Toy Ads That Time Forgot Tuesday 11-21-2006
We’re going to try something a little different for this Toy Ads That Time Forgot. Because its actually harder to find enough old toy ads in comic books than I thought it would be, I figured we could go high-tech and take a look at a video in addition to our print old toy ads. For our first video version Toy Ads That Time Forgot, I present to you a G.I. Joe Sergeant Slaughter themed ad.
I’ll go right out on a limb and say that Sergeant Slaughter’s Triple T Tank is a dumb vehicle. It has no protection for Mr. Slaughter’s upper body. He should just wear a sign that says, “Dear, Cobra please shoot me in the head.” Of course, in the world of the G.I. Joe cartoon that sort of thing never happens, as practically no one dies. The Sergeant just drives his ridiculously impractical tank around before jumping out of it to punch out half the Cobra army and wrestle Serpentor to the ground while calling him something like, “Snake breath.” Yo Joe!
toys, toy collecting, toy ads, commericals, Hasbro, G.I. Joe
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:07 pm
That’s great how Sgt Slaughter drives around in his own private tank. I was just commenting to a friend on how the kids in the commercial have a really cool set to play on. For me that was always the greatest selling point. If I had a stack of transparent blocks, a mini-mountain and mini-lake I would be having a blast with my Sgt. Slaughter tank as well.
-Bill
November 22nd, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Bill you are so right. Stacks of books in my living room never equaled the giant mountains and rivers and such found in these commercials.
November 27th, 2006 at 10:53 am
The physics of his massive biceps are what kept the bullets from hitting him. Slaughterian Physics is very difficult to understand. It’s right up there with wrestlenomics.
November 27th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Big biceps and his mirrored sunglasses are his shields to danger.
Wasn’t wrestlenomics really big during the Reagan administration?