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Vox Hunt: Bring 'em back! (plus some crazy customised toys)

Apr 7, 2008
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Show us a discontinued food or product you wish would return.
Submitted by Shawn.

1. Britannia's Ginger-Nut cookies. TOtally delish. Why did they stop making them?

2. Cadbury's Temptations Orange Apricot. Yummmmmmm.

3. Glo-Toys. They came out in '82, three years before I was born. I had received a Glo-Spider on my fourth birthday. Without them I have practically no living proof of my childhood in the 80s! :(

4. I want a My Little Pony as well. I used to have the violet one called Blossom - I have NO idea where she is now. They were so pretty (and I love horses.)

5. Care Bears. I never had the toy, but I used to LOVE the movie (or was it a TV show?)

Here is a great link to the hottest toys of the 80s.

EDIT: OMG PONIES!!1! They still make them!!!

WANT.

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EDIT EDIT:
I discovered this blog called Toybender, with a section called Custom Figure Corner. I found some of the most weird-ass customised toys I've ever seen.

Weird: My Little BatPony

(but not as weird as the My Little Stripper Demon Pony)

Weirder: Dune Lego

Weirdest: The Justice League LOCKER ROOM

[cough]

(inspired by these cartoons by J.Bone. Check out his illustrated Superhero pinups.)

QoTD: Toy Story

Feb 6, 2007
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What was the one toy you wanted as a kid that your parents never bought you?
Submitted by Princess of Darkness.

Well, I asked for a toy only once - a Barbie when I was about six - because I was fascinated with the endless array of clothes and shoes she seemed to have. (I can't stand Barbies now.) But my parents bought one for me anyway, almost a year later - I had forgotten all about her by then!

Of course, that doesn't answer the question. But I'm writing this because it reminded me of one toy I really loved ... my late Glo-Friend Spider.

My late maternal grandfather bought me this toy when I was a four-year-old in Mumbai. I promptly took it to kindergarten a few days later and it got stolen. Ashamed and sorry, I didn't tell my grandfather, and until the end of his life, never asked him for anything ever again. I did ask my parents for a couple of things (like the Barbie) but never more than once. And I certainly never asked for a Glo-Friend again.

I adored my chubby little spider, and I wanted more Glo-Friends. I loved their droopy bug eyes, bulging cheeks and extreme roundness.

http://hometown.aol.com/sunyday76/cartoonmisc/glowfriends.jpg

Glo-Friend Spider (second from right)

http://hometown.aol.com/sunyday76/cartoonmisc/glofriends3.jpg

I remember going to bed thinking how cool it was that the toy glowed. Come to think of it, I would actually get a little scared of seeing them glowing strangely in the dark, but I loved my toy so much that I managed to convince myself it was to help little children stop being scared of darkness.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0721/9.jpg

chubby yeems

I'd forgotten about this for nearly ten years - then all it took was one QoTD, and voila, the memories came flooding back. Sadly, I haven't seen them in any toy store for ages. Sigh.

Now I want another Glo-Friend. Preferably a Spider.