Before They Were Stars:The Negativitron

Negativitron,then and now

The year was 1979,and a young Negativitron was looking for his “big break”.  He answered a classified ad seeking “a slightly deranged vacuum cleaner”for a new children’s book.  Showing up at Random House,he was immediately cast in the role of “hungry vacuum cleaner”in Richard Scarry‘s Best First Book Ever!.

After a lengthy but less-than-stellar career,and the eventual shutdown of the original Hoover factory,Negativitron found himself in London.  Another classified ad,now calling for a “thoroughly deranged vacuum cleaner”,and he was on the first train to Guildford.  The rest,as they say,is history.


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