Gumby, being a civic-minded toy, likes to help other toys (and people, too). So he went and helped at the local food panty. Gumby is ideally suited for stacking food from one area to another. In one afternoon he moved 32,107 cans of food, one can at a time! To prevent injury while performing this work, he warms up by stretching up to one and a half times his height.
It turns out that since Gumby is made of superior plastic, he has a high cross-section ratio of muscle. The reason is related to the so-called Square-Cube Law. Basically, the amount of force a muscle can generate is proportional to the square of the size [the cross sectional area of the muscle] but the weight is proportional to the cube of the size [the volume].
This means that Gumby is very strong. I observed him once when he didn’t know I was looking. He admired himself flexing his muscles in a full length mirror and said using a realistic Arnold Schwarzenegger voice, “GUMBY IS STRONGEST TOY IN WORLD!”
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