and they haven't shattered yet? All mine, cept for the Duckworth one, broke when I showed them a picture of HCP.
Wait, I thought that was Saturday mornings. Also, I want to say that in the afternoons, Gummi Bears came on before Duck Tales... but I don't remember clearly because I didn't like the Gummi Bears and I walked home from school, which took the half hour that GB would have been on. That said, Darkwing Duck and Duck Tales were the bee's knees. Darkwing Duck introduced "Suck eggs, Whiffle Boy, you lose again!" to my vernacular. And I will always be grateful for that.
Out of curiosity I looked it up, and The 2nd year of Disney Afternoons had the 4 intros I linked in 1991, which makes sense as I would have been 5 then and in Kindergarten. I never watched Gummi Bears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disney_Afternoon
Building tree forts and underground hideouts, playing army, fruit fights, rope swings, trick or treating neighborhoods without parents involved, paper routes, mowing the neighbor's yard for candy money, playing marbles, hopping freight trains, spitwads, calling out bullies, Saturday serials at the movie theater, trading baseball cards, building crystal radios and soapbox cars, ant farms and sea monkeys, kazoos and spoons and jews harps, building models, train sets and road race cars.
Damn you Maris, you posted something that I enjoyed. The only things you left out where real fireworks, black cats, m80s, foot tall GI Joes, Slot cars of the full scale in payless basement, corner bars and lumber mills
The best Christmas present you could get in 1963. You couldn't watch a cartoon without seeing the giant advertising campaign. It was expensive, like $9. It came with little plastic sheets called blanks. You put one on one side, and whatever you wanted to mold on the other. You plugged it in, turned on the heat, and clamped them together. You heard plastic hissing and melting. You opened it after a few seconds and pulled out your plastic mold of the object. Here's the box, the machine, and the results. Hey Mom! What's this? You could put anything small in there, like an animal, or something you found in your parents' bedroom.
