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Halloween Hi-C & ToyFare #100!

With just moments to spare, the Halloween Countdown fulfills its promise to October Twelelephf. Hi-C spreads rumors about what the "H" stands for with their first and foremost contribution to the season, Frightening Fruit Punch! Give it to trick-or-treaters or horde it for yourself, you bloated greasy bastard. There's no reason to fight. Each "Halloween Treat Pack" contains thirty boxes of Hi-C, and that's at least five more than any one person could drink in a sitting. Read, and drink.

Matt's (me) back in ToyFare for their very special Issue #100 Spectacularrrr, with a two page article detailing the many strange revamps through the decades to the G.I. Joe line. Some Joes came with little jungle knives, others went to the eXtreme.

Posted by Matt on 10/12/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 59 comments

Yay! Hi-C!

Completely unrelated comment:

Does anyone… by any chance… have an mp3 recording of the Fruity Pebbles Christmas commercial?? Season’s Greeting’s in our sooouls…

Chestnuts roasted by Sara Jane @ 10/13/2005 11:51 AM

MP3, no. Video download is on the site. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/13/2005 11:53 AM

continuing adventures in Chicago!! Hit up AS&S yesterday, going to a great place called "Uncle Fun’s" today!! note to self: do NOT spend all the money in the walllet!! Must save some for KMFDM!!

saw a baaad Lifetime movie w/ Kelly Kapowski yesterday. It was terrible!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 10/13/2005 12:08 PM

The only thing Domino has going for it is that it’s based on a true story of a real supermodel who turned into a bounty hunter.

Also, Mickey Rourke.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/13/2005 12:44 PM

Ever since they got rid of Hi-C Ecto Cooler Ive moved on to bigger better things, that being Hawaiian Punch.

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 10/13/2005 1:01 PM

Hawaiian Punch brings it! Especially the candies which I just ate an entire fucking bag of.

Chestnuts roasted by Funky Boo Berry @ 10/13/2005 1:25 PM

Great stuff, Matt. Has anyone noticed some of the more odd advertisements now on this site?

There’s a banner ad at the top for some limousine service in San Francisco. I dunno, seems like an odd place to advertise your limo company.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 10/13/2005 1:41 PM

Sara Jane, I just ripped the audio from the video here on X-E. You should now be able to find a shiny new MP3 file here. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go replace every song on my room mate’s iPod shuffle.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 10/13/2005 1:43 PM

Damn having shit to do in real life.

I just read the articles from the past few days, starting with the Toys R Us one. Hell, I still go in there. It saddens me that it’s nothing like it was when I was a kid. I still go in looking for the same things however (TF’s and video games). Anyone remember when all the VG’s were kept behind those glass door cases or in the room/counter at the exit of the store? God I remember an whole isle devoted to GI Joes or Transformers with them piled all the way up to the ceiling.

Boglins, my little brother love those things.

And Ecto Cooler, how I miss thee. I clicked on the link to the old Ecto Cooler article, watched the commercial and noticed it cut off the beginning of the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. You know, the one with ghost walking on the sidwalk, and he skirts the garbage can, does a little shimmy, jumps towards the screen and then "morphs" into that iconic NO GHOSTS sign we all know and love.

Holy shit, thank God for TBS showing it again on Monday.

Oh and Gozer, I always hoped Goofus would have buried his knee into Gallants crotch just being such a high and mighty prick.

Fun With a Purpose my Energon filled ass….

P.S. Sorry I’m late on half this stuff…

Chestnuts roasted by Galvatron @ 10/13/2005 1:54 PM

Kidney, I’m pretty sure I watched that movie when it originally aired on network…was there fire involved?
Hit Target yesterday to pick up the season two DVD of Arrested D. but didn’t see any cool That’s Grosses except the cutie little octi and his mouse friend. The Star Wars Mpire figures I saw were sorely tempting but they were sold out of the Yellow/Vader Orange/Clonetrooper combo so willpower won out.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/13/2005 2:23 PM

Where is the stuff?
precious days are passing

j/k keep up the good work

Chestnuts roasted by Thejyav @ 10/13/2005 3:48 PM

I want Ecto-Cooler!!!! :) My college has the Fruit Punch (not the Halloween themed one) in the self-serve soda machines in the cafeteria. I’m avoiding sugary drinks like the plague though.

My parents and I were watching the "100 Greatest Kid Stars" on VH1 the other night, and when they showed Corey Haim, my mom said "I can’t believe that’s him! He used to be SO CUTE!" Whoah, mom, since when did you watch his movies????

I, for one, thought he was cute, but I like the wise-ass attitude that Corey Feldman made an art form. I’ve seen alot of his ’80s movies. I won’t touch that 1990s direct-to-video crap he’s made. Yikes. But, yes, I remember him in "Bordello of Blood." He died in that, you know. I think Dennis Miller did too. I’m getting lambasted (at least, I was) on Dennis Miller’s IMDb board over his politics. I love arguing!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/13/2005 3:53 PM

The two green things around his eyes are spiders? Could have fooled me.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 10/13/2005 5:28 PM

Hey, Drac, you got a little…. yeah, right there around your eyes…. no…. a bit higher, right there! You might want to see your dermatologist about that spider problem.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/13/2005 5:31 PM

I need to see the X-Men profile on the back of that box of Ecto Cooler. Real bad.

Chestnuts roasted by JOss @ 10/13/2005 5:59 PM

"Ho, ho, ho I’m hu, hu, hungry…Bawwwwney!! MY PEBBLES!!!!!! Tis the season to be sharing Fred." I always wanted to see Fred clean Santa’s clock for saying that. I mean Barney posed as Santa to rob Fred of HIS fucking pebbles!! I figured Santa would have called the cops or something or even Fred for that matter. I mean his supposed best friend constantly STEALS his cereal. Maybe Fred is just a big sucker or perhaps he is tapping Betty secretly behind Barney’s back so he doesn’t care. I guess we’ll never know

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/13/2005 7:13 PM

I think it’s Barney is actually the victim there. Fred gets Barney hooked on the stuff by "letting" him have some and Barney gets so badly addicted that he needs to steal from his supplier, Fred. See fruity pebbles is Bedrock slang for crack. That’s what I always assumed anyhow.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/13/2005 7:29 PM

Anyone remember the Revco Mini-Monster playset? It was a fold out haunted house with dracula, frankenstein, the wolfman, the creature from the black lagoon, mummy and phantom of the opera, all star wars figure sized. And it had a cardboard mummy tomb, and frankenstein table and wolfman cage. That toy brought hours of fun, I wish I still had it I’d play with that shit now.

Chestnuts roasted by Funky Boo Berry the 70's Ghost @ 10/13/2005 7:45 PM

revco made toys???? I thought they were just a drug store (they were absorbed by CVS).

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/13/2005 8:06 PM

He meant Remco. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/13/2005 8:08 PM

Gabby, just tell ‘em both your parents suffer from mental illness and you’ve had to overcome so much.

It worked for Justin Cobb :P

And is it just me, or doesn’t smoking in a dentist office make you afraid something is gonna blow up? I mean I love it just because for the end of the movie he’s Constantine all over again, at least in his habits :D

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 10/13/2005 8:36 PM

Oh ok, thanks for clarification. Next thing I know Rite Aid is going to release it own video game console…hehehe.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/13/2005 8:40 PM

I did in fact mean Remco, when I typed that I thought hmmmm, Revco just like the drugstore. They’ll sell Tylenol Blood Thinner for Vampire Seniors.

Chestnuts roasted by Funky Boo @ 10/13/2005 9:41 PM

Galvatron is completely right, Toys R Us died the moment it got rid of the endless action figure aisles, each stocked to the heavens with GI Joe/He-man goodness. I still vividly rememeber the display for the MOTU Eternia playset the hung over the entrance to He-man/GI Joe aisle…..cost quite a bit for the time (much, much more now on Ebay), but the sheer size was something incredible to me and my friends…..someday I hope to own that monster, just to appease my inner child. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Loneman1 @ 10/13/2005 11:09 PM

I think it was Matt that mentioned they changed their layout, which now doesn’t seem as impressive. Or mayby being 6′ just makes things seem smaller, I don’t know. What i do know is when your 8, 9, 10, the aisles seem a hell of a lot longer and the ceilings alot higher. When you walked down one packed to the brim with Transformers, Gi Joes, He-Man, Legos, or Go Bots, it’s just….humbling….

Chestnuts roasted by Galvatron @ 10/14/2005 1:23 AM

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