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Offline RawGoo

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Re: Parody Comparison to the Real Products - Into the 1980s!
« Reply #35 on: January 24, 2025, 12:00:09 PM »
Maybe because of the holidays?  I apologize, they were extra hard for me this year.

I always thought Reaganet's rocked!  Maybe he was the first president I could vote for or against?  And I thought the "Raisin' Taxes" gag was hysterical!!

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« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2025, 12:22:36 PM »
Maybe because of the holidays?  I apologize, they were extra hard for me this year.

I always thought Reaganet's rocked!  Maybe he was the first president I could vote for or against?  And I thought the "Raisin' Taxes" gag was hysterical!!

Thank you, Pat! I do enjoy posting these, and I don't mean to complain. I was hoping people would share facts that many of us might not know, original art scans if they own it, or just memories in general. I'm a sponge for Wacky trivia. And I love searching online for the closest match to the real product exact packaging. For some reason, they are harder to find than original series real product images. 

But getting back to Reaganets....it's purely a Wacky in a time capsule. During much of the 1980s we had a Reagan presidency.

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« Reply #37 on: January 24, 2025, 12:54:09 PM »
I have been watching but haven't chimed in.  This is a great thread and very cool to see.  Appreciate the effort.   :great: :great:

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« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2025, 02:20:41 PM »
Sadly I'm not getting group interaction on this thread. I will continue with comparison images for the sake of completing the task, but I won't go into extra details anymore. Not worth the extra effort since nobody cares.

Next is Reaganets compared to real-life Raisinets.



There are others who like these threads who just don't post. Me on the other hand has a big mouth and doesn't shut up when he should.

Please keep it going with the extra goodies...please

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« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2025, 04:01:50 PM »
Yes, please keep it going! i've got the 1985 Series and this is great!

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« Reply #40 on: January 24, 2025, 04:09:58 PM »
Sadly I'm not getting group interaction on this thread. I will continue with comparison images for the sake of completing the task, but I won't go into extra details anymore. Not worth the extra effort since nobody cares.

Next is Reaganets compared to real-life Raisinets.


Speaking of this one, I wish that they had done Goobers in this series to go with Raisinets, specifically with the former's packaging being very similar to the latter's, but with (I think) blue lettering in the name.

These two products also had a TV commercial jingle back in 1971, which went like this:

"The chocolate covered candies that pour!
Goobers and Raisinets! Goobers and Raisinets!
Goobers are delicious peanuts covered with chocolate!
Raisinets are raisins covered with chocolate, too!
Goobers and Raisinets! The chocolate covered candies that pour!"
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Re: Parody Comparison to the Real Products - Into the 1980s!
« Reply #41 on: January 24, 2025, 05:44:57 PM »
Sadly I'm not getting group interaction on this thread. I will continue with comparison images for the sake of completing the task, but I won't go into extra details anymore. Not worth the extra effort since nobody cares.

Next is Reaganets compared to real-life Raisinets.


I have an observation on this one.  The real product image you posted is exactly what I remember from my youth, yet I could swear this design goes way back before 1985.  In the first several series of Old School, Dave Gross would post real product images of the parodies, which he must have had readily on hand since they would be needed to create the artwork.  Anyway, when I saw the Raisinets parody & real product, to me it had a very 60’s vibe, but when I asked Dave about it, he insisted it was accurate to the 70’s era covered by that OS series.  So I’m very curious how and when the packaging graphics changed through the 60’s to the 80’s.  I have a feeling it may have been tweaked several times.  This is a question for Jason Liebig, the TV star!

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Re: Parody Comparison to the Real Products - Into the 1980s!
« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2025, 05:47:44 PM »
Sadly I'm not getting group interaction on this thread. I will continue with comparison images for the sake of completing the task, but I won't go into extra details anymore. Not worth the extra effort since nobody cares.

Next is Reaganets compared to real-life Raisinets.



This looks like something drawn by Rick Meyerowitz or Robert Grossman.

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« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2025, 06:45:11 PM »
Sadly I'm not getting group interaction on this thread. I will continue with comparison images for the sake of completing the task, but I won't go into extra details anymore. Not worth the extra effort since nobody cares.

Next is Reaganets compared to real-life Raisinets.



I would have weighed in on this one anyway. If anything in the 1985 Series reflected the times, it was this one.

I've always wondered how much of an impact this series had in its day. I never heard from anyone who collected the '85's as a kid, but there are some standout titles.


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« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2025, 08:08:16 PM »
I would have weighed in on this one anyway. If anything in the 1985 Series reflected the times, it was this one.

I've always wondered how much of an impact this series had in its day. I never heard from anyone who collected the '85's as a kid, but there are some standout titles.
I never knew of its existence.  I caught the ‘82 albums and a small sampling of the 1991 series (stumbled across it by chance in a now-defunct drugstore chain), but never knew of the 1985 Series.  Maybe overshadowed and muscled off candy store shelves by newly-arriving GPK? 

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« Reply #45 on: January 25, 2025, 04:17:12 AM »
I would have weighed in on this one anyway. If anything in the 1985 Series reflected the times, it was this one.

I've always wondered how much of an impact this series had in its day. I never heard from anyone who collected the '85's as a kid, but there are some standout titles.

I actually collected these when they came out, although I was missing a couple when I just gave in and bought a complete set from a dealer.  But Reaganet's I remember pulling from the pack!  Aquaflush, Ghost, GI Toe, Fatman, Muggies, all great titles!

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« Reply #46 on: January 25, 2025, 04:27:11 AM »
Speaking of this one, I wish that they had done Goobers in this series to go with Raisinets, specifically with the former's packaging being very similar to the latter's, but with (I think) blue lettering in the name.

These two products also had a TV commercial jingle back in the 1960s (?), 1970s (?), which went like this:

"The chocolate covered candies that pour!
Goobers and Raisinets! Goobers and Raisinets!
Goobers are delicious peanuts covered in chocolate!
Raisinets are raisins covered in chocolate, too!
Goobers and Raisinets! The chocolate covered candies that pour!"

I remember that jingle! Very poor quality radio commercial link below. Goobers and Raisinets were like salt and pepper...you need them both.

Maybe Goobers could have been another political parody, such as Gubernatorial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVt1FIpgEE
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Re: Parody Comparison to the Real Products - Into the 1980s!
« Reply #47 on: January 25, 2025, 04:46:42 AM »
I will add that the Reaganettes gag was the reason I wrote the Rice-A-Romney rough years later. I thought it was such fun that I couldn't resist trying my own hand at it!
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« Reply #48 on: January 25, 2025, 05:16:57 AM »
I remember that jingle! Very poor quality radio commercial link below. Goobers and Raisinets were like salt and pepper...you need them both.

Maybe Goobers could have been another political parody, such as Gubernatorial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVt1FIpgEE
You got it! I was hoping you'd remember it. I was hoping someone would remember it besides me.

Thanks for the video, too! It was like I never was away. I also made the necessary changes to my post.
« Last Edit: January 25, 2025, 05:18:54 AM by mikecho »

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« Reply #49 on: January 26, 2025, 01:09:51 AM »
I have an observation on this one.  The real product image you posted is exactly what I remember from my youth, yet I could swear this design goes way back before 1985.  In the first several series of Old School, Dave Gross would post real product images of the parodies, which he must have had readily on hand since they would be needed to create the artwork.  Anyway, when I saw the Raisinets parody & real product, to me it had a very 60’s vibe, but when I asked Dave about it, he insisted it was accurate to the 70’s era covered by that OS series.  So I’m very curious how and when the packaging graphics changed through the 60’s to the 80’s.  I have a feeling it may have been tweaked several times.  This is a question for Jason Liebig, the TV star!

Yeah, these designs definitely would cross decades at times. Certainly the Reaganets box design started out in the 1970s and didn't last through all the 1980s. I don't think it lasted long past 1985, at that. 

The box shown in this thread is from my Flickr and is the smaller 1oz size box. It's a beauty, but the parody was definitely based on the larger, full-size box, which I've never published, but I do have.   

Here's a better look at my small box...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/5442405650/



I'd share an image of the full size box which fully matches the parody, but I don't see the image attachment option anymore.  Hrrmmmm....

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Re: Parody Comparison to the Real Products - Into the 1980s!
« Reply #50 on: January 26, 2025, 08:01:59 AM »
I actually collected these when they came out, although I was missing a couple when I just gave in and bought a complete set from a dealer.  But Reaganet's I remember pulling from the pack!  Aquaflush, Ghost, GI Toe, Fatman, Muggies, all great titles!

That must have been exciting, to see an all-new series after the originals and reissues. I'm envious.

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« Reply #51 on: January 27, 2025, 05:25:29 AM »
Next up is Grave, a parody of Crave cat food. High quality real product images of some of these products would be non-existent if it wasn't for the preservation and collection of Jason Liebig.


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« Reply #52 on: January 27, 2025, 05:26:29 AM »
Pretty good parody!

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« Reply #53 on: January 27, 2025, 06:42:09 AM »
Next up is Grave, a parody of Crave cat food. High quality real product images of some of these products would be non-existent if it wasn't for the preservation and collection of Jason Leibig.



I loved this set because the parodies became more precise and specific to the products. Not to take anything away from the original cards, but these gags just seemed more developed, and the art was dead on accurate!

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Re: Parody Comparison to the Real Products - Into the 1980s!
« Reply #54 on: January 27, 2025, 08:34:09 PM »
Next up is Grave, a parody of Crave cat food. High quality real product images of some of these products would be non-existent if it wasn't for the preservation and collection of Jason Leibig.



Love that parody and obviously I’ve long loved that original box! 😀
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Re: Parody Comparison to the Real Products - Into the 1980s!
« Reply #55 on: January 27, 2025, 08:37:27 PM »
Sadly I'm not getting group interaction on this thread. I will continue with comparison images for the sake of completing the task, but I won't go into extra details anymore. Not worth the extra effort since nobody cares.

Next is Reaganets compared to real-life Raisinets.



I think I figured out how to get an image here…so here’s the “fat box” that matches up a good bit better. 😄

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« Reply #56 on: January 28, 2025, 05:15:06 AM »
Love that parody and obviously I’ve long loved that original box! 😀

Is that one of yours? I fixed your name spelling on my original post. I gotta remember...i before e, except after c! LOL

When I did a Google search to find a matching "fat box" image, your Collecting Candy larger box image did not show up for some reason, just a skinny box.
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« Reply #57 on: January 29, 2025, 12:12:04 AM »
Is that one of yours? I fixed your name spelling on my original post. I gotta remember...i before e, except after c! LOL

When I did a Google search to find a matching "fat box" image, your Collecting Candy larger box image did not show up for some reason, just a skinny box.

Yep, the Crave was mine.

 And I hadn’t published the fat Raisinets box until I did so here in the forum, so that was a fresh reveal. 🙂
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« Reply #58 on: January 29, 2025, 04:00:11 AM »
Next up is another good one...G.I. Toe, a parody of G.I. Joe. The parody looks like it's based on a generic soldier, but I'm wondering if the real action figure I attached here was part of the inspiration. Included is the first G.I. Toe parody from the original series.



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« Reply #59 on: January 29, 2025, 06:38:06 AM »

   I know that duplicates are often viewed as a "mistake", but I actually enjoy seeing how different artists interpret the same idea! Each of these is funny in their own way. (I think the original is more extreme, and therefore my pick). Add in the G.I. Joke and the G.I. Sno gags I've done, and you've got quite a special forces squad! That's not even mentioning the G.I. Moe Three Stooges rough that is still waiting to be submitted! Nyuk! Nyuk!

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« Reply #60 on: January 29, 2025, 06:47:16 AM »
   I know that duplicates are often viewed as a "mistake", but I actually enjoy seeing how different artists interpret the same idea! Each of these is funny in their own way. (I think the original is more extreme, and therefore my pick). Add in the G.I. Joke and the G.I. Sno gags I've done, and you've got quite a special forces squad! That's not even mentioning the G.I. Moe Three Stooges rough that is still waiting to be submitted! Nyuk! Nyuk!
There's another one: G.I. Toad from All New Monthly Series 2022.

I know G.I. Joke's from 2014 S1, but which series had G.I. Sno?

Also, can you please show us the G.I. Moe rough? I'll bet that's a million laughs right there!

I do know about Wacky duplicates, though; I made a whole thread about them.
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« Reply #61 on: January 31, 2025, 05:41:09 AM »
There's another one: G.I. Toad from All New Monthly Series 2022.

I know G.I. Joke's from 2014 S1, but which series had G.I. Sno?

Also, can you please show us the G.I. Moe rough? I'll bet that's a million laughs right there!

I do know about Wacky duplicates, though; I made a whole thread about them.

   If you feel like adding to your duplicates thread, there have been soooo many new ones that happened during the Weeklys and Monthlys. Laughing Cow comes to mind, and Plucky Charms. Then there are the almost identical twins Blown Pops! G.I. Sno was in the December 2022 Monthlys set. Not too long after the Toad appeared! I'd be happy to share G.I. Moe, but I'd have to FIND it first. I've got almost 4,000 roughs in binders spanning more than a decade, and they aren't scanned or organized in any useful manner. I'd be willing to hunt for it, but if I don't finish those sketches I owe everyone soon I may need to hire a bodyguard!

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« Reply #62 on: January 31, 2025, 07:13:39 AM »
   If you feel like adding to your duplicates thread, there have been soooo many new ones that happened during the Weeklys and Monthlys. Laughing Cow comes to mind, and Plucky Charms. Then there are the almost identical twins Blown Pops! G.I. Sno was in the December 2022 Monthlys set. Not too long after the Toad appeared! I'd be happy to share G.I. Moe, but I'd have to FIND it first. I've got almost 4,000 roughs in binders spanning more than a decade, and they aren't scanned or organized in any useful manner. I'd be willing to hunt for it, but if I don't finish those sketches I owe everyone soon I may need to hire a bodyguard!

That could be a cool, seperate thread - just parody comparisons of the same product
I made one post a while back, showing all of the Bazooka gum parodies at the time (link below) but it's a lot of work compiling them, considering all the series and all the print-on-demand items sold on Topps website! So I welcome anyone to do the honors.

http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=4739.msg114276#msg114276
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« Reply #63 on: February 01, 2025, 06:49:37 AM »
That could be a cool, seperate thread - just parody comparisons of the same product
I made one post a while back, showing all of the Bazooka gum parodies at the time (link below) but it's a lot of work compiling them, considering all the series and all the print-on-demand items sold on Topps website! So I welcome anyone to do the honors.

http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=4739.msg114276#msg114276
It would be fun to see certain ones like Dunkin Donuts.  One product that I think is approaching the top few in the list of repetitive spoofs is Almond Joy.  Mounds has only been done a few times by comparison.

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« Reply #64 on: February 01, 2025, 07:47:48 PM »
It would be fun to see certain ones like Dunkin Donuts.  One product that I think is approaching the top few in the list of repetitive spoofs is Almond Joy.  Mounds has only been done a few times by comparison.
I looked it up on p. 1 of my thread: Almond Joy has been done nine times and Mounds only five.

Dunkin' Donuts, however (including Dunkin' Donuts Coffee), has been done 13 times.
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« Reply #65 on: February 02, 2025, 06:36:39 AM »
Next up is Pimple, a parody of People magazine. Not much to say about this one. I never was a big fan of magazine spoofs since they never spoof a particular cover (with the exception of a few like Moldy Bride from the OS)



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« Reply #66 on: February 02, 2025, 10:30:52 AM »
Next up is Pimple, a parody of People magazine. Not much to say about this one. I never was a big fan of magazine spoofs since they never spoof a particular cover (with the exception of a few like Moldy Bride from the OS)


Fun fact: at the time that this Wacky was released, People was known as People Weekly.

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« Reply #67 on: February 04, 2025, 09:55:39 AM »
Next up is Pimple, a parody of People magazine. Not much to say about this one. I never was a big fan of magazine spoofs since they never spoof a particular cover (with the exception of a few like Moldy Bride from the OS)



I feel the opposite way! I think of some of the classic magazine spoofs (like Play Bug, National Geografink, Sleepy, and Umbrella) perfectly capture the feel of the mags even though they don't match a given cover detail for detail. Especially since a lot of those mags were just as much a part of our childhoods as the candy and soda and cereals were, I really like seeing them included. And if you want to see specific covers parodied, don't forget about the Defective Comics trading card set! I really got a laugh out of those. I only wish they'd done more!


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« Reply #68 on: February 06, 2025, 03:35:29 PM »
Duck parodies are the best, and here is the next one on the checklist...Beak Shaver, a parody of Bic Shaver.



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« Reply #69 on: February 07, 2025, 06:04:19 AM »

  Call me a stickler, but don't ducks have BILLS, not BEAKS? And in a weird way, I think "Bill" would have been closer than "Beak" (Although I get that it sort of sounds like a mispronounced "Bic"). I hope my criticism isn't considered Fowl play!