Solo Han Solo

Spotted in the Slope on 6th Ave and 9th Street:

Where's Chewbacca at?

May the force be with you, little buddy...

Down the Rabbit Hole

First things first, sorry about the delay in posts.  Baby Abandoned Toys was born in October and, believe it or not, has turned out to be a lot of work!  So yeah - I'm a little behind in keeping up with this blog.  Anyhoo... enough about me...

Spotted outside of a yoga class at the Park Slope Armory YMCA:

Do you think he's going for the emergency exit?

Either someone forgot his favorite bunny at the gym, or this rabbit is working his little tail off.  You decide.

Agent Orange

Spotted in the Slope on 6th Ave and 14th Street:

He holds his own on the mean streets of Brooklyn, no?

It appears that this orange fella may have fallen out of a sleeping toddler's hands while being wheeled around Brooklyn.  Or perhaps he is an escapee from last week's bath toys, all of whom are almost certainly destined for a landfill life...

Regardless, and on the upside, given his spongy makeup, perhaps he'll grow up to be the size of a real teddy bear if it rains.  Dream big, little guy, dream big...

Polly Wants... a Second Chance

Today's post comes via reader Mike, who spotted the below atrocity in Sunset Park:

I sort of expected to see pigeons in mourning, surrounding their fallen kin...

Sadly, this is the second bird-related posting in as many months (we all remember the tragic rooster incident from earlier this summer). 

I personally like to think that somewhere, perhaps as near as the shores of Ikea in Red Hook, a pirate is frantically searching for his lost parrot.  However, I fear that this bird's sad fate is more likely the result of some toddler's capricious wrath. 

Wayward West-Coast Sea Cockroach

Okay folks - get your passports out because we're leaving the borough of Brooklyn and going international!

Today's photo was snapped by reader Mohammad, who spotted a lone lobster on West Broadway between Ash and Heather Streets in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:

So close, yet so far, from making it back to his ocean paradise...

Assuming this little guy was truly abandoned and not just lost, this photo represents yet another blemish on the city's record.  While Vancouverites have learned to live with a growing homeless population and recent looting and rioting, crustacean abandonment may very well be the seaweed that breaks the lobster's exoskeleton, if you will.

Muppet gone AWOL

Spotted in the Slope on 6th Ave and 5th Street:

Sesame Street, we have a problem...

I don't think that Elmo fully thought out this escape route.  Things must have been pretty rough with his toddler master - godspeed, little muppet, godspeed...

Deer Down

Self-explanatory post.  Spotted in the Slope last week on 11th Street:

And the close up: