- We found toys you forgot existed.
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good mythical morning.
- The little mermaid may have had
gadgets and gizmos aplenty,
but we've got some serious whosits and whatsits galore
from the past that are no longer in production.
Note, that's a "Little Mermaid" song reference.
- Oh, okay. I'm glad you told me that.
Yeah, we've got some vintage toys that are no longer
♪ Part of your world ♪
But maybe they should return.
It's time for "To Be Discontinued:
More, More, More Products Edition".
In our last episode of discontinued products,
we featured the Nintendo Power Glove and I hurt my shoulder.
But today we're once again reminded
that Nintendo had even more fun in the '90s
with the Game Boy Camera and Pocket Printer.
- I never even knew this was a thing.
- Oh yeah, we got it, buddy.
And here's a commercial from 1999.
♪ Laughter's on its way ♪
- Oh, that's definitely a 1999 go to, oh, look at that.
Oh, what? Did he just sit on his dad's lap?
- Yeah. They're having so much fun together.
- Okay. You're too old for that.
I mean, I know, I'm not making fun of Tom Brady or anything,
but, he just is like,
when your son is a teen, it just, at that point,
there's no sitting on the lap.
Let's just move on to other things.
- And I also think that the teen
was actually like 25 years old.
- (laughing) Yeah, those guys are like three years apart.
You know, I'm 28. He's 25.
- All right, we paid $60 for the camera.
Show that to the peeps.
- Uh, yeah. - Of course-
- It affixes to the top.
It actually goes into where a game cartridge would go,
which is pretty cool.
I mean, it was the '90s.
We borrowed the Game Boy Color from Tim, our IT guy.
Of course, he's got a Game Boy Color
that is still in working condition.
We paid $50 for the printer.
So we're down $110 for this ensemble here.
And the 1999 edition of the "Guinness Book of World Records"
said this was the world's smallest digital camera.
You can do it, you can take a picture out this way
and then you can rotate it around to get a selfie.
Take this to your.
- Shoot. Shoot, shoot.
Okay. - You wanna shoot me?
- So I'm gonna turn it around.
Get a nice.
- Now I want this to be my headshot for all of my auditions.
- Okay, well, look cooler than you're looking right now.
I can't see your other hand, but it's okay.
- This hand is just for vibe.
- Three, two. Oh, that looks good.
- How's that?
All right. Let me get a picture of you.
- Get it close up.
- Yeah, I'm gonna get like.
Oh, one eye. Be still.
There we go.
I'll get the eyebrow though, 'cause that's signature.
All right, I saved that. - Okay.
- And then if I go back to-
- We can print these.
- I don't know if you can see this, but if I go back to,
if I go back here from Shoot to View.
- The menu is so intuitive.
- Oh, look at that. There's an animation.
Going to Album, and then, oh yeah.
Let's print my headshot, shall we?
- I think you can print 'em right after one another.
- A for Print.
I'm just pressing A a bunch.
It's transferring, transferring.
- A-ooh!
- And this thing is, it's basically a receipt printer.
It's black and white.
- This is what they use at the CVS. It's just one of these.
It goes a little bit faster.
- I hope it's not as long as a CVS receipt.
- Do you want me to rip this one off for you?
- Yeah. Rip that one off and then press the Feed button.
- There's your picture.
- Let's print yours.
Well, let's see.
Let's take a look at mine.
Oh, look at that.
That's an actor I would cast in something.
Like, I don't know, a voiceover role.
It's like, "Oh, I know where I know where
this aspiring actor got his headshot from.
From the Game Boy."
All right, let's.
- I'm printing it. It's transferring, it's transferring.
And here comes Rhett's.
- [Rhett] There's lots of cool little graphics.
There's a doctor sitting there, like.
And there's a little bear running
on top of a ball next to the doctor.
- I mean, the resolution is so low on this thing, but.
- Hold that up to the camera.
There you go. That's my headshot.
I'm auditioning for the role of eye.
- That is scary.
But I mean, I could see how this would be really fun
in the slumber parties, they also have filters.
I printed one out earlier just to practice.
You could like super-impose cartoon eyeballs.
That's a nice-looking duo selfie there.
- I like that.
The thing about whether or not-
- Snapchat, eat your heart out.
- Whether or not you should bring this back, I mean,
there is this sort of old school throwback like, oh,
it's a little bit of a process to actually take the photo
and then print it in its low resolution.
- Yeah.
- I think everything is getting to be so convenient
and so high resolution that having to work for it
a little bit might be something that, this teaches patience.
Like, it could shut down at any time.
The kids have to sit there and like.
"Uh, Mom, I have to wait, my photo's printing.
Hold on, I can't come to dinner yet."
You know, I think this is good for the children.
- And I agree with that.
I think there's even more of an opportunity
to team up with stamps.com.
- Oh.
- Given that's how big the photos are anyway.
- Bring it into the 21st century.
Make your own stamps. - Personalized stamps.
- So we're saying Game Boy Camera and Pocket Printer.
- [Both] Bring it back.
- Well, if you thought Google Glass looked cool,
then you were wrong,
but you'll really love this voice-activated
headset water shooter from 1994,
the Shout 'N' Shoot II,
that promised to loudly catch your friends off guard.
This thing came out in the craze,
uh-oh, don't break it. - Sorry!
- The craze of Super Soakers.
Don't break it! - Just ignore me.
- We paid $60 for this on eBay.
The company ceased to exist in 2002.
So I don't know.
There's no way to get any replacement parts for this thing.
As he tries to put that thing on,
let's watch a commercial of it in action.
Uh-oh. - Whoa!
Shoot your sister.
- It looks like he's got a pretty strong stream.
Goodness gracious.
- Now this is what I call back talk.
Fire!
- Oh, backwards talk. Fire!
- [Announcer] New from Cap Toys. Who else?
- Who else?
- How do I look?
- Who else?
You look like an evil villain, man.
I think we need to go to the multi area
and try to shoot some cans.
Now, you need to be whispering.
- Well, I haven't turned it on yet.
- Oh, you haven't turned it on.
- I haven't turned it on yet.
- All right, so we set up some.
- Where is this thing pointed right now?
- Look what I found.
Some Sprite cans for you to you hit. Up here.
Make sure it's pointed in the right direction.
- Well, that right there needs to be in your mouth.
- I know that part.
I'm saying the shooter part.
- Oh. the shooter.
- It's a little nozzle
and it can be rotated in lots of different directions.
- There it is right there.
- And then there's a button. - Turning that on.
Oh, you got a red light up there.
- Okay. I got a red light.
Now, this is not foreign territory to me because
sometimes I have to voice activate my own water shooter.
You know?
- What are you saying?
- Getting to be that age.
Fire! Whoa, whoa!
(Rhett shouting)
Man, you know, this really made it difficult
to like function in a neighborhood
when all the kids were yelling, like, "Fire!"
Fire, fire!
- I just kinda like it when you grunt.
(Rhett grunting)
- It's like I'm vomiting.
- Get a little, get closer, man.
There's not a lot of force.
(Rhett shouting)
- See, I can knock it down.
You wanna have some fun with this?
- Can I try it?
- Hey.
Hey, hey, cans!
Whoa!
- Hold up, hold up. - Whoa.
- Come down a little bit.
- Hey, cans. Hi!
Hey, you like to get wet? - Oh my God.
- Yeah, you like to get wet, cans?
(Link shouting) - Yeah, there you go.
Isn't that fun?
Knock one of 'em down.
(Link shouting)
Yeah!
- Oh, that hurt.
Whoa, sorry. Sorry.
Sorry, Maggie.
I dunno what I'm doing.
I dunno what I'm doing. Do you know what this is?
Oh no!
- I love this thing.
Why is this still not a thing?
This should be a thing.
This should have never gone away.
This is the best product that's ever been discontinued.
- What about the Shout 'N' Shoot I?
- There's officially no records that say it ever existed.
- Okay.
- So the Shout 'N' Shoot II.
- [Both] Bring it back.
- Hey, we've taken the wheel of myth that you know and love
and we shrunk it down to the size of a wearable enamel pin.
- There's only one in the world.
- No, there's your version at mythical.com that you can buy.
- Oh yeah.
- It actually spins, 'cause you know what time it is.
- Time to go to mythical.com.
Okay, after the success of "Star Wars",
there came a wave of of generic robot toys
when kids everywhere wanted
their own personal droid assistants,
and Radio Shack got in on this craze in 1984,
the year we met, with a series of robot toys
including the Armatron, which we have here
and we also have a commercial for.
- Okay.
We're picking up rocks.
- Is it a robot that's, why is he dressed up like that?
- It's intergalactic.
That is a robotic elephant.
- He's got air coming into his helmet.
- [Child] Where on Earth did you get these super space toys?
- So many different space toys.
The least of which is just this one.
- A robot, now, I remember walking into Radio Shacks
in the in the '80s and this is very familiar sight.
Like, it seems so nostalgic.
Like, don't you remember seeing this thing?
- They'd have 'em up front and you could,
you might play with it a little bit.
And then of course Radio Shack,
who remembers that anymore?
- Right, well, this thing was discontinued.
We don't know when, we just know that.
- From 1984.
- Tommy's Toy website or the Radio Shack website,
it's no longer available on there.
It was originally sold for $32.
We got it for $91.
- Ooh. - A little pricey.
- I'm gonna fire it up.
Let's see if I can.
(toy whirring)
Turn that.
Oh, I'm opening.
How do I turn the whole arm around?
So I can't get the arm to turn.
- Yeah. You just grab it with your hands.
- Just grab the, but then this part.
You know what I wanna try to do?
To feed you a tater chip.
- Okay.
Let me see if I can get it to go down.
It went up.
- [Rhett] There you go.
There you go. There you go.
- [Link] And then what, rotate that.
- [Rhett] What about that right there?
Get that one.
- How do I open the hands?
- [Rhett] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Your buddy's helping you a little bit.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Link] You hungry?
- Oh yeah.
Close it. Softly, softly.
This is almost as good as a real hand.
- And it's quiet too.
Oh, I'm getting so frustrated!
- Hold on, hold on. Yeah, yeah.
Were you trying to come up?
- Yeah. Here we go.
- Now extend it.
Now bring it to me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, whoa, hey!
Hey, you punk.
(Link laughing)
You punk.
You know what?
I've got my own hands.
- Honestly, I didn't even know
that that was gonna happen until it did.
It was like, it's like it wanted to feed me.
- Oh, that's good.
All right.
- I like that. A good chip assistant.
- How hard does it pinch?
So basically I can't figure out how to open this thing, man.
- You're a button masher, man.
- There's so many different things that it can do.
- Well, how did you close it earlier?
- I don't know. Stop yelling at me.
- There we go.
Now pinch me.
Ow!
- It didn't hurt?
- It's weak, man.
- All right, because it doesn't inflict pain,
I don't think we care for this thing to return,
'cause I'm very frustrated.
- You gotta have something that can at least
take off a fingernail.
- Yeah.
- If kids are gonna enjoy it.
- Radio Shack Armatron.
- [Both] Nah, that's whack.
- All right, it's our mystery around.
There's something under this cloth.
It's a discontinued product.
We're gonna try to figure out what it is
without being told what it is or what it does.
- Well, it's a hat.
- [Stevie] Okay, so and, I'll,
well, you're not supposed to touch it.
You're not supposed, yeah yeah yeah.
- [Rhett] I can't even touch it?
- [Stevie] According to what it says here,
you can't touch it, but it is a reproduction.
- [Rhett] Well, those are fuses right here, right?
So I think that this is a little,
it's a disciplinary hat.
You know, it's just.
- Is that a button?
And then what is this?
I think it's, this is like a, like a crochet loop.
I think this is a hat that crochets whatever you think.
- Well, this is wooden. This makes no sense.
This makes absolutely no sense.
It's got a wooden handle
that's just waiting to malfunction.
Maybe you put a towel in there.
- [Stevie] I'll give you the year, which is 1949.
- Oh my gosh. Really?
Well, how much did we pay for this thing?
A recreation. - A reproduction.
- Oh, it's a reproduction.
We built it.
- I think it's a little shocky shock thing.
No, you know what it is?
- [Stevie] Wait, what?
You think it's a shock thing?
- It's back. - From the 1940s?
- It's back when you had to shock the children
to get 'em to behave.
- I think it's clearly a- - The '40s.
- A fireman safari cross stitch what you think hat.
- [Stevie] Okay, you're both,
you're both not correct.
- Maybe if I put it on Rhett's head
and it shocks him, we'll realize what it's supposed to do.
- Can I put it on my head?
- [Stevie] Yeah, you're about to,
because it's the Man from Mars Radio Hat,
which was $7.95 in 1949.
It was a portable radio built into a helmet
that could play stations within a 20-mile radius.
So it was like the first AirPods ever.
And here's a photo of the ad for the original
so you can see.
- Yeah, 'cause I wanna put it on.
- [Stevie] How close it resembles.
Look at that, it's nearly identical.
- Oh yeah.
It absolutely looks exactly the same and Rhett,
she kind of favors you.
- Hi. I'm the radio lady.
- Is that your daughter from the '40s?
- Potentially.
- So are you listening to something?
No. Mad Dog has something for me to plug into here.
- Oh yeah.
- I wonder where this is gonna be.
- What do these things do?
Is that just for looks?
The radio hat.
Two-tube radio built into a hat. $7.95.
- I'm hearing things.
- What are you hearing? You hearing-
- I'm hearing like 1940s radio. It's like (muttering).
- Yeah, that's what radio sounded like in the '40s.
What? Are you getting a transmission from Mars?
Talk to Mars.
(Rhett muttering)
- It sounds like, what do the teachers talk like
on "The Peanuts"?
- Yeah.
- Oh, now it's a song.
- Okay, I'm feeling really left out here,
but I love how in the upper right of the ad,
it says, "Yeah, works fine."
- "Works fine".
Just in case you were wondering, it works real fine.
Real fine.
- Lucas, did you make this music?
- [Lucas] Yeah.
- What, what are you doing?
Singing into a sock?
- [Lucas] Yeah.
- I kinda like it, and I like the fact that our version
is picking up all the radio signals with wood.
You know, we replaced the antenna with wood.
- This is the strangest thing you've ever done.
Was somebody watching you?
- Nope. - Good.
Yeah, you need to be doing whatever you did
to record this alone.
I mean, this is a stellar recreation.
You pretty much nailed it except this isn't red.
Other than that.
- [Lucas] Is it red in the picture?
- Maybe it's not.
- It looks copper, maybe.
- [Stevie] I think it's like copper in the, yeah.
- Okay.
- Hey, copper, man. That's expensive stuff.
- I'm disappointed that it doesn't cross stitch,
but that's on me.
- Okay, so I mean,
it's a great fashion statement and it works fine, but.
- The Man from Mars Radio Hat?
- [Both] Nah, that's whack.
- All right, so we decided to bring back a couple of things.
The Game Boy Camera and Printer,
and the Shout 'N' Shoot II.
The Shout 'N' Shoot II,
we gotta get pictures of us with the Game Boy
playing with the Shout 'N' Shoot II.
That's what we're gonna do this afternoon.
- I can only hear what Lucas is doing
and I think it should be the underbed of
every conversation we have moving forward.
- Underbed?
- Yeah, the underbed.
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