Lawn Flamingo

The Traveling Merchant is the only source, which means a random visit and a price that is steep for something with no function. Buy it the day you see it. His stock rotates and there is no fallback if you skip it.

Newer versions let you flip through its poses with the up and down keys before you set it down, the same way the Rubblemaker works, so a row along a garden path can be varied instead of a line of identical birds.

• The plastic flamingo is a real fixture of American front yards and long-standing shorthand for cheap suburban taste, which is the joke the item is making.