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I had to post this; space for things that just make you stand up and take notice of our shared childhood. Sparked by a sighting of the following episode guide for the Sunday, August 25, 2002 2AM showing of the A- Team: "Hulk Hogan's visit to B.A. is interrupted when the Team helps a troubled youth save his alcoholic father from gangsters. William "The Refrigerator" Perry appears as himself." People, I am telling you it doesn't get any better than that. . . . Feel free to share other such cosmic moments when karma, media, and nostalgia smash headlong into each other . . .
it sucks that this page has been up since august and nobody's deemed it worthy of reply.i can't think of any recent moments myself,but man, your post took me back to many a night spent chillin on the couch with pops,a bucket of carson's rib tips,a glass bottle of royal crown cola,and a whole lotta murdock,face,hannibal,and B.A. i love it when a plan comes together.
How did they film those scenes in Knight Rider where they drove the car up into the van?
I think they did them all coming out of the van, and then just reversed them when he went in, because it's very hard to drive onto a van, massive breaking at exactly the right moment, that's some serious speed, either that or they lowered it with a pulley, which would be easy because then the wheels would be in neutral.
But then the semi truck would be driving backwards at 60 mph...
i had a dream the other night in which a popple made an appearance. remember those? the little critters that folded all up into a little ball with a tail and then would "pop" back into a creature? well a purple popple was stored in the front basket of the bike i was riding in this particular dream. strangely that is all i remember of the dream
Ahh Yeah Popples, matter of fact I think I still have a yellow one laying around somewhere, kick ass!!And so I will then go with my original thought of the car being on a pulley so that the wheels weren't ingaged, making it possible to raise or lower the car at will with little trouble since they would just stop or start spinning almost instantly.
THey could pull it in, or lower it out while driving. THe car could be running, and then he'd pop it into gear and squeal around the way he always did.
That's my guess, it sounds plausible, because doing it with a running car in gear would be EXTREMELY difficult
My favorite toy, ever, were these things called Charmkins. They are brightly colored, scented little plastic toys in flower themes that you can wear as jewelry: Poppy the Cat, Morning Glory, etc. They probably haven't made them in 15 years, but those were the bomb. All the toys from the 80s seemed cooler, but maybe that's because I was a kid then. Apparently, Hernando remembered my mentioning they were the best toy ever after a day of shopping for my six-year-old brother, and this morning he presented me with a perfect, still in the package Charmkin he bought from some toy collector in California on Ebay. It's the best gift ever, though I have absolutely no practical use for it.
In my opinions gifts are better whne they aren't practical, the bests gifts are always somthing you want not something you need, and what do you want that is really practical?
those bedtime buddy worms whose heads lit up. They wore nightcaps sewn to their heads and looked sleepy. Very practical, nightlite and cuddler in one. And shrinky dinks. We had a window on our harvest orange oven. Where can i get shrinkydinks?
and i don't know why, but i always wanted a Strawberry Shortcake treehouse thing.anyone remember Strawberry Shortcake? also, i melted, beyond recognition, every thumbwrestler i ever got my hands on, including: hulk hogan, junkyard dog, and rowdy roddy piper.
i had three different complete voltron sets. i had the small hard plastic set with the red and green lions whose heads shot off, i had the big soft plastic set that you could put the pilot action figures inside of, i had the the metal set(the coolest one), and i always wanted (and today i can't understand why)the giant single-piece remote-control voltron, which i never got.sigh.
Strawberry Shortcake (I've seen their stuff at Carlton Cards, including metal lunchboxes) and Shrinkydinks (you can get em at Toys R Us).So... what was on your lunchbox when you were in elementary school?
i didn't have most of those toys. i had mostly legos and books. and an NES.
my Knight Rider lunchbox
My first lunchbox ever (1st grade) was Strawberry Shortcake. It was tin with the raised pictures... Anyway, the day my mom bought it for me I knew I was the coolest kid in the world and so I told her, "I'm so glad I get to carry a lunchbox to school instead of a pail like you had to carry." This didn't go over very well, as my was born in the 1950s, not the 1750s... BUT, my conception of the "olden" days came from Little House on the Prairie and my 6-year old mind didn't grasp the concept of history (their was pre-Jesus times, Jesus' day, Washington's day, Little House on the Prairie/Grizzly Adams Days, and the present)...
I had a Glo-Worm, the thing Nunnybun wrote about. The thing is, with a twin sister, we always got the exact same toys for Christmas, birthdays, etc. Something would look so cool on TV, and you thought you'd be so special if you had it, but then you'd see the same thing in your sister's hand and you realize it was not one of a kind, but a mass- produced plastic and cloth...thing. The same thing happened with Baby Alive. We each got one the same day & I was mad when I knew I wasn't the only one with a doll you could give a bottle to & then it soiled a diaper, though it was just colored liquid (in retrospect, that's pretty strange).The flipside is, when it came to collecting things, we could help each other out. We had every Strawberry Shortcake doll, from Lemon Meringue to the Purple Pieman. We had the entire cast of She-Ra and the castle, too. We also had about thirty Barbies, but only one Ken. Every week Ken would have a new wife/mistress/girlfriend. He would cheat on blond Sheila with the black-haired, exotic Hawaiian Barbie. Then he would cheat on her with Astronaut Barbie. Ken the Playa.
My parents were/are very middle class, but in reading this it seems like I was really spoiled. Baggins, be glad you had just books & legos. TV and fancy toys are making kids lazy. Last week my brother, who recently turned 6, was complaining to my dad that we don't buy him enough "Big Boy" toys. What he means by Big Boy toys is an X-Box, which is what he wants for Christmas. Good grief.
Could a six-year-old child even physically lift an X-Box?
lincoln fucking logs is all i have to say.oh,also, my mom really liked the name abraham and wanted to dub brother abraham but not abraham link.
thanks for the reminder kels.
"abraham link"or
"the abraham link"
Does anyone else remember these guys? I don't think any toy ever combined such total awesomeness with such total crappiness.
i remember those guys. they looked cool, but were very unflexible. if i remember correctly.
man, if I remember correctly they were marked as wrestling "things", such as men with spikes in their heads, and the one that was just a solid cube. What do you think those things cost to make? 1/8 of a cent a piece? How much did they sell for? a buck a piece? Man. I should've invented that.
There's now a come back of all those shows, and there's a new muscle show too, damn unimaginative bastards! Did you know that Lincoln logs were invented by Frank Loyd Wright's son? And now you know, and knowing is half the battle! G.I. JOE A "REAL" AMERICAN HERO!!
M.U.S.C.L.E....I remember those. I loved being a child of the 80's. My friend had the whole set. I loved spreading them out on the floor, creating a draft of sorts between my friend and I. We were each designated about 10 transformers, 15 G.I. Joes, and split the M.U.S.C.L.E. men army in half. Forts or bases were supplied by the He-Man castles or a old couch. Pillows made excellent caves for the my secret army which would attack when I was about to be defeated. The winner would have Voltron for the next battle. Then his mom would make hot dogs for us. Ahh....
Coney you just made me wish I was 8 again!!
Some fond rememberances:Thundercats
Construx
Voltron (of course)
Transformers (the old ones, not the new shit)
HeMan
M.A.S.K. (the transforming vehicles)
classic Star Wars figures
and on TV...
MacGuyver
Airwolf
The Greatest American Hero
Magnum
Dukes of Hazard
and I remember old episodes of Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Mission Impossible and Wonder Woman when I was a kid.
why superman would want to date Lois Lane when Wonderwoman was so much cooler and had the added advantage of being able to save her own backside.... It's endemic of masculinity everywhere (wink to Cinnamongirl). And, why did all of the g.i. joe girls, whose names I have successfully blocked, all have enormous boobs? And video-game women? Is an animated breast a cheap thrill?
Many of the new games make use of the supercomputers inside playstations and xboxen to make the breasts jiggle with amazing realism. And with unrealism, when it looks cooler.
Does anyone remember the original Land of the Lost with the sleastacks? Man, those things scared the crap out of me as a kid. I guess it might have been the 70s.
link
Is that a giant gingerbread man in the background?
but a really big one
that it's a pig.
It's a bronto's face.
Does anyone remember the TV Spiderman with the big wrist things that shot rope?
My mom blames that TV show with my climbing obsession.
TV Spiderman
LEGO Spiderman
that was awesome!
Anyone ever been to this link?This site is LOADED with 80's nostalgia, commercials, products, etc. The commentary is kind of funny/brash but all in good fun. Highly recommended.
...is a great show on HGTV about old toys and stuff.