# Weird toys **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972 "2019-09-10T07:09:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/21 "2019-09-12T15:49:23Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I thought it was Jetfire who was the Robotech ripoff. All of the decepticon planes were based on that same design. In fact, the entire original Transformers toys lineup was just a bunch of mostly unrelated toys from the Japanese market, licensed and combined into a single line by Hasbro for American consumption. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/22 "2019-09-12T17:37:53Z")
Even as a child in the 1960s, I found [Flatsies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl9CsIVZpIY) disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/23 "2019-09-12T18:46:45Z")
Let’s hear it for… Gay Blade! [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bR7YU062TD0/VjA4REErDXI/AAAAAAAAVKQ/X2wsOIimDI4/s1600/DSC01013.JPG) ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bR7YU062TD0/VjA4REErDXI/AAAAAAAAVKQ/X2wsOIimDI4/s1600/DSC01013.JPG) [![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYsIxCuyeH0/VjLD5Go00bI/AAAAAAAAVY0/546pG3_SuVg/s1600/fritos-mpc-mini-monster-gay-blade1.jpg) ](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYsIxCuyeH0/VjLD5Go00bI/AAAAAAAAVY0/546pG3_SuVg/s1600/fritos-mpc-mini-monster-gay-blade1.jpg) Originally released by MPC, the eight figurines in the set received new paint jobs and names when Frito-Lay packaged one mini-monster in each bag of corn chips back in the late '60s. Thus, “Evil Executioner” became “Gay Blade.” It was a different time… ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/24 "2019-09-12T19:05:42Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Let’s hear it for… Gay Blade! > > [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bR7YU062TD0/VjA4REErDXI/AAAAAAAAVKQ/X2wsOIimDI4/s1600/DSC01013.JPG](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bR7YU062TD0/VjA4REErDXI/AAAAAAAAVKQ/X2wsOIimDI4/s1600/DSC01013.JPG) > > [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYsIxCuyeH0/VjLD5Go00bI/AAAAAAAAVY0/546pG3\_SuVg/s1600/fritos-mpc-mini-monster-gay-blade1.jpg](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYsIxCuyeH0/VjLD5Go00bI/AAAAAAAAVY0/546pG3_SuVg/s1600/fritos-mpc-mini-monster-gay-blade1.jpg) > Originally released by MPC, the eight figurines in the set received new paint jobs and names when Frito-Lay packaged one mini-monster in each bag of corn chips back in the late '60s. Thus, “Evil Executioner” became “Gay Blade.” > > It was a different time… I was going to comment “I can’t help but be curious what his relationship was with Bony Tony.” But then I thought, nah…😉 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/25 "2019-09-12T19:40:11Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > All of the decepticon planes were based on that same design. In fact, the entire original Transformers toys lineup was just a bunch of mostly unrelated toys from the Japanese market, licensed and combined into a single line by Hasbro for American consumption. Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp (the 3 initial Decepticon planes) were indeed the same design in different colors. They were NOT based on any Veritech design I know of. Jetfire definitely was a ripoff of a Veritech. Although his backstory is that he used to be a Decepticon, he was released as an Autobot. [https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire\_(G1)/toys](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_(G1)/toys) Back To The OP Kookie Camera Imagine if Dr Seuss and the Looney Tunes created a functional plastic camera. Needless to say, I want one very much. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/26 "2019-09-12T20:47:54Z")
Maybe a bit too realistic: [Happy Hungry Baby Alive dolls](https://babyalive.hasbro.com/en-us) are described, by their manufacturer, Hasbro, as: > [@](#): > > Baby LOVES to eat! She opens wide, moves, talks, drinks, “pees,” and “poops.” Mix up her favorite food, give her water from her sippy cup, then change baby’s diaper! And, the Gooey Louie game. [As described on its web site](https://www.goliathgames.us/product/gooey-louie/): > [@](#): > > Pick a winner with Gooey Louie™–who “nose” what you’ll find when you dig in and try? But watch out . . . if you pick the wrong gooey from Louie his eyes will pop, he’ll flip his lid, his head will pop open, and his brain will fly out! The manufacturer also makes games entitled [Doggie Doo](https://www.goliathgames.us/product/the-all-new-doggie-doo/) and [Pop the Pig](https://www.goliathgames.us/product/pop-the-pig/) (in which the goal is to overfeed a pig, but not to the point where his stomach explodes). ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/27 "2019-09-12T22:30:44Z")
Nowadays, the idea that you don’t know what figure you have until you buy it and open the box is common. It was not always so. The Trash Bag bunch came in little garbage sacks. You dropped the sack in water. It rapidly broke down while fizzy tablets fizzed. This revealed what figure you had. There were some awesome looking figures in the bad guy side. [STA: Galoob's Trash Bag Bunch](http://toyarchive.com/TrashBagBunch/TrashBagBunch.html) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/28 "2019-09-12T23:03:58Z")
I was really into classic horror movies as a kid. I also built a lot of model kits from Aurora. Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, Creature From The Black Lagoon…etc. At that time they also had some model kits depicting various torture and execution scenarios. I would see them on the store shelves along with all the other model kits and even at age 8-9 I thought that was just too creepy. [From a GIS for Aurora models, vintage 60s, torture chamber](https://darkshadowseveryday.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/1150-aurora-monster-scenes-torture.jpg) [GIS first page](https://www.google.com/search?q=60s+vintage+aurora+model+kits+torture+chamber&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=lHMlzA0PUXfsxM%253A%252CY1q63B5W598hDM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQ6NANmeACUfjOLifr2Y3mXvqLt_Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHpbeTsMzkAhVHba0KHXCqBysQ9QEwAXoECAkQCQ#imgrc=_HCa8QCYxwigEM:&vet=1) ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/29 "2019-09-13T05:22:21Z")
Slime is still around. Unfortunately. My granddaughters have buckets of the stuff. Instead of eyeballs and worms, it now comes in neon colors with sparkles! The stuff sticks to fabric (especially upholstery) and then spreads out so that it is impossible to remove. The kids are always hauling that crap over to me. That’s because I call it snot, and I threaten to wrap it in a Kleenex and throw it away, like all other snot. If that’s not bad enough, a “recipe” for slime was posted online, and kids everywhere just HAD to make their own! It caused a run on Elmer’s Wilhold glue and store shelves were empty for weeks. Nasty stuff. It looks like snot. It feels like snot. It’s snot. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/30 "2019-09-13T11:45:06Z")
What kid wants a toy that [Stinks?](https://www.google.com/search?q=Stink+Blasters&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS799US827&oq=Stink+Blasters&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8). Wood burning kits aren’t weird, but marketing them to kids is. Ours said “Ages 8 and up”. Goddamn near burned ours and the neighbors house down. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/31 "2019-09-13T18:34:42Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Jetfire definitely was a ripoff of a Veritech. He wasn’t a ripoff, any more than any other TF was a ripoff of the various Diaclone, Microman, Beetras, etc that they were based off of…Hasbro licensed a Veritech toy from Bandai before Macross (in the form of Robotech) got licensed, and used it as the basis for Jetfire…but not very long before, which resulted in Jetfire getting a redesign (and, weirdly, rename) in the cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/32 "2019-09-13T19:09:59Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I was really into classic horror movies as a kid. I also built a lot of model kits from Aurora. Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, Creature From The Black Lagoon…etc. At that time they also had some model kits depicting various torture and execution scenarios. I would see them on the store shelves along with all the other model kits and even at age 8-9 I thought that was just too creepy. > > [From a GIS for Aurora models, vintage 60s, torture chamber](https://darkshadowseveryday.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/1150-aurora-monster-scenes-torture.jpg) > > [GIS first page](https://www.google.com/search?q=60s+vintage+aurora+model+kits+torture+chamber&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=lHMlzA0PUXfsxM%253A%252CY1q63B5W598hDM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQ6NANmeACUfjOLifr2Y3mXvqLt_Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHpbeTsMzkAhVHba0KHXCqBysQ9QEwAXoECAkQCQ#imgrc=_HCa8QCYxwigEM:&vet=1) Man, that lady in the red halter top and daisy dukes was just out of luck. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/33 "2019-09-13T19:11:18Z")
I sit corrected. Back To the OP From The Real Ghostbusters Fearsome Flush. It’s a haunted toilet. It looks normal, but push it along and- the tank opens to reveal eyes and the bowl lid opens to reveal a mouth and long tongue. I LOVE this thing. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/34 "2019-09-13T21:49:08Z")
I have a gyro wheel. I couldn’t pass it up when I went to buy a baby gift 20 years ago. Whenever someone new to my home comes over, they get all excited about it and I insist they play with it for a while. Memorabilia can be a great ice breaker. I have a few tin flywheel cars from the Soviet era in Hungary, some key-wind vehicles, and a fancy kaleidescope. I was once caught without any toys for kids to play with so I went and got some toys. The adults like to play with them too. The cats are a little afraid of the cars. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/35 "2019-09-15T05:00:47Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I was really into classic horror movies as a kid. I also built a lot of model kits from Aurora. Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, Creature From The Black Lagoon…etc. At that time they also had some model kits depicting various torture and execution scenarios. I would see them on the store shelves along with all the other model kits and even at age 8-9 I thought that was just too creepy. > > [From a GIS for Aurora models, vintage 60s, torture chamber](https://darkshadowseveryday.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/1150-aurora-monster-scenes-torture.jpg) > > [GIS first page](https://www.google.com/search?q=60s+vintage+aurora+model+kits+torture+chamber&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=lHMlzA0PUXfsxM%253A%252CY1q63B5W598hDM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQ6NANmeACUfjOLifr2Y3mXvqLt_Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHpbeTsMzkAhVHba0KHXCqBysQ9QEwAXoECAkQCQ#imgrc=_HCa8QCYxwigEM:&vet=1) I had the model guillotine as a kid, complete with victim whose head would fall off when the blade fell. It gave me my first good practice at trying to paint realistic flesh colours (and, of course, a bloody stump where the neck would be severed). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972/36 "2019-09-17T04:54:46Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > I had the model guillotine as a kid, complete with victim whose head would fall off when the blade fell. It gave me my first good practice at trying to paint realistic flesh colours (and, of course, a bloody stump where the neck would be severed). I had a couple of those too, or one like it. The guillotine had a little basket that the head fell into. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-toys/839972.md?page=1)