Retail is weird. Between luxury dog strollers, A.I. toothbrushes and basic candles that inexplicably cost $80, we're living under what we're dubbing Cuckoo Consumerism™ (no we didn't actually trademark that). The wackier real-life products get, the wackier our prank gift boxes get. But how exactly do these product parodies come to be?
Here's a behind-the-scenes look at Prank-O's 5 new prank gift boxes, up for grabs on Pranko.com and Amazon for your holiday gifting needs.
'Peck & Play' Prank Gift Box
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The Peck & Play was dreamt up as a way for bird lovers and new parents to - let's say - combine their interests. It’s a birdseed collar for babies and toddlers to wear outside, attracting nature's favorite winged beasts right to their face. In the earliest iterations of this box, we dreamt up other uses for the product like sticking a table cone through it and using it as a Lazy Susan. In the final version, you can see the birdseed wells being repurposed as ashtrays and nuts and bolt holders after your baby grows out of it. What a time to be a parent!
'Toilet Hammock' Prank Gift Box
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'BurnBox' Prank Gift Box
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Junkmail sucks. If only there was a mailbox attachment to set your spam ablaze. Well, there isn't, but that's the idea behind the BurnBox prank gift box. Originally called "Junk Mail Oven", the original mockup presented a couple different ways to go about this fiery product, like having hot rods inside, or a mess of wires leading from your house to your mailbox. We went with a steam vent on the top of the mailbox (which you can see from the photo above required a bit of soldering) and a keypad with an "incinerate" button you press after removing your good mail. Don't you low-key kinda want this thing at the end of your driveway?
'Plug-A-Ton' Prank Gift Box
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Maxx Plug was one of the working namse for what ended up being the Plug-A-Ton, a single power strip with 50 three-prong outlets. Other names were Tons-O-Plugs, PlugMax, PowerMax and...you get it. We knew we could have fun with where something like this could be used, like garages, stores, even churches! On the final box, you can see the Plug-A-Ton being used on a boat out in the water and mounted to a planter in an outdoor garden. There's even a European adapter for travelers who need 50 outlets on the go!
'Long Tongs' Prank Gift Box
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Grilling is no joke, except for when there's a joke grilling gadget. Enter the Long Tongs, a pair of tongs that expands up to 10 feet with a telescopic design. As you can see in the mockup above, we were immediately giddy about the "other uses" for these tongs, like putting a basketball through a hoop, cleaning gutters, or cleaning under the fridge. The most fun we had in the photography phase was with the camera attachment for grillers to check on their meat from afar. We went to great lengths for this joke!
Check out the newest styles (and some of our classics) on both Pranko.com and Amazon for big holiday laughs!