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5 Random Toys just Sitting Around My Office

by on December 24, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Posted In: Homepage, Scott

So, I’m a bit of a collector.

Not specifically of anything. Mostly I just collect stuff. This can infuriate my wife, but when it’s been eight weeks and I need something to post, I guess it comes in handy.

These are five real, actual things that I just had sitting around near my computer in the office.

#1) Dr. Doom

 

This one is the best. Dr. Doom is just ready to give you some hard advice. The action figure isn’t out to rule the world, no. He’s out to tell you that you shouldn’t eat all that crap, and for fuck’s sake, go to bed already.

Look at him. He’s tough, but fair.

#2) R2D2/C3P0 puzzle thing

 

I got this in a happy meal, I think. Or a Wendy’s kids meal. It came with a burger, is all I know for sure.

This is like a rubik’s cube, but simpler and more awful. Artoo is back together, but Threepio is a jumbled mess on the back. I can’t figure it out. It’s maddening.

#3) Official Stuffed Peep

 

My old room-mate Mariana gave this to me. She had a hard time with food with a face. This meant vegetarianism, yes, but also candy. I can do a great falsetto voice for Peeps, before I cruelly murder them in my hungry maw.

She got me this as a way to try to, I dunno, make me love the Peeps and set them free? I only eat peeps when this guy is around.

To watch.

#4) 1980 Corvette Hot Wheels 

 

 

 

This car was made in 1982. It’s 33 years old, and it’s teal and orange. It looks like Roger Moore would drive it.

I keep it because it’s old.

#5) Bendy Iron Sheik

 

This guy is amazing. This is from my childhood toy box, survived a second life with my nephew, and now is back on my desk. Look at the flower pattern on his tights? That is a resilient paint job there, as this toy was beaten up.

Just looking around here, there are hundreds of things I could post here. Damn. I need to clean this place up, Doom is right.

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Gifts From The Past, Part 2 – The Perspicacious Geek

by on December 22, 2015 at 6:42 pm
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where were we? When last we left our intrepid hero (me), we were taking a long trip down memory lane to find out what toys managed to really stick with me after all these years. What really did it for a kid from Montreal growing up in the 80s and 90s. Last week we talked about a Playskool Space Station that, despite being made for 3 year old’s prominently featured laser cannons as well as the Toad Croaker from Bucky O’Hare, which made a frog sound when you stomped it down on a flat surface.

Let’s see how far the rabbit hole goes.

fireball islandFireball Island from Milton Bradley

What in the holy hell is this? This game is worth 700$ USD now? That’s near a thousand dollars in my Canadian funny-money. My family owned this thing with all the pieces! I need to take a minute here knowing that I am now in the group of people who had a thing worth a nice amount of cash that ended up in the trash.

Breathe.

Ok. So Fireball Island was basically Snakes and Ladders with cards if I remember correctly. Everyone took turns rolling a die and trying to get to the top of the board, and other players could hit their opponents with fireballs to send them back down to the beginning of a track. Other card effects involved switching places and the like with other players.

What set Fireball Island apart in a big way was the board itself. It was a massive 3D plastic monstrosity with an ornate plastic idol at the top of it. The “fireball” mechanic involved actually rolling marbles down along the winding paths of the board to knock other players down. The commercial gives you a pretty good idea of how cool the board was.

The board was so cool that I distinctly remember just playing out adventures on it using the explorer pieces instead of actually playing the game. Pink explorer game piece (the girl, obvs, I was 9) would get kidnapped by spooky cultists and need rescuing. Other game pieces would embark to the top to rescue “her”. The whole thing was pretty much designed to be an Indiana Jones play set.

It was amazing. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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