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Doddsino
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Personally, while I enjoy all the articles about video games and such, I really enjoy the articles about the old fast food or cereal premiums from when I was a kid. I think these reviews have been sort of lacking recently, are there any that might be on the horizion? I wonder if you're interested in doing one on the California Raisins, since those were a huge thing when I was a kid and there is a lot to detail there.
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SoldierHawk
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Aw I remember the Raisins! I used to have little plastic figures of all of them. Take me back, dude.
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username
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syd's gonna eat a bunch of old cereal in june according to the sydlexia.com facebook thing
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UsaSatsui
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I can give you your California Raisins article now:
"In the 80s, there were some Claymation singing Raisins, they sang 'Grapevine', they had a Christmas special and an aborted NES game. The End"
There's a difference between something cool from back in the day (I disagree, but hey) and something you can write something interesting about.
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aeonic
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I ended up getting a foam hand puppet of one of the California Raisins when I was, I don't know, like six, and I remember crying when my dog Licorice ate the top half of it's face off. Pretty sure that's the last time I actually concerned myself with acknowledging their existence until right now.
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sidewaydriver
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Syd should do a review article of all the beloved MIA food mascots of the 80's/90's.
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Syd Lexia
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California Raisins had a cartoon series, trading cards, and all sorts of other merchandise including figurines, wind-up toys, towels, stickers, and windshield blockers.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
I can give you your California Raisins article now:
"In the 80s, there were some Claymation singing Raisins, they sang 'Grapevine', they had a Christmas special and an aborted NES game. The End"
There's a difference between something cool from back in the day (I disagree, but hey) and something you can write something interesting about. |
There's actually quite more to it, but if you don't like it, you don't like it. I'm sure I can sum up a lot of shit from your childhood that I didn't care for. I personally found the Raisins to be interesting as a child, and if Syd could write an entire article on McDonalds pails, I don't doubt he could do it here. I'm not saying he has to, nor does it have to be him, but I'm just saying.
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username
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they also had a videogame, right?
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Klimbatize
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I watch that Claymation Christmas every year as a tradition. It's awesome.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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| they also had a videogame, right? |
It was never released to my knowledge, however I do recall seeing a few copies on Ebay.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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| Doddsino wrote: |
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
I can give you your California Raisins article now:
"In the 80s, there were some Claymation singing Raisins, they sang 'Grapevine', they had a Christmas special and an aborted NES game. The End"
There's a difference between something cool from back in the day (I disagree, but hey) and something you can write something interesting about. |
There's actually quite more to it, but if you don't like it, you don't like it. I'm sure I can sum up a lot of shit from your childhood that I didn't care for. I personally found the Raisins to be interesting as a child, and if Syd could write an entire article on McDonalds pails, I don't doubt he could do it here. I'm not saying he has to, nor does it have to be him, but I'm just saying. |
"I don't like it" doesn't mean "It's boring". Conversely, "I like it" doesn't mean "It's interesting".
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Blackout
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Are you guys really arguing about the validity of a hypothetical California Raisins Article? 
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Milhouse
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Don't give the Raisins any crap; my dancing Coke can, Cokie Roberts, just told me that they are part of her posse. I wouldn't mess with Cokie and her fresh batteries.
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Ermac
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I just remember they had a cartoon series on CBS around the time of Pee-Wee's Playhouse along with my grandmother buying me something CR related stuff when I was young.
I never really got into them as I was massively into the Ninja Turtles.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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| Milhouse wrote: |
| Don't give the Raisins any crap; my dancing Coke can, Cokie Roberts, just told me that they are part of her posse. I wouldn't mess with Cokie and her fresh batteries. |
Speaking of Coke, was Max Headroom the last time Coke ever tried to be "hip"? Everything they've done for the last 20 years is based around wholesome, I find it weird they've never tried to go back and target a younger audience, since most people around my age do drink Pepsi products.
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