All novelty brands
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Numskull Designs
A UK maker of officially licensed movie and gaming merchandise, including TUBBZ collectible rubber ducks styled as game and film characters. Also produces apparel, lamps and desk items.
Ohh Deer
A Loughborough-based publisher of illustrated greeting cards, stationery and gifts, working with a large roster of independent artists. It also runs the Pillow Fight design competition.
The Photographic Periodic Table
Theodore Gray's element-collection project, selling photographic periodic table posters, cards and physical element samples alongside a reference site with thousands of specimen photos.
Bits and Pieces
A long-running catalogue retailer of jigsaw puzzles, brain teasers, personalised gifts and oddities. It is one of the traditional mail-order homes for the puzzle-and-curiosity shopper.
Budsies
Turns a child's drawing or any photo into a custom stuffed animal, pillow or pair of socks. The appeal is that the finished plush keeps every strange proportion of the original sketch.
Thames & Kosmos
Publishes educational science kits, magic sets and family board games, including light-up craft kits and chemistry sets. The magic kits in particular sit squarely in novelty territory.
Frog & Toad Press
A small Providence-based shop describing itself as purveyors of lighthearted non-perishables, selling greeting cards, pins, magnets and other printed goods with a dry sense of humour.
Legami
A Milan brand making colourful stationery, diaries, calendars and small gadgets with a playful design language. Its novelty pens, lamps and desk items land squarely in gift territory.
Youtooz
Makes numbered vinyl collectibles of internet personalities, memes and streamers, released in timed drops that sell out fast. Each figure ships in a box styled like a video thumbnail.
Ginger Fox
A UK games and gift company producing family party games alongside licensed titles, mixing recognisable brands with original ideas. Games are built for quick play with minimal rules.
Talking Tables
A London brand making design-led partyware, tableware and games for hosting, including cracker jokes, trivia sets and themed table kits. Leans festive and charming rather than crude.
Yomega
Yo-yo maker operating since 1984 and credited with the clutch-based auto-return mechanism that made yo-yos easier for beginners. It also sells kendama and other skill toys worldwide.
Ellusionist
A magic company making magicians since 2001, selling trick decks, gimmicks and video training aimed at turning buyers into performers. Also produces its own designer playing cards.
Meri Meri
Makes whimsical, high-quality party supplies, children's dress-up and toys with an illustrated, slightly storybook aesthetic. It is the tasteful end of the party-novelty spectrum.
Luckies of London
The company that popularised the Scratch Map, a world map you scratch off as you travel. Beyond maps it sells travel gadgets and gift items aimed at the same wanderlust audience.
TEDCO Toys
A long-established American maker of science toys, best known for precision gyroscopes, liquid motion bubblers and other small physics demonstrations that double as desk objects.
FunSlurp
An online novelty shop carrying a broad range of fun gifts and gag items across price points. It is a general-purpose stop for silly presents rather than a single-product brand.
Super Impulse
Makes the World's Smallest line: fully functional miniature versions of famous toys and games, plus tiny licensed novelties. The gag is that the shrunken versions actually work.
Mathmos
The British company that invented the lava lamp in 1963 and still manufactures them in the UK. Founder Edward Craven Walker's original design is sold directly from the factory.
Steve Jackson Games
The Austin publisher behind Munchkin, the card game that turns dungeon crawling into backstabbing, plus Illuminati, Car Wars and GURPS. Long-running and unapologetically nerdy.
Gears Out
An American gag-gift brand producing its own funny presents: joke mugs, prank kits, rude candles and absurd novelty items designed to land as a punchline at a gift exchange.
Ruff House Print Shop
A print shop making snarky greeting cards, journals, mugs and desk goods, all designed and produced in-house. The voice is blunt and the print quality is deliberately good.
Wild Ink Press
A letterpress studio producing illustrated greeting cards across birthdays, weddings, babies and thank-yous, with a hand-drawn house style. Cards are printed in small runs.
Outlaw Soaps
Makes soap, lotion, lip balm and solid cologne scented like the Wild West: campfire, whiskey and, most famously, bacon. The gag is that the scents are genuinely well made.
Tangle Creations
Home of the Tangle, the original fidget toy: a loop of curved segments that twists endlessly in your hands. Versions range from smooth to heavily textured for sensory use.
Fizz Creations
A UK gift and games developer producing licensed products and ready-to-go novelty gifting ranges, plus bespoke items for retailers. Strong on light-up and desk novelties.
Looney Labs
An independent game publisher best known for Fluxx, the card game whose rules change as you play, plus Loonacy and pyramid games. Family-run and deliberately small-batch.
Ship Your Enemies Glitter
The original glitter-bomb-by-post service, running since 2015. It mails an envelope engineered to spray glitter when opened, with an optional custom message and stickers.
Brittany Paige
An independent designer selling pop-culture and current-events greeting cards, pins and prints under her own name. Designs tend to be timely, blunt and one-liner driven.
Cuddle Clones
Turns photos of your pet into a custom plush replica, along with slippers, socks and figurines in the same likeness. Results range from touching to genuinely unsettling.
Sapling Press
A Pittsburgh letterpress studio printing blunt, funny greeting cards along with mugs, keychains and trinket trays. Cards are printed on vintage presses in small batches.
Odd Sox
Makes loud printed socks along with underwear, hats, slippers and slides, mostly built around pop-culture and food prints. The pitch is maximum print for minimum money.
Toxic Waste Candy
Makes extreme sour candy sold in a hazard-drum tin, rated on a pucker meter, plus Slime Licker rollers and sour taffy. The whole brand is a dare in confectionery form.
Malicious Women Co.
A woman-owned candle company in Snohomish, Washington making hand-poured soy candles with bold, sweary labels. It sells retail, wholesale and custom-labelled batches.
Witty Yeti
Ships anonymous pranks to a target's door, including mail tubes, prank boxes, fake parking cards and sticker packs. Orders can be sent entirely without a return name.
One Drop YoYos
A high-end yo-yo maker machining its throws in Eugene, Oregon, with a community site attached. The company is known for its Side Effects interchangeable axle system.