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Cracker Jack toys that were actual toys, not just slips of paper with crap printed on it, and cereal toys with tiny chokeable metal and plastic parts.

Also, Reggie Bars. I always thought they should've made a Catfish bar too, but can understand now why that might not be easily marketable.

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It seems to have lost is allure when translated to the web.

What about those hand-held football (baseball, basketball, etc.) games? You know, with the little led's that are would-be tacklers?

As for other icons:

The dunkin' donuts "time to make the donuts" guy
The maytag repairman.
The Solid Gold dancers
John Davidson, Cathy Lee Gifford, and Fran Tarkenton
The A-Team

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How many people can remember the Sinclair dinosaur?

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Also:

Denny Terrio and Dance Fever.

P-p-p-puttin' on the Hits!

Lost cultural treasures
 

Saw this recently... in a bid to revive the franchise, a Battlestar Galactica video game will be released this fall. A DVD release of old episodes is also planned...

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/sim/batt...s_6025613.html

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Also:
Shazam!
Isis
Space Ghost
Johnny Quest
ABC After School Specials

And, to tie two threads together, don't forget "Major Mudd"

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From Disney?

I'm the baby, gotta love me.
Not the daddy.

I passed my talking doll of the Sinclair baby on to my son -- he hates it.

Edit: After reading the later posts, I must have the wrong dinosaur. I was thinking of the Disney program Dinosaurs which was actually a late 80s thing I think. I have the doll though just the wrong decade.

"A minute to learn, a lifetime to master."

Hell, I felt old when I got to college and every childhood boardgame was available as a shareware (i.e., freeware) game for the computer.

Yahtzee!!

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I have a blow-up Sinclair dinosaur that we used to use like an inner tube in the water.

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Howard Cosell
Alcoa's You Make the Call
Bud Bowl
Tommy Heinsen

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He still exists in mountain states, no?

edited to add:
http://www.sinclairoil.com/images/girl.jpg

Humdrum
 

If Wonk is using Depends to toss anybody's salad, he has other issues . . .

Lost cultural treasures
 

Really? I, uh, heard that there was a DVD of the first couple of episodes rolled into one. From the original Cylon attack (and death of Rick Springfield *sniff*) to the paradise type planet where they caught onto the ambush. If the rest of them come out before December, I know several someones who will get them for Christmas.

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He will not soon be forgotten. "Dandy" Don Meredith, on the other hand . . .
Or Alcoa's Fantastic Finishes.
let's forget BBIII and after.
Doesn't he still do play by play for the Celtics?

Speaking of which, while I know it's been observed before, how did Pat O'Brien go from hosting the NBA finals "on CBSSSSS" to Access: Hollywood? Who's next, Bill Walton hosting that show? "That's a terrible dress, Brittney. What were you thinking?"

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No, although I did love the show. Sinclair was an oil company that disappeared in the 70s and their mascot was this kelly green dinosaur. The stations regularly gave away blow-up versions. With no front or rear entry.

Humdrum
 

I prefer my salads like my martinis. Shaken, not tossed.

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Land of the Lost (those sleestaks were scary)
Disney Movies on Sunday nights
The Bionic Woman (the show and the doll)
Metal (Snoopy) lunchboxes and school bags (not backpacks)

Gigantic station wagons with wood paneling, perforated vinyl seating that hurt like hell in the summer time, and a third back seat that faced out

Colorforms

Encyclopedia Brown

Rummaging in the attic
 

Visited my parents over the past weekend and went looking through the attic. I found:

• My solid-propellant rocket (ignited using a 12-volt car battery)
• Poker-Rama
• Kizmet
• Parcheesi (sp?)
• Frenzy
• Toss-Across
• Never-assembled motorized models
• Misc. weird stuff I made for school projects

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Oh my goodness. I can.

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How do you get shirts so clean Mr. Lee?
Ancient chinese secret.
My husband, some hotshot, here's his ancient chinese secret - Calgon! Calgon's two water softeners soften wash water so detergents clean better. We need more Calgon!
Ancient chinese secret, HUH?

And yet, no short-term memory at all... Sigh.

Lost cultural treasures
 

Anyone else remember The Garbage Pail Kids?

I'm showing my age with this, but they were pretty popular when I was in grade school. Don't ask me why.

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Own yours today (minimum order 3)

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Which explains why the last name of the dinos in the Disney show was Sinclair. Brilliant. I googled it and am now reading all about the Sinclair oil company. I never knew. This could be a Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit question someday. There is no limit to what a person can learn here -- and I don't mean that sarcastically.

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Do not taunt Super Happy Fun Ball.

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How about the Bloodhound Gang.
Or that show, Kung-fu? Eh, grasshopper?

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It's Nikolai Volkoff. But for my money, I'll take everyone's favorite intercontinental champion Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and his signature move, the figure-four leglock.

To answer the poll, I'll go with Hungry Hungry Hippos. But I had a Hamburglar T-shirt back in law school and I plum wore it out. Best T-shirt I ever had. Better even than my "All your base" and "Tintin" shirts.

Vanilla - poll
 

That sexy santa outfit was city vanilla but suburban (chocolate?). Like, I went out in public in it in Georgetown but certainly would not have in Stepford. WHile I was walking aournd, some drunk yelled at me to wait up because I was his fantasy come true. For what thats worth.

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That reminds me of Hong Kong Fooey, number one superguy, which must be a contender for least PC children's cartoon of the late 20th century.

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Hey Burger, I bought Mattel football at Radioshack a few months ago for $20. It's not all I remembered it being.
Off to the gym (and to watch the Bee).

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Angry Apartment Dweller: Who broke my window?
Stickball Player: Telling the truth isn't gonna be easy . . .
ADD: Glass! Everywhere you look! Who broke my window?
SP: Why's my stomach all nervous and queasy?
ADD: Who could the little culprit be? Who threw this ball? Did someone see?
SP: Peace, old man, I'm really scared!
ADD: Aw, kids these days, they don't care!
{Change opera}
SP: Mr. Robinson, Mr. Robinson!
ADD: What a horrible mess!
SP: I broke your window with this ball . . . .
ADD: You?
SP: . . . and I've come to confess.
ADD: You knew I'd be angry?
SP: Yes!
ADD: Aren't you afraid?
SP: Yes!
ADD: You'll have to pay for this mess you've made, but I'm proud of you, child, for you have displayed HONOR, the stuff from which heroes are made!
{Big finish}
SP: I told the truth!
Chorus: He told the truuuuuuth!

Entirely from memory. God bless the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If it weren't for them, I'd be a lying sack of shit today.

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I dunno about that. Apache Chief was a pretty fucking big stereotype. No pun, as paigow might say.

Lost cultural treasures
 

I seem to remember these, too, but the site says the trading cards were not issued in the US until 1985. That would make YOU something like 25 (boy genius?) and me, well, maybe I just ate too much acid flavor ice cream while making free love in the 70's.

Lost cultural treasures
 

There was a DVD of the Battlestar Galactica pilot episodes put out a few years ago. It's available on Amazon but the quality doesn't look to be very good. A quick search of a couple of fansites seems to suggest that the new set will be 8 DVD's (apparently all 22 episodes that aired), will retail for $99 and will be out in time for Christmas.

Interesting note I picked up from one site... the show was a top 25 rated series in 1978 but was cancelled the next year because of the then-high production costs of $1 million an episode... These days $1 million doesn't even buy one of the "Friends" for a half-hour episode.

and Hungrey Hungrey Hippos and lots of what you all have listed are in most kids toy closets now.
one "almost gone" is Elvis. in 20 years no one alive will have seen him, and there will be this huge mansion in Mephis with big cars and bad wallpaper/furniture charging decreasing admission. one thing that'll let me know I'm way over the hill is when I see the news item that Graceland is being razed to make the Hound Dog Condos.

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Next week are you going to go buy a TRS-80 computer for $2000?

Given that they have put 10 classic atari games in a joystick, for about $20, methinks that $20 isn't exactly a technology-cost-adjusted price.

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I don't recall those ads, but I do remember most of the morality lessons given to me by Davy and Goliath. That had to be one of first forays into claymation.

Speaking of claymation makes me think of Mr. Bill which makes me think of when SNL was good -- the 70s and early 80s

Roseann Rosannadann
We are two wild and crazy guys
Mr. Robinson's neighborhood
Landshark
Tang? Thank you Mrs. Lupener
Conehads
Etc -- anyone have a favorite?

edit - or maybe SNL seemed better because I was younger.

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Dick Gautier
Brett Somers
Charles Nelson Reilly
Paul Lynde
The Unknown Comic
Steve Martin's "getting small"
THe BeeGees before Saturday Night Fever
My mom's tinted sunglasses with the rhinestones with her intiitals from her visit to Caesars on my dad's business trip
Big Wheels
That big blue ball thing with the handles in the shape of an animals head (hippity hop????) that you would bounce up and down on that now resembles a stability ball without the horns.
slip n slide (the ultimate seventies suburban backyard accoutrement)
Devil Dogs and Little Debbies snackcakes (the most disgusting things ever- we kept buying em and hating em and then my dad would swoop in and say "these are disgusting" and proceed to eat the whole box- he had just quit smoking)
Benny Hill for hopeful peaks at TITS

But I will relay one story. I was at a bar and played Kids in America by Kim Wilde on the jukebox and this young lady told me she thought this song had its origins on the Clueless soundtrack.

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How in god's name did the Decepticons not beat the shit out of the Autobots? The Autobots had a Transformer that transformed from a robot into a freaking boombox for god's sake!

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Agreed on Land of the Lost (I can hear the theme right now in my head) and Encyclopedia Brown. I was also a big fan of Clue (the board game). Lost in Space was also great. I liked the Laff-a-Lympics a lot. The evil cheater team never won, despite coming up with some great dasterdly plans...