Toy Ads That Time Forgot Not Tuesday 01-05-07
With the craziness of the holidays, my stressful job, and my monthly transformation into a werewolf last night, you Toy Bender fans have needlessly suffered and I’m sorry. Unless the three people I killed in my werewolf rampage were Toy Bender fans, then their deaths served to quench my primitive animal rage and their suffering was not in vain. Speaking of animal rage, I thought I’d catch up on this week’s Toy Ads That Time Forgot with a toy I always thought was great: The Animal.
That theme song has been stuck in my head for the last twenty years, only to be replaced periodically with the to Quantum Leap theme song. As you probably have guessed, I really wasn’t a toy truck kind of kid so I never owned The Animal. A neighbor kid did have one so I got to indulge in a little Animal climbing action in my sandbox from time to time. It was grand even if we didn’t have a miniature river to cross and mountain to climb like those lucky bastards in the commercial.
I wonder why no truck company has gone with the paws that shoot out of the tires to help you climb stuff category yet. I can see this becoming a big thing with the hip-hop crowd and those living on Thunderskull Dinosaur Island. Okay, I made that up. There is no such thing as hip-hop.
Toys, toy collecting, truck, The Animal, TV, commercials, ads
January 9th, 2007 at 9:31 am
It baffles my mind why they have not come out with the animal again too! I remember that commercial I think I wanted that car instead I got a stinkin’ lamborghini remote control car and a few jeeps haha I think my dad wanted a boy! *weeps
January 9th, 2007 at 10:43 am
I’m begining to think your father was overly cruel to you while at the same time he spoiled you hehe.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Basically yea, I was raised in the Jehovas Witness religion and didnt get any birthday parties but would get gifts for no reason out of the blue. I though infact always loved video games and boys for toys above dolls not a barbie chick. It did absolutley nothing but get naked the lil bimbo! But yea I was always into robots , science and technology:P
January 15th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
This was the toy that my brother totally wanted but didn’t get. I think he was a tad too old for it actually because he was like 13 or something when it came out but still. I have to admit though, I was rooting for him to get it …hehe
January 17th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Yeah this theme song was absurdly catchy. I always wanted “the animal” but always got the much smaller and less cool “stompers”. Not to knock stompers they were simple fun.
Me and my other 27 year old friends just had a session where we sang the animal theme song and listed as many MASK characters as we could think of.
Good stuff.
-Bill
January 17th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Stompers! I forgot the name of those things. i used to have a stomper track. Thanks Bill!