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[Wag]

Had to post this one.

A life size tank for $5. Can't pass that one up.

The hypno-coin. That leads us into...

 

[Bleepey]

I loved these ads. I'll have a snapple or buy an Atari Lynx one of these days.

 

[richiek]

Let's not forget Hostess fruit pies!

 

[Currygan]

 

[Dennis]

A life size tank for $5. Can't pass that one up.

wat

Someone please post an image of what you actually got.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

remember the Cosby one.

 

[MC Safety]

http://boingboing.net/2008/11/03/mans-account-of-orde.html

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18236

You could order monkeys via comic books. And not those shifty sea monkeys.

 

[MrCunningham]

I have to post Jay Leno's Teacup Monkey story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpv3tMzkfM

 

[bengraven]

wat

Someone please post an image of what you actually got.

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2012/03/missile-firing-tank-from-honor-house.html

 

[Machine]

I used to want these so badly:

 

[lightus]

I actually really want that cap machine gun...

 

[DarkFlow]

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2012/03/missile-firing-tank-from-honor-house.html

That's pretty cool, they also made a sub.

 

[Dennis]

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2012/03/missile-firing-tank-from-honor-house.html

Not bad, looks fun.

 

[bengraven]

That's pretty cool, they also made a sub.

Imagine the wars you could have if the entire neighborhood had some...

I used to want these so badly:

I wanted this so bad I tried to redeem this coupon...in 1988.

My grandma was the voice of logic.

 

[xeris]

I used to want these so badly:

I actually had those. They were 2D figures on flat bases that tipped over pretty easy. Made them great for target practice kinda like those carnival ducks.

 

[Filthy Slug]

Spoiler

From the classic: "BItch Planet", which everybody should read

 

[MC Safety]

I actually had those. They were 2D figures on flat bases that tipped over pretty easy. Made them great for target practice kinda like those carnival ducks.

No, they were the little green army men like you see in Toy Story. They were 3D.

 

[xeris]

No, they were the little green army men like you see in Toy Story. They were 3D.

Ah you're right. I was thinking of the ones that came with this set.

I got em both at the same time so they probably got mixed together.

 

[Ahasverus]

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2012/03/missile-firing-tank-from-honor-house.html

That thing isn't /mobile/

 

[Mechanized]

That kid got a Speakeasy before me.

 

[kess]

 

[PSqueak]

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2012/03/missile-firing-tank-from-honor-house.html

That's pretty cool, they also made a sub.

These actually look pretty fun, would have loved them as a kid.

 

[xeris]

Did some poking around because it was driving me nuts. I did have figures from both of those adverts, but apparently what I was thinking of are called Comic Book Flats and look like this:

Which apparently came from this ad:

Good gods, I ordered a lot of this crap. Even had sea monkeys at one point.

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

There's actually a documentary about that guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBzSVCxDb1E

 

[way more]

Mental Floss says they stopped the practice of recruiting children in 2007

 

[uniform]

 

[hunnies28]

I want a fruit pie!!

 

[kess]

 

[Seductivpancakes]

I always loved those junk food ads in which the super hero lures the bad guys with snacks and captures them.

Also, always jealous of those prize ads where kids can earn them by selling crap.

 

[Manmademan]

Mental Floss says they stopped the practice of recruiting children in 2007

Amazing they stayed in business and weren't sued to oblivion long before then

 

[Seductivpancakes]

Did some poking around because it was driving me nuts. I did have figures from both of those adverts, but apparently what I was thinking of are called Comic Book Flats and look like this:

Which apparently came from this ad:

Good gods, I ordered a lot of this crap. Even had sea monkeys at one point.

I would be incredibly upset if I ordered those, and that's how they looked when I got them.

 

[jombag]

Any video game ad by

 

[Dicer]

I got a pile of army guys of a comic once, wasn't any of the ads posted so far, and they weren't flats, got a big box full of real plastic molded soldiers/tanks and so on and even a mat that looked like a battlefield...

 

[jetpacks was yes]

I have to post Jay Leno's Teacup Monkey story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpv3tMzkfM

Uhhh.... What's the story behind this? Some weird fever dream?

 

[itwasTuesday]

But mom! Jimmy's mom let him ordered one.

 

[xeris]

I would be incredibly upset if I ordered those, and that's how they looked when I got them.

I wasn't nuts about the men, but I did like playing the bombers and planes as a kid. Well that and like I said earlier using the guys for rubber band target practice.

 

[way more]

Uhhh.... What's the story behind this? Some weird fever dream?

Haha, second time I've heard a story about those mail order monkeys.

http://snapjudgment.org/fools-gold

Monkey Madness is the story of Pepe the monkey.

So when my mother, seeing this monkey, and seeing it's from Monkey Island or wherever it was from - and she says, oh my god. I don't care what the boys have ordered. Take this thing back, it's not coming to my house. Take it back where you got it from. I don't want this thing in my home.

And the postman says, if I take him back, he will die. So now my brother and I are about to have a stage 4 meltdown in front of the bridge club, which she cannot have, right? And we know that she's sending our friend away to a certain death. So she says, oh for god's sakes, all right. Put the monkey in the kitchen.

What a saint that mom was.

 

[TwEE-N-Toast]

 

[MrCunningham]

Uhhh.... What's the story behind this? Some weird fever dream?

I don't know if Jay Leno ever followed this up. But it didn't seem like he was joking about it. Maybe it was a crazy fever dream? The interview came from the first week that Conan was hosting the Tonight Show on NBC.

 

[disappeared]

There's actually a documentary about that guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBzSVCxDb1E

Damm I wish that was about an hour longer. Ridiculous.

 

[Wag]

My friend ordered these. My fish thought they were delicious. 😁

Yep, that's a hovercraft.

I have no words. 😂

Well, it is a videogame forum... (looks like it's from a UK comic)

 

[Elija2]

Was getting sand kicked in your face the most humiliating thing back then?

 

[Currygan]

haha, I reckon my aunt telling us she bought these Sea Monkeys for the cousins back in the late sixties, she recalled that they became so bloody numerous my uncle had to flush them down the toilet when the guys were at school


speaking of real monkeys, WTF? Poor things, man i guess animal abuse was not a thing to be worried about back in the day