Cookie Monster squeeze toy by Applause, 1997
In the late 1990's Applause made an odd series of figures depicting Sesame characters on tire tubes. I have seen individual photos of these figures online but I am not certain what size they are, or if they are PVC figures or squeeze toys like this Cookie Monster figure. The above figure is made out of soft rubber and is hollow. It may not actually be a part of this figure set as the other three that I know of might be smaller sized PVC figures, but I'm including it until I confirm otherwise. Below I've shown this squeeze toy next to a standard sized Applause Cookie Monster PVC figure for size comparison. As you can see the squeeze toy is about twice the size of a PVC figure. I had never seen this Cookie Monster figure before until I saw it on eBay in Sept 2023 so I had to have it for my Sesame collection. It's just adorable, I really like the design and sculpting of this figure! Applause made so many cool Sesame toys! Other figures in the set include:
Ernie sitting in the middle of a yellow Rubber Duckie themed tire tube
Big Bird sitting on a blue inflatable raft holding a paddle on his left side
Elmo lying with his hands behind his head on a dark green tire tube, floating character
Cookie Monster (shown above)
Size comparison of the squeeze toy with a standard sized Applause PVC figure
