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05/01/2005: You saw the House. Now meet the Store.

Almost didn’t beat the clock to get this one up before the weekend ends, but here it is — an almost-sequel to the House article, it’s….The Store! Yes, on the way home from the House, we met the Store. The Store is also known as “Gizmos & Gadgets,” and it’s got everything. Just a step above a thrift shop, it’s the place that gave me WWF loot bags, Dinosaurs Attack! cards and a black licorice pipe that I completely forgot to mention in the article. Go check out the goods! Envy the crap I have no place for! Make outrageous monetary offers!

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Discussion Thread: 124 comments

Matt… you forgot to close the davidseeds.com tag…. ooo ooooo

Chestnuts roasted by ed @ 05/01/2005 8:57 PM EDT

WOAH! 1st post. Ever!!!

Yay

Chestnuts roasted by ed @ 05/01/2005 8:57 PM EDT

Oh my god! Useless crap! I LOVE useless crap!

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 05/01/2005 8:58 PM EDT

Great follow-up article. That picture of Krang and Shredder is the funniest goddamned thing I’ve seen all weekend. It looks like Shredder is begging for the forgiveness of his "baby-momma" Krang after losing his temper again and breaking the bedroom lamp.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/01/2005 9:00 PM EDT

Thanks, ed. Fixed.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/01/2005 9:16 PM EDT

I got one of those fake cigarettes on a class trip to Quebec. People were freaking out as I wheeled my chair down the street "swmoking" that thing. I’m only 3′2 so people must of wondered who would give a toddler a light. LOL

Chestnuts roasted by Pandiferus @ 05/01/2005 9:35 PM EDT

I love places like that.

Did anyone catch the new family guy? Just saw it and it started where it stopped. The GI Joe part was great.

Chestnuts roasted by Modern Day Pirates @ 05/01/2005 9:44 PM EDT

Those Dinosaur’s Attack! cards look amazing. Never seen those before.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/01/2005 9:50 PM EDT

Man, those ads sure bring back some fine memories…

Chestnuts roasted by Al @ 05/01/2005 9:51 PM EDT

yay newer post

Chestnuts roasted by spliner is a rat @ 05/01/2005 9:53 PM EDT

I’m dieing to see all of those dinosaurs attack cards. Too bad they never got a movie made out of them like the MArs Attacks ones did.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 05/01/2005 10:21 PM EDT

If I may echo ROADBLOCK, that is some marvelous crap. Big thumbs up to the CAPTAIN POWER junk. I was always surprised that wasn’t a bigger hit.
Saw a lot of EPISODE III TV spots this weekend. AND, it’s PG-13!!

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/01/2005 10:30 PM EDT

Wow, Dinosaurs Attack… That was like my introduction to ridiculously over-the-top comic book style gore.

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 05/01/2005 10:41 PM EDT

Ho-ly fuck! I’ve never seen those Dinosaurs Attack cards before, but now I wish I’d have. They kinda remind me of these monster cards they use to sell someplace when I was a kid. I stuck them all on my dresser, in turn scaring the hell out of myself…
Thanks, I think I’ll go hunt them down. Great article Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Well @ 05/01/2005 10:45 PM EDT

I sorely regret never having heard of DINOSAURS ATTACK cards before. It seems like something I would have wanted but ultimately was scared by (same as GPK which I threw away too since I had one make me throw-up. I tried to buy a one of the new packs but…I had to give it away to a co-worker.) ANYWAYS, here is a link that is on topic. Check out Trilobite Terror
http://www.fscwv.edu/users/rheffner/dinoweb/indexfront.htm

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/01/2005 10:51 PM EDT

Manimal I’m looking at that site right now too. I’m probably going to spend the next hour or two reading every card.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 05/01/2005 10:54 PM EDT

Damn, I posted too soon and messed up my tenses. It should read "something I would have wanted but ultimately WOULD HAVE BEEN scared by."
Also, I like it because they remind me of sideshow posters.
Okay, enough of that.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 05/01/2005 10:54 PM EDT

Hey Matt, was "Red Dragon Inn" (in the California Raisins paragraph) a reference to Runescape? If it was, do you still play that game? And what is/was your level? I just started getting into Runescape, and it’s embarrassingly addicting. ha

By the way, have you seen the new R2D2-shaped pop coolers that Pepsi is promoting Episode III with? They went all-out with these things, very cool looking indeed. The pepsi supplier I talked to is attempting to get ahold of an extra one for me. Check them out: http://www.r2d2central.com/pho...om/pics/2005-pepsi-coolers.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Dean @ 05/01/2005 11:14 PM EDT

DINOSAURS ATTACK!!!

I forgot all about those! Oh wow. Thanks for that link, Manimal… Those are pretty much the coolest things ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Hayes @ 05/01/2005 11:15 PM EDT

Shit. Looks like you’re going to have to cut and paste the URL I posted if you care to see the things.

Chestnuts roasted by Dean @ 05/01/2005 11:17 PM EDT

What are all yall doing for May im goin to Bestro.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. May @ 05/01/2005 11:21 PM EDT

I’m suddenly reminded of a funny story: On May 1st a few years ago, I was in Cologne, Germany for a study-abroad program. I stayed with a host family and attended a German high-school with this kid Gabriel who, incidentally, was a drug-dealer. Anyway, May 1st is apparently some kind of half-assed German holiday which requires all young German lads to cut down a Maibaum (May tree), decorate it, and place it on their girlfriend’s front lawn as a symbol of their blossoming love or some shit. I helped Gabriel fetch his girlfriend’s tree at FOUR IN THE FUCKING MORNING after an evening of heavy drinking (it had apparently slipped his drug-addled mind until that point). It was an arduous, frustrating experience because I was throughly drunk and utterly exhausted, but at least I earned the right to truthfully claim that I’ve carried a 15-foot birch tree down the rain-slicked streets of Cologne, Germany in the middle of the night during my lifetime. To add a final degree of stinging insult to the whole evening, I had to pay for the cab-ride home because the junkie prick was broke. The moral to this story that, in all likelihood, nobody even read is: never trust a 17-year-old German drug-dealer.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/01/2005 11:49 PM EDT

Those Dino Attack cards were possibly the most messed up thing I have seen in quite a while. The ones with the big generic t-rex things eating the kids in the bus and the classroom was like WOW! those kids are F***ed.

Chestnuts roasted by E. King @ 05/01/2005 11:57 PM EDT

I SO wish I knew about those Dinosaur Attacks cards! I would NOT have been scarred by them.

Anyway, you lead such a rich life, Matt. I wish I found places like that.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 05/02/2005 1:25 AM EDT

Hey Yeti,

Awesome story. I’m currently in Germany (Cologne is about an hour or two away from Frankfurt), how old do you think your drug dealer friend is?

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/02/2005 2:08 AM EDT

Is it just my imagination or is the Superfly guy from the WWF bag grabbing himself?

Chestnuts roasted by springsprite @ 05/02/2005 2:12 AM EDT

Wasn’t the reference to The Red Dragon Inn and disappearing into a cloud of sulphur in regards to "LORD" (Legend of the Red Dragon), a popular BBS door game of years gone by?

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 05/02/2005 2:12 AM EDT

I remember ghost paws my mom sewed some to my homemade witch costume.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 05/02/2005 2:13 AM EDT

yay for Captain Power cheap stuff, most of his stuff usually started at seven bucks plus. Did you know that there was a captain power laser tag type clone with wearable shield points taking thing as well as the other vehicle and throne things? and now this! woah. this site is a breath of fun air. Those card treats rocked. I need to go shopping tommorow. I need to find more old computers.
I would like to dedicate this post to Mike, of Mike’s Surplus in Lower Lake California, who ran a surplus store and curiosity /etc. shop, who was my friend, who i bought many toys from and comics, and my Zaxxon arcade game, who passed away as result of cancer about 4 or 5 weeks ago and will be missed. People who love things like all of us here who rummage through shops looking for toys and games and stuff, we all keep that spirit of fun alive. Thanks Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Obelisk @ 05/02/2005 2:45 AM EDT

Sweet, you played L.O.R.D. too! Oh god, this is the best article ever. The Captain Power masks and the Turtle postcards are excellent.
The Legend of the Red Dragon reference just totally makes it.

(Between this and the Casino Arcades article I’m beginning to wonder if you followed me throughout my own childhood).

Chestnuts roasted by Anne Packrat @ 05/02/2005 3:00 AM EDT

Those Dinosaur cards were great. Definately the most gory trading cards I had as a kid. Even worse than garbage pail kids!!

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 05/02/2005 7:33 AM EDT

I’m a pretty huge packrat, I’ll admit it. My room is in desperate need of cleaning and I just keep accumulating crap I don’t need and huge, tumbleweed-like tufts of dog hair. I like neat, useless crap. And when I clicked on the "Drop a comment" link at the bottom of the article, only then did I realize how jealous I am of you for finding this place. In retrospect, I think it really started to set in around the time the Nintendo-themed stuff showed up. You’re a lucky guy.

I never had the misfortune of being exposed to those Dinosaurs Attack cards when I was a kid, but I can see what you’re talking about. That kind of stuff scared the shit out of me when I was little. Even some of the Garbage Pail Kids cards were too much for my young, fragile mind. As fascinated by them as I am now, they would have scarred me, no doubt. Hell, I might have nightmares tonight!

And a 20-minute limit?! Perhaps you should rethink your classification of these people as "friends".

Great article. Huge flood of nostalgia.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 05/02/2005 7:39 AM EDT

Holy Shitballs, I was trying to remember that series of dinosaur cards about a month ago and no one knew what the hell I was talking about!

Thanks for the memories! (Hey, scan all those cards to save them for the ages!)

Chestnuts roasted by drstupid @ 05/02/2005 8:38 AM EDT

Sounds like Matt had a pretty good haul. But…am I the only one wondering what was left behind? Hey Matt, how about you run a follow-up article with pics of stuff you didn’t originally notice until looking through your snapshots?

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 05/02/2005 8:51 AM EDT

"Red Dragon Inn" is a reference to the roleplaying AOL chatroom of old. I don’t know if it’s still around, but wouldn’t be surprised.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/02/2005 9:27 AM EDT

EMajorwitz,
Gabriel the drug-dealer was seventeen back in 2001, so I suppose, if my math is correct, he’d be around twenty-one years old nowadays. He never actually admitted to selling drugs, but I was able to put two and two together when I found out he had his own flat and his only "official" source of income was a part-time job at a comic-book store.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/02/2005 9:39 AM EDT

By the way, EMajorwitz, my favorite part of Germany was the beer-halls of Munich. I always felt like a viking or some other kind of barbarian whenever I would drink there because of the huge wooden tables, smoke-stained walls, and freakishly large stiens of beer. Do you ever find yourself in Munich much?

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 05/02/2005 9:49 AM EDT

Lazertag RULED! Man .. maybe I need to trek out to some old shack and look for tablecloths ..

Matt, how much for the lazertag tablecloths?

Chestnuts roasted by Brett @ 05/02/2005 10:38 AM EDT

Why This Game Does Nothing To Help Michael’s Dubious Reputation: An article for the times.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/02/2005 10:46 AM EDT

Matt! I found a Royal Guardsman the other day, but he was blue! What the fuck!!

Chestnuts roasted by iwasalion @ 05/02/2005 11:51 AM EDT

Great article again. Great grabs for just 20 minutes. Just imagine the finds if you have more time. I don’t think we could handle that. Anyway, just needed to let the XE crowd know that kellogg’s CORN POPS cereal is giving away Light Saber spoons. I purchased mine this weekend and it just seems so XE in nature that I had to share. Get yours asap.

Chestnuts roasted by Tigerfan @ 05/02/2005 11:54 AM EDT

Woo-ha! Love those old junk shops! I was sorta kidding (sorta) when I said M-to the-A-to the old double-T was a Pop Culture Indiana Jones. (we named the dog Indiana) When Little Brother and his Little Woman are down from Kansas, one of the first things we do is go cruise second-hand stores and GoodWills. Once I missed out getting a Fisher-Price PXL camera because none of us had enough money altogether to get it. Another time, ther was a creepy old lady always coming up from behind us, talking to herself. And, she sounded like the pinheads in "Freaks." Who knows, she might be behind you even now.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/02/2005 11:55 AM EDT

Holy shi’ite do I want that Legend of Zelda cartoon trading card treat. For a mere 19 cents it could adorn one of my writer notebooks. (I’m an MFA student in creative writing.)

I always get excited on Fridays. The Super Mario Bros Super Show would play a Legend of Zelda adventure.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 05/02/2005 12:04 PM EDT

Make that got excited. Alas, it’s no longer on the air. =(

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 05/02/2005 12:05 PM EDT

I liked the Legend of the Red Dragon reference.

Chestnuts roasted by Ron @ 05/02/2005 12:56 PM EDT

Haha, my dad always eats those licorice pipe things. He gets them at some old-style candy store. I don’t really like licorice.

Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 05/02/2005 12:58 PM EDT

I, too, thought the "Red Dragon Inn" comment was a reference to L.O.R.D.. HAHA, it seems like I’m not the only one on the board to do so. I’m glad there are a lot of other people that have fond memories of that game. Ah, the BBS days…

Chestnuts roasted by eyeless @ 05/02/2005 1:15 PM EDT

I love food fighters you son of a bitch.

Chestnuts roasted by jman @ 05/02/2005 1:33 PM EDT

I used to have the complete Dinosaurs Attack set and they were the most gruesome depictions of horrific death I had ever seen up until that point. For some reason I really liked them - not necessarily because of all the blood but all the detail. I hope they’re still somehow at my parents’ house.

Chestnuts roasted by J. @ 05/02/2005 1:52 PM EDT

Yo Yeti,

No, I haven’t beem able to frequent much of Germany yet. We have been here since last August and I still don’t know the language.

Plus, with my wife expecting and me being a lightweight drinking former Marine, I just don’t think it would be fair to her.

My wife teaches elementary school in Butzbach while I play club football (tackle, yes!!!) here in Giessen. Check us out on the web (www.giessen-dragons.de), I’m tje QB, #12 on the Mens (Herren) team.

Yes, they do love their beer here. It sure was wild for Fasching…

Sorry to hear that he was a druggie. Most of the former team before I got here was, so they kicked them out and moved to Giessen.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 05/02/2005 2:39 PM EDT

Matt, if you plan on heading back to NY to visit that store, let me know. I’d gladly send you a few bucks to pick me up some stuff from the store, especially the Nintendo trading cards and WWF loot bags. I used to have tons of those old Nintendo cards when I was a little kid. I remember that I stored the cards, along with my Ninja Turtles action figures, in my Nintendo storage crate.

Chestnuts roasted by Kathodos @ 05/02/2005 3:22 PM EDT

Holy….CRAP!!!!

I have that TMNT postcard book! All of those postcards are still intact, too.

Another AWESOME article, Matt. At least this one got on Fark!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 05/02/2005 3:22 PM EDT

Matt, I don’t see the ads you’re talking about at the end.

Those Dinosaur Attack cards are freaky. I would love to see a card by card breakdown article from you. Also, an article on the stuff you bought not show in this article.

I would love to have a store like that here. I fell in love when I spotted the pic with all those toys. Awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 05/02/2005 3:26 PM EDT

Matt, I know you’re busy with a real job in the real world now, but thanks a ton for the two recent articles. They were great, and well worth the wait!

Chestnuts roasted by Rosella @ 05/02/2005 3:26 PM EDT

Anyone else want to see Matt in a Darth Vader voice changer helmet?

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 05/02/2005 3:52 PM EDT

This is way off topic, but speaking of Darth Vader, HOLY CRAP! Darth Vader Slurpee Cups! Has anyone else gotten these? They hurt mein eyes to look at.

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 05/02/2005 4:40 PM EDT

Krang and I will not be denied our love!

Chestnuts roasted by Shredder @ 05/02/2005 4:51 PM EDT

I saw that postcard book at my library on Saturday. They had all of their superhero books on display. That was the only TMNT one I haven’t read. I should’ve took it off the shelf and read it.
And I wish I could find stores like these more often. Or maybe I just pass them and think they’re tire stores and don’t bother going in.

Chestnuts roasted by radio @ 05/02/2005 5:00 PM EDT

The turtles were small in those post cards because of a storyline from the Archie turtle comics issue #6 i think and a show from the old cartoon. The artwork was just reused and copied over to a degree. But ya, most of that whale shit never has anything to do with mutant ninja face attacking. That is why i love it so.

Chestnuts roasted by Zombie Derrick @ 05/02/2005 5:09 PM EDT

You haven’t done a "fundraiser" where you sold alot of your crap in awhile… I’d love to get my hands on a few things that you’ve written about but haven’t been able to find, especially the movies. Think about it…

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 05/02/2005 5:13 PM EDT

You know that Christmas was established on December 25th to combat another upstart religion’s worship of the sun god, and it’s actually rather probable that Jesus was born in late April, as many of the events described in the Bible take place in spring.

Chestnuts roasted by "MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 05/02/2005 5:37 PM EDT

Hey, about the TMNT post cards… I can tell just from looking at the cover of the book that they’re using the art from the Random House picture books. Infact, the two cards described with the Turtles in a glass bottle and eating a giant pizza are from the book The Incredible Shrinking Turtles, based on the season 2 episode of the same name.

My superior knowledge of TMNT wins again!

Chestnuts roasted by JDavis @ 05/02/2005 6:08 PM EDT

"proves to be the Store purchase than interests me the least"

"that" interests me?

good article

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 05/02/2005 6:24 PM EDT

Zombie Derrick is right…arc was called "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles." And yeah, there really was a scene where they got trapped in a bottle and another where they’re eating a (comparatively) enormous pizza.

I have those postcards and treasure them. The art sure sucks though.

Chestnuts roasted by Lindsay @ 05/02/2005 6:28 PM EDT

Man, those "When Dinosaurs Attack" cards look like they were done by the same artist that did the "Mars Attacks" cards.

I had quite a few of them when I was a kid, never managed to get the whole series, but they were definitely an influence on me.

Great article. Always great to read about your treasures.

And as has been said before, 20 minute time limit? Heathens!

Chestnuts roasted by UncleJR @ 05/02/2005 6:38 PM EDT

Alls I can say is, "Another great article Madd Matt". It brought back a bunch of good memories…Dinosaurs Attack Cards,and the TMNT book especially. Can’t wait for Part Duex.

Chestnuts roasted by Texican @ 05/02/2005 6:43 PM EDT

Hey Matt! Great article, Sir. From the looks of the picture it would appear that you will not be able to assemble a complete set of the ‘Dinosaurs Attack!’ based upon the number of packs shown. I am almost certain that I have a shit load of ‘doubles’ for that series. If you are interested, let me know what numbers you are missing and if I have them, I’d be happy to pass them along. Sadly, you are correct when saying that these cards (As well as other things) could never be printed today. Therefore . . . May all the hypocritical worshippers and creators of political correctness drop fu–ing dead!
Have a nice day folks!

Chestnuts roasted by REBLYELL @ 05/02/2005 6:54 PM EDT

I had that Supergirl movie storybook when I was younger,and Marvel Comics versions of those Trading Card Treats.

I really do remember those Dinosaur Attacks! cards. They didn’t really gross me out,I was more interested in the idea of rampaging dinosaurs existing in the modern day becuase of a fluke of science to be worried about that.

There’s a store in a nearby town that’s like this one,but they mostly have NASCAR stuff and cheesey crap,and has only been around for a few years,so the only pop culture things I’ve ever seen in this store is stuff more recent,like Disney movies,Spider-Man,Star Wars Episode One,things like that. I did see a shopping cart full of late eighties-early nineties Marvel Comics,including ones like G.I. Joe.

Just don’t plan on coming all the way out here to rural Michigan,expecting another Store,becuase you’ll be disappointed.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 05/02/2005 6:54 PM EDT

The Lost X-E Articles, for those of us who have never read these. One of them is a review of the child molesting Different Strokes episode.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/02/2005 7:05 PM EDT

That Monkey Attack is a real good one sadly matt never told us why the monkeys were on cars and everything, did they escape from a zoo or What Mattz.

Chestnuts roasted by JAM @ 05/02/2005 7:08 PM EDT

Matt, u are my personal hero–plugging Manahawkin was cool. I live 15 minutes from Manahawkin.

This article was great–like stepping into a time-warp. A good time-warp at that. I couldn’t help but think of my Super Mario Bros. paper cup dispenser that my mom bought for the kitchen when I was six. She won’t get rid of it b/c she thinks it will be worth something. You know, it probably has more value than those napkins or trading cards.

Never before have I see such gruesome trading cards. Good lord–Dinosaurs Attack???!!!
Once again, a great article–good clean fun for the whole family… If you family is a bunch of nostalgia freaks (mine aren’t, but I have a friend and a boyfriend who are). Remind me never to go to the Middle of Nowhere that is Upstate NY again.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 05/02/2005 7:25 PM EDT

I heard people talking about Family Guy today on campus…particularly the GI Joe part. That was classic–my brother and I laughed hysterically over it.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 05/02/2005 7:27 PM EDT

Lord, how I love places like "The Store." There was a place like that on the next block over from me when I moved into my apartment about three years ago. That lady had EVERYTHING, from great CDs and original Nintendo games that I hadn’t seen in years to plates, dishware, and appliances that used to be found in my mother’s pea-green kitchen when I was three years old. I got three CDs, a chair, books, and countless pieces of little junk and toys like the masks and the joke stuff.

Alas, the place has literally been abandoned since its former owner flew the coop; a "closed" sign is permenantly etched into a cracked door. I’m glad to know such places still exist elsewhere. This article brought back some good memories, and reminds me of how much I love looking for treasures among what’s more-or-less trash.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 05/02/2005 9:13 PM EDT

Ooh! I remember those Dinosaurs Attack cards! Better than the GPK cards, in my opinion.

Just what we need, a Shredder and Krang Hentai card.
Hmm, you think the TMNT postcards were made by the same company who made the Bebop and Rocksteady "We’re Made for Each Other!" Valentine’s Day card?

Chestnuts roasted by The Dragon @ 05/02/2005 9:37 PM EDT

You should do an article on Garbage Pail Kids if you haven’t already.

Chestnuts roasted by Ree @ 05/02/2005 10:56 PM EDT

Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie Review
Garbage Pail Kids: Cheap Toys & Crummy Candy!
Garbage Pail Kids Tacky Snappers

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/02/2005 11:16 PM EDT

I’d like to see some pics of a party that makes use of all this wonderful crap.

How about a birthday party for Skeletor.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 05/02/2005 11:18 PM EDT

He has.
Use the search.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 05/02/2005 11:30 PM EDT

Sorry, I was talking to Ree, and squee beat me to it.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 05/02/2005 11:31 PM EDT

i need to know where that store is NOW!!!!!!1 delhi is not too far out of the way when i go home. if it’s close i’m there.

Chestnuts roasted by matt @ 05/02/2005 11:42 PM EDT

We are Flintstones Kids,, 10 million strong and growing!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Barney Rubble @ 05/02/2005 11:47 PM EDT

Matt, I really have to thank you for reminding me of Dinosaurs Attack! cards. My brother had a couple back in the day, and I used to sneek peeks at em’ and thought it was cool because of the gore. Now, years later, I read this article, then immediatly googled up a page with all the cards scanned and damn, they are pretty fucking gory.

Chestnuts roasted by Black Zarak @ 05/03/2005 1:48 AM EDT

I’ve been to that store. Wish I bought some stuff but for some reason didn’t feel like it at the time. I caught on my way back of from the Jersey shore. Matt’s right about 97 percent junk and it looks like he just scored the extra 3 percent. I love the fact you made it to that place Matt. small freakin world

Chestnuts roasted by Alexius @ 05/03/2005 8:08 AM EDT

It’s all about the captain power, alan thicke in gold plstic armor, lol. I had those same masks u found at one fo my parties. i was obsessed with that stuff as a kid, the evil dudes name was judge dredd wasn’t it? got me all confused when that movie came out. I had thats guys big mech vehicle and used to use that on all those tapes which for awhile tookover for my nintendo, lol

Chestnuts roasted by Rychiar @ 05/03/2005 8:08 AM EDT

whoa sorry about the multiple posts. The store’s not actually in Delhi. It’s in morris. I think that’s the name of the town. A town which also has a covered bridge

Chestnuts roasted by Alexius @ 05/03/2005 8:13 AM EDT

Do an article on the dino cards…I think I speak for most of us that we want to see them all

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 05/03/2005 8:39 AM EDT

Wow, so many comments this soon.

This article has pictures of WWF wrestlers, Mario and TMNT. Everything a guy could want.

The best thing about the store? The straw doll outside the front window (cf 1st picture).

Chestnuts roasted by CWH @ 05/03/2005 9:12 AM EDT

The b-b-bloggie is a s-s-s-stut-t-t-tering f-fool.

Chestnuts roasted by tra-jea-jea-eal @ 05/03/2005 9:40 AM EDT

"MR. GAME & WATCH"

Sun worship was anything but "another upstart religion’s worship of the sun god". Sun worship (specifically, worship of the Ancient Egyptian Sun God Ra) had been around since at least 2400 BC. Not really what I’d call an "upstart" affair. LOL

Sorry for the religion-related comment everyone!

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 05/03/2005 9:57 AM EDT

I wonder if the Store has a Monkey’s Paw for sale?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/03/2005 11:42 AM EDT

Matt should have taken a picture of both rooms. i think in the second room there was a display case with half a stearing wheel or something. none the less the place is awesome. I wish every town had recycle shops like these.

Chestnuts roasted by Alexius @ 05/03/2005 1:13 PM EDT

Iforgot to mention that I had a dog in the 80’s named Koko B. Ware.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/03/2005 1:19 PM EDT

I actually have a VHS copy of the Incredible Shrinking Turtles. And the other episodes where they need to get the crystals to bring back some guys spaceship or something. I don’t remember it all that well.

Chestnuts roasted by radio @ 05/03/2005 3:33 PM EDT

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20119
Woo! License to Drive and, even better, TURK 182 are coming to DVD! Oh how I have waited for Turk 182. Matt, you probably get tired of people asking you to review their suggested movies so I’m not going to do that. Except I kind of just did. Damn I’m good.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 05/03/2005 3:42 PM EDT

As with alot of people on here, I also remember the Dino Attacks cards (though vaguely) It’s one of those images I saw when I was younger that became permantly etched in my mind (that and the cover of Iron Maidens Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son album)….anyhow! Who doesn’t love goin to stores like that. I remember about a year or so ago I was downtown with my parents and went into a store that had a shitload of old movies, comics, cds…u name it! But moving on…I know I’ve posted this before…but I’m gonna ask again. Does anyone remember these cards from late 80’s early 90’s They were stickers I remember, and they were of real products…but the names were like a gross or disturbing version of the products. the mirror on my dresser used to be covered with them…but cannot remember for the life of me what the hell they were called? Does anyone remember?

Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 05/03/2005 3:48 PM EDT

Nope, fraid not. Maybe if you could remember a more specific example? Sounds like something from the GPKs era.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 05/03/2005 3:51 PM EDT

Wacky Packages, no?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/03/2005 3:56 PM EDT

I agree with Wacky Packages also. They’re making a comeback. They’re were some free inserts of them in some comic books a few months ago. Pretty cool.

Jhnnywalkr: Haim was interviewed about License to Drive in Entertainment Weekly. Batman’s on the cover.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 05/03/2005 4:28 PM EDT

Looks like Wacky Packages it is.
http://www.wackypackages.org/
JLAJRC: Cool, thanks! I’ll see if I can check that out. I’m always interested in whatever inane thing either Corey has to say. Although I must admit, I missed the 20/20 interview with the Feldman about MJ. What I’m really waiting for though, is the Turk 182. I’ve convinced myself I’m one of the few people on the face of this earth that remember it and desperately want to see it again. It’s practically impossible to find in a video store. I’ve found VHS copies on E-Bay, but I’ve been holding out for a DVD. I figured it must come someday.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 05/03/2005 4:35 PM EDT

Damn. Full text not available on EW online.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 05/03/2005 4:37 PM EDT

You’d absoultely LOVE this store in Chicago named Uncle Fun’s. I think it’s in Wrigleyville but I could be very wrong. I’ve been there a number of times and it’s always fabulous. The first time there I bought a school folder with Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter on it…priceless!

Chestnuts roasted by sara @ 05/03/2005 4:52 PM EDT

I remember Wacky Packages from the 70’s. My faves from then were FishBone Salad Dressing, "That’s what it tastes like!" Bear Aspirin, "For Grizzly headaches." Peter Pain Peanut Butter, With Peter looking like ten rounds with Ali, Forman, and Fraizer.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/03/2005 5:31 PM EDT

That picture I posted of the Haimster was taken during the commentary for the License to Drive DVD. I’m still not sure if that’s Corey, or if it’s the guy who ate Corey.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/03/2005 6:32 PM EDT

And with the TMNT season 2 DVD is out, The Incredible Shrinking Turtles and the rest of the alien crystal fragments arc is availible for your viewing pleasure. You shouldn’t even have to think about whether or not to go buy it.

Chestnuts roasted by JDavis @ 05/03/2005 8:05 PM EDT

If anybody bothers to read this far, try googling Dinosaurs Attack. The first result has scans of all 55(?) cards.

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 05/03/2005 10:25 PM EDT

Oh, my friend had those Dinosaurs Attack cards. I remember one with a baby being ripped apart. At the tender age of, um, 10 or whatever, I found it absolutely disgusting.

Awesome!

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 05/03/2005 10:36 PM EDT

Hey, that TMNT postcard book was made by my dad’s studio!

I definitely remember the cover.

So, you may be interested to know that in a cosmic coincidence, the guy partially responsible for that TMNT postcard book LOVED Dinosaurs Attack!

My dad (cartoonist Guy Gilchrist) used to throw kind of tasteless christmas parties called Christmastown every year … he still does when he can … where he’d decorate everything with cheap toys and crap …

One year he went crazy and bought a million packs of Dinosaurs Attack! … He covered walls with them, gave them to people.

I was a kid, and they scared the shit out of me.

Obviously a play on Mars Attacks! … he loved them, but he got in a lot of trouble later for disturbing the children … and the adults …. it didn’t go well with my mother. They’re divorced now (not because of that)!

Aaanyway, yeah, the cover of that TMNT postcard book would have been done by Guy Gilchrist Studios. My father didn’t draw it himself if I remember, but someone from his staff did. My mother (Marie Andersen) probably colored it. They also did Tiny Toons, Looney Tunes, Biker Mice From Mars and Disney books at the time.

Guy Gilchrist is best known as the artist of the comic strips Jim Henson’s The Muppets and Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy.

That Shredder proposing to Krang picture you posted is clearly not the work of my dad’s studio … but I’m sure most of the others are. I remember they did a book about the turtles teaching kids to recycle too! And retellings of The Incredible Shrinking Turtles and a black and white Eastman/Laird Donatello comic where he meets and artist and goes through a mirror where the artist’s drawings come to life, or something … I wouldn’t doubt that some of the pictures within are from these books …

I was a huge turtles fan as a kid … still have a soft spot for ‘em.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrett Gilchrist @ 05/04/2005 4:28 AM EDT

Thank you so much everyone. You don’t know for how long I’ve been trying to remember what the hell those cards/stickers were called. So Matt, jhnnywalkr, JLAJRC. I thank you all for helping me remember…now I can die a happy man. Ecto Cooler for everyone!

Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 05/04/2005 11:27 AM EDT

Dinosaurs Attack cards would be hilarious if they weren’t so damned disturbing at times.

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 05/04/2005 12:00 PM EDT

I had completely forgotten about the Dinosaurs attack cards till just now, I collected the shit out of them when I was a kid, and i’m fairly sure they are still in the closet somewhere….

Good finds on the mario cards and napkins as well…

Chestnuts roasted by Nathan @ 05/04/2005 5:58 PM EDT

I really enjoyed your two stories about upstate NY…
I’m originally from rural Pennsyltucky… (near where they have "Groundhogs Day"… yeah) and We had our own shop like the one in your story…
It was called "Moodies" and They sold Rat-traps right next to these rubber snakes and lizards…(that always stood out in my head)
and it was also the first place that I ever got a nudie-mag…
(shhhh… I stole it)
Congrats on the job and keep up the great writing…

Chestnuts roasted by isNegative @ 05/04/2005 9:57 PM EDT

I have got to see all of those turtle cards! I think Krang became the space pope.

Dinosaurs Attack? Awesome!

Chestnuts roasted by dgggggf @ 05/05/2005 9:16 AM EDT

Holy crap. I never realized it before, but I grew up in the town that is on the Brad’s Fun Shop mailing address. I too spent many an hour looking over the ads. I didn’t ever buy anthing from them because I was 8 and had no money, but Brad’s Fun Shop was right there. I could have walked to it.

Now I want to go back and see what the address looks like. I always pictured some huge factory full of midgets working conveyor belts.

Chestnuts roasted by Fezziwig @ 05/05/2005 1:56 PM EDT

A noogie a day keeps the geeks away…

Chestnuts roasted by BettieBoo @ 05/05/2005 2:41 PM EDT

…Which is completely sad. Why on earth would we want to keep geeks away?

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 05/07/2005 1:00 AM EDT

That store could make a lot more money if it jst auctioned the stuff on ebay or something. People would pay a lot more for that just for the collectible value! (heck anything can go on that site. the River City Rascals baseball team is auctioning off a one-day contract there!)

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 05/07/2005 12:20 PM EDT

Agh! Awesome! Many laughs, and that’s one thing I can’t get enough of. I’m sure buried in that store there is something of actual value (a rare collector’s card, etc.) that some random stranger will recognize and buy. But that, is just an assumption. Hey, you never know, if you go back, it could be you.

Chestnuts roasted by PersonWhoIsSomeone--Liz @ 05/08/2005 7:05 PM EDT

Hi. My name is Ulysses… Ulysses T. Russ for full name. I teach eighth grade science in Dearborn, IL. where my students refer to me as Mr. Russ. However, there are some classroom rapscallions that refer to me as a less than appropriate name based on my initials… Uterus.. get it.. U.T. Russ… utuerus…

Well, nonetheless, they have been tying up these commment boards with useless nonsense and signing it "Love, Uterus" Well, Ulysses wanted to clear the air and I hope you catch those bastards…

Love, Uterus

Chestnuts roasted by U. T. Russ @ 05/09/2005 5:14 PM EDT

penis

Chestnuts roasted by me @ 05/12/2005 3:11 AM EDT

I really covet those WWF party favor bags… it’s nearly my birthday, hope I can find something that crazy…does that store sell by mail order..? heheh I wish! I have to look up those Wacky Packages too, I almost forgot those, when I was really little I had them stuck all over the door to my room…the one I remember the most was a candy bar Bustedfinger

Chestnuts roasted by JG @ 05/12/2005 8:55 PM EDT

Thanks for the tip, Ed. The art on the Dinosaurs Attack! cards look like the art from some of the 1940s and ’50s pulp sci-fi magazines I collect.

Great article, Matt. I’ve learned about such cool stuff from this site, like Wacky Packages (which is the only reason I recognize the Morton/Moron Salt brand when I see it on tv) and Dinosaurs Attack!

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 05/13/2005 9:19 PM EDT

I had an opposite experience with a cool store I found. It is called toys of yesteryear, which ROCKED, but to bad all his stuff was overpriced! For example, he had a Voltron for 95 bucks! LOL whatever dude. Another one is an old Kool-aid dispenser for 45 bucks! YOu can get those on ebay for like 9 bucks lol. He also had a battlecat from he-man for 20 dollars. The guy is tripped out of his mind but still, he has a great store with loads of toys.

My greatest challenge to date, which he claimed he had 3 days prior to me asking, is an old ZapIt! gun, these are guns that shot out ink onto people’s clothes, then the ink disappeared a lil while later, it was great fun, and i would like another, but cannot find one. He said he sold it for 80 dollars..I believe it with his whacked out prices.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 05/16/2005 6:30 AM EDT

oh yea that zapit! toy was banned in 1988 cause the ink that it discharged had an unsafe ph balance heh.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 05/16/2005 6:33 AM EDT

“The Store” is located in Downsville, NY Main Street which is Route 30 and Route 206

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