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VectorSigma posted:i think the idea goes back to before there was a national high speed transit network and old fogies remember getting goods delivered by merchants in their town and weren't accustomed to this newfangled idea of distribution chains and distant warehouses managed from distant offices. Did the product come with a return envelope that the postman would put the money into? What happened if you weren't at home when the postman came? Was it difficult for the postman to have to sign and certify and carry money? It just seems like a clunky system.
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glowing-fish posted:What year was this, I am assuming 1988 or onward? Yeah, it was marketed sometime around 1989 I believe.
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May 18, 2016 19:25
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VectorSigma posted:you know, as much as transformers in the 80's was essentially the blueprint of the half hour toy commercial, the cartoons had more compelling and subtly nuanced plots compared to the michael bay blockbuster shitheaps of 20+ years later and that is just silly Are you loving kidding me? I turned on the first episode of Transformers when some retro cartoon channel was having a free weekend preview back when I had cable. The first episode is a man and his child working on an offshore oil derrick (who the gently caress lets a kid on an oil derrick?) and the Deceptions attack. Rather than making GBS threads their pants and hiding they loving fight back by throwing pipe wrenches and poo poo! Then the second episode starts and Optimus shows up and pretty much literally says 'I'm the good guy robot from another planet here to fight the bad guy robots!' and the kid again says he wants to loving help, instead of the expected reaction of 'OH poo poo A TALKING ROBOT GET THE gently caress AWAY FROM ME' The first Bay movie at least got that part right and wasn't completely terrible. The rest of them were really loving bad, though.
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May 18, 2016 19:31
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Also go watch an episode of the old Thundercats cartoon and then go apologize to your parents for flooding the house with that retarded drivel back in the 80s. Christ, I had a god damned Transformers book on tape that I occasionally insisted on listening to on road trips. If I had a tape player I'd make a copy of it because I'm pretty sure the CIA would like a copy, it'd be more effective psychological torture than blasting rock music at captives for 48 hours straight.
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May 18, 2016 19:38
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glowing-fish posted:Did the product come with a return envelope that the postman would put the money into? What happened if you weren't at home when the postman came? Was it difficult for the postman to have to sign and certify and carry money? It just seems like a clunky system. the mail wasn't even involved. the stores would deliver goods themselves.
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May 18, 2016 19:44
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VectorSigma posted:the mail wasn't even involved. the stores would deliver goods themselves. But obviously the company selling Sea Monkeys did not have their own delivery service, so they were going through the mail?
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May 18, 2016 19:46
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glowing-fish posted:But obviously the company selling Sea Monkeys did not have their own delivery service, so they were going through the mail? for a while there was a system for accepting payment as a COD through mail but it didn't really work out for obvious reasons. i guess it's still a thing in the third world though.
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May 18, 2016 19:53
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glowing-fish posted:How did CODs even work? Was there a time when the friendly neighborhood mailman would come inside for a nice glass of lemonade, while littly Billy emptied his piggy bank for the 2 dimes, 5 nickles and 5 pennies needed to pay for his seamonkeys? ask your mother
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May 18, 2016 20:13
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tomstuart posted:a toilet for idiots mods change my name
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May 18, 2016 20:26
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The attention to detail and care these grown men show while playing with these TMNT toys in this commercial is truly something special. I think I still have a canister of ooze in my attic somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZL4edraDr0
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May 18, 2016 20:27
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A pair of Barbie commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYsIO7ds4tU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UGRwFHhUc Pretty much the same change in a few years, even if Barbie is different from He-Man. In the first ad, its just two girls playing with a toy and narrating what they are doing. In the second, the toy world itself it the big thing. Also, of course, the second has a lot more production behind it.
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May 19, 2016 17:38
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Godamned Teddy Ruxpin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EshrR-xk2E When this little human being came out you couldn't go 2 and a half minutes on any tv station without seeing a commercial for it.
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May 19, 2016 17:46
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I loved THE poo poo out of these things and had a whole bunch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbn-XMxXlXw I have no idea how I would have towed my toy sea plane up a gradual incline without them. Deus Ex Macklemore fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 19, 2016 |
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May 19, 2016 17:47
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glowing-fish posted:First example of a 1980s toy ad: Wasn't that one the inspiration for the Chucky doll in 'Child's Play?
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Muscadine Wine posted:Wasn't that one the inspiration for the Chucky doll in 'Child's Play? This seems to be claimed, but I don't know if it is true.
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