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« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2006, 04:42:09 PM »

GI Joe (I actually got one the very first year they were out, 1964.)

Major Matt Mason, cool astronaut. He had those wires in his arms for bending them, and they broke after a while.

The Mattel Tommy Gun, I had fun playing Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow's character on Combat!)

Star Trek - when the show started I was 11 and wanted to be Captain KIrk. By the time it ended in '69 I thought Spock was the coolest thing going. He was an outsider, but way smarter than everyone else.

Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and far too many movies to mention influenced me.

I was always into Scifi, UFO's , and paranormal stuff.
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« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2006, 04:48:32 PM »

Aurora DID have one more Universal model kit,but it wasn't re-issued in the 70's. The Bride of Frankenstien! The 60's issued kits didn't glow either. I had the 70's models as well. I also had aBarnabus Collins model, Rat Fink, the Hulk, and the giant Rattlesnake from Land of the Giants. I also had some BIG dinosaur models.Very cool. Does anyone remember the Invisable Man kit? He was clear plastic,and you could see his guts and stuff! I had a Charlie McCarthy ventrloquist dummy when I was little,and when I was about 13, I put him in the trash burning barrel,so I could watch him melt..."WHHHOOOAWWW....COOOOL...."
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« Reply #32 on: July 14, 2006, 04:56:46 PM »

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*The day Elvis ...uh... "left us"
*The day Paul McArtney was bust for posession in Japan
*The day John Lennon was taken from us
*The day I found out the guy who played Grizzly Adams was a *&!@#%$X dealer
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« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2006, 05:15:29 PM »

One of my favorite things as a kid was Mad Magazine. I had an Alfred E. Neuman for President poster on may wall and I stenciled his image on the old shed we had out back of the house. I loved their movie send ups and my favorite part was the small cartoons in the margins.

Some people say that as I child I bore a slight physical resemblance to the magazines mascot. Judge for yourselves. (no tooth gap, however)

 


When I got older, The National Lampoon was favorite also.
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« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2006, 05:25:23 PM »

Trek, its uncanny indeed when you look at the smile.   I liked and still liked the Spy vs Spy comics and the Sergio Aragones strips.  
But did anyone ever like Cracked Magazine?
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« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2006, 06:49:31 PM »

Wow..........WACKY PACKAGES were my favorite collectibles next to baseball cards.



Here is a nice little page on WACKY PACKAGES
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« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2006, 06:55:23 PM »

MAD and CRACKED magazines were both fun Trek Geezer and ED. Always liked the photos with the bubble caption that put words in there mouths.

Did anyone play Electric Football or have an Electric Race Car track by Aurora or Tyco?

How about the Telstar video game that played tennis on a b/w screen with one dot and two lines for rackets. Wow......talk about staying busy all day ! ! !
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« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2006, 07:25:27 PM »

PONG!  The original video game.

And how could I forget Space Food Sticks?  They were great.

MacDonalds commercials before Birdie or Grimace, where the original Hamburglar was an evil looking thief who actually stole other people's food.  I hate politcally corectness.
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« Reply #38 on: July 15, 2006, 09:37:39 AM »

Wow.You do look like Alfred! I LOVED Mad. I also read Cracked, Crazy,and Sick.Marvel also had a short-lived comic type (like the old 50's MAD) called ARRGHH! My dad bought a Pong game, and one with little tiny tanks, Combat, or something.They actually have NEW Wacky Packages in sticker machines now. I bought some at the laundry mat.
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« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2022, 02:21:25 AM »

Silent movies on PBS. Smoking weed in high school, reading all the time, comic book art, hitchhiking to NYC at 16. And of course, old monster movies.
Later- heavy metal and punk rock. And girls. I rarely got to have sex with another person, but I liked it!

For some reason, this junk influenced me the most as a kid.

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« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2022, 02:27:57 AM »

'80s cartoons, Hammer horror movies and heavy metal.
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« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2022, 02:52:02 AM »

Watching Vietnam on the news. Manson on the news. Nixon on the news.
 My Dad watched the news a lot.

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« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2022, 04:01:14 AM »

Living through a war and being abandoned and abused throughout my life made me a better person.
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« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2022, 09:53:15 AM »

Wow. A resurrected discussion from 2006. This group has longevity!
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« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2022, 10:41:44 AM »

^ Ain't it groovy?  Thumbup

Living in the boonies. Living in NYC.

Chiller Theater in NY in the 60's and later in the 80's.
Double Creature Feature from Indiana in SW West Michigan uhf ch. 28.
Shock Theater on ch.41 from Kalamazoo in SW Michigan.

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