Bobblehead
A bobblehead is a replica of a dachshund made of plastic, whose head is movably mounted so that the bobblehead when he stands on the back shelf or dashboard of a moving cars, depending on the movements of the vehicle moves the head ( shaking him).
History
In the 1970s, an accessory for your car, the Wackeldackel celebrated the end of the 1990s, caused by a Aral commercial that made a comeback. According to the Coburg producers Heinze & Co. in 1999 more than 500,000 copies were sold in eight months.
In 2001, the bobblehead was the subject of a legal dispute: The company Heinze & Co. sued the Bielefeld designer Wolfgang Budwell, who had designed the first drafts of the dachshund and had registered him at the German Patent Office as a protected pattern. After intervention of experts, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm realized in the second instance to the requirements of the designer on authorship. Sometimes you can also find models of other breeds that work on the principle of loose dachshund.
Loose - Elvis
Similar to the bobblehead and the loose - Elvis is a decorative item for the parcel shelf or dashboard of a car. The loose - Elvis is a 15 cm high Elvis Presley doll and stands on a nail while its head is attached by a cord and a suction cup to the windshield or the rear window of the car. In contrast to the bobblehead bobble Elvis does not shake his head, but swings with movement of the automobile his hips and his outstretched left arm.
The loose - Elvis in 2001 is best known for an Audi commercial, in which Karina Krawczyk plays a driver and an Elvis impersonator along with his loose - Elvis figure takes out a car accident, who immediately attaches the figure in the car. Joke of the spots is that it was caused by switching operations due to the continuously variable transmission in the vehicle no " wobble " - and the figure thus remains despite their sensitivity to vibration in immobility. Because of the spots of loose - Elvis was according to customer request produced a total of 550,000 times.
Colloquial use
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