Toys and Gifts Outlet 12/15/85
So after my initial reactions of shock, horror, dismay and denial at finding this Christmas season 1985 ad from a store called Toys and Gifts Outlet from Tampa, Florida, I was not at all surprised that somebody actually made a battery operated toy robot that turned into an Uzi. Part of me wonders if this was all a big misprint or other sort of mistake and there wasn't actually a toy robot Uzi but when I think about it, toy robot Uzi totally falls within what I call the Evil King Macrocranios Intergalactic Governing Rule of Inevitable Fuckuppedness. I came up with it after watching the news and just generally being alive for the past 35 years. The Intergalactic Governing Rule of Inevitable Fuckuppedness states that over the course of the thousands of years of human existence and the infinite number of human interactions every person who has ever lived has had with every other person who has ever lived, every good wonderful positive thing you could possibly imagine has probably not happened, but every horrible fucked up thing you could possibly imagine definitely has. So I can guarantee for example that in the entire history of humanity nobody has ever invented a teddy bear that could make me a sandwich, but convertible Uzi robots? Oh hell yeah. So although I have never seen an "Uzi convertible robot" I am sure they exist or at least existed at one point but probably don't exist now because they were all destroyed in a hail of gunfire when the little boys who had them were all shot by the cops.
7 comments:
Man, I really need a robot UZI now. I'm surprised that was never one of Megatron's upgrades.
I really want a REAL uzi now that I think of it.
I'd love to see the robot mode of that UZI someday...
I don't think it ever existed. I think it's a misprint or mistake. A battery operated Uzi that turned into a robot for 5 bucks? I can't believe it's true. They don't show the robot mode like every other toy robot ad I've ever seen. It can't be true. It's one of those thing that I'm sure we as toy robot fans would know about by now.
Sean, there was so much controversy surrounding toy Uzis back in the day that it's not hard to see why Hasbro might not have wanted one. If the second hand internet anecdotes are true then there really were kids killed by cops when playing with Uzi water guns. Although it was the most popular toy gun I remember from back then, it may also be the toy gun most responsible for the institution of the orange cap laws.
Actually have one still in box
Awesome! It must be a thing of beauty.
I just saw this today at a toy show in Wayne, NJ. The vendor had no idea where this item came from and my own research led me here. It fucking exists!
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