I’m going through a bunch of stuff from Mom’s basement this week, and it’s sparking all sorts of memories, and how messed up is it that I can turn anything into a vegan reference?
Take the Shogun Warriors for instance. They were a toy line from Mattel, and I was looking for a good image, but then I realized that it’s 2010, and that means we have access to TV commercials from the 1970′s. THEY HAVE ROCKET NIPPLES!
Further trivia is that in Quebec, which is where the memory came from, they went by the name Goldorak, and there is of course a Wikipedia page, but that’s where the veganization kicks in: someone in the 70′s had it in for us. Check it:
“The Vegans establish a base on the dark side of the moon and start to attack Earth from there.”
“After a fierce battle, they finally manage to destroy the Vegan mothership along with King Vega himself.”
Oh, sorry: forgot to say spoiler alert.
The planet/people confusion was actually one of the first things I ever wrote about on VP, back in May of 2001. Of course, the links are long dead (AltaVista keeps refusing to die, though) so it’s time for a refresher: this site contains no space alien pornography.
That said, now that we’ve got Vega, I can make some interesting conspiracy theories about Brendan Brazier. His book Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life
But mostly? Rocket nipples.
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Also, I look forward to seeing “Brendan Brazier rocket nipples” in my search query logs. Don’t lie, you’ve Googled that.
Ha, awesome. I remember this commercial and think those toys would have been even more hardcore if those sickly Rickets kids had been eating VEGA. That’s how you turn marketing around, Jason.