Piggy Banks,
whilst useful for squirreling away spare change for a rainy day, have
to date been woefully inanimate and consequentially very dull. If
they're dull, where's the fun in putting any dosh in them? The Money
Monsters however are animated and fabulously daft creatures. The eat up
your notes through an electronic slot which drags your notes from your
sticky paws, and gobble up coins merrily whilst flashing their
cyclopian eyes and waggling their silly ears. They even give off a
satisfying burp when they've done. As well as their wind problem, they
also chatter away thanking you for feeding them in a variety of 20
random phrases - and if you don't feed them often enough, as with
children and pets, they get rather huffy. To get your money out again,
you simply pop open a hatch in their backs. Of course they're not
wildly keen on you rifling about in their tummies, and will complain in
a variety of ways that you're starving them, they do after all only
have your best interests at heart. These Money Monsters are what Piggy
Banks (what is it with the pig thing?) should be, fun, interactive, and
of course useful.