Stinkor has to be the single greatest marketing coup in all of toy history. I can just imagine the pitch: "Hey! instead of coming up with an entirely new character, let's just recolor an existing toy, give him the armor from another figure, and the gimmick is... He smells bad!!! Kids'll love it!!!" And obviously it worked, since I swear Stinkor's one of the most common He-Man figures I ever see at flea markets and whatnot. Amazingly enough, most of them actually still stink twenty years later! That's some fine craftsmanship. (In case you have NO idea what I'm talking about: Clicky here plz)
Yeah, I was into He-Man back in the day. Don't look at me like that! You were too and you know it! If you were a kid in the eighties, it was impossible not to be into He-Man. Some of the character ideas were cataclysmically retarded (Fisto? FISTO!?) and they all had those disturbingly undersized legs that you could never position correctly, but some of the figures were damn cool. I had the see-through clockwork robot guy, the silver guy with the extendable body parts, one of the ones that transformed into a rock for whatever reason, the one with the pop-up rattlesnake head, the fat armor-headed guy with the springy legs, the blue and yellow guy whose arms spun around, the guy with three eyes AND the guy with three faces. Heck, I even had the Chuck Norris guy covered in guns and the robot in the gimp mask who blows apart. (And if I'd had any idea how rare those suckers are now, I might have actually held on to them.)
So here's my tribute to bizarre toy concepts gone by. Fifi looks quite fetching as a villian, no? I'll bet she could kick the shit out of He-Man's incredibly gay ass and still have time to anal-rape Orko.
Bonus points to anyone who knew that "The Stench Of Evil" was the title of the little comic book that came with Stinkor.
I'd commented on this when it was on FA -still a good one! =D
I bought a bunch of the old toys a while ago! Merman has a shoemaker glue-covered hole where his right arm should be. =( Everyone else is also very broken. I might take time to repair them on my own and find their accessories, but who knows what I'll do with Merman.
You might know this -where was Kobra Khan's water spraying mechanism? (He was the Snakeman who spat water when you pushed his head) In his head, or in his body? Mine is headless and the inside of his body (what little I can see of it) is hollow.
Also, you had: Roboto, Extendar, either Rokkon or Stonedar, Rattlor, Ram-Man, Sy-Klone, Tri-Klops, Man-E-Faces, Rio Blast and Blast-Attak. Yes, I know their names. *shamed*
I'd commented on this when it was on FA -still a good one! =D I bought a bunch of the old toys a wh
Nah -I had no idea who those were until the mid-00s, except Ram-Man. I was born in 1990 and inherited the toys from my cousins (I think some of them were still in stores if you knew where to look, cause this one time Dad bought me Orko). They were being manufactured here by a Venezuelan (my home country) company under license from Mattel, due to bad economy. For whatever reason, they chose a few "best of" figures and vehicules from the early years and called it a day. No Rock People, no Snakemen, and no Horde outside of the She-Ra 'toon.
If you're interested I might put up the list of who and what they did make (pulled from someone else who had to erase it from his blog -too many jerks stealing it and claiming it as their own work)
Nah -I had no idea who those were until the mid-00s, except Ram-Man. I was born in 1990 and inherite
Oh, and I also had a Betamax tape with "Prince Adam No More" and "The Starchild". For years, that was all I saw of the show as a kid, because by then it wasn't on TV anymore. And then Dad went and gave all that stuff away to Grayskull knows who.
Oh, and I also had a Betamax tape with "Prince Adam No More" and "The Starchild". For years, that wa
OK, at the risk of not making any sense, AlexReynard, and blowing my own horn as a chemist.
The stink of skunk is due to sulfur atoms where the oxygen atoms should be. Sirprisingly such substitution gives many oxygen compounds thus changed, a disagreeable stink. Hydrogen sulfide (H20 - H2S). Skunk essense is due to ethyl alcohol (hic !!) having its oxygen replaced by sulfur. Selenium will do the same trick.
OK, at the risk of not making any sense, AlexReynard, and blowing my own horn as a chemist. The sti
