Comments on: Our wallpaper is wrapping paper.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Woo hoo…I think I’m the first to post a comment here. Loooong time reader, first time poster. I’m hoping someone can somehow assure me that I’m not mad and don’t have implanted memories, but I remember these toys and I remember being amazed by the commercial and not understanding how you could rip them apart and put them back together (which I still can’t comprehend), but then someone at school had the green dude from the other wave and sure enough, it worked as promised. So I got the purple pterodactyl, opened up the egg egg eggeggeggeggeggeggeggegg (it is kinda fun to type) and joyfully ripped its head off. About five seconds later I discovered that I couldn’t reattach its head and I was left feeling very disappointed and confused. Periodically, over the years, I would go back to it and try again, hoping that somehow I had gained the wisdom needed to successfully reattach the head, but to no avail. So I ended up with a totally worthless, headless piece of crap and a slew of unanswered questions. I soon after gave up any belief in god and I haven’t been the same since. Did anybody else have this problem??

Anyway, I doubt anyone is still reading (thus negating the whole purpose of my posting) now that this post is longer than the article that spawned it, so I’ll wrap this up:

Love the site, not crazy about the redesign, wondering why in the hell you never did an article about the new He-Man show (which, though crappy, has a a great reference to the old show in its opening) and/or toys (except for the admittedly great Mario Joyner thing), and begging you to at least type three simple lines listing the remaining contents of the damn Advent calender (or at least acknowledge that you’ve utterly given up)….that should do it for the longest posting ever, but don’t worry, I’ll probably go back to lurking for the rest of my days.

By: Crysstaafur

Crysstaafur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lightning strikes twice!
(albeit 30 min apart..)
I am also a long time reader, and this is my first post ever.. 8P
I do like the redesign, although
the ads midarticle in spite of the annoyance, I have the reasonable power to understand that it could've been worse, and that Matt's gotta fund thing site somehow.. 8P Off topic thunk:
Has there ever been ads for stuff under $5? Cryss visions someday to be able to click an ad, enter info and purchase a pack of smokes, a meal, or nice sack of w33d.. but I know that atm it's not even close to happening, not until quantum teleportation is fully adaptable to technology..
Peace, Pez, and Paganism..

By: Nemesis

Nemesis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Long time reader, multiple poster…

Matt, there was one other toy you could rip apart and put back together: The Incredible Crash Dummies! I had a bunch of these…ok, so they didn’t come in an eggeggeggeggeggegg (damn that IS fun) and ok, they didn’t always go back together…but…ok, I’ll admit it they sucked…but I’d still like to see an article.

By: Obligatory joke

Obligatory joke — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What is going on here?

I was looking at an advertisement, and an article popped up.

Ha ha ha haw.

Thank you. I'll be here all week. Please tip your waitresses.

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I got nothin'.

By: 'tin man

'tin man — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

anyone remember ziods?

battery powered (or wind-up) self assembly walking dinosaurs.

they were sooo cool.

In keeing with the destructible toys theme, you could dissassemble and reassemble te zoids to your hearts content.

Unfortunately, being a boy i was influenced by the advert, in which armies of zoids marched towards each other. the inevitable collision wasnt in the ad but i was determined to recreate the scene with my 4 fave zoids: zoidzille , giant zirk (a brontosaurus type thing) a red mamoth, and a red styracka, styracha, or fuck it a red triceraops type thing.

The 4 big zoids marched towards one another and i expected them to fall apart, allowing me to reconstruct them afterwards.

But alas, their moving parts got caught together, and they all ired a barrage of splintering plastic across the room.

i was devastated.

in some ways i think ill never heal from that memory :(

By: krist

krist — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

All right, your site is amazing, I’ve been reading it for…a while now, but enough about that. I want to send you money so that you can do more cool shit with this x-e. and so yeah…just e-mail me as to how i’d go about doing that. I remember you used to have a section about it, but it’s gone now. At least I can’t find it. So um…thanks! You rock.

By: Scythemantis

Scythemantis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My only exposure to these was a manglor mountain, in the box, from a thrift shop when I was about 6. After mangling and losing "mangloman" who came with it (I really wanted the other figures, shown on the back of the box….) I oddly found ANOTHER "mint" unopened mountain in the same exact store years and years later.

I have since lost both. I played with that mountain with all of my other figures, though. I remember it coming with a bag of really, really icky bubbly yellow slime that supposedly did something to the figures, but I never opened that slime. Yes, I was too grossed out by slime when I was a kid. Now I love the stuff.