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Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:21 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Crash_Dummies

I can't be the only one who spent the early half of the 90's wrecking my parents base boards!! :twisted:

Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:35 am

I think I have some of those still in the box. I'll have to dig them up...

Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:43 am

My husband did some development art when the animation studio we worked at was bidding on the cartoon.
Didn't get it tho.

Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:15 am

There was a cartoon??? I know there was a animated VHS that was released in 93'. I must of watched that video 1,000,000 times!!! I think I can still quote it!! :lol:

Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:59 am

Saturday morning after the cartoon with Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky...

Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:13 am

dquattlebum wrote: Saturday morning after the cartoon with Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky...

:lol: hard to follow that combination..Saturday morning cartoons really began sucking ass after the 70s..

Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:09 am

dquattlebum wrote: Saturday morning after the cartoon with Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky...

Wow...missed that one!!! Was it actually a cartoon or was it all animated graphics like the VHS movie??

Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:11 am

wow...children of the 90s...
makes me feel old.....
then again, maybe I can claim to now be a child of my 30s?

Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:30 pm

i would always lose the parts so i would ultimately just end up with a handful of random body parts and torsos

Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:52 pm

As a definate child of the '90s (I turned 5 in 1990) I do remember them. I had the car (I think it was red?) that you'd put them in and crash it. The seats would pop up and they'd go through the windshield, lol.
My mom found my crash test dummies coloring book a while back too.

Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:59 am

thewalrus wrote: dquattlebum wrote: Saturday morning after the cartoon with Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky...

Wow...missed that one!!! Was it actually a cartoon or was it all animated graphics like the VHS movie??

It was a cartoon series... I can't remember if it was good or not... lol

Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:35 am

I can't exactly remember but Nelvana did bid on a cartoon series but as a lot of other product oriented cartoons of the day it did not happen. I believe they only did the video special in '93.
(we even had a bid to do a Kraft Dinner cartoon and a Cheetos cartoon--we did three episodes before it was canned)

Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:56 am

VWAdam wrote: As a definate child of the '90s (I turned 5 in 1990) I do remember them. I had the car (I think it was red?) that you'd put them in and crash it. The seats would pop up and they'd go through the windshield, lol.
My mom found my crash test dummies coloring book a while back too.

I was 2 in 1990 but 5 when the video came out. I had the yellow taxi that did the same thing and Bulls big pick-up that rolled over and blew into pieces everywhere!!! Ohh the innocence and violence....where has it all gone!! :twisted:

Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:24 pm

Vince and Larry the crash test dummies, were actually named after 2 guys who made their living as Crash Test Drivers.

This was a pretty brave (or stupid) way to make a living in the old days!

Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:36 pm

Patty B. wrote: I can't exactly remember but Nelvana did bid on a cartoon series but as a lot of other product oriented cartoons of the day it did not happen. I believe they only did the video special in '93.
(we even had a bid to do a Kraft Dinner cartoon and a Cheetos cartoon--we did three episodes before it was canned)

(I actually had to read it twice- for a moment- I was trying to figure out way the Kraft Dinner carton would be cancelled..)I am continually amazed at someone can actually pitch some of these ideas to execs...I mean really - a Kraft Dinner cartoon? :roll:

Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:37 pm

i was 13 and had my first girlfriend. shit im getting old too. i thought this was about those canadian folks that love to hummmm.

Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:36 pm

mynameismud wrote: Patty B. wrote: I can't exactly remember but Nelvana did bid on a cartoon series but as a lot of other product oriented cartoons of the day it did not happen. I believe they only did the video special in '93.
(we even had a bid to do a Kraft Dinner cartoon and a Cheetos cartoon--we did three episodes before it was canned)

(I actually had to read it twice- for a moment- I was trying to figure out way the Kraft Dinner carton would be cancelled..)I am continually amazed at someone can actually pitch some of these ideas to execs...I mean really - a Kraft Dinner cartoon? :roll:

Back then Kraft had a character called "Dinnersaurus Rex" or something like that. It was on their boxes for a while. Food companies started to want to have cartoons made of their products not just sponsor programming but the american government caught wind of it and put a stop to it. The whole time slot would have been devoted to one product and that was a monopoly and this kind of programming was stopped.
Chester Cheetah (Cheetos) and Dinnersaurus Rex came to the studio at the same time. Dinnersaurus was cancelled first, we did three Chesters that didn't air then the whole team did a Little Rosie (Rosanne Barr)special instead--out of the pot and into the fire--what crap!

Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:04 am

420GOAT wrote: i thought this was about those canadian folks that love to hummmm.

:lol: I really like that song actually!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFsgseGIjKk

Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:44 am

I always wanted the crash-able car, but my parent's wouldn't buy it for me(I must have been 3 or 4 at the time). I preferred Beakman's world and Bill Ny the science guy way more anyways 8)

Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:45 am

thewalrus wrote: 420GOAT wrote: i thought this was about those canadian folks that love to hummmm.

:lol: I really like that song actually!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFsgseGIjKk

Get the album, it's better than you would think.