Puchi Puchi bubble wrap toy pops one foul poop too many

[Anchorman]

Those who love popping the air bubbles on protective plastic wrapping sheets will be delighted to learn there's now an item on the market to meet their hearts' desire, according to Sunday Mainichi (9/30).

Toymaker Bandai Co. has released the Mugen Puchi Puchi, a toy based on bubble wrap.

At first glance, Mugen Puchi Puchi appears to be almost identical to a 5-centimeter square patch cut out of a strip of bubble wrap.

It has eight bubbles on its surface. Push one of them and it feels exactly like those on the protective plastic sheets, Sunday Mainichi says.

Force the bubble down as far as it will go and it temporarily deflates and lets off a popping sound.

Mugen Puchi Puchi batteries last for 10 hours, making for loads of unending pleasure impossible to gain from bubble wrap once all its air pockets have been squeezed.

Surprisingly, Puchi Puchi can draw on something of a long and proud history.

Back in 1967, a company from Aichi Prefecture called Kawakami Sangyo released a bubble wrap toy it called Air Bags. In 1994, the company changed the product's name to Puchi Puchi, which it registered as a trademark.

Kawakami Sangyo has aided Bandai in the development of Mugen Puchi Puchi. It has also contributed to one of the new toy's more amusing features. Production on Kawakami Sangyo's original toy was tweaked so that one in every 10,000 air bubbles was shaped like a heart and finding one of the symbols of love was said to bring good fortune.

Bandai's Mugen Puchi Puchi has borrowed on the idea of slipping in the occasional surprise. But instead of changing the shape of bubbles, it has gone for playing around with the sound's the toy makes. That means once in every 100 squeezes of an air bubble, instead of emitting a "popping" sound, the noise will be replaced by the sound of a fart or a woman moaning in ecstasy.

To avoid any embarrassing situations, Sunday Mainichi notes that Mugen Puchi Puchi's are made to automatically turn off the sound on the train, so people can squeeze their air bubbles in peace knowing that they're not going to produce any unseemly noises. (By Ryann Connell)