Mixed Bag of Holding: 2 Crew Toy Run

Emily “I love to learn vocabulary” Axford wow you have never captured my heart more. 😍

Had no idea this was here until it was just mentioned on the short rest

Am i crazy or is the Mixed bag missing collection on patreon a lot of these episodes?

Everything was better before smart phones. Like I hate to be that person but the phones have really hollowed out everything.

The best part of radio contests nowadays is that no one enters them. I won an all expenses paid trip to Bonnaroo two years ago from one of my local ones 😆

When I was little Kraft (of mac and cheese fame) ran a sweepstakes, the winners of which would go on some sort of trip to a space center. My mother was very careful to tell us we would almost certainly have no chance of getting anything from it, but my sister and I were adamant we at least give it a chance. On our first try we won a second-place prize, which was an astronaut costume. Needless to say we were incredibly annoying for the rest of that contest and did not win anything else

Look. This is a really fun episode. But if you do it again, you have to ban video game systems. You all already talk about video games all the time, I wanted to hear more descriptions of ridiculous 90s toys. EMILY HAD THE RIGHT IDEA. everyone should have led with an Enchanted Castle pick.

This was one of my favourite mixed bags

One of my favorite board games was 13 Dead End Drive. You had to build this mansion and survive to get your rich Aunts inheritance. I'm an only child so I played that game so much (by myself).

this really takes me back to getting run over by our barbie jeep in the backyard

Those prices were more affordable because people had a LOT more disposable income.

i have my dads old game gear still lmao as a kid i’d play sonic and mortal kombat on it

It's killing me that there's no Lego in that catalog! That's all I would have picked.

As someone who had the hot wheels crash track, it was as incredible as you’re imagining it to be.

I’m so grateful you posted the catalogue. I couldn’t envision the bounce pod and there is no trace online of anything like that ever having existed 😂

I can’t believe nobody got Legos. Also Emily and Jake were the best shoppers.

I'm sorry I gotta make a stand here. The Sega Nomad fuckin ruled. I was dying listening to this, the Sega Nomad didn't get hot, it had an AC plugin for long car rides in the back seat, the screen was great. I played the Sega Nomad, doin Phantasy Star 4 and Road Rash 2 and Wonder Boy for hours on end. I need to state again. It fuckin ruled. It was one of the best handhelds I ever partook in.

I was run over by a Power Wheel when I was 3 years old so those things are dead to me

Obsessed with the idea of someone making a 5e dungeon crawl based off of Enchanted Palace. That would be such a fun one shot.

Emily’s hot wheels with the Statue of Liberty makes me think of chainsawman

Astérix being called Belgian vikings is brutal

You can straight up still buy the hot wheels cross cross toy in shops today!

That board game Emily picked kinda Antoine Ego'd me back to childhood and I was reminded of a board game I had that was also kind of a proto DND. It was like a dungeon crawl with little minis of players and monsters. All I really remember was there was a big manticore mini. It was like featured on the cover. It was very hard to get anyone in my family interested in playing so I don't recall if I ever actually played it but I do know I spent a lot of time painting minis.

Common misconception about mousetrap... you set the trap up AS you play. Moving spaces grants you more parts to add to the trap. It's still not that fun though 😄

I don't care what they say, I enjoyed many an hour in my Virtual Boy playing Galactic Pinball and Mario Tennis. So what if my eyes bled a little?

Surprised Caldwell didn’t get the pico that “lets kids animate their own cartoons”! My guess is it’s a proto kidpix style animation? I used to loveeee doing that as a kid

Loved this episode! I am absolutely turning this into a price as right style game for my family's Christmas this year. Thanks for posting the PDF!

My sister had a Sega Genesis Portable growing up. I really enjoyed playing Sonic on it

Hi 2 Crew! Just saw Murph and Emily at The Great Charles Dickens Christmas Faire. I'm a tender at The Mermaid Pub! Didn't want to bother, but wanted to wish Happy Christmas and just thank you for all you've done for me as a writer and storyteller.

2Crew should post a poll with their haul to see whose house has the best sleep-over

Based on everyone's haul, I'm definutely going over to Emily's for the sleep over. There's nothing 10 year old me would want more than an afternoon of playing the Enchanted Palace boardgame, watching hot wheels explode, and sitting passenger princess while being driven at 5 MPH past all the slow neighborhood losers!!

Looking back and realizing, I was yearning for Powerwheels and there were kids out there whose parents were taking them mountain biking and dirt biking from that age! Could I have been trusted with that kind of kinetic energy? Almost certainly not.

I got the Mario SNES pack I still have it

OMG, the core memory of calling in to a radio station and getting rejected trying to request a song! Times before the internet were BRUTAL.

Emily reading description of Hot Wheels set, Caldwell says under his breath "holy shit". Sent me

I used my birthday money on Batman Forever for Super Nintendo when I was 11 years old and it was so bad that I cried.

56:10 Simba-nal classic, please

SEGA Nomad ruled

Can confirm as a kid who had the Game Gear, yes Murph is 100% correct. Playing it ruled for the 15 minutes of battery life, but I least I could play in the dark. But yeah, battery life was hella-ass.

Talk about nostalgia! I wanted almost all of these toys. This was the year my parents got us an NES from the neighbors who upgraded their kid to a PlayStation (we all couldn’t believe he got one!) so we actually had to wait until Xmas night while our parents did the swap mid-day once the PS was opened. After seeing these prices, now I know why! That said, we didn’t even care it was the older system because they also gave us ALL their games (plus it was still an upgrade from dad’s Atari)

Surprised Caldwell didn't go for the Pico that let kids animate their own cartoons

I believe Sam Riegel from CR got to do the Toys R Us sweepstakes as a kid

If Murph was truly meta gaming, he could have gotten his other item, considering the Donkey Kong country 2 game (and the t shirt) technically only required a down payment of 10$. He could have done some chores or shoveled some sidewalks or something, idk. Unless that doesn’t count, idk I don’t make the rules, I just love the fine print.

after listening to this episode, my phone now shows me hikiddo 24v kids ride on car amazon ads 🫡 thank you for your hard work two crew!!

IMO, Em wins shopping!

Hell yes. I was 8 in 1995, and remember getting these in the mail. I’d spend hours circling stuff I wanted in sharpies; similar energy to the Scholastic Book Fair flyers getting passed out the week before they arrive at your school.

New earworm: “Dude, where are your yucks?”

I'm guessing they're not clipping the coupons but for sure they could've saved on their Power Wheels

“It looked good for the 10 minutes you got to play it” SHADAYYYYYY

Electronic Enchanted Palace was awesome!

The sneer in Murphs voice re: Game gears took me out 🤣

I forgot today was only Friday, I should have waited to listen and now I'm in naddrawal

The Game Gear took SIX AA batteries!

This is so cute. "They were Tubthumping!" Never change, Caldwell.

I LOVED this mixed bag, so fun

1995 was the release of Power of the Force 2 Star Wars toys by Kenner/Hasbro. I was so thrilled getting weirdly buff versions of Luke, Han, Vader, Leia, and Chewie. And I got TIE Fighter and X-Wing Later on I got all the other ones, including Boba Fett and Slave I and so much more. That is the kid I was in 1995, didn't care at all about video games, it was the brand new Star Wars toys all the way baby.

Jake with absolutely stellar choices. Won the draft. Caldwell with the most Caldwell of choices. Of course he got a toilet. 😂

I cannot describe how incredibly validating it has been to hear "always wanted a power wheels, never got one" from people my age whom I respect and appreciate so much. It's honestly healed my inner child a bit to hear y'all say exactly how I felt for years. I am not alone. 🥹 Haven't finished the ep but needed to say this. Love this concept, love y'all, happy hoglidays 💙

For those searching, I found a YT video of the catalog!!! https://youtu.be/_pe9DmgEpPU?si=Ldus-a4SlAeGHc80

Its crazy how fun this episode was. Such a silly concept but so fun

This is now my icebreaker question for the rest of time. It used to be "Whats your baseball walkout song?" But this, this is peak.

Unless I zoned out and missed it, are we seriously walking out of that shop without a single polly pocket?!?! The under the sea one with the sparkly jelly sea was so dreamy

So I have a distinct memory of listening to AOL kids radio where someone called in to request Stairway to Heaven and the dj said it was too long to play the whole way through. So now I just get to imagine that kid as Caldwell.

Aww, 1995 was my first Christmas at 4 months old

Uh uh I have to call BS on Murph metagaming to get that DK t-shirt!

I absolutely had Enchanted Palace and I fully forgot about it until Emily brought it up. What a magical restored memory!

This is amazing!! Where did you find the catalog? I want to do this with some friends.

Coming Zone (or Comix Zone, whichever you prefer) was amazing for the 5 minutes you'd be alive before the game cheesed the fuck out of you, Caldwell. A modern reboot could be awesome, though.

I remeber being a kid and my dad would put the lawn mower battery into the power wheels and just make them move like crazy

$130 for a game is what you pay for “deluxe” versions of big games today. And that’s just the complete game being packaged cleverly. So I guess that’s about right.

I couldn't picture a lot of what they were talking about because I'm not American and was also a baby in 1995 - so I tried to find a copy of this catalog online. I've only been able to find the 1997 edition: https://archive.org/details/Toys-R-Us-Ad-1997-10/page/n39/mode/1up It has some of the same products they're talking about though!

Peak Hogliday madness, I’m sure!

LETS GOOOOOO

This type of mixed bag is always my favorite, it's just pure chaos in a good way

When I was a kid my mom took my sister and I shopping at KIDS R US and the entire time I just filled out entry forms for the Super Toy Run. I didn’t win, but I did win 2nd place, TWICE. Somehow. Feels like that shouldn’t have happened. But two giant mysterious boxes showed up at my house weeks later with a winners certificate and a ton of Furbies and interactive E.T.s. Still not sure why E.T. was part of that but his finger would light up when you talked to him!

Nice

I'm very excited to dig in! One of the biggest pieces of childhood nostalgia for me is flipping through toy catalogs.

The title alone has me loosing my mind