I would love to see a commercial pic and/or review about Magic Nursery Babies. Kind of a cabbage patch rip-off, I suppose, but with an added twist. You didn’t know if you bought a boy or girl until you dumped the baby’s hat into water and it would dissolve into the birth certificate (like the trash-bin whatchacallit’s mentioned above.)
Of all the toys I spent my childhood pining for, Magic Nursery Babies were numero uno.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/19/2003 7:47 PM
That blue/purple fuzzy-backed thing is CREEPY! But the CB Cousins… oh, I used to love everything Care Bear and the cousins were my favorite! Best of all was the purple penguin with a heart wearing a Santa hat on his stomach… wha was he called?
Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 05/19/2003 8:14 PM
The Trash Bag Bunch was such a cool toy they were so cool you dumped the trash bag in water and once it disolved there was a toy. HOW COOL IS THAT? I Wish I could find some just to do that again. I had about six of em still do.
Here’s a site that has pics of the good guys the Disposers and the bag guys the Trashers.
We need X-E to show the Toilet Duck commercials they were the bet thing ever. Especially when Toilet Duck went "Quack, Quack" as he nucked the scum with his tank or plane. I’df kill to see those commercials again!
Chestnuts roasted by Toilet Duck Fan @ 05/19/2003 9:48 PM
Oh man, I had that Voltron thing and a couple of those Robotech figures and that G.I. Joe hovercraft thing. The only commercial I remember directly from there is that McDonald’s one though. Not the happy mean one but the other one. What happened to all those other characters they used to have on those commercials? Birdy, the Fry Guys, that professor whats-his-face-type-guy in the picture, and the rest.. They must have killed them off or something.. I miss them..
Chestnuts roasted by Toxicity- @ 05/19/2003 9:54 PM
er.. Happy Meal… not mean
Chestnuts roasted by Toxicity- @ 05/19/2003 9:55 PM
In the Glow baby ad (of which my dad bought me one, even though I thought I was too old for it), is that Keisha Knight-Pullian (pardon my slaughtering her name) (the youngest Cosby kid).
Also, Matt, I’d love to see something about Trapper Keepers back in the day…some friends and I were discussing them and one had no clue about them, and we were unable to find ANYTHING about old school 80s Trapper Keepers, and you have an uncanny ability to dig up anything and everything.
Chestnuts roasted by Raechel @ 05/20/2003 1:59 AM
maaan i remember that animator thing (#16) if it’s the same thing i remember.
a couple of kids in school had one i always wanted one but they were like $100 or somethin, way out of my league and i guess i didn’t want to waste a x-mas on it.
i remember it bein called ‘the animator’ but i’m sure it had a more original name.
i am proud to say that i am still an owner of the etch-a-sketch animator. unfortunately i could never actually make anything that looked remotely interesting.
Chestnuts roasted by matt @ 05/20/2003 10:34 AM
Oh. My. God. Where in the blue hell do you find this stuff? Jebus, all I need now is for that Nerds cereal to pop up.
And Firestarter, I remember when that movie was filmed. Back home in Wilmington, NC. *sniff* Good times.
Chestnuts roasted by Tron @ 05/20/2003 11:12 AM
Tron, I’ve actually done a full article on Nerds Cereal. Search for ‘nerds’ on the front page of X-E.
As for encoding these, in due time. Right now the commercials page is a bit of a mess, and the hosting charges associated with it are pretty high. Trying to think of a good way to put up more without spending hundreds extra a month.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/20/2003 11:16 AM
I AM THE PICKLE FACED MAN OH MY GOD I CANT SEE MY EYES IS THAT YOU JOHNNY I CANT FIND MY FACE I AM KNOWN AS THE HUMAN EGGPLANT
Chestnuts roasted by THE PICKLE FACED MAN @ 05/20/2003 12:08 PM
Small suggestion Matt, so take it or leave it, why dont you delete some of the older ones off the server ad then replace them?
Chestnuts roasted by CalmingEffect @ 05/20/2003 2:31 PM
crap, I can’t beleive another of Matt’s creations has pushed me to geek out like this, but … that is a picture of the Cobra swamp boat, the Water Moccasin and trusty pilot, Copperhead, and not the G.I. Joe Killer WHALE hovercraft. Its the little boat you got when your parents refused to pay fifty dollars for the big one. Both were cool, but its was the hovercraft that I remember most kids would trade a pinky for. It was the biggest G.I. Joe vehicle there was, until the Air Craft Carrier came out the next year. And NO BODY got that one, digital sacrifice or no, except one kid that lived to far for your folks to drive you to on a regular basis, and he was kind of a dick any way.
Chestnuts roasted by nate_omega @ 05/20/2003 2:33 PM
Matt We need X-E to show the Toilet Duck commercials they were the best thing ever. Especially when Toilet Duck went "Quack, Quack" as he nucked the scum with his tank or plane. I’d kill to see those commercials again!
Also could you fix the link for the Gravedale High opening I’d like to see it.
Chestnuts roasted by Toilet Duck Fan @ 05/20/2003 5:20 PM
I was kind of wondering when someone would notice about the Water Moccasin, too. It wasn’t the Aircraft Carrier, but it was a few bucks well spent anyway
God that thing was huge; would it not make a totally bitchin’ coffee table?
Chestnuts roasted by Krappy Kat @ 05/20/2003 7:37 PM
Is it just me, or does that glo-worm look like it could eat keshia knight pulliam? That’s the biggest freaking glo-worm I have ever seen! Yeah, that’s the name of that G.I. Joe boat, the water moccasin! Very cool toy! I’m just wondering if and when Matt will put some stuff up about those kick ass M.A.S.K. toys, anyone remember those? Heh, I remember watching that cartoon show when I was a kid, along with G.I. Joe, and the Transformers, and Voltron! Man, those were the days!
Chestnuts roasted by GraphArtist @ 05/20/2003 8:32 PM
Awesome, those pictures make me sad though, I kinda liked living back there in the eighties. Course I never got the new toys though..always had to settle for second rate.
Great job though!
Chestnuts roasted by MaNiAC MeDiC @ 05/21/2003 5:45 AM
My Voltron watches over me on the top shelf of my dorm room desk.
That toy weighs close to 5 pounds… I used to threaten my older sister with it when she pissed me off.
"I’m telling Mom!"
"If you tell Mom, I’m gonna throw Voltron at you."
"Oh…um…nevermind."
Defender of the Universe indeed.
Chestnuts roasted by Toxic Oreo @ 05/21/2003 11:48 AM
That isn’t a picture from Firestarter, that’s a snapshot after Drew realized somebody ran off with her coke…
And the kid in the Cookie Crisp commercial looks like he’s opened a cereal bowl-version of Pandora’s Box (or a gateway to Hell).
Peanut Butter Boppers? I think somebody’s got a X-rated website about just that sort of thing…
Chestnuts roasted by XP Ranger @ 05/21/2003 5:41 PM
The penguin Care Bear cousin was named Cozy Heart…the rest were Brave Heart Lion, Bright Heart Raccoon, Gentle Heart Lamb, Lotsa Heart Elephant, Loyal Heart Dog, Playful Heart Monkey, Proud Heart Cat, Swift Heart Rabbit, Treat Heart Pig and Noble Heart Horse. That information and more can be found here: http://members.citynet.net/weluvcarebears/carebearcousins.htm
I’ve never typed the word "heart" so much in my life.
Chestnuts roasted by Teddy Ray @ 05/21/2003 8:01 PM
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Search for ‘nerds’ on the front page of X-E.
I would love to see a commercial pic and/or review about Magic Nursery Babies. Kind of a cabbage patch rip-off, I suppose, but with an added twist. You didn’t know if you bought a boy or girl until you dumped the baby’s hat into water and it would dissolve into the birth certificate (like the trash-bin whatchacallit’s mentioned above.)
Of all the toys I spent my childhood pining for, Magic Nursery Babies were numero uno.