• Trippy is Pastilla the Mannequin's world-traveling emotionally disturbed plastic lizard. He is a 9-inch squeaking Chinese vinyl reptile (modeled after the Sungazer (Cordylus giganteus) species). He first appeared in public-access Flickr sets taken by Flickr user “trupastilla” (real name Pastilla LaMannequine) in June 2006. Photos were often cross-posted by LaMannequine on her LiveJournal account, “Pastilla.” Though not the first of the “nasty California redneck” characters that Pastilla LaMannequine has described from Humboldt County, California, Trippy is perhaps the most likeable of her photo subjects.

Little is known of Trippy prior to June, 2006.

Trippy was almost run over by Pastilla on June 17, 2006 outside a Starbucks coffee shop in Myrtletown, CA. Relating to his sad, plastic, neurotic and borderline suicidal state, she resolved to adopt him and teach him of the kindness of the world.

According to Pastilla's press agent, the rehabilitation plan for Trippy came during a venti no-fat, no-water, extra hot chai and an orange currant scone. The story is questionable, however, since orange currant scones weren't available at Starbucks until September 2006. Also, Pastilla's standard story that the lizard was at one time real is also questionable, as Pastilla LaMannequine also claims that she has, at times, been real herself, when she is quite clearly an inanimate object.

Trippy never improves.

Trippy is truly a deranged-looking lizard. His mouth is always open, and his tongue perpetually curls in different directions. One leg is shorter than the others, so he appears to travel through life on a dangerously insane tilt.

Pastilla took Trippy to the Humboldt Natural History Museum (Arcata, CA), where he was identified by a competent young museum worker as “some kind of spiny lizard.” Later that day, he attacked a dachshund, allegedly because the dog wore pink nail polish and a diamond collar.

• Oyster Festival, Arcata, CA
• High Tea at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, BC
• La Tomatina Festival in Bunal, Spain
• Island Tour, Oahu, Hawaii
• Life of an Otaku, Akihabara, Japan.
• Computer Camp, Silicon Valley, CA
• Sakura Hana Viewing, DC and MD.
• Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR.
• Trippy Carves Pumpkins with 2 Famous Robot Sisters in Seattle, WA (and attends a Very Important wedding)
• Trippy Visits Hawaii Again and Attends the NTSA Conference in Boston, Wherein Trippy's Cosmonaut Past is Revealed
• Trippy Visits Some Benedictine Monks in Oregon
• Trippy's Very Brady Adventure to the Grand Canyon
• Trippy vs The Volcano: Eco-Touring in Costa Rica
• Trippy Eats Heartily in Belgium and (Somewhat Surprisingly) No Belgians Are Hurt In The Process
• Trippy Visits Wuhan, China and the Three Gorges Dam (China)
• Trippy Goes on a Snowless Ski Vacation And Enjoys a Little Art (Central Vancouver Island, Canada)
• North! To Alaska! Because Canada Isn't Cold (Blooded) Enough for Trippy!

• Belgium
• Canada
• China
• Costa Rica
• Japan
• Spain
• United States of America

• British Columbia (CN)
• Arizona (US)
• California (US)
• Colorado (US)
• Hawaii (US)
• Maryland (US)
• Massachusetts (US)
• New Mexico (US)
• Oregon (US)
• Utah (US)
• Washington (US)
• Washington, D.C. (US)

Trippy Sees a Man on the Wing, by davidd.

In late December 2009 Trippy abruptly fled Humboldt County, California, USA. Unreliable bleary-eyed witless testimony suggests that as of early 2010 Trippy has taken up residence in a remote location on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Anecdotal evidence, to date unconfirmed, suggests Trippy may have previously spent time in this region during the American military presence in southeast Asia (1959 - 1975).

Trippy has no theme song. And he’s bloody annoyed about it.

1. The Adventures of Trippy and Trupastilla 1 by puuikibeach
2. The Adventures of Trippy and Trupastilla 2 by puuikibeach
3. "Anniversary" by jelene
4. "Trippy and the Sputnik" by puuikibeach
5. "Trippy, Secret Advisor to Lenin and NASA" by Soviet Artist (Unknown)

• Unfortunate Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Incident (Need citation)

• Adidas Your World Campaign by Adidas

• Sobe Life Water NYC Campaign by Sobe

• As Jub-Jub in The Simpsons episode Selma's Choice

• Trippy worships Nancy Pelosi¹⁾, and longs to be her boy-toy page.
• Trippy: His Years as a Soviet Cosmonaut

• The tag "trippy" at flickr (and with "plastic lizard").