Skibidi Toilet

Are you sure you're okay? You look flushed. Brrr skibidi dom dom dom yes yes, skibidi dabadu neep neep/ Skibidi dom dom dom yes yes, skibidi dabadu neep neep! It's okay that there's no bio information for this figure anywhere, because the Toilets don't speak English... or rather, they do, as well as every other human language (keeping in mind that they're aliens, of course), but they find it "beneath" them, and so stick to using their own native language - which is comprised entirely of those nonsense words from the themesong. All that stuff is not actually shown in the series, it's just been explained by the creator. Who, judging by a lot of his other answers to questions, may have just said that on the spur of the moment, to see if anyone would believe it. [He loves limes. They're great and he loves them so much and he likes to present them like this in his house. --ed.] Obviously the first series of Skibidi Toilet action figures did well enough that stores ordered Series 2 (not always a sure thing), and this time we even get one of the titular toilets. Good thing, too, because it saves me from having to find one in one of those various blind-bagged lines they have. Anyway, yes, this is an action figure of a distorted human head emerging from a toilet, possibly the most improbable toy since The Meat. And who doesn't love The Meat! Unfortunately, the way Bonkers Toys chose to do it is not great. The toilets come in various sizes, from mini to huge, but the baseline soldiers like this one still have one thing in common: the head is proportional to the toilet it's in. Like, ignoring the bosses and special classes, a normal-sized toilet bowl would reveal a normal-sized head. A miniature toilet would reveal a similarly miniature head. On this one, though, the head is nearly twice the size it should be, which is kind of disappointing. Similarly, while they normally rest with their head barely above the rim, this one has the neck fully extended, so it sticks way up in the air. Basically, it's like they tried to sculpt foreshortening, making the neck longer and the head bigger so it looks like it's closer to you. It doesn't quite work. Skibidi Toilet is made in Source Filmmaker, so it's built with a lot of pre-existing Valve assets - the default Toilet, for instance, uses the facial model "male_07," one of the generic citizens seen in Half-Life 2... which also means it's the same face as everybody's old favorite, Gordon Frohman! If NECA had made an action figure of Gordon Frohman like we asked for, you'd have been able to make your own custom version (with a proper-sized head) well before this figure came out. It's possible this figure was held back for Series 2 rather than being in Series 1 because they were still deciding how to do the face: since Male_07 is the property of Valve, they can't just use that model for the merchandise, they have to create something new; the same thing happened when it was put in Fortnite. STBLDF: it's not just for Transformers anymore! The Skibidi Toilets bounce in and out of their toilet bowls on stretchy necks, and spin around as they sing. To achieve that, this toy has a balljoint where the head plugs onto the neck, another balljoint where the neck meets the toilet, and a swivel/​hinge/swivel combo in the middle. That last one (or last three, depending on how you're counting) doesn't work great, since it puts a big, sharp bend right in the middle of the neck, but the others are fine. The better way to do this toy would have been to do a normal-sized head, then two swappable necks: one short, one long. At that point they could also have afforded some accessories, like an alternate head with different details, or some glasses or headphones, different hats, or any number of things. Since the neck is on a balljoint, it can be removed, leaving us with a nice, plain, 6" scale toilet. The lid and seat are both hinged, so you can open or close them as you see fit, and while there's a flat black base beneath the white porcelain to create a wider and thus more stable footprint, that can be removed with no evidence it was ever there. It would have been better if the balljoint for the neck had the ball on the neck and the socket in the bowl, instead of being the other way around, because that means there is perpetually a large, flesh-colored sphere sitting inside there now, which is vaguely disturbing. Looking at the design, we can tell this is an American toilet; although both systems work and can function in either location, American and Eurpoean toilets generally work on different principles: siphonic and washdown. The simplest concept of a flush toilet is that you have an open bowl connected to a sealed bent pipe, or "trapway"; the bend in the pipe traps air, creating a starting water level; when water is added to the bowl, the water level rises above the point of the bend, allowing water to flow away until it's below the bend again. Washdown toilets only have a single bend, and simply use the force of incoming water to push waste away. Siphonic toilets have two bends, one at the top and a second by the floor; there's also a transfer tube that connects the trapway to the tank, using air pressure to create a higher water level in the bowl; when water empties out of the tank during a flush, the air is pulled back into the tank, depressurizing the trapway and adding a bit of vacuum suction to make the flush more powerful. The visible double-bend on this toilet tells us that it's siphonic and therefore likely American. [Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing --ed.] One thing that's missing, though? Initially the Toilets were just running roughshod over humanity, defeating us with no trouble. Evenually the Cameramen showed up, and learned that the Toilets could be killed. By flushing them. Despite the fact that every toilet had a normal silver handle on the tank, the way they flushed them was by by pulling some sort of lever or pin on the lid of the tank. And sure, there are toilets that do flush that way (though even then it's much more common to have a button you push down, not a knob you pull up), but again: they already had a normal handle on the front, so why would there be a different one on top? Regardless, there it was in the beginning and there it still remains even in the newest episodes, so why is it not here on this toy? The Skibidi Toilet action figure is fine, but doing the head differently could have made this a Toy of the Year contender. The toilet part is almost terrific, so even with the disappointing head, it still averages out pretty well. -- 11/13/25 What does your toilet look like? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.