When Wagon Wheels Were Bigger

A range of toy vehicles with hidden weapons and transforming features which included articulated drivers and pilots? The M.A.S.K. toy designers were definitely working overtime, although I can't comment on whether they were also fighting crime, FIGHTING CRIME!

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A random assortment of vehicles, objects and creatures that could change into robots were thrown together haphazardly into one toy line, and we used to beg our parents to buy them for us because there was a cartoon about them. Also because they were awesome.

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This week we watch ads for all the original TMNT action figures, and realise that we have owned or played with most of them.

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We have the power to celebrate our spoiled privileged childhoods by watching action figure ads from the 80s. We're starting strong with He-Man, the powerful space barbarian with the weak disguise.

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Dick King-Smith lives on a farm where most of the animals are puppets, and most of the farm work involves telling stories. I bet there are kids who grew up to be farmers who are furious with him right now.

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We usually love a gameshow, but sometimes we love a gameshow not. This is one of those times.

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"Up Our Street" sounds quite amusing if you emphasise syllables in a certain way, and that is probably the only funny thing about it.

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Gary Wilmot hosts the weird fake gameshow that asks the only question that really matters.

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More puppets and imagination-based fun as we watch Hokey Cokey, a show made in a time when searching through bins for props and set decorations was accounted for in the budget.

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Basil Brush is a puppet fox who is so posh that he probably thinks fox-hunting is a good thing. Makes you think.

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