As you know there is a “Dangerous Toy” thread floating around in MPSIMS and it seems that we “Dopers” are doing our best to warn parents of the hazards of these nasty playthings.
However, we don’t want parents to shell out their hard-earned money for toys which children will never use do we ? Therefore as another public service, let us try to warn everyone about these
“Extremely Boring, Unpopular Toys”.
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Salvation Army GI Joe™
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan Action Figure from Galoob™
Rubik’s Brick
One-Knob Etch-A-Sketch™
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So come on folks, let’s save those parents from wasting their hard-earned dollars and start listing other similar toys.
Todd McFarlane’s Rob Reiner Revisited figures. First up, “Action-Brooding Harry Burns,” from When Harry Met Sally. (Next Christmas, keep an eye out for the X-Treme Nora Ephron series)
Terminator 4: Detante of the Machines action figures—Reenact the philisophically thrilling end to the Terminator series, with peace conferance between Skynet and the human resistance. Use the T-9000 and John Connor figures together, to activate the “action symbolic-handshake” feature!
The My First Pet: Realistic Carnival Goldfish. Just like a real goldfish from the carnival gamebooth. Comes in a plastic bag full of realistic water-like liquid. You pour it into the Aquarium (sold separately), which you can decorate with Aquarium Toys (sold separately), and feed it Realistic Goldfish Food (sold separately) and when it dies (within the next 2 days), you can bury it in an Authentic My First Pet Goldfish Coffin (sold separately).
Mr Wizard’s Paperweight Experiments
Comes complete with an extensive instruction booklet which explains:[ul]
[li]The History of Paperweights[/li][li]The Physics of Paperweights[/li][li]The socio-economic geo-political psycho-cultural influence of paperweights[/li][/ul]
Also, has a Do-It-Yourself-Kit which contains most of the materials you will need for an attempt at making your own paperweight !!!
and available soon: Mr Wizard’s 'Doorstops of Significance’
>>My Dinner with Andre Playset
I loved the end of Waiting for Guffmann where the Chrissie Guest character shows his store display of “Remains of the Day” lunchboxes and…
Parents - do NOT be fooled ----
you would think your kids would really like The 3 Stooges Action Figures until you get the box home and find it consists of Shemp, Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita.