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12 Novelty Phones That Will Actually Make You Miss Having A Landline
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Before we all abandoned our landlines for smartphones, the cornerstone of your room was whatever awesome novelty phone you had sitting on your desk. No matter what your style was, there was pretty much something for everyone. Even if some of them were kinda weird...
Every Disney fan wanted a Mickey Mouse phone
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Or if you were more of a Warner Bros. fan, Bugs had you covered
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Who wouldn't want Kermit the Frog screening your calls?
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Who you gonna call? Whoever you want!
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Okay, this R2-D2 one is still pretty rad
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It starts getting weird from here...
M&Ms had an insane amount of merchandise, and of course there was a phone
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Of course there were all those hilarious phones shaped like shoes
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There was a huge fascination with seeing the insides of things
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What was with the phones shaped like food?
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Or lips for that matter
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Um...what?
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Okay seriously, what the hell is this?
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