GMM 2443: Testing Discontinued Toys

Today, we visit the Island of Lost Toys. – Let’s talk about that. (upbeat music) – Good Mythical summer. – Okay, we all know that Marie Kondo has been very helpful in decluttering people’s homes, but imagine this nightmare scenario. – Okay. – What if, in one of Marie Kondo’s mad cleaning frenzies, she unknowingly threw out the last remaining version of a super cool, discontinued toy. – Why would she do that? – Well, you’d have to ask her, but I am just as hypothetically upset as you are, Link. What if I told you we tracked down these lost toys on eBay and now, we have a chance to make everything right by just playing with them? – I’d say that hypothetically sparks my joy. – Hmm. – It’s time for “Terminated Toys: Judgment Day.” We’re gonna be playing with some terminated toys, meaning they’re no longer in production, and then we’re gonna decide if they should come back or not by declaring “Bring it back,” or “Nah, that’s whack.” – All right, up first, why be an adult and go to a rave for a foam party when you can be a kid in the sixties and make a rave come out of your mouth? (upbeat music) – [Announcer] With the Super Foam Machine, make more fun foam than you have ever seen. – Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. – [Announcer] Just add water and shake. Pour a little of the magic super foam liquid- – What is that? – …on the Super Foam Machine and look what you make- – Oh! What the… – [Announcer] …with the power of Super Foam! – This is a rave, right? – What? – They are at a rave. – [Announcer] You can take it wherever you go. – None of this is real. – That kid’s riding a bike to the rave. – This is all a hallucination. – [Announcer] The Super Foam Machine- – He’s like, I’ve been at a rave. – …wherever toys are sold. – Oh no. Oh! – Boy, that… Never saw him again. – I mean, we paid $22 in 2023 for this. – Yes, yes, yes, yes. – I mean, this is- – It’s a simple contraption. – It’s very simple. It looks like, I don’t know, kind of like a hookah- – Maybe a stethoscope. – …with a wash rag? – Now, we’ve been told that we’ve got this original bottle but we have updated 2023 soap, which we’re thinking is probably the same, maybe less toxic, just in case Link accidentally sucks any down the wrong way, which you know is probably gonna happen. There is apparently a current version of this thing that is a hose that you would like put into a baby pool, but what’s the fun in that? We want the kids to be able to put their mouths directly on the toy. – Do you want to- – I’m gonna- – …see if you can do a column? – Yeah, I’m gonna… I’ll hold it for you. I’m ready to rave. Holy mo… Keep going. Don’t stop. If you take a breath, take it with your nose. Daddy’s not gonna let it fall. Daddy won’t let it fall. Okay. Okay. Keep going. Blow harder, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at that col-yum. That’s what my uncle called a… That’s what my uncle called a column. Look at that col-yum. Whoa. That’s one hell of a col-yum! (crew laughing) We’ve left the screen. (crew laughing) – Whoa! – We’ve left your world. You don’t know what happens up here. I’m giving you the bird right now. (crew laughing) Well, you’re still going, Neil. Oh, you broke the col-yum. – Oh! Now, we’re making a snake! – The col-yum seam just fell down. Hey, gimme a turn, man. Gimme a turn. – All I’m doing is blowing. I think you’re having the most fun. – Yeah, I wanna do a snake. – Trust me. – I wanna do a snake. – Snake. I can’t stop. – Okay. – It’s really slobbery. Sorry about that. Yeah, I mean, according to the instructions, you can make snowballs as well. – Oh, cool. – Indoor fun. Use in bathtub for mountains of foam. – Oh, you better believe I’m gonna take this to the bathtub tonight. – You know, the thing about… Oh, look at the stains on that puppy. The thing about taking a bath is that you want the suds to be in the right place, and I think this is exactly what the doctor ordered. Wee! Look at him go! He’s making a border! He’s making a bubble border. Bring it back. You’re… You’re off the map here. – [Rhett] I’m giving you guys the bird! – We’re so offended. – [Rhett] Hey, this is cool, man. – How many- – My snake broke. – Oh, yeah. That was good. I’m exhausted. – Is this what a rave’s like? – I’m really lightheaded right now. – I’ve been missing out! – I’m definitely hallucinating. – You just, you show up at the rave. You just come in like this, just flipping the bird at everybody. (crew laughing) – This thing, I’m gonna keep one in my car. – Yeah. – I’m gonna keep one in my house. – Okay. – I mean, this is like- – But we only got one. – Well, let’s get some more. We only paid $22 for it. – Well, we’re telling Whammo that they should definitely… Super Foam Machine? – [Both] Bring it back! – I don’t know if you had those friends in school who went to space camp, but we did, and we referred to those kids as rich. – Mm-hmm. – For the rest of us, Johnny Astro’s Space Age Command Center is like an affordable space camp in a box. – [Announcer] From your Johnny Astro’s Space Control Center, you lift off the lunar spacecraft. Now, it’s in midair, in free flight, without any connecting strings or wires. – How excited is that kid? You’ll never know. Oh, there we go. – This is pretty cool. – Straight to Mars! – Mars and Moon services sold separately. – In the name of America. – [Announcer] Go anywhere! – Oh. You know what? – Land on your friend’s bowl cut! – You know what I’m about to do, Link? – I mean- – We’re gonna land it on your head! – I love the vibe of this thing. It’s from 1967, before we landed on the moon, so this is like astronaut training. – This is why we landed on the moon, Link. – Yeah, it is. – We paid $300 to acquire this thing. – [Rhett] Oh yeah. Worth every penny. – But I think it still works. – Okay, Link. Mission one is just to land on this little pad here. – I have the spaceship. – You know what? I’ll move it over here so it lands across and lands over there on your side. Mission two is to land on Mars, which is represented by your head. – And take a look at the knobs on this thing. I just love that… The aesthetic is super cool. – And also, completely open fan back, exposed wires, just like everything in the sixties. Kids had to learn things the hard way. Some of ’em died. You know, some of them got hurt, but the ones- – And some of them landed on the moon. – But the ones that survived got good-paying jobs. – So we put this- – All right, here we go. – Just put that right there? – All right. So I control it with that and then I power I with this. – [Link] Throttle. – Liftoff. – Oh! Oh! Oh my goodness! – You gotta have space face when you do this. – [Link] This is cool, man. – Okay, and then I’m gonna land it. – Can you? Can you? – I’m gonna, first of all, let me just, I’m gonna, you know, move it around. – How does it work? – Physics. – But it’s just… – Hold on. Whoa. Okay. We’re about to lose control. – [Link] Buzz is getting dizzy. – This is Apollo 13 all over again. (crew laughing) Okay. – Not yet. – Okay. Hold on. Okay. I’m gonna just land it right on that spot. – This may be the coolest thing we’ve ever played with. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah! – Oh, okay! Nobody died. Now! (crew clapping) – It just landed. But you missed the mark. – Yeah. Now on your head. – Okay. – Okay. – Now, the key to landing on somebody’s head is they also have to make space face. – [Link] I’m making the face that the boy’s making. (machine buzzing) Should I… Should I get lower? Is it giving us the bird? – Shh. Stay still. Stay still. Oh! Oh! Hey! Man, I’m like SpaceX up in here. Land upright every time. Okay. We can do this. I’m gonna really concentrate. (machine buzzing) Oh, man. We can do this. We can do this. We can do this. Okay! This is wild, though, man. This is wild! I’m having so much fun! – I don’t understand how a fan can blow something. – Yeah. – And then also tractor-beam it. – Don’t ask me these questions. – How is that happening? – [Rhett] It gets caught in what is called a jet stream. – Oh, really? – I don’t know. Here we go. It’s coming over to you again. I wanna land it. I wanna land it on you. (crew cheering) And then I’m gonna get it straight up, get it straight up, straighten it up, and then- – Look at me, JFK! You’ve only got a couple more years. – We did it! (crew cheering) Hey. – Coolest thing ever! – This is it. The most exciting toy ever. That’s what it says on the box. We wholeheartedly agree. Johnny Astro’s Space Age Command Center. – [Both] Bring it back! – A couple of quick announcements. Very exciting. This coming Monday is Labor Day, and we’re gonna give you 20% off all of our t-shirts and accessories over at mythical.com. And we got a new thing- – Whoa! – …that we’re selling over at mythical.com. It’s a candle. – This is the Scent of Set. Good Mythical Morning. – It’s an 11-ounce soy, wax candle. – Now, listen. The best… This whole thing was designed so that it would be like, when you watch the show, and you light this candle, you are not just watching. You’ve turned this whole experience into Smell-O-Vision. – Mm-hmm. – This is like a multiple scents put together that represent what you see here. Wood, forest, moss, clean men. (laugh) That’s us. – I’m a big fan of the scent. I’m a big fan of the design. – Yeah. – Good vibe. – The whole set. – And of course, all good candles have a nice top that you can put back on there. So get the Scent of Set- – [Both] At mythical.com. – All right. Before 3D printers became a thing, and I’m talking about way before they became a thing, 1963, there was Vac-U-Form. This is so that kids could create plastic toys and stuff. – Well, basically, most anything. Kids could create most anything, according to the box. Let’s see the ad. – [Announcer] Here’s what a Vac-U-Form can do. Look at the things it’ll make for you. One kit you buy will fill a zoo. – Oh, it’s almost like a rap song. – [Announcer] It makes trucks for you. That’s what a Vac-U-Form can do. – Yeah. Vacuum form. You have a toy and you want a plastic version of that toy- – In case it breaks. – …or so that you can like sell it and- – Yeah. This is about business for kids. – So this is… I mean, it’s pretty contraptionist here. It’s been plugged in. There’s no on/off switch. The instructions say, just keep it plugged in at all times, so it can always be ready to Vac-U-Form. – Yeah. So safe. – And it’s hot. It’s real hot on this side. I mean, and if you look at the… I mean, this is… This is like training child labor. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – It comes with all of these different- – The good old days. – …plastic sheets that you, you take this. – Yeah, you go ahead and get a sheet of plastic heating up, and then we can move to the what we’re gonna mold on the other side. – Let’s go with… – What color are you feeling? – Let’s go with green. – [Rhett] Oh, you’re feeling little green today. – I’m gonna put the green plastic sheet in here, and then I’m gonna take this, and I’m gonna snap it in the… Oh, yes. I’m gonna hold it, I’m gonna put it down, and it’s gonna heat up and make this plastic malleable. Now, we gotta… And when it gets hot, I’m gonna slam it over here, so you gotta create the thing- – Yeah, so- – …that we want to mold. – It comes with all kinds of little things, including faces, kind of like a Mr. Potato Head that you can put together. So we’ve already assembled a little face here. – Okay. – So we’ll put a face on there and then we can put ears. Slide those up under the edges of that thing. – Okay. – And then, I mean, can we fit a beard? I don’t know if we can fit a beard. – Oh. – Is that gonna seal? Should we go no beard? – And is this? Ooh, it’s starting. – [Rhett] Okay, listen, I’m gonna shave the beard. – It’s starting to get a little south. Ooh! And hot. It also comes with a bottle of Mattel Vac-U-Form paint thinner. – Yeah. – This is just legitimate paint thinner. – You drink that on your breaks. (crew laughing) – …in case you get plastic on your hand, it removes it. Caution. Do not take internally. – Yeah. – Keep out of reach of children. – No children are gonna be messing with this thing. I mean- – If swallowed, do not induce vomiting. – Are gonna be messing with this. – Call a physician immediately. – [Rhett] That’s not a child. That’s a young man. – When used up, buy more at any hobby store. Not for children. – Okay, how we getting over there? Let me touch it. Oh, it’s getting- – It’s crispy. Well, it’s the opposite of crispy. – It’s gummy. – It’s gummy. – It feels pretty malleable. We’ve got a temperature gauge here. 287. – It’s going up again. 319 degrees. – Fahrenheit. – That’s safe. – Yeah, kids, gather round. All right. So I’m gonna do this. – And I’m gonna encourage you. – Then I’m gonna pump to create the vacuum. Oh gosh. – Pump it, Link. You can do it. You can pump it. – Whoop! – Pump it hard, Link! Pump it so hard, Link! Harder, Link! – Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. – You’re such a good pumper. – Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Why am I saying yes, yes, yes, yes, yes? It’s working. – I think you’ve pumped it fully. I haven’t seen any change in the last few minutes. – Look at that. – Seconds. – You know what we did? We made a face with plastic, and then we made another face, a green face. And then how do we pull this thing? And now you blow it. And then you drink a little paint thinner. – Yep. – And then… (Rhett slurps) Look at that, Rhett. Pick it up. – Oh, wow. – And then you bring this to school the next day and you say, “Hey, kids.” – I made this. – “You wanna buy a face? You wanna buy a face? I got, there’s more where that came from.” – “I’ll trade you my face for your PB&J.” – “You want a beard next time? Well, it’s gonna cost ya.” – Wow. You know what? I had my doubts about this. – And the kid’s faces burned and his hands are burned. He’s like, Freddy freaking Krueger. – I just think the fact that 3D printers exist and also have so many more safety features to protect kids and their parents from houses burning down, fumes being inhaled, paint thinner being consumed. – Yeah. – I just feel like the responsible adults in us that actually have raised children successfully, at least thus far, have to say Vac-U-Form… – [Both] Nah, that’s whack! – Why get a normal water gun that shoots water when you can have one that’s shaped like an alien’s rib cage that shoots goo and is called the Oozinator? – Take a look at this not-at-all-concerning commercial from 2006. – [Announcer] What do you call the new water and ooze-blasting Oozinator? – Aww, yeah. – Bleh! – Aww. – Yuck! – Oh, is this happening? – Yeah. – Are you seeing what I’m seeing? – No, I don’t see anything. – Oozinator blaster from Super Soaker. – I see nothing. – …sold separately. – I see nothing. I just see kids having fun, pumping their guns, and then, or pumping their Oozinators. – This is how aliens are made. (Rhett laughs) – And then covering each other with ooze. Hey, Link. – We paid $126 for this, and it was discontinued not long after its release. – You wanna go over there and ooze on each other? – Yeah, man. – I don’t know how long it’s been since this thing has last fired, so it may be quite a blast. Why don’t you stand over here and… Now, the top- – How old is the gun, though? – Well, it’s from 2006. – Okay. It should be pretty strong. – The top part and this trigger is just a water blaster. – Yeah. Ignore that. – And then the bottom one, it seems like you pump and then- – Do I have to look? Do I have to make eye contact with you while you do it? – Uh. I prefer it. – Oh gosh. Well, I prefer not to. – Do I? – Okay. Hey, whatever feels natural. – Yeah. – Oh! Why did it go so many directions? – I don’t know. It actually… Oh my gosh. Look at- – Look what you’ve done, man. – All right. – [Link] Sorry. – Dude! Here! Don’t. – Sorry. – Okay. – Oh. (crew laughing) – Sorry, dude. – Okay. – Sorry. – Let me… Can I do you? Oh, it goes- – See? It goes high. See? – It goes higher than you think. Yeah. – Oh! – So there’s… Yeah, so basically, it’s just right there. But I think if I’m, I think I… Just, yeah. Just, yeah, okay. – And it… And for easy cleanup, it does come with a tube sock. – Yeah. (Rhett sighs) Okay. I mean, there’s so many things wrong with this. How it got out of like development. – Oh! Oh! – Why they didn’t make it green! – It doesn’t taste great. – So many ways to avoid this! – [Link] I’m not making eye contact with anyone now. – Yeah, man. We just created… We created some memes. Just think about it. You more than me. You more than me. – What do we say when we say we don’t want this to happen again? (crew laughing) – The Oozinator. Nah! – The Usinator? (crew laughing) – [Rhett] The Oozinator. – [Both] Nah, that’s whack! – Oh gosh. – You know, we could have ended this episode before we brought this on. – Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. – You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Micha, and I’m originally from Turkey, but I’m currently in the Eastern Plains of Colorado, and it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – What? Where? Where is that? – It’s so scenic. – Is that a house that’s about to be built? – I think it’s an Instagram installation. – Click the top link to watch us guess the weird names of knockoff toys in “Good Mythical More.” – And to find where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. – [Rhett] Smell-O-Vision doesn’t exist yet, but we just got one step closer. The scent of Set GMM candle just landed at mythical.com.

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