Oh yes Wacky Packs and Garbage Pail Kids - thanks for reminding me about those Gory - now I see more money going out to ePay....  

Quoted from websherpa

Oh yes Wacky Packs and Garbage Pail Kids - thanks for reminding me about those Gory - now I see more money going out to ePay....  

Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids cards actually pull in respectable numbers on Ebay, alot more than many others.

You want big money cards, get some orginal "Mars Attacks" from the 60's.

I can concur that chewing old NOS gum from Topps/OPC is not a good idea.  Yuck!  I was a card freak until something else *cough* pinball *cough* took hold.  

Sam

Stick it to the bottom of a machine of the same era. It increases it's value when it has authentic gum on it.

I have a Card WHiz I could re-unite it with, but a Captain Fantastic would be the quintessential 76 pinball I beleive (16,000 made - that's a lot of gum!)

According to IPDB, around 110 different pinball machine titles were released in 1976 ..... can you imagine!

The funny thing is I'm just showing Space 1999 to my 12 y/o son for the first time this week.  He likes the Eagles.  I have an 18" Eagle model around here somewhere that I'm going to break out and show him.

Incidentally...a piece of trivia:  The gas you see shooting out of the landing struts on the Eagles, as they land and take off, was actually freon being pumped through the model.  Gary Anderson said they used to vent freon basically non-stop on the set.

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The funny thing is I'm just showing Space 1999 to my 12 y/o son for the first time this week.  

I was about 10 yrs old when Space 1999 was on TV,
and although I was curious about it, it did kind of spook me out sometimes.

One episode in particular (...where some "glob-like" alien would eat people and
poop out some burnt-looking cadaver ) scared the hell out of me for days !

30+ yrs later, I still remember that episode vividly !

Be sure your son is not as impressionable as I was !  


Steph

  

I was about 10 when it was on too, and I remember that episode vividly.  That was the episode about the "Ultra Probe", and Tony Chillini, and a monster that could appear out of nowhere (preceeded by a little glowing/spinng ball). The monster looked like a giant spider with one huge glowing eyeball.  

I actually skipped that episode because like you, have remembered it for the past 30 years for the same reasons.  It scared the hell out of me at the time.  I think in some ways TV was more raw back then, although you can see worse things on now.

Ultimately, did it scar either one of us for life?  No... It's just a cool childhood memory.

Quoted from Steph

I was about 10 yrs old when Space 1999 was on TV,
and although I was curious about it, it did kind of spook me out sometimes.

One episode in particular (...where some "glob-like" alien would eat people and
poop out some burnt-looking cadaver ) scared the hell out of me for days !

30+ yrs later, I still remember that episode vividly !

Be sure your son is not as impressionable as I was !  


Steph

  

Quoted from Steph

I was about 10 yrs old when Space 1999 was on TV,
and although I was curious about it, it did kind of spook me out sometimes.

One episode in particular (...where some "glob-like" alien would eat people and
poop out some burnt-looking cadaver ) scared the hell out of me for days !

30+ yrs later, I still remember that episode vividly !

Be sure your son is not as impressionable as I was !  


Steph

  

I have memorys of a Dr Who epasode with a HUGE worm, epasode took place under ground IIRC....same thing, scared the Sh#t out of me and I STILL remember it.

For me it was three things: Stayed up late at a sleep over to watch Kolchak The Night Stalker TV Movie (a modern day vampire) and had to sleep with covers over my neck for the next 15 years.  I remember my mother giving me some garlic and a cross to wear to bed....

The other was "The Blob" (likely saw it on late night tv): wher ethe old man pokes the blob with a stick and it jumps up to consume him (can't get scene out of my head, and it still makes me chuckle ...).

The last was an episode of Twilight Zone called "The Invaders" which pitted Agnes Moorehead against a troop of tiny aliens and there's a scene where she takes an axe to the "aliens" ship (the aliens are humans).  Can't get that one out of my head either.

Quoted from websherpa

I have a Card WHiz I could re-unite it with, but a Captain Fantastic would be the quintessential 76 pinball I beleive (16,000 made - that's a lot of gum!)

According to IPDB, around 110 different pinball machine titles were released in 1976 ..... can you imagine!

Funnily enough, the CF that I picked up on the weekend has a couple of pieces stuck to the underside.

I paid extra for that special piece of authenticity.

Get it over with, just chew the gum!