Remember this? Old school ads.

[Primal]

The good ole days. : (

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[Twoguns-Crowley]

I always wanted that footlocker of soldiers!

[Avenger]

I always wanted that footlocker of soldiers!
I have one somewhere around here. :) They were so diappointing. Just thin plastic pieces. :mad:

[Teague]

I always wanted that footlocker of soldiers!

I did too...and sea monkeys, which I eventually got. Boy, were those disappointing.

[Azog]

I did too...and sea monkeys, which I eventually got. Boy, were those disappointing.Yes they were:

http://www.allatsea.co.za/retropics/seamonkeys.jpg

[nexus]

Yes they were:

http://www.allatsea.co.za/retropics/seamonkeys.jpg


Talk about your lying in advertising. When I was a kid, I wanted some sea monkeys so bad I could taste it. I always thought it would be so cool to have a family a sea moneys in a fishbowl -- living in their sea monkey house, and waving to me as they went to their sea monkey school. Yep, that's what I really thought would be the case. That goodness my mom never let me get them back then, I'd probably be in therapy to this day.

[J Storm]

Those Hostess' ads were cool...now thats old school! :buttrock:

[Twoguns-Crowley]

Boy, glad I didn't get that footlocker!
That blond Seamonkey was the hottest!

[Curt Chiarelli]

The classic Lucky Products 100 piece toy soldier set! And all at the low, low price of $1.75! What memories!

[JadeGiant]

Those Hostess' ads were cool...now thats old school! :buttrock:

Word! fruit pies for me :buttrock:

[daveyyojimbo]

$6.50 - 16 issues. Those were the good old days!

[Primal]

I remember the Spalding ad like it was just yesterday. Who knew you just needed the right basketball to play like a pro!
Mr. Atlas...the 1950s body Alex Ross bases his Supes & Bats paintings on. lol
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[Primal]

Those Hostess' ads were cool...now thats old school!http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/3021/comicadhostesscaptainamericain.jpg http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5149/hostesscapandskull0zo.jpg http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/7656/comicadhostesscaptaimmarvelmee.jpg http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8831/comicadhostessincrediblehulktw.jpg

[Curt Chiarelli]

Why squander all that money and energy on the Charles Atlas "Dynamic Tension" ("It builds muscles FAST so that you can become what you behold quicker!") Body-Building Program when all you need to do is spike that screeching alpha male baboon's Coke with some industrial-strength laxative . . . . ?

[12brokEnBonEs]

When I was a kid I didn't much trust mailorder ads nor did I have the patience to wait for something to arrive by mail in 4 to 6 weeks. This was back in the early 70's and spider monkeys were sold in pets stores.

Well, I saved my money and worked mighty hard to buy a pair of infant spider monkeys. I thought it was strange that the pet store kept them in a birdcage.

Brimming with the excitement of a 9 year old carrying a dream come true in a box, I ran home and promptly dropped them into our aquarium. They didn't swim too long with that tight lid on and they a whole mess of it.

My parents thought I had killed them on purpose. Word about the drowning got around to other kids, then the school, then it seems like everyone was keeping cats, dogs, even babies as far away from me as possible.

I'm still haunted by the splashing and the way they banged on the glass so pitiously.....

And that's the sad, sad, story of the Not-So Sea Monkeys.

[Curt Chiarelli]

You know it's quickly becoming apparent that those sea monkeys may have caused more damage to the collective national psyche than the death of the Marlboro Man to lung cancer.

I remember those ads very well, but I never got suckered by them. Nostalgia and sarcasm aside, personally, I think deceiving children is about as vile as you can get. If I was a state prosecutor at the time I would have made it a priority to have put those companies up on charges of mail fraud.

[Daredevil]

Anyone got ACTUAL pictures of these 'sea monkeys'... I've never seen the m in person

[Kirk Durfey]

Anyone got ACTUAL pictures of these 'sea monkeys'... I've never seen the m in person
Here's a couple trying to make baby Sea Monkeys...

[Thing]

I had those. Brine Shrimp is the real name for those. I used to feed them to my pet Newts...