Posted on 12/22/2004 9:12:35 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
Toy Maker Equips Toy Train with Condom
1 hour, 39 minutes ago Oddly Enough - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 145-year-old German maker of toy trains is giving its adult customers a chance to have a one-track mind.
The miniature train company Marklin is packing a condom alongside a blue freight car emblazoned with the name of Blausiegel, a German condom maker.
Marklin, a Goppingen, Germany-based company that was the first to introduce toy track with its train sets in 1891, produces trains that often carry the names of real companies to emulate actual rail cars. Collectors' editions with less Freudian implications have been sold along with liquor advertised on the cars.
The toy freight car, which comes packaged with a "Billy Boy" condom is available in HO scale, or 1/87th of the actual size of a freight train, just under 4 inches long, and Z scale, which is 1/220th of the size of a real train.
Ralph Israel, partner of Manhattan Train & Hobby store in New York, said he sold two of the models, both to men, the first day they were put in the glass cases in his hobby shop. They are not being marketed to appear under the Christmas tree as gifts for children.
The toy train and the condom, which retail for $35, are packaged in a sleek brushed-metal container the size of a cigar box. The packaging offers no instructions on running the miniature train but does have illustrated instructions on using the condom.
The toy train industry has expanded. There are a lot of adult enthusiasts, and HO is generally consider one the adult gauges (much bigger than your Lionel days).
No, the bar car first. Then the condom car. Then the car that only she goes into that separates from the rest of the train and takes her home. I believe that would be the "walk of shame" car. Not to be crass.
Keep it away from the caboose...
Office Space.
Tin Foil Alert. These condoms have been made porous, on purpose. This is a conspiracy by the German government to increase the birthrate in the country.
Aaaah, that is so...special. And just in time for Christmas! Imagine the 'joy'! Those wacky Germans...
Well, of course, if a 'HO' is involved, you'd certainly want the condom.
Oh yeah, that did it. You just dragged this whole thread into the gutter. =)
Maybe our locomotive Romeo needs a little help. Is there a Viagra car? It should be easy to spot, it's longer than the rest of them. Yuk yuk...
I live about 5 miles from the Lionel factory. I should stop in and show them this great idea to increase sales.
Not bad, my young friend. Good call. I don't know why I think no one on this forum watches movies like that. I am proven wrong every time.
(She rates a 2 at 10pm, and then rates a 10 at 2am. But you knew that I am sure).
Shouldn't this thread be more of a Friday thread? And to all the FReeper ladies out there, we are not talking about you, of course.
Aside from the accidental reference of the gauge name, larger gauges need more power to make the train move, which requires more adult supervision, if a kid sticks his hand on a standard Lionel track while it's live it'll hurt a bit but he probably wont get killed, as you move up in the gauges that prospect gets a little dicier. My favorites, and what I want to setup one of these days, are the backyard tracks, those cars run about the size of a hardback, not sure if they have live tracks though or power the engine directly, really cool look though. When you move up into the larger gauges it really becomes an excuse for small scale carpentry, model towns built from scratch is the primary focus, not really a kids toy anymore.
It's 2:30 AM Thursday morning during Christmas break where I am. How much lower can we get?
So you must be in the Tokyo area, no? Oh, what I would do for some sake right now. Cold or hot. Good stuff. But I have to go to work. Have some for me.
:)
That's funny... It gets larger in HO scale?
Must be the "Short Line"...
If you build it, they will come.
your link says “reuters” but goes to a Yahoo page that doesn’t say anything about trains or condoms
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