Identification: tubby short‐legged lumps with an arbitrary number of eyestalks
Variants: one huge eye, but multiple… are those ears?
Also Known As: Klaimacians, Hasbroids, or Zib
Origin: Merchandia III and over, in the Pinwheel Galaxy
| LOOKS: | ugly in a child‐friendly sort of a way | C |
|---|---|---|
| BRAINS: | nice but dim (their brains stopped developing during the Plasticene epoch) | 85 |
| LETHALITY: | big soft blobby fists, huge, almost toothless maws, and not much more | 0.045 |
| CULTURE: | distinctly rudimentary and half‐finished looking, with a striking resemblance to the USA | 28 |
| HARDNESS: | only common in sci‐fi with a high level of plasticity | 1½ |
| TOKENISM: | often bend the rules, with two or more Plastoid races in one setting | 19 |
Motto: BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED
Arch‐Rivals: the Hyperextremophiloids (or they would be if they'd ever met)
Affiliated With: the Union of Field Observers (part time) and occasionally the Conciliary Ententicles
Favoured System of Government: the claw
Not To Be Confused With: the Graciloids, who are rarely vulcanised in the same sense
See Also: the Amorphoids, whose features vary from minute to minute rather than batch to batch