[BluesDuke]

One more favourite, then I turn it over to the FUN FREEPs...

[BluesDuke]

*BUMP* to get in touch with our inner crackpot child!

[BluesDuke]

One correction: I got the Wacky Packages (hey, there were funny) in twelfth grade; I got these weirdo monster name stickers in fifth through seventh - a different hideous creature for each boy or girl's name (though I have to admit, mine was actually one of the more benign of the monster name images!) It's Tuesday, and my memory isn't always so sharp on Tuesday (maybe because it's still three days to Friday?)...

[BluesDuke]

Have to admit, the Topps people had their hearts in the right place (and it sure beats the Smith Act to a pulp!)...

[Doomonyou]

Man, there's a blast from the past!

[Pat Bateman]

AirRaid ExtraDead! (Arrid Extra Dry) There were also T-shirts with the Wacky Packages on them. Seriously valuable now, with '70s things in a resurgence of popularity.

[Cobra Scott]

Wonderful sentimental journey. My favorite was All-Brain (All-Bran) cereal.

The monsters in the hotrods were DonRuss stickers. My teachers confiscated and threw away probably a million bucks worth of these things. One more reason for homeschool, Yeah!

Interesting aside, wacky's came out at about the same time as the WTC was opened.

[boris]

What about Spotted-Owl Helper?

[NYCVirago]

You are not going to believe this story, but I swear it's absolutely true. I read your post before heading into Manhattan today, and when I got out of the subway by 34th Street, the first thing I saw was a vendor with huge sheets of the Wacky Package stickers! He was giving one free with each copy of the New York Post. It was the most bizarre thing -- I hadn't thought about those stickers in at least 20 years, and then I see about them twice in one day! It was one of those times where I literally pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming it.

[riley1992]

ROTFL. I used to have everyone of those plastered all over my school binders and inside my bedroom closet door. I had forgotten all about them but now I fully understand why I am as demented as I am.