Xandy’s cheap piece of crap merry-go-round music box arrived in the mail today. I got exactly what I paid for, which was a toy made out of wood, glue, [probably lead-based] paint and a music box that sounded like someone torturing a piano sounding board with a cocktail fork.

This is what it looked like before I got my hands on it. Just be thankful that you can’t hear its tune, which was supposedly Castle in the Sky.

The wood and glue construction yielded easily to the point of my craft knife. I pried out the wooden base to expose the music box. From there I removed two screws and took out the plonkity, which is the technical term, of course, for the comb-like piece of metal that creates music when it strikes the bumps on the music drum. The merry-go-round now rotates without that annoying sound.

I easily yanked out the horses’ dowels from their sockets, so I now have a silenced merry-go-round denuded of animals. It awaits repainting and restocking with skeletal ride-ons.

Xandy wonders what to do with four little horses. Maybe it’s time for a small-scale apocalypse?

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