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Another new article! And snowcones!

Would you believe me if I told you I published two new articles in less than a week? Miracles happen. Here's a look at five random '80s toys, which is an article I started seventeen years ago, got bored of and left to die. In the spirit of making X-E seem less like a marked grave and more like the party capital of Reno, I've dusted it off.

I would've put a little more into the ending, but I found myself distracted as the silver bells of a Lickedy Split ice cream truck blared through the open windows this afternoon. While such trucks usually have nothing but soft swirl cones, I had a hunch that this was going to be a special day. Hello, snowcone.


The snowcone is nature's perfect food. Ice, colored and flavored by liquid sugar. Visions of fireflies, of wiffle ball and of smashing fireflies into the pavement with a wiffle ball bat, because those were some cool ass looking bug guts.

Nothing can compare to the official ice cream truck snowcone, which arrives in a conical paper wrapper with the ice divided into three colorful flavors. On a good day, you'll get red, yellow and blue. On a better day, these three flavors will join hands to create a holy purple ice just beneath the outer surface -- a holy purple ice that pretty much tastes like whatever fruit you tell it to taste like.

Me and the snowcone are heading downstairs to my walk-in freezer. He thinks I'm trying to help him not melt, but I just want to eat him without getting juice on my pants.

Posted by Matt on 06/15/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 97 comments

Matt,

Yes! Been waiting months for this! Link on main site links to cruise article, though…

FIRST!

Chestnuts roasted by Me @ 06/15/2007 5:44 PM


Caught and fixed the links on the main page. Thanks!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 06/15/2007 5:45 PM


I wouldn’t even look at this article if it didn’t have a stone wall background.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 06/15/2007 5:53 PM


Come back to X-E to find a ton of new posts! It’s been a good day. Thanks Matt!!

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 06/15/2007 5:56 PM


I wouldn’t even look at the article full of boys’ toys if Matt didn’t promise a nice, long review of Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer.
oKay, I’ll read it anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 06/15/2007 5:58 PM


I just totally creamed myself. An article about toys AND snow cones!? Holy crap in a hat this is the best day ever!!! : D

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 06/15/2007 6:07 PM


lol, i’m with you, Jessica. Time for a girly article!
Having said that, I sure am glad to see you writing articles again, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Cerianna @ 06/15/2007 6:19 PM


Mmmm snowcones! Those are even better than the ones you can get at the snowcone stand that they have down here. Thanks for the article!

Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 06/15/2007 6:30 PM


Coming on here to see another new article is like incidentally finding out your favourite bands coming to town. Thanks Matt!

I like that Pepsi Can thing. And for a moment I thought that Legions of Power line was the same one that had this weird, customizable robot/tractor thing my friend used to have. Man, what was that thing?

New X-E posts, Subway Series starts tonight, birthday tomorrow. Very good day Joker, its fuckin’ awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Tutsuro @ 06/15/2007 6:32 PM


Ahh, the Ice Cream Truck. That brings up some odd memories of last summer, hearing them drive by at like 10:00 at night and about every ten minutes after, and once even on Christmas morning. Yeah it’s hot at 10:00 in Vegas, but Christmas morning? Oh those wacky Mexicans.

Chestnuts roasted by citygirl @ 06/15/2007 6:35 PM


Jessica Marie and Cerianna – I’m with you girls. We want a girly article! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 06/15/2007 6:37 PM


I’ve been thinking about X-E a lot recently, and it’s great to see all these new articles/posts!

As a matter of fact, I just read that this week Pepsi is releasing a new summer flavor called “Pepsi Ice Cucumber” -sadly, only in Japan. Also, BoingBoing has been running a bunch of weirdly malformed cartoon based popsicles lately and I noticed a link to your site there too.

But most of all, I’ve been seriously considering buying the complete original line of McDonald’s changables- and that’s exactly what lead me to X-E for the very first time a few years back.

Chestnuts roasted by GloriousKyle @ 06/15/2007 6:45 PM


Where in Gods unholy name did u find all those wonderful toys! And the worms(in a briefcase?!) I had that crap when I was a wee lad. Memories…

Chestnuts roasted by Mufu @ 06/15/2007 6:46 PM


Is X-E entering a new golden age?? :shock:

Man, those toys are craptacular. The only ones I ever heard of was the METERORBS (of which I never had :( )

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 06/15/2007 6:47 PM


The toy line I was thinking of was Battle Builders.The “Mega Rig” specifically,from about 96…in case anyone cared :P

Chestnuts roasted by Tutsuro @ 06/15/2007 7:04 PM


oh hell yes, thats a manly article. yay snowcones, too!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 06/15/2007 7:11 PM


Hey Matt,

Since you seem the purveyor of all things retro and interesting from our collective youths, where would people send you presents to add to your collection (possibly pieces to use for future article fodder)?

Great stuff as always,
Rp

Chestnuts roasted by The Messiah @ 06/15/2007 7:12 PM


Had the Pepsi can, yes I did. Still around here somewhere, I assume.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 06/15/2007 7:29 PM


Matt, I too would like to see a review of Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer. Bwahaha…

Anyway, that was a highly entertaining article. I thought that Pepsi can dude was kind of awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 06/15/2007 7:34 PM


Man, everyone is happy with the articles (as am I), but the Meteorbs came out as I was approaching the non-toy-buying age of 13. This made them even more bittersweet, because just as the He-Man line was dying out, so was my socially acceptable ability to buy toys. Stupid society!

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 06/15/2007 7:36 PM


This was another great article, Matt!

Never heard of any of them…but the Meteorbs sound awfully familiar. The closest thing that I can relate to those now would be the protoform Optimus & Starcream from the new Movie Figures.

And while I love the pokemon references…I think it’s about time to do some research, as there are now 493 pokemon now, no longer the familiar 151. Snorlax, while familiar and relatable, is no longer the biggest of them all. That title is now held by Wailord (the evolved form of Wailmer), and Steelix now comes in 2nd in terms of weight, I think.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 06/15/2007 7:52 PM


Matt may be content to limit himself to the original generation of Pokemon. Sometimes we have reasons for no longer following a particular series/franchise.

I’m still looking for someone to provide me with the correct declension(??)/conjugation for OLD in latin to plug into Fabula Nova Crystalis in place of Nova.

Because in 5 years I’ll still be making references to Squall and Locke, fuck this Lightning idiot.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 06/15/2007 8:05 PM


While a girl-related article would be nice (coming from another lady here), hell, I played with boys’ toys too, and two articles in less than a week from Matt is nothing short of a miracle. (And two of the funniest he’s written in a while, to boot.)

I don’t remember ever hearing of any of the toys mentioned here. Most obscure toy lines never really found their way to Southern New Jersey. I may have seen the Metororbs around, and the Pepsi can rings minor bells (and is a way cool vehicle), but by 1987, I was more into She-Ra than her brother…and by 1989, I was more into Turtles (and not really into most toys anymore).

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 06/15/2007 9:10 PM


I thought all these would be unfamiliar to me. Then I got to the Bad Case of Worms. I way like, “hey I remember those” Then I kept reading and I only remembered it from the xe blog. :P
I want that Pepsi Can toy.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 06/15/2007 10:03 PM


Jessica, Cerianna and Denise:You should check out our own Mystie’s Crowncombo.com for girly articles. She compliments what Matt should not write about. Plus she is funny as Hell. Should I capitalize Hell?

I think this is the sign of the apocolypse. Two articles in a week and a day before SNT? Matt, you should really stretch before you do that.

I feel like I acquired the “Hero Mechanic Specialist” from a doctors office waiting room as a kid.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 06/15/2007 10:31 PM


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