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Wacky Packages Discussion => General Wacky Packages Discussion => Topic started by: koduck on September 16, 2020, 02:19:43 PM
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I just realized that over the last couple of weeks, I've been working on titles that were never done in the original series. So, why weren't these super popular products done back in the 70's???!
Etch a Sketch
Lays Potato Chips
Mr. Potato Head
Burger King
Twizzlers
Slinky
Frisbee
Ring Dings
Drakes Cakes
Tasty Cakes
I'm sure there's plenty more, but these are a few off the top of my head. If anyone wants to add to the list, please do so!
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I was always waiting for Spaghettio's - I think that's why I really enjoy the recent parodies of that product, even if the can isn't what I remember. I remember saving up labels to send away for a bowl with the face at the bottom.
Some others that come to mind:
Pop Tarts (I sent away for toys using Kellogg's points on those boxes, and the boxes were PERFECT to include a Wacky!!)
Doritos
Space Food Sticks
Little Debbie
Sorry!
Clue
Nerf Football
Mallomars
Moon Pies (I figured they'd never get away with the obvious gag!)
Ho Ho's
Mike & Ike
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That's what I love about the Old School Series. Vintage product parodies we never got back in the day.
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That's what I love about the Old School Series. Vintage product parodies we never got back in the day.
Absolutely!
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I've got two chewing gums to add to a modern series and two more chewing gums to add to a future 1970s OLDS series:
*Wrigley's Spearmint and Wrigley's Winterfresh (the ANS run has done all of Wrigley's chewing gum brands except these two (Topps, are you listening out there?)),
*Clove and Black Jack (Beeman's was done in OLDS 4; might as well finish the job with these two, just like the two 1970s Pilot Cereals and the five 1970s/1980s Monster Cereals were both finished in OLDS).
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Some of these were done later on, but not in the OS -
Pez
Libbyland's Safari TV dinners for kids (purple milk packet!)
Mattel's Geetars and Farmer Says
Almond Roca
Coffee Nips
Pink Popcorn bricks (maybe that's a local product)
Granny Goose chips (another local product?)
Borden SnowBalls (available only for the holidays)
Lady Finger firecrackers
Kraft cheese and crackers handi snacks
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Some things were regional. Like Tastycake back then would have been a Philly area product.
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Some of these were done later on, but not in the OS -
Pez
Libbyland's Safari TV dinners for kids (purple milk packet!)
Mattel's Geetars and Farmer Says
Almond Roca
Coffee Nips
Pink Popcorn bricks (maybe that's a local product)
Granny Goose chips (another local product?)
Borden SnowBalls (available only for the holidays)
Lady Finger firecrackers
Kraft cheese and crackers handi snacks
Wow, that's a lot of titles! Alex, you mentioned Kraft cheese and crackers. There were also Lantz Cheese Crackers.
A few more...
Easy Bake Oven
Luvs
Texaco Oil
Wilson Baseball gloves
Tab
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Wow, that's a lot of titles! Alex, you mentioned Kraft cheese and crackers. There were also Lantz Cheese Crackers.
A few more...
Easy Bake Oven
Luvs
Texaco Oil
Wilson Baseball gloves
Tab
Was the Lantz Cheese Crackers exactly the same as the Kraft one? I didn't know about Hellmans Mayonnaise until adulthood - we always had Best Foods Mayonnaise on the west coast, and I believe they are exactly the same product! Another item that didn't make it to the OS?
Alex
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Was the Lantz Cheese Crackers exactly the same as the Kraft one? I didn't know about Hellmans Mayonnaise until adulthood - we always had Best Foods Mayonnaise on the west coast, and I believe they are exactly the same product! Another item that didn't make it to the OS?
Alex
Actually, it was Lance crackers. The other spelling is actually Walter Lantz of Woody Woodpecker fame.
And you're right - Hellmann's and Best Foods are one and the same product from the same company. The first name was from east of the Rocky Mountains and the second name was from west of the Rocky Mountains. In fact, if you look in the small print on the side of the label on the bottle, it says what it's known as in which region.
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Actually, it was Lance crackers. The other spelling is actually Walter Lantz of Woody Woodpecker fame.
You are correct! It is Lance Crackers! I must be watching too many cartoons, lol!
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Wow, that's a lot of titles! Alex, you mentioned Kraft cheese and crackers. There were also Lantz Cheese Crackers.
A few more...
Easy Bake Oven
Luvs
Texaco Oil
Wilson Baseball gloves
Tab
Tab was done in OLDS 3 as Bat and Luvs was done in the 1985 series as Lumps.
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Tab was done in OLDS 3 as Bat and Luvs was done in the 1985 series as Lumps.
Right, but I'm referring to the Original series from the 70's (and '60s).
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I was waiting for:
Coke
Marathon Bar
Funny Face
Devil Dogs
I just realized that over the last couple of weeks, I've been working on titles that were never done in the original series. So, why weren't these super popular products done back in the 70's???!
Etch a Sketch
Lays Potato Chips
Mr. Potato Head
Burger King
Twizzlers
Slinky
Frisbee
Ring Dings
Drakes Cakes
Tasty Cakes
I'm sure there's plenty more, but these are a few off the top of my head. If anyone wants to add to the list, please do so!
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I think Wham-o had enough toys for a whole subset themselves:
- Slip 'n Slide
- SuperElasticBubblePlastic
- Monster Magnet
- Water Wiggle
- Magic Window
- Wizzzer
- Super Ball
- Air Blaster
- Magnetic Gyro Wheel
- Super Stuff
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I think Wham-o had enough toys for a whole subset themselves:
- Slip 'n Slide
- SuperElasticBubblePlastic
- Monster Magnet
- Water Wiggle
- Magic Window
- Wizzzer
- Super Ball
- Air Blaster
- Magnetic Gyro Wheel
- Super Stuff
Here's one you forgot: Zillion Bubbles and Monster Bubbles (at least, I think that's Wham-O; I'm not sure).
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Some things were regional. Like Tastycake back then would have been a Philly area product.
You're right, and I can recall two products off the top of my head done in the modern run that are regional products:
*MOB Coffee from ANS7 (MJB Coffee; it's a U.S. West Coast product),
*Putrid's Not Goodie from OLDS 4 (Pearson's Nut Goodie; same thing as the first one, but in the 1970s (I don't know if it's still around today, though)).
Btw, did I get the Wacky name right on the second one? If not, please tell me what it is and I'll fix it.
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How about Binaca Blast!
I remember the tiny bottles of liquid you shook drops onto your tongue, and I think there was also breath spray, mouthwash, and maybe other products.
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Good one! I had forgotten about those. Everyone in class always had one of those little bottles handy.
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How about Binaca Blast!
I remember the tiny bottles of liquid you shook drops onto your tongue, and I think there was also breath spray, mouthwash, and maybe other products.
Did the OS ever spoof Sen Sen? That's what my mechanical drawing teacher in Jr High used xD
Alex
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Did the OS ever spoof Sen Sen? That's what my mechanical drawing teacher in Jr High used xD
Alex
Sing Sing would have been perfect for that. Another prison gag.
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I'll get back to the 70s again in Old School soon and will consider some of these for that.
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I think Wham-o had enough toys for a whole subset themselves:
- Slip 'n Slide
- SuperElasticBubblePlastic
- Monster Magnet
- Water Wiggle
- Magic Window
- Wizzzer
- Super Ball
- Air Blaster
- Magnetic Gyro Wheel
- Super Stuff
I remember a knock-off product sold in candy stores that was a cheap alternative to Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. Was in a much smaller tube with the blowing straw taped to it. Sold for maybe 10 or 15 cents. Man did that stuff give off some fumes.
Of course everyone remembers Pocket Quarterback, but two toy items I remember obsessing over during the grade school years was 1) Tomy pocket games, various ones, and 2) Wacky Water Writers, a pen with a clear plastic cylinder shaft you’d fill with tap water and would become a game where you’d repeatedly flip the pen vertically and try to catch sinking objects with a floating one. They would basically pass each other going in opposite directions on each flip.
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I'll get back to the 70s again in Old School soon and will consider some of these for that.
The list of potential product candidates must still be quite long, as we’ve conducted polls like this several times during the Old School era. The collective minds here can conjure up a ton of items.
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I remember a knock-off product sold in candy stores that was a cheap alternative to Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. Was in a much smaller tube with the blowing straw taped to it. Sold for maybe 10 or 15 cents. Man did that stuff give off some fumes.
Of course everyone remembers Pocket Quarterback, but two toy items I remember obsessing over during the grade school years was 1) Tomy pocket games, various ones, and 2) Wacky Water Writers, a pen with a clear plastic cylinder shaft you’d fill with tap water and would become a game where you’d repeatedly flip the pen vertically and try to catch sinking objects with a floating one. They would basically pass each other going in opposite directions on each flip.
And I just remembered this one: Wacky Water Flashlight! Same thing, but a flashlight instead of a pen, batteries not included (as usual).
The jingle for the second one was "Wacky Water Flashlight! Sometimes it's a light! Sometimes it's a game!" The first one had a similar jingle, but I can't remember what word was said at the end of the second line.
C'mon, YouTube, you're our only hope!
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I think this was introduced in the 60s, but who remembers SIXFINGER? A fake finger that shot projectiles. No spy kit was complete without one.
(https://i.postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy/454-CDCD6-9528-4911-B15-B-702-F3-E00-CD7-C.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy)
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And I just remembered this one: Wacky Water Flashlight! Same thing, but a flashlight instead of a pen, batteries not included (as usual).
The jingle for the second one was "Wacky Water Flashlight! Sometimes it's a light! Sometimes it's a game!" The first one had a similar jingle, but I can't remember what word was said at the end of the second line.
C'mon, YouTube, you're our only hope!
First of all, holy crap that there was a follow-up product with a flashlight, I never saw that. For all I know the flashlight came first and pen second. But the jingle was the same, just switch out the product name and description:
“Wacky water writer, sometimes it’s a pen, sometimes it’s a game!”
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I think this was introduced in the 60s, but who remembers SIXFINGER? A fake finger that shot projectiles. No spy kit was complete without one.
(https://i.postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy/454-CDCD6-9528-4911-B15-B-702-F3-E00-CD7-C.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy)
That is waaaaayyyyy too phallic - finger is one thing, but the handle?
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I think this was introduced in the 60s, but who remembers SIXFINGER? A fake finger that shot projectiles. No spy kit was complete without one.
(https://i.postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy/454-CDCD6-9528-4911-B15-B-702-F3-E00-CD7-C.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy)
I'm sure more than one kid has held that up to their pants and yelled "HEY LOOK".
Jim
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First of all, holy crap that there was a follow-up product with a flashlight, I never saw that. For all I know the flashlight came first and pen second. But the jingle was the same, just switch out the product name and description:
“Wacky water writer, sometimes it’s a pen, sometimes it’s a game!”
Thanks, I thought that's what it was.
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In this day and age, a product like Sixfinger - that is just wrong on so many levels. I don't think even Topps would do anything that stupid - that'd be like them putting cigar, cigarette, alcohol and medicine parodies in packs they sell in brick-and-mortar stores (and that's not going to happen any time soon, being that that option seems to be as dead as a dodo).
OLDS, maybe, a modern series, never!
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I think this was introduced in the 60s, but who remembers SIXFINGER? A fake finger that shot projectiles. No spy kit was complete without one.
(https://i.postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy/454-CDCD6-9528-4911-B15-B-702-F3-E00-CD7-C.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sQqRDvZy)
I'm laughing my head off at my desk while supposedly working after seeing this - yeah, am sure it does shoot out things....A
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A few others - Spirograph, Roman Meal bread, and the game Pick Up Sticks
(I think Pick Up Sticks has good parody potential. Make a pickup truck with sticks. Or a game of Pick Up Bricks, where you compete to assemble a small retaining wall.)
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Here are some items I grew up with that are local to the Northern California / SF Bay area. Anyone outside of CA know these?
(https://i.postimg.cc/crF67Lj2/blums-candy.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/crF67Lj2)
(https://i.postimg.cc/0z3Q3H9C/Its-Its-ice-cream.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0z3Q3H9C)
(https://i.postimg.cc/68TqMNx3/pink-popcorn.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/68TqMNx3)
Alex
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Here are some items I grew up with that are local to the Northern California / SF Bay area. Anyone outside of CA know these?
(https://i.postimg.cc/crF67Lj2/blums-candy.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/crF67Lj2)
(https://i.postimg.cc/0z3Q3H9C/Its-Its-ice-cream.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0z3Q3H9C)
(https://i.postimg.cc/68TqMNx3/pink-popcorn.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/68TqMNx3)
Alex
I grew up in Pasadena, CA and I seem to recall Blum's.
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MORE FOR THE LIST (some which were finally parodied later, but would have been more fun in 1973):
- Pop-Rocks
- Zots
- Pixie Stix
- Push-Ups (the ice-cream, not the bra)
- Digger the Dog
- Lincoln Logs
- Legos
- Ding-Dongs
- Mad Libs
- Yahtzee
- Sinclair
- Stuckeys
- Coleman (tents, camping stuff)
- Stanley (tools)
- Hanes
- Levi's
- Hush Puppies
- Stride-Rite
- Little Golden Books
- Ka-Boom cereal
- Quisp
- Mr. Sketch markers
- Tyco trains
- Tonka
- Barbie
- Brylcream
- Stretch Armstrong
- Trouble
... I'll stop there. The list is endless.
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Libbyland TV Dinners! There were 4 varieties:
Pirate Picnic
Safari Supper (mentioned September 16th by Alexirex)
Sea Diver's Dinner
Sundown Supper
I would have gone crazy with glee if I had pulled a Wacky of any one of these!
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I remember those TV dinners! Don't remember if they tasted very good, but they always had cool graphics!
(https://i.postimg.cc/VJbWNXXd/libbyland.png) (https://postimg.cc/VJbWNXXd)
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MORE FOR THE LIST (some which were finally parodied later, but would have been more fun in 1973):
- Pop-Rocks
- Zots
- Pixie Stix
- Push-Ups (the ice-cream, not the bra)
- Digger the Dog
- Lincoln Logs
- Legos
- Ding-Dongs
- Mad Libs
- Yahtzee
- Sinclair
- Stuckeys
- Coleman (tents, camping stuff)
- Stanley (tools)
- Hanes
- Levi's
- Hush Puppies
- Stride-Rite
- Little Golden Books
- Ka-Boom cereal
- Quisp
- Mr. Sketch markers
- Tyco trains
- Tonka
- Barbie
- Brylcream
- Stretch Armstrong
- Trouble
... I'll stop there. The list is endless.
How ironic! I just watched the commercial for Digger the Dog on youtube the other day! Great jingle!
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I remember those TV dinners! Don't remember if they tasted very good, but they always had cool graphics!
(https://i.postimg.cc/VJbWNXXd/libbyland.png) (https://postimg.cc/VJbWNXXd)
I loved the graphics on the Pirate Picnic, especially the pirate blowing into the tiny sail.
(https://i.postimg.cc/pyrw4QMV/Pirate-Picnic2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/pyrw4QMV)
(https://i.postimg.cc/RJtX9ZTd/Safari-Supper.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/RJtX9ZTd)
(https://i.postimg.cc/fVDBnZS7/Sea-Diver.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/fVDBnZS7)
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I loved the graphics on the Pirate Picnic, especially the pirate blowing into the tiny sail.
Thanks for posting those images! We used to anticipate getting those on nights my parents went out. I don't remember them living up to the high expectations we had, though.
Also, how can a Pirate Picnic not have any seafood? I guess they can pirate whatever they want.
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Looneyland Pirate Panic. LOL.
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I mentioned those tv dinners in my posting on the first page! yes, remember them well, they had kiddie items like hot dogs and hamburgers, and that PURPLE MILK PACKET! The milk packet was horrible but my siblings liked it!
Did the OS ever satirize the hair product No More Tangles? I was thinking about that the other day and trying to recall if it was related to the baby shampoo that advertised no more tears....
Alex
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I mentioned those tv dinners in my posting on the first page! yes, remember them well, they had kiddie items like hot dogs and hamburgers, and that PURPLE MILK PACKET! The milk packet was horrible but my siblings liked it!
Did the OS ever satirize the hair product No More Tangles? I was thinking about that the other day and trying to recall if it was related to the baby shampoo that advertised no more tears....
Alex
You're right Alex! I missed your original post about the TV Dinners. I'm amazed how many of these products were never spoofed!
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I mentioned those tv dinners in my posting on the first page! yes, remember them well, they had kiddie items like hot dogs and hamburgers, and that PURPLE MILK PACKET! The milk packet was horrible but my siblings liked it!
Did the OS ever satirize the hair product No More Tangles? I was thinking about that the other day and trying to recall if it was related to the baby shampoo that advertised no more tears....
Alex
Yep, in my post this morning I noted your September post that included one of the varieties. But, without "Libbyland" in front of the name, I didn't recognize it in your list back then. Libby the Kid lives on in our memories!
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Yep, in my post this morning I noted your September post that included one of the varieties. But, without "Libbyland" in front of the name, I didn't recognize it in your list back then. Libby the Kid lives on in our memories!
I totally forgot how great the graphics were on the seafood tv dinner. My family probably still had one of the original unopened purple milk packets in my dad's larder - we never threw anything away and my dad has lived in his apartment since 1969 - but we cleared out so much stuff right before they remodeled his place 2 years ago. Those packets were kicking around for decades at his house....
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I loved the graphics on the Pirate Picnic, especially the pirate blowing into the tiny sail.
(https://i.postimg.cc/pyrw4QMV/Pirate-Picnic2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/pyrw4QMV)
(https://i.postimg.cc/RJtX9ZTd/Safari-Supper.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/RJtX9ZTd)
(https://i.postimg.cc/fVDBnZS7/Sea-Diver.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/fVDBnZS7)
does anyone know who the artists were on these tv dinners?
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OLDS 2 did one of them - Libbyland Sundown Supper - as Lousyland Rundown Supper.
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(https://i.imgur.com/sow6T35.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/sow6T35.jpg)
Thanks for the pic - I now remember loving this in Old School 2! I think the different varieties could be just as funny.
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(https://i.imgur.com/sow6T35.jpg)
Whoa!!!!! I didn't start collecting the OS until OS3 so didn't know this existed!
A
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Out of those, I was always waiting for Quisp.
MORE FOR THE LIST (some which were finally parodied later, but would have been more fun in 1973):
- Pop-Rocks
- Zots
- Pixie Stix
- Push-Ups (the ice-cream, not the bra)
- Digger the Dog
- Lincoln Logs
- Legos
- Ding-Dongs
- Mad Libs
- Yahtzee
- Sinclair
- Stuckeys
- Coleman (tents, camping stuff)
- Stanley (tools)
- Hanes
- Levi's
- Hush Puppies
- Stride-Rite
- Little Golden Books
- Ka-Boom cereal
- Quisp
- Mr. Sketch markers
- Tyco trains
- Tonka
- Barbie
- Brylcream
- Stretch Armstrong
- Trouble
... I'll stop there. The list is endless.
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Out of those, I was always waiting for Quisp.
My sister’s and my favorite cereal when we where kids. I remember getting so mad at my mom after we put it on the grocery list and she bought King Vitamin instead. >(
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How ironic! I just watched the commercial for Digger the Dog on youtube the other day! Great jingle!
Neil, do you remember Sherlock, the other dog toy that came before Digger?
Sherlock was a bigger dog, a riding toy on four wheels that a kid sat on top of and bounced up and down to make him move. He had the same color and yellow deerstalker cap that Digger would have later. He was similar to an earlier riding toy called Inchworm from Hasbro Preschool and his commercial is on YouTube also. All three toys were made by Romper Room.
And now that I've thought of it, do you remember Fisher-Price's dog pull toys, Snoopy and Little Snoopy (no relation at all to Peanuts' Snoopy, btw, in case you're wondering).
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Wow, I didn't know about Sherlock. But Digger was a favorite when I was a kid. My sister had one and we would sing the jingle all the time.
I sort of remember the Fisher Price toy, but not 100%. Maybe if I saw a picture, I could tell for sure.
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Wow, I didn't know about Sherlock. But Digger was a favorite when I was a kid. My sister had one and we would sing the jingle all the time.
I sort of remember the Fisher Price toy, but not 100%. Maybe if I saw a picture, I could tell for sure.
Neil, here's the link for Sherlock's commercial:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NdXU-7OJZo
And the one for Inchworm:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOoeGOL1t1E
And here's links for images of the other two:
*Snoopy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ungit_kVeFY
*Little Snoopy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMWphrokWNI
The two Fisher-Price toys came out in the 1960s, Snoopy in 1961 and Little Snoopy in 1966.
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"Digger the Dog, diggin' he goes with you when you explore... just pull his leash, go for a walk, he's your dog for sure..."
(Sadly never owned one, but remember the song for some reason)
Would be cool to see a bunch of current bands do covers of the classic commercial songs: Light Brite by Linkin Park... "Shut up when I'm making colorful light paintings of you!!!"
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I liked Quisp, my brother liked Quake. How could you go with a miner over a martian??
My sister’s and my favorite cereal when we where kids. I remember getting so mad at my mom after we put it on the grocery list and she bought King Vitamin instead. >(
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same here, I was a "Quisp" guy, my brother loved "Quake" but I
preferred "Quangaroos" the most, I think they were Orange-y,
but they didn't last too long.
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same here, I was a "Quisp" guy, my brother loved "Quake" but I
preferred "Quangaroos" the most, I think they were Orange-y,
but they didn't last too long.
Yes, they were orange-flavored, the only cereal like that I ever saw and liked.
Does anyone remember the race Quisp and Simon the Quangaroo had to see which of their respective cereals was really better? It was Quake's idea in the first place. Quisp rode a unicycle and Simon rode a soapbox scooter. They were racing cross-country from Long Island, NY to Lompoc, CA (yes, that is a real place; the Jay Ward cartoons always used the names of real places in them). There was only one problem: because they started the race all by themselves so quickly, they forgot their maps and, as a result, ended up wandering aimlessly across the U.S. with both of them having no idea whatsoever how to get to Lompoc and thus win the race.
As far as I know, Quisp was the one who won the race, but I'm still not sure, as I only saw the first three commercials of the storyline when I was a kid and I still don't know how it actually ended. I do know that, soon afterwards, Quangaroos went off the market.
An earlier Quangaroos commercial introduced Orangeania (I think that's how it was spelled) where, according to Quake, if you looked deep into a bowl of Quangaroos, you'd see it. It was a land where everything in it was colored orange and everyone talked in rhyme.
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(https://i.imgur.com/sow6T35.jpg)
Jay sold his roughs for this title on Facebook back in 2011, and I was glad to scoop them up! I treasure all my stuff from Jay.
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Yah, I wish I had more from Jay. One of my biggest regrets is not sending him more projects to work on, like the Burpsi art to repair before ending up selling it for exactly what I paid for it years later. Crazy to let that piece go. And once Jay fixed it, it looked amazing. Sellers remorse. I used to do a fair amount of lettering repair on the art using the original 'press-on' letters like Topps used (rather than painting the letters instead), but Jay was the master of matching the letters with paint. He rejuvenated Knots for me, and one other that I can't remember. I definitely got the sense that he really liked working on Wacky Pack projects for all us collectors. Like it was a fun blast from the past.
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Here's an old product I ran across today that I had forgotten about. I remember it being really popular in the 70s!
(https://i.postimg.cc/bdz7gBFv/th.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bdz7gBFv)
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Here's an old product I ran across today that I had forgotten about. I remember it being really popular in the 70s!
(https://i.postimg.cc/bdz7gBFv/th.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bdz7gBFv)
Never had that game, but I certainly remember it!
The Wacky could have been Gnit Gnat with gnats flying around and the tagline "It's Gnu!"
Or gnot
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Here's an old product I ran across today that I had forgotten about. I remember it being really popular in the 70s!
(https://i.postimg.cc/bdz7gBFv/th.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bdz7gBFv)
I think the 70s was a great time for Parker Bros games and packaging - I recall Masterpiece, Dealers Choice, Waterworks, the original Nerf ball, etc.
We had the re-designed Careers too....Gnip Gnop was fun...
A
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Never had that game, but I certainly remember it!
The Wacky could have been Gnit Gnat with gnats flying around and the tagline "It's Gnu!"
Or gnot
"Gnit Gnat" is fantastic! Your writing talents never cease to astound me! If you're good with it, I'd to paint that up sometime!
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"Gnit Gnat" is fantastic! Your writing talents never cease to astound me! If you're good with it, I'd to paint that up sometime!
Thank you, you are too kind (seriously). But, I'd love it if you'd paint that up sometime!!
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I think the 70s was a great time for Parker Bros games and packaging - I recall Masterpiece, Dealers Choice, Waterworks, the original Nerf ball, etc.
We had the re-designed Careers too....Gnip Gnop was fun...
A
I remember a few games by name from the 70s - Hang On Harvey, Air Trix (I think that's how it was written), Crossfire, Bing Bang Boing, Connect Four, Toss Across, Othello - and that's just what I can think of off the top of my head right now.
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I think the 70s was a great time for Parker Bros games and packaging - I recall Masterpiece, Dealers Choice, Waterworks, the original Nerf ball, etc.
We had the re-designed Careers too....Gnip Gnop was fun...
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Great list! Yeah, why Nerf was never spoofed is a real head scratcher!
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I just thought of a good candidate for an OLDS Wacky - Kenner's Rex the Tyrannosaurus, King of the Dinosaurs. This toy was released about 1968 and was a large Styrofoam Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton (but it had a short horn on its nose like a Ceratosaurus) that you could put together. It was 6 feet long and 5 feet tall when assembled. The box suggested all kinds of things to do with the toy, like play hide the bones treasure hunt, display it with a name tag that came with it, paint it different colors, let your friends sign it and wiggle its mouth (it was movable).
Ah, the good old days when toys were simple.