Now let's get one thing straight. Just because we're men, it doesn't mean we once didn't like the Muppets. It doesn't mean we weren't secretly moved by the passion between Kermit and Miss Piggy. And it most certainly doesn't mean we didn't get on down to the impossibly arhythmic bangings of Animal. Good. Now that's settled, we can move on.

At last, and after much pleading in the weekly mailbag delivered to gadgetshop HQ, we can reveal that Kermit, ever-lovable Muppet anchorman and ever-so-slightly adenoidal amphibian, has been faithfully cloned, stuffed and replicated in 8-inch (or 20cm) form for the delectation of a new generation of fans.

He is now, to use the lingo, a plush. Or, to you and me, a soft toy. But he's not any old plush. In fact, so accurate is his styling that he is plusher than plush. And one's can now put him to work to adorn the end of one's bed. The back of one's parcel shelf in one's Hyundai Getz. Or the top of one's monitor at work...

Ever faithful and every attentive, he will enhance practically any location. Dressed in his basic garb (that is, not in his Pirate/Dickensian/News reporter outfits) he bears offers his trademark grin to the world... leaving you the task of waving his arms about maniacally. But you know you want to.