead pal who likes to push the boundaries of good taste. It would be as good as...
Not my favorite.
I really liked this sequel to Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. Poor Eddy lost his hands but he is still a great detective that can save Toyland
Not as good as the first book, at least not in the last half of the book. It starts to become unbelievable...even though a talking bear is pretty unbelievable but trust me, things start to get too wacky then it needs to be and the story gets muddled in the process.