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04/25/2003: Suckerman & Clue.

Hey hey hey. Spent yesterday in the city doing a fun little side project involving taking pictures of street vendors and broken bicycles with a cell phone camera. Hit some of the usual idiot spots in Times Square, namely the giant Toys R’ Us with the ferris wheel and the giant Candy Land section suspiciously filled with things that are neither candy or lands. Some pics are below.

There’s a new article up, about the return of Mattel’s 1978 creature of infamy, Suckerman. Found him at a toy store that also sold several rubber albino alligators. Also, if you missed it, there’s an article from yesterday about Clue’s stupid old VCR Mystery Game, which I will never play or look at again in my natural life. Enjoy, and have a weekend full of drugs and mirth.


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Hey, what stores can I find Suckerman in? I tried RiteAid but they didn’t have him. I’m guessing Walmart or Kmart might have him. Anyone?

Ghosted by Squid @ 04/28/2003 6:04 PM EDT

You can buy Suckerman from AS&S online -

http://www.sciplus.com/singleItem.cfm?terms=8615&cartLogFrom=Search

Ghosted by Matt @ 04/28/2003 6:10 PM EDT

If you liked Sears Catalogs here are compilation books for boys and girls. They suck in that they are all black and white photos and the selections are only a small selection of the years represented; I looked them up on Amazon. No need to fear since people do sell the actual catalogs and wish books from Sears on Ebay as well.
"GIRLS’ TOYS OF THE SEVENTIES & EIGHTIES"
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3517133125&category=29276
"BOYS’ TOYS OF THE SEVENTIES & EIGHTIES"
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3517132937&category=29276

Ghosted by Chow Daddy says eat all of your vegetables @ 04/28/2003 7:15 PM EDT

Gozer: I almost bought Starscream this weekend, but my wife gave me that "wait until payday or you’re sleeping on the couch" look, so I managed to keep myself under control.

BUT I HAD IT IN MY HANDS, DAMN IT!

Ghosted by Lothian @ 04/28/2003 11:25 PM EDT

Thanks, Holden! I’ll try that.

Ghosted by Amanda @ 04/28/2003 11:35 PM EDT

Man… the day they release my favorite old figures (Ghetto Blaster and Jetfire), I’ll be a poor, poor man.

Ghosted by Broke @ 04/29/2003 3:18 PM EDT

I actually have the original TF toys stored somewhere in a box, but I didn’t take that good care of them. As soon as I put them in my niece & nephew’s hands, they nearly disintegrated, and the weapons were broken too. Stupid cheap plastic. :P

Ghosted by Go Knock Jimmy Down @ 04/29/2003 6:16 PM EDT

Thanks for the link but it irks me whenever shipping and handling supercedes the original price.

I’ve gotta check out that surplus place in person one day…..one day….

Ghosted by Squid @ 04/29/2003 10:34 PM EDT

went to wal-mart. they no have suckerman. suckerman over rated dollar store type toy anyways. fo’get you suckerman. In other news, me have big talking alf now…chew on that non-talking suckerman.

Ghosted by kennef @ 04/30/2003 4:45 PM EDT

On VCR Games:

My family had not only this atrocity, but the sequel and the aforementioned Commercial Crazies. When I was 8, I ate that sort of shit up like Pixy Stixs. Enough has been said about the first Clue VCR Game, although I always found it amusing that at one point there was a will with a codicil(sp?) in it and the codicil had "Codicil" written on it in big red letters. The second VCR game involved an Interpol agent persuing our "favorite" characters to such exotic locales as Paris, Tangiers, and Burma. Everyone was trying to kill the inspector. It was dumb, yet it was enjoyed by all. I’ll have to look for those two tapes…perhaps I still have them.

Ghosted by Phil @ 05/01/2003 4:30 PM EDT

My brother picked up the Clue II vcr game awhile ago and when a group of us tried to play it the instructions were confusing and stupid. It is good to know someone else went through this pain also.

Ghosted by nehi @ 05/05/2003 8:14 PM EDT

I remember seeing this game in the (now sadly defunct) Harbor View video store in Cape May during the mid-80s heyday of the VCR game. We never rented it, though I was tempted to ask about it several times. If Matt’s review is any indication, I’m now very glad I didn’t.

(BTW, I believe Miss Peach and the other characters not from the original game were from the now-discontinued deluxe Clue that included more characters, weapons, and rooms. I’ve only read about the game or heard about it from friends, never played it. Someone else may have more details…)

Ghosted by starwenn @ 08/16/2003 9:56 PM EDT

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