The ‘80s were the golden age of the action figure, but not all ’80s toylines were gold. For every He-Man or Transformers, there are a dozen series that will never return — either because they’ve been forgotten, or they’ve been outclassed, or just because they sucked in the first place. Here are 15 toylines whose relaunch is forever aborted.
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Those yearning to relive their 80s glory days need yearn no longer.
Now, Sirobako has introduced the totally radical cardboard self-assembly “Berlin BoomBox” kit, designed by German designer Axel Pfaender.
It takes only about 10-20 minutes to assemble the kit and no tools or glue are needed. You can play music saved in your iPhone/iPod, smartphone or any other music player that has a 3.5mm earphone jack.
Sirobako introduces and sells interesting domestic and international audio systems to the Japanese market.
Price: 6,980 yen
Size: W350 x D120 x L250 mm
Weight: 690 g
Speaker output: 5W x 2
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We all know what the Nintendo Entertainment System looks like, right? Well, if a butterfly had flapped its wings in a slightly different manner, things could have apparently been quite different. Former Director of Game Creative at Nintendo America, Howard Phillips, has recently uploaded some images taken from a 1985 brochure for a precursor to the NES called the AVS (Advanced Video System). While a glance at some vintage-looking hardware that never came to be — such as the wireless controller — is a retrospective tease, it was the marketing material from a couple of years later that really snags the attention: an advert for a knitting machine peripheral. The image shows the NES we know and love, with a controller in a dock, attached to a knitting device turning-out what we can only assume are some leg-warmers. Not wanting to alienate its largely male audience, however, the tagline reads “Now you’re knitting with power.” Given that it never came to market, though, we guess that not quite everything was acceptable in the eighties.
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