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Babes in ToyFare.

Haven't mentioned this before, but you can catch some of my words at your nearest newsstand, assuming they carry ToyFare Magazine. I was contacted to help out on a small bit for their "Best Ever" feature (covering the best of the best in all walks of toydom), but it kind of snowballed into three bits. If you grab issue #91, my contributions to the Best Ever feature were "Best Commercial," "Best Carrying Cases" and "Worst Toys." This looks like it might be a semi-recurring gig, which is just so awesome for someone like me who came from the trenches, so to speak. Lots of fun, I'll keep you posted. Also working on some kickass spots on Nick. I need to launch a "real life" section of the site. But then it'd be full of diaries about how I shouldn't have eaten three Fruit By The Foot rolls before bed. Anyway, yeah, back with a new article this weekend, and it's a good one for sure.

Adding A Survey Thing: Which Price is Right game tickles your fancy most? I've always been partial to Plinko, but hearing the old man shout "OR TWO!" during the putt off packs its own kind of punch.

Posted by Matt on 01/18/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 64 comments

wish we still got Toyfare here.
Good job on that!
FIRST POST!!! woooo

Chestnuts roasted by aodfan @ 01/18/2005 9:16 PM

Congradulations on both the Nick spots and the Toyfare articles! I’ve never seen that down here – I’ll look for it the next time I’m at the malls near Atlantic City.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/18/2005 9:38 PM

Matt, you’re so radical. You make me hot.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/18/2005 9:54 PM

Yarr, high on the blog today! High on….life, too!!

Matt, I am sending you an email about those comics. I am kind of lost on how to get the files to you. I’ll be trying to use http://www.yousendit.com, hopefully that will work well enough. Keep an eye on your inbox for some He-Man goodies!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/18/2005 10:04 PM

Congrats Matt. Twisted Toyfare Theater is probably my fav feature in Toyfare, and I was wondering if you had seen or heard of it. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle. (All males in their mid twenties are contractually obligated to say the last part of that phrase. I even say it when someone else says "now I know…" I live a sad life. :) )

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 01/18/2005 11:06 PM

Hey! Good for you.

Chestnuts roasted by GreyWeirdo @ 01/18/2005 11:14 PM

Congratulations with Toyfare!! That mag is the best. Do they still have Twisted Mego Theater? Been so long since I’ve picked one of those up.

Chestnuts roasted by RBurn @ 01/18/2005 11:41 PM

PLINKO is the greatest, by far, but I really, really like the one with the mountain climber and the yodel song in the background.

Check the shite out heah, yo:

A Salute to Pricing Games on the Price is Right:
http://gscentral.net/pricing.htm

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/18/2005 11:49 PM

I like the game where they punch holes in the paper and pull out money cards. The wheel is awesome too, but I guess it’s not a game. Instead of the showcase showdown they should have the slopstacle course from Double Dare. Bob Barker would be flipping out and screaming and stuff while the contestants fall into giant tubs of ice cream while trying to get the flags. Hooray for Double Dare :)

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 01/19/2005 12:36 PM

Ohhh I loved the Plinko board, and the one with the punch outs/cards, too.

I also liked the one where the reach into the bag to pull out numbers or strikes :)

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 01/19/2005 12:54 PM

Woo, 11th post!

Congratulations on getting into Toyfare, Matt! You’re working your way up there, man, soon your name will be a regular household phrase! ;D

Chestnuts roasted by Ben @ 01/19/2005 1:00 AM

As a Price fan I have to say Superball. It made me want to try and be good at skeeball. Too bad Bob hated it and it got retired. kidneyboy that pricing game directory is a great site.

P.S. Holly was the best looking Barker’s beauty ever.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 01/19/2005 1:24 AM

That show is just not the same without Rod Roddy though. What will happen when Barker goes I wonder? P.S. Plinko is definetly the best game, but any game that makes out of shape housewifes run around switching price tags and pulling levers is a-ok with me. I dunno the name of it but it is probably switcheroo or something.

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 01/19/2005 1:50 AM

That show is just not the same without Rod Roddy though. What will happen when Barker goes I wonder? P.S. Plinko is definetly the best game, but any game that makes out of shape housewifes run around switching price tags and pulling levers is a-ok with me. I dunno the name of it but it is probably switcheroo or something.

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 01/19/2005 1:50 AM

I was actually picked to be on the Price is Right during my 2nd year of college. I got yelled at by Bob Barker for stealing his thunder during commercial breaks with my own antics. I ended up on stage and had to play the Key Game. I lost. But some producers must’ve felt bad for me because a month after I was on the show all the prizes I "lost" ended up on my doorstep (except for the car…Damn you Mark Goodson Television Productions!) so I guess I won. Bob is scary up close though. It’s just stage makeup to his hair line, then after that…pure old man, liver spots and all. Oh, and the showcase showdown wheel is REALLY, REALLY heavy. After spinning it I’m amazed more old ladies don’t get booed for not getting it all the way around.

Chestnuts roasted by Zombie Cop @ 01/19/2005 3:40 AM

Wow, the stuff we miss out on in South Africa…

Oh well. But I see the **Chia Plot** will never be finished. Some day when we’re old and grey and Matt’s already dead, we’ll be gathered at conventions getting a peek at the Lost Finale Of The Chia Plot, pieced together by anthro-archaeologists who majored in X-E(you know, from pictures and scribblings found hidden in a safety-deposite box somewhere). Maybe we’ll all be wearing plastic klingon foreheads and shouting KA-PLA! or maybe just carrying around 40-year old stinky cereal boxes saying "but it’s a collectible!" while all the Con. employees vomit in our respective wakes… ooh, something to look forward to. Our grandchildren won’t want to know us, of course. But if they get too snotty we can feed them pokemon spaghetti. :P

Chestnuts roasted by eminentfreak @ 01/19/2005 6:04 AM

Plinko kicks ass. Hole in One (or Two), Golden Road, Superball and Punch a Bunch are also great. Game shows rule!

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 01/19/2005 6:51 AM

Did no one love the big wheel? I know it wasn’t a fancy game, and everyone had to do it, but I always loved it. the other game I always loved was….no…wait…someone already made a chiaplot reference…. oh well i’m done.

Chestnuts roasted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 01/19/2005 8:02 AM

Plinko is the shit- I can see that almost everyone else thinks so, too! Glad I’m not the only one.

Matt- Congrats on Toyfare and Nick! Anyone who does anything for Nick is a hero in my eyes.

Nate- Made in Seoul, Korea? I KNEW it- as soon as I saw Matt’s LOTTEMINT gum, I knew some pranks had to be made here- you see here in Korea, EVERYTHING is dominated by LOTTE- theres a Lotte World mall, a Lotte skating rink, and their biggest fast food chain here is LOTTERIA! (I ate a cheeseburger there tonight actually!):)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/19/2005 8:02 AM

Hey good for you!

PLINKO!

Chestnuts roasted by dfgdgfdf @ 01/19/2005 8:59 AM

Plinko was great because it had a high risk of the disks getting stuck and messing up the whole damn game. I always loved watching Barker stick his boney hands up there to try and retrieve the disk, Especially after they covered the board with that sheet of plastic. Mountain Climber was good, too. I loved watching him fall off the edge!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/19/2005 9:04 AM

Is plinko the one where you droped a big coin thing down a verticle bed of metal spikes? If so, that was my very favorite. Also followed by the yodeling mountain climber…

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 01/19/2005 9:16 AM

B-Dawg- Yup, that’s Plinko all right- and a damn good definition of it, too! You make it sound almost deadly!!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/19/2005 9:22 AM

Gotta go with Plinko- even if you suck at it, you can still come away with some decent money.

What I’ve always wondered is: how heavy is that big wheel? Some people can’t spin it to save their lives, and others can make go around and around 100 times. And it’s not the people you think. I’ve seen gradmas kill that thing, and young people struggle like crazy with it.

Chestnuts roasted by 4thDown @ 01/19/2005 9:42 AM

Holy crap how can you pick a fav game. As a child it was the old man climbing the mountain or the one where you punch a hole and see how much money is inside. These days I would have to say it’s plinko. I remember hearing somewhere speculation that was the code word for doing the deed back when he had the affair with Diane going.

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 01/19/2005 9:45 AM

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