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03/06/2005: More Commercials of the `80s!

Well, hello there. Long time no see. As a reward for your loyalty, I present another fine batch of `80s Commercials, including everything from a Mr. T doll to a radio controlled inflatable Hulk. Fer real. I’ve done this ten-commercials-in-an-article deal a few times before, but I must say, this may very well be the best batch yet. It’s even got those Bad Case Of Worms toys I was asking about a short while back. Read the whole way through for a bonus section on “Freezy Freakies,” the gloves that changed the world. Henjoy.

Adding a Survey: Well, what are your hobbies? Real ones, not ones that just sound cool in the retelling.


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Awww, Beaver and Steve is a cute comic. I’m going to add it to my list of daily sites to look at :)

Ghosted by Kennef @ 03/10/2005 10:33 AM EST

Holy shit, I forgot about Muzzy until now…..what an awful commercial that was…it played over and over….

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 03/10/2005 10:53 AM EST

Hobbies:

Music – playing guitar and listening to all different kinds of music
Video games – RPGs are my favorites
Comics – mostly Marvel. I read about 15 monthly titles.
Star Wars Kubricks – I collect all these little guys. They are quite expensive though, since they’re made in Japan

Ghosted by mattbrand @ 03/10/2005 10:55 AM EST

You want an odd desk toy? There was one called "Magic Window" that had two different-colored sands in an oval of plastic. You could turn it over and the sands would shift and sift through each other. From Wham-O. Cool to look at, but didn’t last long in the stores. I think the sands got all mixed together or something.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/10/2005 12:03 PM EST

I had a several pairs of those "Freaky Freezy" gloves which may or may not have just been cheap knock offs. Only one I can really remember vividly was the last pair my rents gave me that had football related grpahics on them tho I know I went through at least half a dozen pairs. Why? cuz I liked watching the grpahics appear and dsappear so much that I forced the change for the sake of amusement and eventually wore them out to the point where they were in the permanant "On" position and were worthless and then I would demand a new pair.

Ghosted by The Krypt Angel @ 03/10/2005 1:29 PM EST

MATT, WASN’T IT YOUR BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 6??!!! IF SO HAPPY B-DAY!! I was surfing some old articles and found this http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0868/.

HOW FUCKING DEPRESSING IS IT THAT NONE US REMEMBERED YOUR B-DAY? SORRY, MAN

Ghosted by Pedro @ 03/10/2005 1:50 PM EST

Actually, I believe he mentioned it in one of his blog entries. The one announcing the article with the V, Couch Potato, Archie Bunker’s grandson, and Steve Urkel dolls. Although I must admit, I don’t think I said happy birthday to him.

Ghosted by jhnnywalkr @ 03/10/2005 2:09 PM EST

Oh, so happy belated birthday if I didn’t say it before. Geez. How rude of me.

Ghosted by jhnnywalkr @ 03/10/2005 2:10 PM EST

Am I the only one who noticed this in the Hulk ad?

"Available at all Heck’s locations."

I can’t help but chuckle at that.

Ghosted by Chris @ 03/10/2005 2:26 PM EST

"All Heck’s locations?" Is that how Evil The Cat made his money?

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/10/2005 3:35 PM EST

Hey Matt, I don’t know if you updated us on these, but did you ever get those alien creatures from the Froot Loops cereal you ordered?

Ghosted by jhnnywalkr @ 03/10/2005 4:45 PM EST

Ever wonder if Matt gets google eyes from the people behind the counter and these toy stores? At least one of them has to know this site and maybe know I sold him that toy he’s having so much fun with. Could there be a prouder moment for a CSR.

Ghosted by RAS @ 03/10/2005 5:18 PM EST

Yes! More 80’s goodness! Just what I’ve always wanted!

Ghosted by Gwa @ 03/10/2005 8:41 PM EST

please tell me you won this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=30&item=5960283685

Ghosted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/11/2005 2:22 AM EST

hey dude, macs run windows media files fine. they’ve made windows media player for mac for years now and VLC will play any video file ya throw at it so ya don’t gotta worry about us

Ghosted by Rychiar @ 03/11/2005 9:01 AM EST

That’s excellent news! Many Mac users must not realize this.

Ghosted by Matt @ 03/11/2005 9:28 AM EST

Wil Wheaton was in the NY Times today! Since ‘Stand By Me’ is my all time favorite movie, I was happy to see he’s finding success on the internet at http://www.wilwheaton.net- he’s turned into a "real writer someday" after all! Plus, I guess he was on CSI the other night, but being in Korea I will never get to see THAT! :(
Thought some of you might be interested.

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 03/11/2005 12:14 PM EST

The Second Annual Totally ’80s Convention this weekend in Hollywood.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 03/11/2005 7:59 PM EST

Haven’t posted in awhile, but had to drop a few words about my fond memories of the He-Man Talon Fighter. After seeing my new brother at the hospital for the first time, waaaay back in 1984, I was treated to the toy of my choice and I chose the Talon Fighter. I was more excited about the new addition to my He-Man collection than I was the new addition to my family. That Point Dread thingy was actually made to fasten onto the top of Castle Grayskull… and now you know.

Ghosted by Goggles Pisano @ 03/12/2005 1:07 AM EST

Here I was afraid that Goggles Paisano had hung up his Goggles! The Talon Fighter was kick-ass. Wish I had one.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 03/12/2005 11:39 AM EST

WTF, Matt! Where’s this new X-E! You’re killin’ me!

OK, so i still love X-E. But that’s does’t pardon you, Matt. You even said there’d be a couple of new articles over last weekend. However, I only saw one. One. And you still have the X-mas theme up. Tsk tsk. How many readers have you lost by now, Matt?

Ghosted by Nate @ 03/12/2005 7:08 PM EST

I think that last bit was unnecessary. Extremely. And only thing about the Xmas layout I’m really tired of is hearing again and again that it is, in fact, still up.

Matt, did you see the article about the "Mini Loch Ness Monster" that washed up on a British beach? The photo is majorly freaky, and absolutely looks like a Baby Nessie. Of course killjoy biologists are playing the "decomposed baby porpoise" card. Which is just no fun at all.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 03/12/2005 7:55 PM EST

I don’t want to give any details, as it’s absolutely none of our business anyway, just I have become vaguely aware of something that might be weighing heavily on Matt’s mind right now, so I suggest everyone cut him some slack about not updating much, at least for the next week or two, okay?

Please?

:)

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 03/13/2005 5:02 AM EST

All right, hobby time…u can’t touch this!

Playing trombone and sax for city band
Reading: Stephen King = #1! also I like Dean Koontz(although he can be formulatic). I like reading lots of different things. It’s just that now there never seems to be any time alone to read. :(

Musik: I like downloading Pink Floyd concerts, and I also trade Phish shows. There’s just something crazy about having a recording of a show that you were actually at. I also have a copy of a Ministry show I was at where Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick came onstage and played Supernaut with the band!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 03/13/2005 5:55 PM EST

As someone who’s been racking my brains for decades to remember the bridge to the Mr. T doll commercial, I had to pop my head in and say thank you for posting this! The beginning of the commercial was cut off, though: I distinctly remember the first line being "Mr. T! He’s got legs that move, he’s twelve inches hi-iigh…"

So, yeah. Both his arms and legs move. Thanks, Galoob.

Ghosted by Suzanne @ 03/13/2005 9:15 PM EST

Dear Matt,

Howzabout making us another XE forum? I bet you wouldn’t get any more complaints about lack of articles if we had somewhere to hang out in the meantime.

Ghosted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/14/2005 1:44 AM EST

Matt, isn’t your name Caracappa? I just read that two former New York City cops have been indicted on murder charges and claims that they were Mafia hitmen, and one of them was named Stephen Caracappa. Any relation?

Ghosted by Hellpop! @ 03/14/2005 1:49 AM EST

you mean you still have italian mafia in NY????
Wow, oldies never die!

BTW, my talking parrot has been sick all week because there’s no new stuff for him to read…sniff!

so we made a voodoo puppet of you matt…we know we can’t hurt you cause we ain’t have no hair of yours…so it’s both violently fun and harm free, which is what most of us aim in our boring life ;)
rock on :) and come back soon hehehe

Ghosted by melonian @ 03/14/2005 7:54 AM EST

We need at least another poster survey, like: Name a music group/artist you hate, and name one song by them you like. Or, anything interesting happen at the last concert you attended?

Ghosted by kingklash heard it, he heard it, heard it on the X. @ 03/14/2005 11:30 AM EST

Ms. Pas-Mac sounds just like Ethel Merman. Oh well, Intellivision is better anyway.

My hobbies: writing, rock music, sports (especially football and hockey), video games (particularly my Gamecube)

Ghosted by mjf7583 @ 03/15/2005 11:10 AM EST

I just found this Japanese Zelda 3
Commercial. Ph33r the Z3lda Rap!
http://www.zeronews-fr.com/flash/zeldaaaaaa.php

Ghosted by Blue Eagle @ 03/15/2005 3:35 PM EST

oh yeah mjf7583 I was just going to say that I think it really was Ethel Merman…I mean- I feel like as a kid I saw some story on Entertainment Tonight or some such crap saying that she did that voice. Then again, that was so long ago I could be crazy. My favorite Ethel Merman thing is in Airplane…I think it might be Airplane 2? Not sure- where they are in the hospital and there is a crazy patient that thinks he is Ethel Merman and then they show him and it is really her saying "you’ll be swell, you’ll be great!" then they sedate her and she trails off….I love that… Jesus I am wordy today…anyway my hobby is drinking and surfing the web while a wee bit tipsy… in case you could not tell…
Thanks for the commercials…I dig seeing stuff like that! Does anyone remember a video game commercial for some game that had to do with pigs and it showed a big bad wolf with pig back-up singers singing "say oink"? Anyone??

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue…heheh

Ghosted by JG @ 03/21/2005 9:14 PM EST

Regarding updates -

Since it’s a free site, I think we should give the caretaker some slack here. It’s not like we can demand our money back.

Ghosted by scuba steve @ 03/22/2005 11:34 PM EST

Hey, Matt! What about Captain Power? Remember that one – where you bought the toys and the show’s bad guys shot back at you? If you got hit, your action figure out be blown out of the cockpit of the ship you were holding like a gun.

Oh, and the toys worked one-on-one, too, like pre-Lazer Tag.

The show was done by the guy who did B5. And really, the whole concept was before its time!

Ghosted by Chase @ 03/25/2005 5:52 PM EST

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