Heyyyy. I have an odd request. A few of you mentioned something about Hostess' "Tiger Tails" still being available. These seem to be much rarer than the Choco-Diles. If anyone has access, I'd love to get my hands on a few boxes for another upcoming Hostess article. Shoot me an e-mail if you've got the goods, and we'll work something out.
Also, here's a little thing I wrote for UGO a while back, though it was just published today. My mission was to choose my eleven most-wanted gadgets from movies, and in an attempt to be as honest as possible, I filled it up with Bathroom Buddies and almanacs. Click here to seeee it, baby, seeee it baby.
REPLIES: 81 comments
Excuse me, but the hell!?! You chose the Sports Almanac over the Hoverboard!?!
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 02/02/2004 09:57 PM EST
Word!
Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 02/02/2004 09:59 PM EST
i tried looking them up but they seem to be a mystery everywhere
Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 02/02/2004 10:08 PM EST
Awesome list! Heheheh loved your commentary on the bathroom buddy. heh breakdancing hellspawn indeed.
Chestnuts roasted by Hyperdingo @ 02/02/2004 10:10 PM EST
I always wanted a speeder bike too. Probably because I had a bad habit of hitting curbs with my regular old 2 wheeled doom cycle. I am amazed I never got seriously hurt from the number of times I went over the handlebars. This in the days before every kid wore helmets.
Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 02/02/2004 10:10 PM EST
I had two entries from Star Wars, didn't want to repeat the process for BTTF even despite the cool hoverboards. And yes, I'd take Grays... Sports... Almanac over a hoverboard any day of the week.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/02/2004 10:16 PM EST
http://www.bookofratings.com/hostess2.html
a small mention...ill keep looking
Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 02/02/2004 10:16 PM EST
http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/btwgb.asp
rest in peace
Chestnuts roasted by Emily @ 02/02/2004 10:19 PM EST
Yeah, HTF lists it as discontinued, but I can definitely confirm that they still exist. I've found one online retailer that has them, but they're unfortunately sold in forty dollar chunks. Don't want to spend another mint on Hostess. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/02/2004 10:21 PM EST
Can't help you on the Hostess, Matt. I never heard of Chocodiles before I started reading this site reguarly, much less Tiger Tails.
Ahh, I have fond memories of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." That was the first movie my sisters, a friend, and I saw without adults in tow. We saw the second that same summmer - "Ghostbusters II." We always figured the proton packs would come in handy. We grew up in Cape May, one of the oldest towns in the US, and certainly one with a lot of spooks, spirits, and weird shit running around. Looking for ghosts was one of our favorite things to do on a dark, spooky night.
My brother had a reletively realistic-looking plastic lightsaber. I say "reletively," because I don't remember them being that BIG. The "lightsaber" was a huge, thick piece of gray and green plastic that could extend to the size of your average four-year-old. When my brother first got it, it was bigger than he was. Come to think of it, he has a speeder bike toy for his action figures, too. Press a button and it comes apart, like it did in the movie.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 02/02/2004 10:39 PM EST
ALL HAIL GLASS MOOSE MUGS!!! From the 1st time I saw Christmas Vacation as a youngin' I've been dreaming about owning a set of those god like moose mugs.
We'd sit around a roaring fire, roasting chestnutS and s'more, sipping heavily boozed egg nog we would.
WE WOULD I SAY!!! ALL HAIL GLASS MOOSE MUGS!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Don't Touch, Willy (formerly Janet Jackson's expossed breast) @ 02/02/2004 11:12 PM EST
Hmmm...dunno what to tell you, Matt. Do you have a Hostess shop nearby? We've got one -- I could give them a call for you and see if they've got Tiger Tails. Tomorrow, when they're open again.
Still waiting to hear about your KB finds, btw -- I crossed two state lines traveling to closing KBs and now fully understand why so many KBs are closing. Their prices are too damned high! Seriously, on the stuff I would've bought, even their closeout sale prices were higher than Walmart's regulars. And Suncoast was having an insane sale on toys to boot... really made KB look bad, even in defeat. I walked with a $7 Turtle Van Battle Shell... seriously.
But then, I already knew that -- back when I worked at KB I used to refer people to the nearby Toys 'R' Us, since their prices were much lower than ours. Usually the people appreciated my altruism so much that they bought something from me anyway. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 02/02/2004 11:20 PM EST
They have them in Kirkland, Washington. Search for the nearest bakery.
Chestnuts roasted by Mathew @ 02/02/2004 11:32 PM EST
Good choice on the bathroom budy, but what about the smokeless ashtray?
Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 02/03/2004 12:05 AM EST
Tiger Tails? God, I thought those things were gross. Neon orange HoHo's.
I haven't seen them in quite a while, but for some reason I know the guys at www.penny-arcade.com loved them.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2002-05-25
Man, I need to get out more...
Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak @ 02/03/2004 01:13 AM EST
I gotta say a hoverboard would suck if you couldn't use a skateboard. Like me. I have never been very coordinated. Except I could play sports for some reason. I just flipped over the bars of my bike a lot and couldn't skateboard no matter how hard I tried. I could roller skate though. Back in the days before roller blades. God I feel old.
You know it is going to be a long semester when on the first day of class the teacher spends 15 minutes at the start of class autographing her book for people in class...I didn't buy a copy of her book. She gave one to my roommate for free (my roommate is her assistant) so I read that copy. :P to my teacher.
Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 02/03/2004 02:15 AM EST
I coulda sworn that I've seen reasonably priced moose mugs before. It was probably at the Christmas Tree Shop or maybe that Christmas store at the mall that only opens in December.
If I ever run across 'em, I'll post it here, and definately pick up a set for meself.
Chestnuts roasted by Tony @ 02/03/2004 02:17 AM EST
Matt already wanted a speeder bike. I'd be happy with a speeder bike and a hoverboard, but a speeder bike alone is quite cool by itself.
Speaking of lightsabers, I have a vague memory of toy lightsabers from around the time of Return of the Jedi that made cool sounds when you waved them around. It was some sort of physical effect, not something electronic. Anyone else remember that, or is it just me?
Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 02/03/2004 02:29 AM EST
tron clothes...awesome choice...
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 02/03/2004 02:59 AM EST
Marioshku, you're not imagining things. I remember them too :)
Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 02/03/2004 03:02 AM EST
My eyes are burning. That means bedtime. I don't want a speeder bike, I don't like fast speeds, I get in trouble, like that time when I went over a cliff/hill hybrid on a dirtbike. My personal pick would be an ectosuit, a pink one. With twin lightsabres, also pink. Then I would tranform into a pink fighter jet. I like pink.
Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 02/03/2004 03:30 AM EST
The Exo-suit would be sweet, but the suit in Aliens pwns it all to hell..
If it could transform instead of just being a walking foklift it'd be that much cooler!
Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 02/03/2004 04:13 AM EST
wait one minute. on the one list it says tiger tails are strawberry twinkies. if thats so i know for a fact i can get a product identical but not hostess at my local grocer
Chestnuts roasted by the corinthian @ 02/03/2004 04:40 AM EST
I actually considered buying some Tiger Tails twice over the weekend, but decided on Zingers and Snowballs, respectively. It's funny you should bring them up, I see them all the time.
Chestnuts roasted by Ian @ 02/03/2004 05:45 AM EST
I realize I am alone in this but I have always wanted the Cosmic Key. It was the only cool thing from the He-Man movie:
http://he-man.org/primary_sects/movie/html/gallery/evil_05.shtml
Unfortunately Mattel did not produce the prototype:
http://free.imd.it/masters/Toys/cosmic_keyprototype.htm
Chestnuts roasted by She-Man @ 02/03/2004 06:21 AM EST
Matt, I miss the related article links that you used to have.
Chestnuts roasted by She-Man @ 02/03/2004 06:45 AM EST
Hey, for the guy who wanted the MOOSE MUGS, you can order one here:
http://www.canadianmoose.com/moosemugs/
:-)
-Paul
Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 02/03/2004 08:01 AM EST
Someone has stolen my name...That faker above? He ain't me. I'm the Paul that's been here for months.
That said...what the heck is a Tiger Tail? I don't think I've ever seen one of these...
Chestnuts roasted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 02/03/2004 08:42 AM EST
I would love a light saber. I don't want the almanac, though. It is from 1950-2000. I don't think I can win much money betting on old games.
Great choices, Matt. BTW, I am designing a Proton Pack. Maybe it will be done in a couple of years.
Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 02/03/2004 09:22 AM EST
A preliminary search of Yahoo! Canada brought up this page:
http://www.cache.k12.ut.us/HTMLfiles/WVMS/office/cafe.html
Willow Valley Middle School offers Tiger Tails among their Hostess products as a 'government approved' snack...right along with cookies n cream milkshakes and Twix bars...geez, no wonder kids are getting fatter.
Chestnuts roasted by Hecubus @ 02/03/2004 09:45 AM EST
I woulda added the amp that went to 11. But that's cause I play guitar. Good top 11 though. How come you say the blog has taken off in recent weeks? Has the number of hits increased, or the number of posts?
Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 02/03/2004 09:52 AM EST
Yeah, wasn't speaking from a webmassa success standpoint, but rather the conversations found in the comments sections, which sometimes are going over 200 a piece. With a comparatively low number of crap comments, too! :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/03/2004 09:56 AM EST
If I could have a Johnny 5, I would be so freaking popular. It would be such a great chick magnet. I could point to a girl and make him go up to her and say, "Stephanie beautiful." Oh, and I guess I would have to hope her name was Stephanie.
Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 02/03/2004 10:23 AM EST
You could always make him out of Lego..
No shit, check this out..
http://www.jpbrown.i8.com/
Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 02/03/2004 10:27 AM EST
I didn't notice the high amount of comments, but the "quality" of comments is getting better. A lot of people are regulars now... and to top everything off the first poster didn't say "FIRST POST WHOOOO" so we are moving in the right direction.
Is a user profile still in the works for the blog, or is that kinda on the back burner?
Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 02/03/2004 10:33 AM EST
It's not really on the back burner so much as me not having figured out how to get it done. I have every faith that it will get done, though. I have a larger project that involves coding coming up in a bit, and if I can't figure it out by then, the person doing the coding surely can. And then he will bill me. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/03/2004 10:37 AM EST
If my calculations are correct....J-5 should be merrily on his way.
Chestnuts roasted by TomAce22 @ 02/03/2004 10:55 AM EST
I always wanted a speeder bike too. We used to pretend the two person swing on our swing set was one.
Chestnuts roasted by Spiffy McKracken @ 02/03/2004 10:56 AM EST
I think you're all missing out on the critical element here- WHERE'S THE DAMN HOVER STUFF? Transformers: The Movie showed us jet-powered hoverboards by 2005... y'know, next year. And even without the bigass-robot-technology advance, Back to the Future 2 promised us that we'd have flying cars and skateboards by 2015. (Not to mention about 20 more Jaws movies, so they better get cracking on those.) What the shit?!? That's only 11 years away; are we gonna be ready in time? 'Cuz if I can't throw the trash from my 34th birthday into Mr. Fusion, I'm gonna be pissed...
Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 02/03/2004 11:27 AM EST
I was supposed to be a different kind of year.
Chestnuts roasted by 1984 @ 02/03/2004 11:29 AM EST
Same here, '84. God damned monkeys.
Chestnuts roasted by 2001 @ 02/03/2004 11:29 AM EST
Yeah well...the planet was supposed to explode for my birthday. You're preaching to the choir.
Chestnuts roasted by 2000 @ 02/03/2004 11:30 AM EST
¿Hey!
Wtf?
I think I'm a little early huh?
Chestnuts roasted by 2028 @ 02/03/2004 11:36 AM EST
Little Brother had one of those hard plastic lightsabers. We were living on the left coast at the time and he got it at a store called Starbase Central. Before too long, I had taken it apart and figured out how it made its sound, and had it back together. It was a kind of a low-pitched whistle. whooo-oooo! I loved the old inflatable blade lightsabers we used to bap each other upside the head with. I always wanted the AutoBot Matrix. Or Crow T. Robot.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/03/2004 12:37 PM EST
The AutoBot Matrix was pretty, I'd want a little one as a necklace.
Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 02/03/2004 12:42 PM EST
Yes kingklash, I know exactly what you mean about having Crow T. Robot. I actually spent 3 years collecting all of the authentic parts for Tom Servo and have had him finished for about 5 years now. I have about half of the Crow parts so far.
Chestnuts roasted by alienmagic @ 02/03/2004 12:46 PM EST
New Ghostbusters figures
http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=155&show_article=144
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 02/03/2004 01:14 PM EST
does the larger coding project happen to involve re-instating the archives? I hope so.
Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 02/03/2004 01:27 PM EST
I heard of MST sites that help you with finding those hard-to-get Tupperware pieces for Crow. If any one comes thru my part of the state and wants to check out some haunted territory, (I'm looking in your direction, Duck) I can point them to a couple of places to start. One is even near a tourist attraction! Of course, you might want to keep your Proton-Accelerator out of sight, at first. Tee-hee, poltergeists are noisy!
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/03/2004 01:33 PM EST
Those Ghostbuster figures look awesome, but they better make some of the Ghostbusters them selves and an Ecto-1 vehicle.
Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 02/03/2004 03:22 PM EST
Picture this:
A full size mock-up haunted house with integrated holo-imaging and sound effects to produce a ghostly effect. You walk through the house, with your own Proton-Accelerator strapped to your back with special Etheral-Goggles attached that allow you to SEE the ghosts. Don't let them come too close, though, or they will disrupt you circuits and you will find yourself in a dark hallway with a lump of usless metal on your back and you will hear footsteps creeping closer and the air getting colder...
Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 02/03/2004 03:32 PM EST
Here's the best Johnny Five based Lego bot I have found: http://www.marioferrari.org/cinque/cinque.html
and yes, j5 is my favorite robot. If only the Short Circut DVD was closed captioned. >:(
I second the Tron suit and Grays. Sports. Almanac. But I would rather have a Lightcycle and a time-traveling Delorean first.
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 02/03/2004 03:50 PM EST
Since somebody else brought it up, I'll mention that this past Saturday was the FINAL time that MST3K will be shown on TV for the forseeable future. RIP, MST.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/03/2004 03:54 PM EST
Richard Basehart?
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/03/2004 04:22 PM EST
AlienMagic, do you have the freaky Real Boy head for Tom?
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/03/2004 04:25 PM EST
Is that the one from the episode where Tom Servo had a head that looked like Howdy Doody?
Chestnuts roasted by alienmagic @ 02/03/2004 04:59 PM EST
Ooh, I think I would want the Gizmoduck suit. I always envied the clumsy Fenton Crackshell who could turn into the infallible Gizmoduck. No, and that COULDN'T have been a rip-off of Clark Kent/Superman... Clark wasn't a duck. Right, Killer?
Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 02/03/2004 05:19 PM EST
GizmoDuck was more along the lines of a Iron Man/Captain Marvel parody. Blatherin' Blatherskyte! Eep! (sounds of suit crashing through wall, king running like crazy)
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/03/2004 05:26 PM EST
Okay, the Bathroom Buddies thing conjers up memories of the "Wings" episode where Lowell, Brian, Joe and Roy go golfing and stay at a timeshare.
Lowell has a ziplock bag full of golf balls which he names and on the way back, he leaves his Bathtime Buddies at the timeshare and feels very sad about it, too, he even looks at Joe with puppy eyes!
Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 02/03/2004 06:18 PM EST
Go to the Coca Cola website, look under worldwide and check out the bizzare products and beverages that never mae it to our shores!
Chestnuts roasted by gerald james @ 02/03/2004 06:24 PM EST
Stephanie may have been beautiful but the best statement about her made by #5 was: "Stephanie change colors!" Lot of mileage came out of that one.
I was wonderin' when king would get around to picking on me for my hobby. Pick on Gabby in her pink suit instead :) If I wear pink I look like I am trying too hard. Black is my color. Nachokhaki has just earned a figure in the hall o shame LOL. Soon comes the fun, I really mean it. Just been very busy with things plus haven't had much time online lately. Just remember small things can get eaten by dragons :)
On the topic of money- I would pay if I had to to come here. I dunno what that says about me.
Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 02/03/2004 06:46 PM EST
I'm quiting
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/03/2004 08:07 PM EST
If that Matt is *the* Matt, you can't quit. You are forever trapped. Besides, we'd miss you and you don't want to see us cry, right?
If you want a robot, try looking for the voice-command R2D2. I have one and he works pretty well. I wish I had more time to play with him.
I'd also like Pee Wee's breakfast machine and Daniel's exosuit, but if I was going to have any gadget from Tron it would be the Disks, aka the Frisbee of Death! That'll put a new twist on an old favorite. That or the laser that beams you into a video game. Imagine getting to hang out with Mega Man, the Mario Brothers (where the pasta flows like Niagra Falls) or Pac-Man!
The Gizmoduck suit, or better yet the Iron Man armor, would be cool, too. Actually, I'd love a high-tech armor suit. That's why Steel wasn't as cool as it could have been. His armor was way low-tech compared to the comic. Also, Spider-Man's web shooters would be nice, but they weren't in the movie. (Unless you count the two-hour TV pilot as a movie.)
Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 02/03/2004 08:27 PM EST
I don't know I think I owned the coolest gadet, the Hypercolor tee shirt, you just can't beat that now can you? well yeah never mind
Chestnuts roasted by Edthacow @ 02/03/2004 08:37 PM EST
You can tell that wasn't me. He spelled "quitting" wrong. I only spell words that nobody will bother noticaing wrong.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 02/03/2004 09:04 PM EST
Gizmoduck was a Robocop parody wasnt he?
Chestnuts roasted by Toxicity- @ 02/03/2004 09:13 PM EST
Matt did you get the e-mail I sent you about tiger tails?
Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 02/03/2004 09:26 PM EST
Gabbylicious, 20th Anniversary Masterpiece Optimus Prime comes with an Autobot Matrix to put in his chest. If you're willing to shell out $60-90 for a necklace, then get that :P
Chestnuts roasted by marril159 @ 02/03/2004 09:44 PM EST
Imagine, if you will, a young man with a heart full of joy, for he has realized his dream. He walks into through the doors of his elementary school, proudly wearing his Ghostbuster suit, goggles, proton pack and trap. Another young man, his heart full of malice, walks up to the former. This boy says, "Your toys are gay." The young Ghostbuster calmly puts his neutrona wand back on his pack, and uses the available hand to give the unimaginative prick a black eye. My childhood had few memorable moments that didn't involve lots of personal pain, but this is one of my fondest memories ever. I will never forget that day, and I hope someday I can tell my children that story.
Chestnuts roasted by MadMax1001 @ 02/03/2004 09:54 PM EST
I'm not sure about some of the things you listed. Am I the only one that thinks Moose mugs aren't that exciting? Though truthfully i'm having problems thinking what I would want to replace it discluding as most people have said "the hooverboard." Maybe like one of the several Batman Gadgets would cool like the Utility belt and such. Or how about Gandalf's Staff? I dunno, there just has to be something more desirable then mugs.
Chestnuts roasted by Ally @ 02/03/2004 09:59 PM EST
Yeah, I'd definitely shell out a hell of a lot of $$$ for a hooverboard, no doubt about it.
......
...what?
Oh come on, you know you were all thinking it too. Screw you guys, I'm goin' home.
Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 02/03/2004 10:58 PM EST
Matt, do you have a Sweet Pickles commercial? This interview with the Homestar Runner guys just brought back the memory:
http://tlchicken.com/view_story.php?ARTid=1374
"Matt: Like, there was this thing called Sweet Pickles--
Mike: It was a series of children’s books.
W: Yeah! And there was like a hippo and a stork, or something.
Mike: Yeah, yeah.
Matt: At the end of their commercials there was this little girl with a lisp that would say, 'Sweet Pickles is gweat!' And our brother was somewhere and he heard somebody say that, and he freaked out."
Chestnuts roasted by Richard @ 02/03/2004 11:05 PM EST
I was worried for a second that Matt really was "quiting." Until I observed teh typo. "Matt" Matt hasn't done that since he got out of the alternate there/their/they're space-time continuum years ago.
Chestnuts roasted by D-d-dave-some @ 02/03/2004 11:13 PM EST
I really do girl-up the place with my pink ectosuit and AutoBot Matrix necklace don't I? Heh. Oh, I konw you msut hvae all got that eiaml taht siad taht wdros can slitl be undeortosd eialsy as lnog as the frsit and lsat ltrtees are in the rhigt sopt. Weird....
Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 02/04/2004 12:20 AM EST
For the guy who wanted a Crow T. Robot you can buy one (or buy parts and build your own) here:
http://www.joecrow.com/botzmain.htm
Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 02/04/2004 04:29 AM EST
Oh yeah the link above has Tom Servo (with optional "Haircut Servo" version) and Gypsy too. :-D
Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 02/04/2004 04:34 AM EST
I liked it when crow got cool and wore his "hat" backwords.
Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 02/04/2004 07:56 AM EST
I wasn't picking on Duck's hobby. From personal experience I know how noisy poltergeists can be. It's amazing how quick you can go from, "I'm the only one home! Who's slamming cabinet doors?" to "I'm trying to get some sleep! It's only cornflakes, for Pete's sake!" And I do know a few places for Ghosts and BigFoot-type sightings.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 02/04/2004 11:47 AM EST
I almost got arrested for trespassing when I went to an old abandoned childrens hospital that was supposedly haunted. Luckily I got off with only a warning. Sadly I losts 2 flashlights, camera, and a little tape recorder becuasse I lent them to some people who actually went in. Why the heck did I give that stuff to strangers? Anyway, when the cops came we got off with a warning and made us leave before I could get my stuff back from them. *sigh*
Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 02/05/2004 01:47 PM EST
c est cool
Chestnuts roasted by seba @ 02/25/2004 01:28 PM EST
i love tiger tails
Chestnuts roasted by andy @ 10/13/2004 12:16 AM EST
