# Kids! Win this FX-100 sports car! (What?)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 12, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-win-this-fx-100-sports-car-what/985342 "2023-06-12T01:02:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-win-this-fx-100-sports-car-what/985342/41 "2023-06-13T02:00:03Z")

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> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Supermarket Sweep at FAO Schwarz?

My grandmother lived around the corner from a Toys R Us . As a kid I always wanted to go Supermarket Sweep in there.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-win-this-fx-100-sports-car-what/985342/42 "2023-06-13T04:02:52Z")

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I wanted Red Ball Jets so badly as a kid thanks to their commercials. In my neighborhood, the girls all had Keds and the boys had Chuck Taylors or PF Flyers.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-win-this-fx-100-sports-car-what/985342/43 "2023-06-13T08:11:39Z")

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> [@Spiderman](#):
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> So you’re Robbie Alen Hanshaw’s uncle???

If Robbie is still alive, he would be 73, so probably not. 😃

The only Google results for his full name are references to his winning the capsule contest, so he likely either died before the advent of the internet age or chose to go by a different name as an adult.

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**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-win-this-fx-100-sports-car-what/985342/44 "2023-06-13T17:23:36Z")

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He was so mad about them making him give away “his” capsule (and when they asked him who they should give it to, he said “Give it to the Russians, if I can’t have it”, they said no) that he built his own spaceship in his backyard and took off and is living on the moon.

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