Maria picked up Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend off the non-fiction new releases rack at our library. She knows me so well.

It was a pretty good read, in a way. Through the course of the book, the author, an “independent scholar” with a fairly strange name, Joshua Blu Buhs, sets out to frame the legend of Bigfoot in terms of its larger societal impact. From the outset, this seemed like a pretty interesting idea. I’ve had an interest in Bigfoot since, I think, I discovered my own big feet (size 12, not bad) so a book about society and the Bigfoot monster seemed like something good to read. But it was, to be sure, a little bit too good to be true.

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My favourite cryptozoology website, Cryptomundo, has this latest break in the Bigfoot case file. Toy-maker Fisher Price is set to release this Bigfoot toy at Toy Fair 2010, in New York City this weekend. Bigfoot the Monster, is remote-controlled and capable of makes faces, stomping around and can even flip over (now that’s something we haven’t even seen in the real Bigfoot).

When asked if footprints, photographs, video footage and eyewitness evidence surrounding Bigfoot was simply an extremely clever 50-year long viral marketing campaign, the toy-maker refused to comment.