Wednesday, November 29, 2017

'Member, You 'Member??

 
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How many times did I see these ads as a kid and wondered what would actually arrive in the mail. There were myths and stories but nothing definitive. It wasn't until the Age of Information that I was able to search out photos of these products actually in their final assembled form. They look like they would survive one summer afternoon and that's it but what a glorious adventure it would have been.
 

5 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Sea monkeys were my jam.

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

They weren't real monkey's you know. And they didn't wear crowns.

DrGoat said...

But they did live in water. I was more the X-Ray glasses and Throw your Voice kind of kid. The ventriloquist thing was really a letdown. Made you sound like Daffy the Duck.

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

I would have been into ventriloquism but I have an irrational fear of those puppets.

DrGoat said...

Who needs a puppet anyway. Any inanimate object will do.