04/17/2003: C.U.T.I.E.
The latest article is about C.U.T.I.E. figures, Mattel’s attempt to cash in on their more boyish success with the M.U.S.C.L.E. line, which came out in the same year. I had very little to say about these, and it shows. Still, I’d gotten enough e-mail about ‘em to warrant a little article, so hopefully this will put all those ‘what r those things that are luke MUSCLE but more for girls and dancing women?’ e-mails. Tomorrow, hopefully, the Kool-Aid Man makes his triumphant return to X-E.
PS - great response thread on the post below this. If you like candy, check it out.
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Discussion Thread: 35 comments
I hope the E.T.s eat the little girls digestive tracks!
Y’know what that picture with the C.U.T.I.E.S. and the army of E.T. figurines looks like? A junior-high school dance. All the C.U.T.I.E.S. (girls) are out on the floor dancing like idiots while the E.T.s (guys) are standing around pensively dreading an invitation to join in. But I gotta tell you…there’s something else at work in that image…something eerily unsavory. Maybe it’s the dead expressions in the eyes of all those E.T.s, maybe it’s the way they’re all rubbing their saggy little bellies…whatever the case, you can tell something terrible is about to happen…
Posted by
The Yeti @ 04/17/2003 5:02 PM EDT
There’s a booth at my local flea market that has had the same five boxes of CUTIES marked for 10 cents each for at least two years now.
Oh, and on the UK/US potato chip debate: I was testing for a job I wanted the other day and noticed that they had "Hot Dog and Mustard" chips in the vending machine. I was really, really grossed out by the thought of it.
Posted by
RonniePruitt @ 04/17/2003 5:21 PM EDT
I HAD CUTIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
I had like, more cuties than bombs dropped on Baghdad. I SWEAR! I used to light them on fire though and watch their little bodies melt away. Always good for a second or third degree burn anyway.
-M
Posted by
Mandy @ 04/17/2003 5:47 PM EDT
hey, matt, why don’t you do an article on your pac-man tatoo??
Why you picked pac-man, and everything.
I would love to hear about that.
Posted by
Tony @ 04/17/2003 8:06 PM EDT
Were the CUTIES supposed to be the MUSCLE guys’ girlfriends or something? If not, then why target little plastic girls to boys?
Posted by
Evan @ 04/17/2003 8:39 PM EDT
Holy Crap! An Army of E.Ts!! They’ve arrived! Why did nobody listen to me when I tried to warn them??
There IS something sinister about that picture! The way the sweet children play on, blissfully unaware of what is aproaching behind them…
I’d give 5 bucks to see the picture taken AFTER that one! Speilberg might have an avenue for a sequel afterall!
Posted by
Carl @ 04/17/2003 10:14 PM EDT
I like pants!
Posted by
Koz @ 04/17/2003 11:01 PM EDT
Yes, Koz, you have established MANY times that you like pants. Isn’t there anything else you like?
Wow. And I thouhgt i’d seen everything.
On a side note, when did the boobie girl appear in the bottom corner of the main page?
Posted by
RyanMan @ 04/17/2003 11:52 PM EDT
Wow, that is REALLY lame. Even my SISTER collected M.U.S.C.L.E. figures.
Of course, she was a huge tom boy.
Posted by
Lothian @ 04/18/2003 3:56 AM EDT
that army of ETs slaps arse with both hands!
hot dog and mustard chips? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
i wish you could get flavoured fries/chips like you can chips/crisps.
that would slap arse with both hands!
Posted by
'tin man @ 04/18/2003 4:35 AM EDT
mimp sucked compared to muscle!
Posted by
'tin man @ 04/18/2003 4:39 AM EDT
M.U.C.U.S. figures are better.
Mulitple Useless Cathartic Unfocused Salespeople
Posted by
msa @ 04/18/2003 8:32 AM EDT
Where are the E.T. figures from and where can I get my hands on them?
Posted by
mutton72 @ 04/18/2003 10:54 AM EDT
Where are the E.T. figures from and where can I get my hands on them?
Posted by
mutton72 @ 04/18/2003 10:54 AM EDT
are theets little empty candy dispensers? cos that would slap arse with both hands!!
Posted by
'tin man @ 04/18/2003 11:42 AM EDT
I would say that the Pac-Man tattoo is relatively self explanatory. I’d really like to know the story about the tattoo on Matt’s other arm (Saturn?)
By the way, how’s the beta doing?
Posted by
squee4242 @ 04/18/2003 12:52 PM EDT
I missed out the past couple of days on the cadbury eggs, so here’s my $1.02.
First I HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, cadbury eggs. too much sweet, just nasty, and believe me I can take sweet. I ate a 5 lb bag of gummie bears in 3 hours once.
Second on stuff missing in the states, I was an exchange student to Australia back in 99. The best thing there was Tim Tams!!!!! I love Tim Tams! I love Tim Tams! I love Tim Tams! I love Tim Tams! I love Tim Tams! I love Tim Tams! Anywho, we also should have vegimite just for kicks.
Posted by
brandon @ 04/18/2003 1:13 PM EDT
OOh I love Vegemite/Marmite. I can’t find anyone in the US who’ll eat it though. If anyone tries, the thing to remember is to spread a THIN layer of it on bread, maybe add some cheese. It’s like delicious salty tar from Heaven.
Also, Brandon, you’ve now made me curious about Tim-Tams. What the heck are they?
Posted by
Welsh Rabbit @ 04/18/2003 3:37 PM EDT
Tim-tams are the Item I chose over alcohol to smuggle back into the U.S. (I was 18 and could purchase down there, luckily I had enough room for one bottle o’ vodka too) They’re a… well…. ummm…. here http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2436/timtams/
Posted by
brandon @ 04/18/2003 4:00 PM EDT
Ya know, tin man, lately I’ve been experimenting with slapping arse with both hands, and to be perfectly honest, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Get it? Cracked? *sigh*
You can shoot me now.
Posted by
Patty O'Furniture @ 04/18/2003 4:06 PM EDT
Bang.
Posted by
Gozer @ 04/18/2003 5:09 PM EDT
Patty O’Furniture ha ha haaa
we get tim tams (kind of), in england. they seem like what we call "penguins"
penguins slap arse with both hands at the same time and then in percussion/drumroll type of way.
Posted by
'tin man @ 04/18/2003 6:35 PM EDT
if you search for "slaps arse" then x-e comes up top. matt you should be prouder than a mother fucker. hoo hoo hoo
Posted by
'tin man @ 04/18/2003 6:44 PM EDT
This is in response to the Decepticon article just posted.
I used to carry my Ravage around in my pockets as well. ^_^
Had all the figures you posted except the SquawkTalk set. No idea where they all went to over the years. 
I also had a brown Ravage cassette. Do not remember where I got it from, but I thought it was pretty cool having a Ravage of a different color.
Posted by
Lynx @ 04/18/2003 7:54 PM EDT
The pictures of Rumble and Frenzy are reversed. Rumble was red and Frenzy was blue. For some reason their colors were reversed on the cartoon (yes, Frenzy did appear, but not often), so the pictures should have shown a blue cartoon Rumble with a red figure, and the opposite for Frenzy.
Posted by
Action Jacktion @ 04/18/2003 9:23 PM EDT
(Yes, I know it’s mentioned in the article, but it bugs me when they get mixed up.)
Posted by
Action Jacktion @ 04/18/2003 9:25 PM EDT
While reading XE, several things happened:
1) When clicking on a mail link, Netscape Messenger or whatever the email client for Netscape is called asked if I wanted to set up an email account with it being the head client, and one of the options was setting up an AOL account. I didn’t think AOL would let you set up an email server with a third-party mail client. Unfortunately, after trying it, it never worked, and I’ve spent the last half hour trying to find out what AOL’s mail server is. It was no good.
2) My computer has suddenly come up with a case of the stutters, which stalls the performance of it. A memory upgrade is muchly needed, which could be why my machine stutters badly. Agree? Disagree?
And just to add to Tin Man’s catchphrase, I’d like to slap somebody’s arse with both hands myself. 
i alway prided (?) myself on being a bit of a tf geek and i never knew that there were that many tf figures that turned into tapes……………….the dinosaur and ravage slap arse with both hands!
i always thought that amodern soundwaqve could be a bit hifi, with his tripod speakers as mini bots, but starscream, ravage etc, should be imortalized as cell phone, cos they are everywhere, and noone whould know.
and that would slap arse with both hands!
Posted by
'tin man @ 04/19/2003 4:39 AM EDT
I didn’t even remember some of the Transformer cassettes that I owned. Thanks for the hard work as always.
A little diversion if you haven’t seen it already: http://www.brunching.com/morethan.html
Filthy gophers!
Posted by
DogDodger @ 04/19/2003 12:44 PM EDT
The poor cassettes never had team names like the Stunticons and Dinobots. So I just call them the Cassettecons and Audiobots. The poor guys miss out.
Oh, and be careful bringing up the Rumble/Frenzy color issue in a Transformers forum or newsgroup. It’s on that list of questions that have been brought up so much over the years, there may be much fuel spilled. 
Posted by
ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 04/23/2003 7:50 PM EDT
Are these edible?
Posted by
Lint @ 04/25/2003 10:22 AM EDT
I’ll probably say this again, but ELLIOT ATE C3PO’S CEREAL! Watch the commercial or look at the picture in thr review (http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0681/).
It’s him with friggin’ blond hair!
Droopy McCool!
DROOPY MCCOOL!
I’M NOT DEPRESSED IN THE SLIGHTEST!
p.s. Droopy McCool eggs fantisize about talking Tribbles speaking lines from The Breakfast Club while reading Burger King pamphlets
Posted by
"MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 04/25/2003 12:17 PM EDT
I, like Brandon, LOATHE HATE LOATHE
Cadbury Schweppes to the maximum!!
Take a look at this page:
http://www.destinytours.com.au/cadburys.htm
And see how Cadbury Schweppes is screwing a man out of his name, his career and his money.
I am good friends with Tim The Yowie Man - the guy they are trying to destroy - and I haven’t eaten or drank any of their disgusting products in 13 months since I found out about the case.
If you want a good brand oc chocolate…eat Nestle`.
Anyone wants to help the Yowie Man and loathes Cadbury then check this page out and contact Cads at the URL on the page to protest.
We also have a fighting fund for Tim so if you wanna throw a party for Halloween and donate the proceeds by Paypal. DO IT!
Help us to stop this big bully picking on the little guy.
Posted by
Maree @ 09/24/2004 7:02 PM EDT
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