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.
Even as a child in the 1960s, I found Flatsies disturbing.
Let’s hear it for… Gay Blade!
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…
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
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Kookie Camera
Imagine if Dr Seuss and the Looney Tunes created a functional plastic camera. Needless to say, I want one very much.
Maybe a bit too realistic: Happy Hungry Baby Alive dolls are described, by their manufacturer, Hasbro, as:
And, the Gooey Louie game. As described on its web site:
The manufacturer also makes games entitled Doggie Doo and Pop the Pig (in which the goal is to overfeed a pig, but not to the point where his stomach explodes).
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
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.
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
What kid wants a toy that Stinks?.
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.
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.
Man, that lady in the red halter top and daisy dukes was just out of luck.
I sit corrected.
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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.
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.
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.