I still have an original gumby from the 60's. (I know, I'm dating myself.) It is something, like my Barbies, I couldn't get rid of.

Bummer.

Clay you rest in peace /sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

I also had the figures but not the jeep! Beggars can't be choosy...I also remember having a Theodore chipmunk that was a hand me down from an older sister.

I had the figures, too. I loved Gumby and Pokey.

Remember Eddie Murphy on SNL, as Gumby.

I'm Gumby, dam@ it. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />

RIP Art, you brought the world joy!

Excerpt from: LA Times

I grew up watching Gumby. I had both Gumby and Pokey posable figures and their yellow tin Jeep.

The show really inspired me to use my imagination.

I also had the figures but not the jeep! Beggars can't be choosy...I also remember having a Theodore chipmunk that was a hand me down from an older sister.

Excerpt from: LA Times

I grew up watching Gumby. I had both Gumby and Pokey posable figures and their yellow tin Jeep.

The show really inspired me to use my imagination.

I saw that! Bummer.

Art Clokey, the creator of the whimsical clay figure Gumby, died in his sleep Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif., after battling repeated bladder infections, his son Joseph said. He was 88.

Clokey and his wife, Ruth, invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art had finished film school at USC. After a successful debut on "The Howdy Doody Show," Gumby soon became the star of its own hit television show, "The Adventures of Gumby," the first to use clay animation on television.

I grew up watching Gumby. I had both Gumby and Pokey posable figures and their yellow tin Jeep.

The show really inspired me to use my imagination.