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03/18/2004: New Article: Garbage Pail Kids “Tacky Snappers!”

The Garbage Pail Kids return to X-Entertainment with a review of Imperial’s GPK Tacky Snappers. What were they? I dunno…some kinda slime wands with character-shaped handles. I think. The article features a hands-on look at the beasts, plus a bonus section that rewrites an old blog entry about GPK’s assortment of “Cheap Toys & Crummy Candy.” I’ve been dying to open this stupid Tacky Snapper for like a year now. Now that I have, I’m not sure what to do with myself. Maybe I’ll take up stained glass. When you’re finished with that, feel free to go back and read my review of the unprecedented pile of torment known as Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie.

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Ghosted by ME @ 03/19/2004 5:02 PM EST

The only thing creepy about Phil Collins was his whole ‘Testify’ album… and the cover to his 1985 classic ‘No Jacket Required’. NJR’s cover art makes Phil look like some kind of holiday lightbulb.

Anyway, I hated these tacky snappers as a kid. Other children would have them and the snappers looked so revolting that they’d literally make me vomit

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 03/19/2004 8:00 PM EST

Hey, the "Land of Confusion" video kicked ass! How can one forget Ronald Regan as Superman? I also remember a "Spitting Image" special called "The Ronnie and Nancy Show" way back when…sort of along the lines of "That’s my Bush" but much better. Speaking of GPK, does anyone remember the GPK-like cards with dinosaurs? They were basically cartoon cards of dinosaurs mutilating humans….most of ‘em made the GPKs look tame.

Ghosted by The Dragon @ 03/19/2004 10:13 PM EST

this is sort of off topic but today I saw a boy in my class with a rock pencil! And he had taken good care of it too because the rocks were still inside and the pencil was sharpened almost up to the rock part. I was going to ask him where he got it but he usually fallls asleep during class anyway.

Ghosted by pikachulover @ 03/19/2004 10:46 PM EST

ALF POGS are real!!!

Ghosted by hwthwt @ 03/20/2004 12:54 PM EST

To Awful Aubrey: You got a picture of the Aubrey card? I can’t find anything on the Internet.

Ghosted by Aubrey @ 03/20/2004 1:02 AM EST

Land of Confusion=Teh awesome. It IS creepy, yet very funny and stylish at the same time.

Ghosted by Behonkiss @ 03/20/2004 8:49 AM EST

Phil is what Charlie Brown looks like all grown up.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/20/2004 2:20 PM EST

Hey, Matt. Tech question. What do you use to get images off of video? Snappy?

Ghosted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 03/20/2004 5:17 PM EST

Squee – there was an original release of Wacky Pack stickers back in the 70’s, and then they were re-done as Wacky Packages in the mid 80’s. The ones from the 80’s are practically worthless, but there are a few from the 70’s collection that can fetch a decent price, for a cheap little sticker.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3281497918&category=219

Ghosted by beSharp @ 03/20/2004 9:34 PM EST

Oh, and I was a *huge* fan of Spitting Image when I was younger. The Ron & Nancy show was great! Though there was probably some more subtle humor and political satire that was going on in it that I was too young to understand.

The 80’s had it going on with creative puppetry. One complaint I have of the take-over of digital animation is the loss of really good puppetry.

Ghosted by beSharp @ 03/20/2004 9:40 PM EST

Woohoo! So I think it has been previously mentioned, but whatever I’m excited. Seasons 1 and 2 of Jem are being released on DVD! Yay! They come out on March 30th. AND Freaks and Geeks (not 80s, but still a great show) somes out on DVD on April 6th. I’m not leaving my TV for awhile…

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 03/21/2004 2:09 PM EST

Creepy Robot
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Ghosted by ME @ 03/21/2004 3:01 PM EST

The Happy Meal turned 25 on Friday:
http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-03-19/1009177.html

Ghosted by ME @ 03/21/2004 3:05 PM EST

Hello all,

This is my first post ever and wouldn’t you know it, it is completely and utterly off-topic.
Up here in Canada, we have a channel called Drive-In Classics and right now, they’re showing "The Devil’s Rain" starring William Shatner (a good Canadian boy) and Ernest Borgnine.
I agree that it sucks so bad it could suffocate everyone in the room. Just thought I’d get that off my chest.
X-E is one of my favourite (Canadian spelling) sites.
Talk to you later,
XP

Ghosted by Smeged @ 03/21/2004 5:30 PM EST

I was obsessed with GPK when I was a kid, amassing several shoeboxes worth of GPK cards. But I never saw the GPK Slime things. I want one.

Ghosted by Jeremiah @ 03/21/2004 5:54 PM EST

Smeged Have you ever read Matt’s review of "The Devil’s Rain"? It’s here, somewhere. Also, did you know that the mask William Shatner wore at the end was the mask Michael Myers wore in the "Halloween" movies? I learned that here, too. See, X-E increases your intelligence.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 03/21/2004 6:45 PM EST

You know what woulda ruled? A GPK NES game. It’d be so rad if you had a wide selection of GPKs to play as too, each with their own special abilities (of course, the NES DID have its limitations). I don’t know what you’d do as far as villains go. I guess the enemies could be cleaning products, medication, or surgical tools, all of which are out to make the GPKs normal again. Hmmm…if only I knew how to do ROM hacking.

Ghosted by Nate @ 03/21/2004 8:04 PM EST

I still have a whole box of GPK stuff, including a few of the candy included figures and most of the GIANT GPK cards.

Ghosted by FuguDeth @ 03/22/2004 7:35 AM EST

I still have a whole box of GPK stuff, including a few of the candy included figures and most of the GIANT GPK cards.

Ghosted by FuguDeth @ 03/22/2004 7:37 AM EST

I had a couple of these when I was a kid. They always ended up breaking right next to the handle though. Finally my mom said no more, and would only buy me the cheap hands from the vending machines. Then she wouldn’t get those for me anymore because I would constantly smack my little sister in the face with them. Heh, heh, heh, that was hilarious.

Ghosted by Beerstalker @ 03/23/2004 10:03 AM EST

Im a LTRFTP (thats a long time reader first time poster for those who arent good with acronyms). But um…yeah..in the mini figures pic i believe that was a Fruity Pebbles Fred Flinstone eraser…..i had like a bajillion of those. Sweet memories..im gonna go cry now.

Ghosted by Chris @ 03/24/2004 2:41 PM EST

I’m still kicking myself… I went to Italy when I was eight years old, and I found ITALIAN Garbage Pail Kids, and lost them. The only one I remember is Romeo Video. It was a kid playing a video game on a face that was a tv screen. This goes right along with my finding "Stooge" one of the McDonald’s Dick Tracy sweepstakes (where you peel a little sticker off of french fries, it was worth over $1000. Oh well…

Ghosted by Joe @ 03/25/2004 5:55 AM EST

smarties are basically the same as m & m’s. that first pic (as Aberration noted), looks like oral sex…

Ghosted by Rachel Cakes @ 03/27/2004 2:37 AM EST

I loved Garbage Pail Kids… acutally I still do.. I have a few complete series.

And I also remember the cards with dinosaurs mutilalting humans. Thoes were classic. I didn’t even remember them until someone brought them up. My brother and I collected them. My mom was the coolest, she didn’t care about cards.

Ghosted by Kristina @ 04/03/2004 2:52 PM EST

ok most of the time im all up 4 gross and nastie but this i mean what the freack is this i dissagree

Ghosted by madison @ 04/08/2004 8:50 PM EDT

Ilove collecting garbagepailkids card there cool

Ghosted by katence @ 04/08/2004 10:51 PM EDT

Ilove collecting garbagepailkids card there cool

Ghosted by katence @ 04/08/2004 10:51 PM EDT

Ilove collecting garbagepailkids card there cool

Ghosted by katence @ 04/08/2004 10:51 PM EDT

THANK GOD someone had the brains to bring these back….. everyone missed them so much and were the topic of reminicing conversations….WHOEVER did not like them were proberly just dorks to begin with who had no style!!! Thank you 4 bring then BACK!!!

Ghosted by Mel @ 04/09/2004 1:45 PM EDT

Yo, I had those garbage bags of GPK candy; we have two figures, and my parents took them and put them in on this frame of collectables on our wall.

We had every product. The cards, we had cards from every series, never a whole collection. We had the large prints, the puffy stickers, and the candy.

Ghosted by JoshJ @ 04/09/2004 6:34 PM EDT

Dude check this shit.

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Ghosted by Handy Randy @ 09/30/2004 3:31 PM EDT

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Ghosted by The one who loves Pam Anderson @ 10/31/2004 2:33 PM EST

holy cow, how did i let this one slip by me, love the old articles, matt if you have left us for good, at least leave us the archives

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