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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.

Posted by Matt on 03/06/2005. E-mail me!

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Woo! 80′s Commercials! Loyalty!

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 03/06/2005 1:57 PM

All right! I was wishing for some new commercials the other day! Mr. T and the Hulk, you can’t beat that! Rock.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 03/06/2005 2:00 PM

Ah yes, 80′s commercials. They always bring me back to the good old days of being young, not having much responsibility, and getting the most awesome toys. Those were the days! Now people just look at me weird when I talk about toys and when I buy them for myself.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrea @ 03/06/2005 2:12 PM

all I gotta say is that liquid stuff was very sexual!!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 03/06/2005 2:28 PM

Whoa Miss Pac-Man sounds like a drag queen!

Chestnuts roasted by Pat @ 03/06/2005 2:35 PM

hulk link isn’t working for me. Anyone else have this problem?

Chestnuts roasted by pig-malien @ 03/06/2005 2:59 PM

That hulk link kept sending me back to the home page. Anyway, I think the slime in a garbage can with EYES was definitely the coolest toy of that lot. Remember how, during Halloween, Jello would sing "J.E.L.L.O. it’s aliiiive" as their jingle? Halloween is so ultra64 awesome that we should all get the Ghoul-Aid vampire tattooed on our faces!! Think of how impressed chicks would be

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/06/2005 3:01 PM

Hulk link has been fixed.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/06/2005 3:02 PM

Closest to 1st I’ve ever been!

I want a fist full of rage.

Chestnuts roasted by DrVilovski @ 03/06/2005 3:25 PM

I had forgotten all about those gloves. I had a pair, I remember a red heart appeared on them when they were cold. I think it might have said I (heart) snow or something.

I also must say "adult" toys have certainly changed over the years.

Chestnuts roasted by maglizrd @ 03/06/2005 3:36 PM

Ooh, I didn’t know that veteran Saturday Night Live announcer Don Pardo also lent his voice to Atari ads back in the day! Also, is there an obscure technical reason why the Atari Pac-Men ate dashes and not dots? Does the command to display dots really take up that much more memory on the cartridge than the command to display dashes did?

Also, I was around 10 at the height of Transformer mania (84-85) and I live in Canada, so you’d think I’d remember Freezy Freakies, but, nope. Either they didn’t sell them around where I was or they just weren’t popular at my specific elementary school.

By the way, the link at the end of the article goes to the entry with the movie reviews.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 03/06/2005 3:41 PM

We don’t get snow or anything resembling "cold" compared to what you guys deal with, so I don’t think the Freezy Freakies has such a monumental impact in my neck of the woods. We had all the ‘changes color in the sun’ crap though.
The radio controlled Hulk and T doll strike me as really great props that a wacky therapist could use to get their patients to roleplay. Like, you could talk through Mr. T to work on your anger management issues, and use Hulk to give voice to your frustration about not being taken seriously during family discussions or something. The possibilities are endless!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/06/2005 4:49 PM

Man I could watch these commercials all day long. If only I had the time/knowhow to put all of my commercials onto my webpage. Oh well

Chestnuts roasted by Czar Matthew @ 03/06/2005 4:55 PM

That a classic song that Ms. Pac-Man is singing.

KB went out of business here. We still have a couple of Toys R Us left and I hope they survive.

That is a weird He-Man commercial, saying that it’s a set but everything is sold separately. Strange.

I wish I remembered the things in this article besides Q-bert and Ms. Pac-Man, mostly cause they’re timeless.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 03/06/2005 5:13 PM

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Chestnuts roasted by Darth Monkey @ 03/06/2005 6:05 PM

I remember having that Mr.T doll. That is all.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 03/06/2005 6:30 PM

Very nice even though I didn’t have any of those things (or even remember the commercials and that includes the Talon Fighter). My parents were weird about that. I had tons of figures (MOTU, StarWars, etc.) but outside of GI-Joe, I never had any vehicles or playsets. No Castle Greyskull, no Millenium Falcon, no X-Wing, and certainly no Eternia. The only reason I probably had GI-Joe is because it was one of the few things my older brother and I played with together. I got his SW hand me downs and he was too old for MOTU.
Thanks for the commercials anyway. That MS. PACMAN is 5 star!

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 03/06/2005 6:50 PM

I was a slave to the Freaky Freezies fashion trend. I wanted a pair soooo much, but my mom (in true uncool mother style) refused to see reason and would not buy me a pair. As I lived out in the country on a farm, I didn’t even have the recourse of walking to a local store with hoarded birthday money to buy my own. This totally unreasonable denial of my basic need for hand-coverings that became 100 times cooler in the cold is probably at the core of my many issues today.

Chestnuts roasted by Ripley26 @ 03/06/2005 7:46 PM

i’ve been lookin for somethin and was wonderin if u guys could help:
does anyone remember a sort of digital etch-a-sketch? u could draw little pixilatd pictures and then animate it…i think it had white casing with a black n white screen

Chestnuts roasted by gerv @ 03/06/2005 9:24 PM

"all I gotta say is that liquid stuff was very sexual!!"-IHAQ

Well, I was going to make a joke about "fluid fantasies" that I always have to clean up the next morning, but I think they gave us something better to work with when they said, "Fluid Fantasies, an adult toy." Yeaaaaaaah . . .

Chestnuts roasted by Predacon Warlord @ 03/06/2005 9:34 PM

The Freaky Freezies mittens are about the only item out of that batch I remember today. We did see the commercials, but they were expensive, and it rarely gets cold enough this close to the ocean to need such puffy hand coverings.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/06/2005 9:41 PM

Gerv,

I do believe the item you are searching for is the "Etch-a-Sketch Animator" circa 1988. I DID have one of those proving I wasn’t totally deprived.
http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/etchasketch.shtml
If not, then I have no clue.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 03/06/2005 11:04 PM

My Hobbies:

Theatre
Film
Writing
Reading
NES
Collecting obscure videos and games
Pee Wee Herman

The list could go on, but what I have here tells you all the genralities. Anything else you want to learn about me can be surmised from my various posts here on X-E.

And now to read that article…

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/06/2005 11:06 PM

80′s commercial articles are the best.

I had a pair of those gloves. But mine had rainbows that would appear. I can’t remember, but they might have been Care Bear ones. Haha, I hope I didn’t wear them past kindergarten.

As far as hobbies go, I buy a lot of 90′s alternative and punk CD’s.

Chestnuts roasted by Dean @ 03/06/2005 11:18 PM

I recall seeing a similar Ms. Pac-Man commercial that did feature the singing cartoon Ms. Pac-Man, plus a few other elemnts from the commercial in this article. However, it also had these kids discussing a date with Ms. Pac-Man that one of the fortunate children had. He talked about how unbelievable she was.

My God. Kids getting horny over Ms. Pac-Man? And actually believing that they had sex with her? And people say that today’s video games are corrupting our children’s minds.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/06/2005 11:36 PM

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