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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2007 19:53:15 GMT
Sectaurs! I must have them!
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Post by Gav on Dec 18, 2007 20:35:07 GMT
Hahahaha....NO THANK YOU.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2007 20:39:13 GMT
Then perhaps I can tempt you with...THE GOBOTS COMMAND CENTER!
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on Dec 18, 2007 20:49:35 GMT
"Your parents put it together." Well, that's an unusual selling point.
My cousin had a Sectaur. That advert makes them look like Fingerbobs Deluxe.
On a related note, whilst at the post office I noticed that there appeared to be a live action Silverhawks film for hire. On closer inspection it was actually something called Silver Hawk, though the character picture did make it look like it was based on the Silverhawks toys.
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Post by Gav on Dec 18, 2007 21:03:47 GMT
I remember that line from a few He-Man adverts. Weird thing to say, i know.
The best thing about the GoBots advert is the kid's face at the end. He's so smug and cocksure. Guardian victory was never in doubt, as far as he and his freckly face were concerned.
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Post by legios on Dec 18, 2007 21:15:41 GMT
Although mis-headed (the commercials Japanese ones for "Macross" stuff rather than "Robotech" stuff). I do have a soft spot for these - classic examples of old-style stop motion mecha commercials:-
Karl
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Post by Hero on Dec 21, 2007 8:47:22 GMT
Thanks for the memories...
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 23, 2007 18:17:43 GMT
The Ad you can access on Doc's first post for the GI Joe USS Flag Aircraft carrier is cool! Damn that's a big toy!
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Post by Gav on Dec 23, 2007 19:33:17 GMT
I've been looking through a lot of Go-Bots Adverts tonight, and i can see one major flaw which probably led to their demise.
They are mostly fucking awful.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 23, 2007 22:45:35 GMT
I saw a USS FLAGG once..... a local store had one as a competiton prize. I wanted one. But I wanted a Defiant more. |
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Post by kayevcee on Dec 24, 2007 0:12:55 GMT
Either of those two would have blown my tiny mind as a kid. The shuttle launcher more I suspect because it's still actually of a scale that a kid could play with it. In other news... Ban Dai actually had a go at a Gobot triple changer! His name? TRIPLE JIM.-Nick |
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Post by Gav on Dec 24, 2007 8:47:29 GMT
Triple Jim is probably the best name I've ever heard for a transforming robot.
Apart from ApeFace, of course.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 24, 2007 10:47:33 GMT
Both are glorious, though Triple Jim is a shade more awesome. I want him to appear in a Furman story.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2008 19:40:04 GMT
For me the best toy from the past has to be BigTrak. It was way ahead of its time and was so popular that it lasted for several years without any kind of modification whatsoever.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 1, 2008 20:54:33 GMT
Ah but toys back then did. Look at how long the original SW toys were on the shelves for. Makes a big difference to today when the selling window for a toy is so small - most SW and TFs these days are on the shelves less than a couple of months.
Longer selling window = More of each toy sold
Longer selling window = less of each toy needed at one time to break even = more different toys per case
Longer selling window = more of a chance for a child to buy the toy.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2008 17:52:59 GMT
Indeed. I recall seeing/picking up Transformers toys on shop shelves several years after they came out, back in the day. Unthinkable today*.
-Ralph
*Except for the spatial anomaly that is The House of Sher in Glasgow.
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 2, 2008 21:50:09 GMT
There are a few rare exceptions among action figures like Mr Potato Head and Buzz Lightyear, and it seems like TMNT don't change their figures hugely between relaunches which seem to happen every four years or so. Power Rangers figures are all variations on a theme: "basic assortment of Rangers", "male Rangers on motorbikes" etc but each line has small cosmetic changes which means new moulds every year. They usually stick with their assortments for the whole 12 months, though.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2008 22:24:59 GMT
-Ralph
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Post by panderson on Jan 4, 2008 8:15:38 GMT
WTF!!!
What was this selling...a car cleaner which makes them taste good to cats?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2008 11:58:50 GMT
Who knows, but it freaked me out. Thus, it had to be shared.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2008 20:25:48 GMT
PLANET OF THE APES!
It's the breathless delivery that makes it. "Zira...the female...scientist..."
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on Apr 22, 2008 14:58:05 GMT
Arghhhhhhhhhh... That dodgy Also sprach Zarathustra music is ingrained into my psyche!!!
Anyway... Here's some Starcom in the form of an internal Coleco product awareness video:
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 22, 2008 18:30:36 GMT
My dream job is to make videos like that for Hasbro.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2008 19:12:51 GMT
There are some Planet of the Apes figures on Ebay at the moment but they're going for about £30 each.
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Post by legios on Apr 22, 2008 20:05:04 GMT
I do find something fascinating about these sort of vendor show-reels. (And actually, the guy that Coleco have got doing there's has more enthusiasm than some I've seen - like the Matchbox Robotech one where the bloke has an aura of "when's clocking off time?")
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Post by The Doctor on May 14, 2008 22:21:24 GMT
Has there ever been anything Star Wars related that Anthony Daniels hasn't turned up for?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 12, 2008 20:42:57 GMT
HE-MAN! HE-MAN!
FROM MATTEL!
ECHO MICROPHONE!
MAN PASTE PLAY SET!
The fright zone. The fright zone! THE FRIGHT ZONE!
ROCKS YOU TRANSFORM TO SURPRISE!
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Jun 12, 2008 23:26:49 GMT
That... that... I... that... just...
That is a sock puppet, yes?
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 13, 2008 7:43:56 GMT
Looks like it!
I had a similar reaction too.
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on Jun 13, 2008 8:41:54 GMT
I don't remember the echo microphone being quite so good on my Snake Mountain. I want my money back.
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