post-war guys...your oddball items?

[Mark70Z]

Man...those Aaron postcards are very COOL...

[Butch7999]

Delighted that Todd revived this thread, and coincidentally enough, he did so with one from a set of cards we wanted to show off:




Funny thing -- we're sure you're right and that those were on Team Flakes -- but we remember cutting them out of the backs of boxes
of some short-lived Bugles/Doritos-like snack food with a name like Zonkers or Zippity-Doos or Fiffle-Faffle or something...

Back to Bob's original post and the invitation to display some non-baseball, non-sports, '60s oddities as well -- does anyone else
remember these?


They came with a thick slab of minutely-ribbed transparent plastic, same size as the cards, which you'd place over a card
and then subtly wiggle them together so that the shaded areas of the image would appear to be solid and moving.
Kind of a sadistic set, really, with helpless tiny humans being eaten, crushed, or incinerated by dinosaurs, dragons, and giant robots...

[begsu1013]

those oddball dinosaur cards are cool. are they sportflics type cards?

[Butch7999]

Hi Bob -- well, they're maybe alike in only the vaguest sense. We're not that familiar with the Sportflics issues, but from what we can see,
it looks like Sportflics are more akin to the 1970 MLB Promo "hologram" cards from Kellogg cereals -- soft plastic finish over the top of
multiple images or something.
The Monster Magic Action cards are much more primitive. Unless you have the "Magic Lens" transparent hard plastic slab, the cards just look
exactly like what you see in the scans (they're 3.5 x 2.5", by the way, on slightly thinner cardstock than most '60s baseball cards) --
some distinct images with lots of indistinct horizontal lines. When you move the "lens" over the image, the ultra-thin, closely-bunched ribs
in the "lens" distort some of those lines on the card, partially obscuring some of the lines while highlighting others, which sort of rearranges
the poses and action. Monster eyes roll back and forth, wings and fins flap, puny humans flail helplessly. So in the vaguest sense of how
the images "move," they're almost more akin to the Push-Pull cards.
Not sure how many different cards were produced -- we've got an even dozen different images.
They seem like something that would've come out of Japan originally...

[begsu1013]

"puny humans flail helplessly..."


very cool! ...and i like them even more so now w/ that entailing description!!!

[Exhibitman]

I've not seen this one before:

[Laxcat]

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