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Heyyyy. I have an odd request. A few of you mentioned something about Hostess' "Tiger Tails" still being available. These seem to be much rarer than the Choco-Diles. If anyone has access, I'd love to get my hands on a few boxes for another upcoming Hostess article. Shoot me an e-mail if you've got the goods, and we'll work something out.

Also, here's a little thing I wrote for UGO a while back, though it was just published today. My mission was to choose my eleven most-wanted gadgets from movies, and in an attempt to be as honest as possible, I filled it up with Bathroom Buddies and almanacs. Click here to seeee it, baby, seeee it baby.

Posted by Matt on 02/02/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 82 comments

Excuse me, but the hell!?! You chose the Sports Almanac over the Hoverboard!?!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 02/02/2004 9:57 PM

Word!

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 02/02/2004 9:59 PM

i tried looking them up but they seem to be a mystery everywhere

Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 02/02/2004 10:08 PM

Awesome list! Heheheh loved your commentary on the bathroom buddy. heh breakdancing hellspawn indeed.

Chestnuts roasted by Hyperdingo @ 02/02/2004 10:10 PM

I always wanted a speeder bike too. Probably because I had a bad habit of hitting curbs with my regular old 2 wheeled doom cycle. I am amazed I never got seriously hurt from the number of times I went over the handlebars. This in the days before every kid wore helmets.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 02/02/2004 10:10 PM

I had two entries from Star Wars, didn’t want to repeat the process for BTTF even despite the cool hoverboards. And yes, I’d take Grays… Sports… Almanac over a hoverboard any day of the week.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/02/2004 10:16 PM

http://www.bookofratings.com/hostess2.html

a small mention…ill keep looking

Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 02/02/2004 10:16 PM

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/btwgb.asp

rest in peace

Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 02/02/2004 10:19 PM

Yeah, HTF lists it as discontinued, but I can definitely confirm that they still exist. I’ve found one online retailer that has them, but they’re unfortunately sold in forty dollar chunks. Don’t want to spend another mint on Hostess. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/02/2004 10:21 PM

Can’t help you on the Hostess, Matt. I never heard of Chocodiles before I started reading this site reguarly, much less Tiger Tails.

Ahh, I have fond memories of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." That was the first movie my sisters, a friend, and I saw without adults in tow. We saw the second that same summmer – "Ghostbusters II." We always figured the proton packs would come in handy. We grew up in Cape May, one of the oldest towns in the US, and certainly one with a lot of spooks, spirits, and weird shit running around. Looking for ghosts was one of our favorite things to do on a dark, spooky night.

My brother had a reletively realistic-looking plastic lightsaber. I say "reletively," because I don’t remember them being that BIG. The "lightsaber" was a huge, thick piece of gray and green plastic that could extend to the size of your average four-year-old. When my brother first got it, it was bigger than he was. Come to think of it, he has a speeder bike toy for his action figures, too. Press a button and it comes apart, like it did in the movie.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 02/02/2004 10:39 PM

ALL HAIL GLASS MOOSE MUGS!!! From the 1st time I saw Christmas Vacation as a youngin’ I’ve been dreaming about owning a set of those god like moose mugs.

We’d sit around a roaring fire, roasting chestnutS and s’more, sipping heavily boozed egg nog we would.

WE WOULD I SAY!!! ALL HAIL GLASS MOOSE MUGS!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Don't Touch, Willy (formerly Janet Jackson's expossed breast) @ 02/02/2004 11:12 PM

Hmmm…dunno what to tell you, Matt. Do you have a Hostess shop nearby? We’ve got one — I could give them a call for you and see if they’ve got Tiger Tails. Tomorrow, when they’re open again.

Still waiting to hear about your KB finds, btw — I crossed two state lines traveling to closing KBs and now fully understand why so many KBs are closing. Their prices are too damned high! Seriously, on the stuff I would’ve bought, even their closeout sale prices were higher than Walmart’s regulars. And Suncoast was having an insane sale on toys to boot… really made KB look bad, even in defeat. I walked with a $7 Turtle Van Battle Shell… seriously.

But then, I already knew that — back when I worked at KB I used to refer people to the nearby Toys ‘R’ Us, since their prices were much lower than ours. Usually the people appreciated my altruism so much that they bought something from me anyway. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 02/02/2004 11:20 PM

They have them in Kirkland, Washington. Search for the nearest bakery.

Chestnuts roasted by Mathew @ 02/02/2004 11:32 PM

Good choice on the bathroom budy, but what about the smokeless ashtray?

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 02/03/2004 12:05 PM

Tiger Tails? God, I thought those things were gross. Neon orange HoHo’s.

I haven’t seen them in quite a while, but for some reason I know the guys at http://www.penny-arcade.com loved them.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2002-05-25

Man, I need to get out more…

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak @ 02/03/2004 1:13 AM

I gotta say a hoverboard would suck if you couldn’t use a skateboard. Like me. I have never been very coordinated. Except I could play sports for some reason. I just flipped over the bars of my bike a lot and couldn’t skateboard no matter how hard I tried. I could roller skate though. Back in the days before roller blades. God I feel old.

You know it is going to be a long semester when on the first day of class the teacher spends 15 minutes at the start of class autographing her book for people in class…I didn’t buy a copy of her book. She gave one to my roommate for free (my roommate is her assistant) so I read that copy. :P to my teacher.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 02/03/2004 2:15 AM

I coulda sworn that I’ve seen reasonably priced moose mugs before. It was probably at the Christmas Tree Shop or maybe that Christmas store at the mall that only opens in December.

If I ever run across ‘em, I’ll post it here, and definately pick up a set for meself.

Chestnuts roasted by Tony @ 02/03/2004 2:17 AM

Matt already wanted a speeder bike. I’d be happy with a speeder bike and a hoverboard, but a speeder bike alone is quite cool by itself.

Speaking of lightsabers, I have a vague memory of toy lightsabers from around the time of Return of the Jedi that made cool sounds when you waved them around. It was some sort of physical effect, not something electronic. Anyone else remember that, or is it just me?

Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 02/03/2004 2:29 AM

tron clothes…awesome choice…

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 02/03/2004 2:59 AM

Marioshku, you’re not imagining things. I remember them too :)

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 02/03/2004 3:02 AM

My eyes are burning. That means bedtime. I don’t want a speeder bike, I don’t like fast speeds, I get in trouble, like that time when I went over a cliff/hill hybrid on a dirtbike. My personal pick would be an ectosuit, a pink one. With twin lightsabres, also pink. Then I would tranform into a pink fighter jet. I like pink.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 02/03/2004 3:30 AM

The Exo-suit would be sweet, but the suit in Aliens pwns it all to hell..

If it could transform instead of just being a walking foklift it’d be that much cooler!

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 02/03/2004 4:13 AM

wait one minute. on the one list it says tiger tails are strawberry twinkies. if thats so i know for a fact i can get a product identical but not hostess at my local grocer

Chestnuts roasted by the corinthian @ 02/03/2004 4:40 AM

I actually considered buying some Tiger Tails twice over the weekend, but decided on Zingers and Snowballs, respectively. It’s funny you should bring them up, I see them all the time.

Chestnuts roasted by Ian @ 02/03/2004 5:45 AM

I realize I am alone in this but I have always wanted the Cosmic Key. It was the only cool thing from the He-Man movie:
http://he-man.org/primary_sects/movie/html/gallery/evil_05.shtml
Unfortunately Mattel did not produce the prototype:
http://free.imd.it/masters/Toys/cosmic_keyprototype.htm

Chestnuts roasted by She-Man @ 02/03/2004 6:21 AM

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