Chapman recalled: “We had a teacher come in who asked: ‘Where do you keep the eyeballs?’ I didn’t stock eyeballs that she was looking for but I did track down a bucket of sheep eyeballs. About 15 years ago we had these shrunken heads from a tribe in South America who would stretch orangutan skins over molded heads — gruesome and very popular in the store, and once we sold out we never could get them again. We’ve had those suits that firemen wear to run into fires. We’ve had turtle and cat skeletons. We have giant suction cups used to patch the hulls of naval vessels. We have a two-seat military toilet — why dig two holes when you can dig one? We’ve had motors for bomber planes, and we have these mechanical animals that are supposed to work but don’t, so maybe a hobbyist is building a robot and they need a part — these are perfect.”