Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/25/things-i-miss-rock-em-sock.html
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I see them in toy departments of stores like Target all the time. I could probably pick one up at Fred Meyer; I think they had a few movie-tie-in versions as well.
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If you haven’t seen one in years, you just might not be looking too hard, methinks.
I gave one of my friends a Sponge Bob version not too long ago…
And a remake of the original version sells on both Amazon & EBay.
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Plus a big-budget film adaptation.
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That is great. Do they reference the game in the film?
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OK, technically they claimed the movie was an adaptation of a short story from the 50s. But come ON, that was clearly just a lie so they wouldn’t have to pay royalties to Mattel.
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After being raised like this it’s no wonder they grow up wanting to Kill All Humans.
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What the hell has my life been? I’ve never had any toys like this. No Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, no Gnip Gnop, no Operation.
Just a hell of a lot of Tonka or puppets.
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The basic concept is much older than you would think. These are from San Francisco’s Musee Mecanique – an antique arcade. Note the “knockout” switches located near the mouth.
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We need to integrate a digital version into Discourse for 2nd Amendment threads. @codinghorror?
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Back in high school my friends and I pranked the school administrators by gathering a large circle of students around a Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots match at lunch, everyone yelling “fight! fight! fight!” One of the vice principals rushed in to break up the skirmish; it was great watching his expression morph from concern to confusion to anger to relief to laughter.
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Sadly, the current version sold by Mattel is a smaller cost reduced version of the original MARX toy.
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I’d almost be willing to pay for such a feature.
On the site that shall not be named, I suggested having digital rock em sock em robots for sorting out disagreements several times, to no avail, of course…
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We used to play Talk to 'em Reason with 'em Robots.
Damn hippie parents.
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Also religion threads. And knife sharpening.
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Hey, it’s been days since I called you OMike!
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