CBC Digital Archives: Hot Toys of 1984

[Undrave]

Video doesn't want to work for me, when the SECOND ad (seriously?!) plays it get stucks at 0:29 out of 0:30 and won't go ><

[pandaprime]

Originally Posted by Megatron75

I was going to pick up some G.I. Joe figures/vehicles for my nephews recently and couldn't find any at my local TRU. I've seen the 12" figures at Toystoystoys before but haven't seen the old 5" figures in ages. Do they still sell them? If so, where?

Just the 50th anniversary exclusive 2-packs and 3-packs on the TRU pegs now, only retail store to carry them ,here is the packaging pics:

the 2 vehicle sets are the black VAMP w/raft and the Ice Wolf w/Skyhawk

[Buhawi]

War toys...

Thanks to hippies we got more variants...

[Buhawi]

30 years ago Transformes started dominating the toy industry with it's powerful commercials called cartoons. Why does it only continue to affect only a fraction of the same kids, now in their mid/late 30s? What makes us different from the rest of them? Yeah, we're probably freaks. lol.

[alternatorfan]

Memories like consumers distributing where you could get all your g1 goodness!!!

[Buhawi]

Just how common are we really?

Out of everyone I know there's only a handful yet it seems that our generation has more. What about a few generations later?

Is there a scientific study about all this? I would love to read it.

[Rev]

Originally Posted by venksta

We use to have dollar bills?

Seriously?

[venksta]

Originally Posted by Rev

Seriously?

I seriously never knew or recall seeing $1 Canadian bills. When did they get replaced by the loonie coin?

Next, you guys are going to tell me we use to have $2 canadian bills. Lol, Ok, I'm joking about that one. :P

[Buhawi]

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...4#.VIzm6SvF-So

Found some. kinda.

The starting point of this paper will be studies that view popular culture as religion. First, I examine a selection of recent works that argue certain popular culture communities—namely, music subcultures, sports, and television and celebrity fandoms—look like, act like, and indeed are religions for participants. Methodologically, the studies under examination proceed by starting with a definition of religion and then looking for parallels between the pop culture fandom and the definition. I suggest that popular culture as religion scholarship is at best creative, always problematic, and tends toward what Samuel calls ‘parallelomania’. In the second part of the paper, I use the studies under examination, as well as original research, to argue that contemporary fandoms are better understood as late modern ‘projects of the self’, affiliational choices that act to establish self-identity and community in a time period when these things are not given, but reflexively made and remade.

[Rev]

Originally Posted by venksta

I seriously never knew or recall seeing $1 Canadian bills. When did they get replaced by the loonie coin?

Next, you guys are going to tell me we use to have $2 canadian bills. Lol, Ok, I'm joking about that one. :P

1989. You must be a youngin. . http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withd...dian_banknotes

We used to have a four dollar bill.