Shibby's post in teh Kubrick forum reminded me of a most excellent old skool toy:
Bill and Ted? Excellent!
For some reason I LOVED the Bill and Ted movies (altho time has dulled me on them now). So, of course, I had to collect the set of figures by Kenner (I think?) from the movie - bear in mind I had to track em down as they weren''t released in the UK, and this was way before ebay and the internet. I never managed to get the phone booth....BUT.. amongst others I did manage to get the guitar and amp set where you plugged the amp into the figure and then the amp into a walkman. By sqeezing the legs togther on the figure, his arm would swing down and hit his guitar completing the connection to allow a most excellent guitar solo to erupt from the mini Marshall stack. Multiple leg squeezing resulted in a squiggly guitar solo emanating from the pint-size speaker.
HOW COOL IS THAT???
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS. This pic is of the jam pack two pack which came with formal dressed B&T, two guitars, amp, and connection leads to walkman (not included)
and here's Ted on his own (in allegory to Alex Winter's ascent into obscurity):
So, what amazing old skool toy do you have (or had) and why is it so cool?
