*Merry Christmas and Happy Even to everyone! Happy holidays to all who celebrate everything!
*We hope you enjoy this week's look at some vintage toy ads.
*Super Powers lasted 1984-1986 and was based on the DC Comics characters. A season of Super Friends was Galactic Guardians.
*Super Joe was on shelves from 1977 to 1978 but was apparently killed off by Kenner's Star Wars line.
*Babe Ruth was in the 1924 Harold Lloyd film Speedy.
*Touche was from Gabriel Games, which also produced Othello and Trouble.
*Minnesota Fats was known as "New York" Fats until The Hustler came out with a character named Minnesota. The real-life Fats (Rudolf Wanderone) adopted the new name to cash in, claiming the character from Walter Tevis' original novel was based on him.
*This week's video playlist contains the ads we mention on the podcast! We also include a few other things we talk about and an epic compilation of Atlanta TV ads from 1985.
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