Raving Toy Maniac

GIANTmicrobes, Inc. Announces Big New Line-up of Contagiously Cute Toys and Collectibles for Christmas

STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 12, 2012 -- Trim your trees and fill your stockings with new ornaments and toys from GIANTmicrobes, Inc. (http://www.giantmicrobes.com), the innovative designers of collectible toys inspired by the microscopic world.

Like other GIANTmicrobes® products, the new additions are humorously educational toys modeled on electron micrographs, enlarged a million times actual size. Each includes an image and information about the microbe it represents. The 100+ microbes range from the infectious (Common Cold) to the catastrophic (Ebola Virus) to the anthropological (Brain Cell) to the wonderful (Amoeba).

Highlights:

• GIANTmicrobes® Primordial Putty with collectible figures
• Inside-out reversible Cancer cell doll that is curable
• White Lab Mouse: unsung hero of medical miracles
• GIANTmicrobes® Wreath box of ornaments

The entire collection is popular worldwide with college students, medical professionals, parents, educators, collectors, kids of all ages – and anyone with a sense of humor!

Available Now:

New GIANTmicrobes® Primordial Putty – Each petri dish of orange putty includes a different collectible figure (Flesh Eating, Black Death, Ebola or Anthrax). Perfect stocking stuffers! (SRP $7.95)

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/primordial-putty.html

New GIANTmicrobes® Wreath Box: Five mini microbes dressed up for Christmas: Stomach Ache Gingerbread Man, caroling Sore Throat, Frosty the White Blood Cell Snowman, angelic Nerve Cell, and Amoeba in sparkly gold lame, only available in this set. (SRP $24.95)

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/merrychristmasmicrobes.html

Available November 14

New GIANTmicrobes® Originals: Cancer: Cancer happens when good cells turn bad. But the GIANTmicrobes® Cancer doll is reversible – so you can cure the bad cell! (SRP $12.95)

Link live November 14: http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/cancer.html

New GIANTmicrobes® Originals: Plasma: Blood is thicker than water – and so is plasma! (SRP $9.95)

Link live November 14: http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/plasma.html

GIANTmicrobes® Originals: Norovirus: This highly contagious stomach flu hangs out and causes trouble in crowded places. (SRP $9.95)

Link live November 14: http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/norovirus.html

Available November 27:

GIANTmicrobes® Originals: Liver: Handling holiday eggnog is just one of the 500 functions performed by the body's largest organ. (SRP $9.95)

Link live November 27: http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/liver.html

New GIANTmicrobes® Originals: Lab Mouse: Not a creature was stirring…not even the GIANTmicrobes® White Lab Mouse BALB/C. ($14.95 SRP)

Link live November 27: http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/whitemouse.html

About GIANTmicrobes, Inc.

Founded in 2002 by Drew Oliver, a former editor of the Harvard Lampoon, GIANTmicrobes, Inc. (http://www.giantmicrobes.com) is a fast-growing global brand which distributes its products in drug stores, bookstores, museums, science centers, hospital gift shops, educational catalogs, and gift shops worldwide, as well as the company's website, http://www.giantmicrobes.com.