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Mildly Interesting ’80s Print Ads!

Grab your drink, grab your junk, grab a chair and relax -- this is a nice, long one for ya. A bunch of the greatest print ads of the `80s, pulled from children's mags ranging in topic from He-Man to Andre the Giant. Over a dozen trips back in time, with ads covering WWF Ice Cream Bars, Photon, Battle Beasts and more. Some really fun stuff chucked in there; if it's received well, I may do a second chapter next week. Look, you're going to see Jimmy Hart's life-sized face if you read this. Do it.

Posted by Matt on 07/10/2005. E-mail me!

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My sister had the Pogo ball and i dont know how many times i’ve tried using that thing and could never figure it out. For some reason I wasnt too big into transformers, never had one. I had Ring Raiders, if anyone remembers those. They had a cartoon series for 1 or 2 seasons and had some toys.

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/ringraiders/ringraiders.html

Shows a photo of the toys

Chestnuts roasted by Zaktto @ 07/23/2005 1:34 PM

Nice. I owned both that issue of WWF magazine and that issue of He-Man/MOTU magazine. I re-read those things RELENTLESSLY when I was in my single-digit years.

Chestnuts roasted by KaneRobot @ 11/17/2006 11:42 AM

Oh, and I found this page by doing a search on “Thor Ackerlund.” Sad but true.

Chestnuts roasted by KaneRobot @ 11/17/2006 11:44 AM

Anyone remember Go-Bots? They had a 2-hour cartoon movie, followed by the TV show, which was kinda cheap, but the toys were pretty cool. I don’t think they were an imitation of Transformers, since I believe they came out before them.

My favorite characters were Cy-Kill, Leader-1, and Cop-Tur. They also came out with the Super Gobots, which were much bigger (but plastic, not die cast metal) versions of the regular Gobots.

Chestnuts roasted by Andreos Lebados @ 03/16/2007 8:20 AM

Ok, this has been an ABSOLUTE BLAST FROM THE PAST. Fuck, man! This has been, so far, one of the most honest reviews of the 80′s kiddy stuff I’ve seen.

Most of the stuff I’ve read on other sites is written by guys who, allegedly, owned all these things some of us only dreamed of. Shit, I’m not a toy collector but there’s no fun on buying memories from e-bay just for the tacky nostalgia in it. I know that much.

It wasn’t about the stuff you own, but the stuff you WISHED you had to impress your friends. I remember this Alf comics magazine (forever lost…)Where they had announces of Captain Power shooting game. I didn’t know how that worked, but I remember the show and the graphics and all the coolness in it… and it takes me back to a bittersweet moment of life.

Thanks a million, man. I got teary-eyed and stuff.

Y.I.S.

Rev. Jakob Koshkat.

Ps. I used to do the Chips Ahoy sandwich too. Shit, I’d chew half of a soda cracker and put the gooey bit over the other half! I thought I was the only one who’d do that.

Chestnuts roasted by Rev. Jakob Koshkat @ 04/08/2007 5:02 AM

@Hot Pocket I remember that phone ringer changer, and I’d love to know what the name of it was. pick it up pick it up pick it up.

Chestnuts roasted by Chad @ 11/10/2008 4:09 PM

I’d almost forgotten those striped Chips Ahoy. And WWF Ice Cream Bars were indeed some of the best ice cream snacks ever. Great article overall.

Chestnuts roasted by Jim @ 11/30/2009 10:41 AM

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