Comments on: Alternate reality dime-store toys with frank labels

By: heng

heng — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:48:00 +0000

This reminds me of Tim Hunkin’s masterpiece: http://www.seriouslysolutions.com/

By: Ultan

Ultan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:26:00 +0000

Well, as far as I can tell, Lil’Hitler hugs make the alien monkey girl salivate.
Edit: or something?

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:30:00 +0000

Is there some reason there’s so much watermarking? I understand people on ebay watermarking their images for common collectibles (other people with the same item can use someone else’s photos), but what is the justification for the watermarking here? They’re unique items, and not exactly great photos of them.

By: jayson

jayson — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Perhaps the seller has been to the Sausalito Ferry Company Gift Store, which for many years has had a fun little bin of tiny toys in the front with various labels, the most fun of which has always been simply “Choking Hazards.”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixel_revolution/3454301090/

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:15:00 +0000

When we were kids, we didn’t have all these fancy video games. But if you gave us a book of matches and a watering can full of gasoline, we’d play in the alley for hours.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:36:00 +0000

That does raise all sorts of questions about what’s going on in that cartoon.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:34:00 +0000

“You know, for kids!”

http://youtu.be/Ng3XHPdexNM

By: mccrum

mccrum — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:16:00 +0000

I particularly always enjoyed Johnny Spaceman.

“This consists entirely of a rubber band in a plastic bag .”
“Yeah, you put that bag over your head and the rubber band keeps it tight against your neck like a collar. Lookatme, I’m Johnny Spaceman!”

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:07:00 +0000

Johnny Bag-O-Glass was my favorite.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:46:00 +0000

The seller says, “Handmade toy from an alternate 1950′s universe. A world where the packaging told you exactly what you were getting.”

Also a world where the Heimlich maneuver was in widespread use before the 1970s.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 +0000

‘Gag gift?’ I see what you did there.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Johnny Switchblade: Adventure Punk

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:35:00 +0000

What were those toys Dan Akroyd sold? Bag O’ Glass and the Human Torch and Invisible Pedestrian Halloween costumes.