Archie McPhee has created its share of flops. “And Bartell’s capitalizes on that idea by putting a little bit of Archie McPhee in every neighborhood in Seattle.” 3. “Seattle is probably strange enough that we could have an Archie McPhee in every neighborhood,” he said. In the Seattle area, for example, that shop - in addition to the flagship McPhee’s - is Bartell Drugs. “There’s an ‘Archie McPhee’ in other cities, where you can go to a certain shop, and if you’re a weirdo in that town, you know what shop that is,” Wahl said. Archie McPhee’s Wallingford storefront in Seattle, just waiting. But it reaches even more fans through a wholesale operation that engages “distributors around the world” to provide its products to other retailers.
While the Archie McPhee world retail headquarters is a somewhat quirky one-story building on the busy corner of North 45th Street and Stone Way North in Seattle, it has a thriving direct catalog and internet sales business.
Archie McPhee items are sold by others, everywhere. Which are exactly what you might imagine - underpants for your hands. Wahl recalls the first original product was the punching nun puppet, which he said has been “incredibly, incredibly successful.” Wahl himself has had a couple of successes he proposed: the Yodelling Pickle, and Handerpants. “And other times it has to steep for a period of time.” One certain Archie McPhee “hit” on the left, the Punching Nun. We sit around a table, we bring in ideas and thoughts, and a lot of times we’ll hear an idea and be like, that is it, that is what we’re going to do,” Wahl said.
“We have a creative team of six people that it has to pass through.
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