The Octopedic Chicken
Dr. Hölzer's
answer to the chicken drumstick shortage. Drumsticks were the his favorite
part of the chicken. "There aren't enough on one chicken", he
thought, and soon embarked on his quest to invent a chicken with plenty
of drumsticks.
Encouraged by his success, he then went on to invent the boneless chicken.
It proved to be uneconomical. Due to mobility problems each chicken had
to be hand fed.
Homo Simian
From the remark "I could train a monkey to do your job" came the Homo Simian. While others were turning to machines and robots for production in factories, Hölzer was looking for an animalian answer to the problem. "Apes are perfect - if I can make them a little smarter and more pleasing to look at - and they'll work for peanuts", declared Hölzer, "and they have four hands instead of two and if a prehensile tail is included, all the better!" This creation was essentially an ape with a supercharged brain and a human-like face. Unfortunately, they turned out to be too strong and not nearly smart enough. In the doctors' own words, "There was a control problem . . . they had to be destroyed".
The Hexapus
A human face and brain, and the modified genes of an octopus came together to create the Hexapus - a six-armed amphibian capable of speech. The purpose of this creation was underwater labor, such as salvage operations and cleaning ship hulls. Considered an animal, it was supposed to work in exchange for nothing more than care-and-feeding. Having a human brain, the Hexapus was potentially far too smart to permit it's own enslavement. As soon as it became aware of itself and it's situation, it escaped into the open ocean one day. It is not likely but it is possible that it survived. However, since the creature is sterile there is no chance that it produced any offspring. No one knows what its life span might be.
Dexterous Attack Dog
Fritz recounts the Doctor thinking out loud one day, saying "What if a Doberman had hands? Now that would be a good guard dog!" The Dr. proceeded to mix the genes of a pitbull, a cayman and a human. He came up with a 250 pound guard dog that could climb trees, swim underwater, run as fast as a dog, and hold onto an intruder, and if not subdued, eat them too. In the end of course the problem turned out to be the whole idea in the first place. Hands on a dog. Hands were not designed to be feet.
The Harlequin Bullock
A quote from Lügner's notes: "I asked the doctor 'What in the world we're you thinking when you made this?!', and he just shrugged his shoulders"
