"Up the Bangovator! Through the Flicker-Dicker!"
Regular readers of Drink at Work.com know that we love toys. They also know that we love the 70's. Put them together and, well, you have a pretty good idea of what's on every avaliable surface in our office.
That's why it was the equivalent of Kenner manna from heaven when we received the following YouTube video for 70's Toy Commercials, courtesy of our great friend Dan Gezelter (as in "Ol' Man Gezelter," the decade-long Sally Forth background character who I thoughtfully killed off in the strip last month).
It's all here, people! Awaken your inner child with the sound of an SSP Racer ripcord! Bring out your inner Malachi Brother with the wanton detruction of the Smash-Up Derby set! Face your innermost fears with the "Beckett meets Rube Goldberg" 49-minute existential nightmare that is the ad for Bing Bang Boing!
Relive. Remember. Revisit eBay to buy them all over again.
That's why it was the equivalent of Kenner manna from heaven when we received the following YouTube video for 70's Toy Commercials, courtesy of our great friend Dan Gezelter (as in "Ol' Man Gezelter," the decade-long Sally Forth background character who I thoughtfully killed off in the strip last month).
It's all here, people! Awaken your inner child with the sound of an SSP Racer ripcord! Bring out your inner Malachi Brother with the wanton detruction of the Smash-Up Derby set! Face your innermost fears with the "Beckett meets Rube Goldberg" 49-minute existential nightmare that is the ad for Bing Bang Boing!
Relive. Remember. Revisit eBay to buy them all over again.
posted by Francesco Marciuliano at 9:45 AM
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7 Comments:
Those kids in the "Bing Bang Boing" ad are totally going to be "playing doctor" in a year or two.
jf
OK, now that I've sat through all of those ads, I have to say that none of those toys/games look like they'd be fun for more than about fifteen minutes. Except the art auction game. What kids don't like learning about art history and high-stakes finance, while pretending to be an effete aristocrat?
15 minutes indeed! Clearly, Josh, you are too young to recall the sheer visceral thrill of an SSP Racer.
And while "Bing Bang Boing" would probably have bored me to tears as a child, I think I could easily kill a straight five or six hours with that game today.
Now off to find a toy commercial for the elusive "Earthquake Tower"...
Is it just me, or did they use the same mold for Ram Jet and the John Holmes model...uh...Bangovator?
Masterpeice was actually kind of fun (I was to old for the other toys here). But what is "Sonic Sound" as opposed to, well, "non-sonic sound"??
Smash-Up Derby. Wow, I had that set. Choking hazards everywhere, but man it was fun. One of the few toys that actually worked like the commercial.
(Was a pain in the ass putting them all back together though.)
"Through the Flicker-Ticker and into the Boing-Bucket" is possibly the greatest sexual euphemism ever conceived.
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