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  • Опубліковано 27 вер 2020
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    Good ol' HMV have chucked some overstock in a box and are charging £9.99 for it! Amazing. Then we have another Güd Crate - the box of genuinely interesting stuff.
    This time round we've got weird LCD games, Robocop, dragons, Resident Evil, toy catalogues, Roland Rat, and an awful lot more...
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  • @Funkeditup
    @Funkeditup 3 роки тому +794

    When I was a child, I called the operator and asked for Roland Rat's telephone number, she told me he died in the Kings Cross station fire. True story

    • @davidlewis1787
      @davidlewis1787 3 роки тому +95

      I love her, what a cow

    • @Funkeditup
      @Funkeditup 3 роки тому +103

      @@davidlewis1787 I would have been 8 at the time but appreciated her wit and that she knew he lived under it. Kudos

    • @yoda9218
      @yoda9218 3 роки тому +31

      @Electric Dreams I mean no she wouldn't, ye it would kinda freak out a little kid but it's not an arrestble offence. Also no one gets that offended.

    • @PlatoonGoon
      @PlatoonGoon 3 роки тому +42

      @@yoda9218 The irony is palpable how people get irrationally upset about people getting irrationally upset.

    • @d.i.n.g.u.s
      @d.i.n.g.u.s 3 роки тому +8

      Probably got confused for someone named roland rat, who may have been an actual person.

  • @jonny3874
    @jonny3874 3 роки тому +383

    “I have wiped a Sontaran’s nose”
    NHS Track & Trace: 🚨 *Please Isolate Immediately* 🚨

    • @mccobsta
      @mccobsta 3 роки тому +5

      @dustisdeadbodies85 itll be surprising if they ever text you

    • @PlatoonGoon
      @PlatoonGoon 3 роки тому

      @dustisdeadbodies85 They must be from the US

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 3 роки тому +1

      If only it worked like that...

    • @samholdsworth420
      @samholdsworth420 21 день тому

      Why would you let them track and Trace you?
      I mean you let Google do that with your phone but come on sheeple
      I bet most of you got that vaccination shot didn't you ? It was completely unnecessary fyi😊

    • @RegenTonnenEnte
      @RegenTonnenEnte 10 днів тому

      That Covid warning App was called Track & Trace in the UK?!
      That sounds like a tedious educational game

  • @NGNetwork1
    @NGNetwork1 3 роки тому +372

    That dinosaur thing, wins by default.
    Noise.
    Shits eggs.
    Most definitely could take on the goose.

    • @kai615k
      @kai615k 3 роки тому +33

      nothing can take on THE GOOSE

    • @Misguided_Robot273
      @Misguided_Robot273 3 роки тому +15

      Cikka correct, worship the goose.

    • @DoctorInk20
      @DoctorInk20 3 роки тому +10

      Why does "TAKE ON THE THE GOOSE" sound like something a wrestler would say? 😆
      (Proceeds to repeat line in Macho Man voice)

    • @overlord3051
      @overlord3051 3 роки тому +2

      Not gonna lie, there's a tiny part of me that was pretty impressed by it.

    • @philthyweiner4688
      @philthyweiner4688 2 роки тому +1

      The lights the wings brilliant.

  • @tygrawr
    @tygrawr 3 роки тому +139

    As soon as Ashens had said 'we must sing the song!' I got a youtube advert with music and was extremely confused. Wonderful timing.

  • @sparky4878
    @sparky4878 3 роки тому +655

    As much as I despise Gogglebox, I’m watching a man unbox a mug. It’s a slippery slope.

    • @markslakter1792
      @markslakter1792 3 роки тому +113

      You could be watching people reacting, to a man unboxing a mug.

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому +32

      I'm replying to a reply to a comment by person watching a video of a man unboxing a mug from a TV show of people reacting to people acting on other TV shows

    • @benanderson89
      @benanderson89 3 роки тому +22

      To be fair, Ashens is trying to be entertaining. Gogglebox is just random plebs chilling on their settee with nothing to it.

    • @martychisnall
      @martychisnall 3 роки тому +5

      I’m sure there’s probably a reaction channel that “reacts” to reaction channels.

    • @dagarath
      @dagarath 3 роки тому +9

      @Anwe 1997 From experience I know the mug is bi

  • @murunbuchstanzangur
    @murunbuchstanzangur 3 роки тому +657

    This is just like Christmas for people with no family

    • @oldbatwit5102
      @oldbatwit5102 3 роки тому +15

      That's me!!!!

    • @murunbuchstanzangur
      @murunbuchstanzangur 3 роки тому +8

      @@oldbatwit5102
      me too...
      Me too.

    • @GreatKnightJ
      @GreatKnightJ 3 роки тому +12

      So British University students over christmas, then?

    • @loneshewolf74
      @loneshewolf74 3 роки тому +3

      Everyone has a family. I have a family because I was *born* into one. Just because I don't have a husband or children doesn't mean I don't have a family.
      Or that I'm a loser.

    • @wrahvin
      @wrahvin 3 роки тому +1

      yes i have a family but this is the exact type of thing they think i like

  • @FaithPixel
    @FaithPixel 3 роки тому +178

    I worked at HMV. They have had to start selling more toys, tshirts, mugs ect because there's less and less need for shops selling dvds and cds.

    • @soundcreeps5371
      @soundcreeps5371 3 роки тому +15

      What about us actual music lovers thar like a physical representation of an album.

    • @Mentocthemindtaker
      @Mentocthemindtaker 3 роки тому +29

      @@soundcreeps5371 There's not enough of you thanks to iMusic and Spotify. What the people who purchase digital media don't realise, of course, is that they don't actually own any of the digital media they purchase. If the iMusic store shuts down then Apple can literally take all their music.

    • @FaithPixel
      @FaithPixel 3 роки тому +21

      @@soundcreeps5371 yes, sadly there is just not enough of you to keep it going. Considering the amount of times hmv nearly disappeared but since they added other types of merch it has been doing better.

    • @roseclouds5838
      @roseclouds5838 3 роки тому +16

      It’s so much easier to just buy from CEX when they sell 50p dvds and CDs
      even the newer second-hand releases are cheap while HMV tries to pass them off as a vintage collection for £15

    • @FaithPixel
      @FaithPixel 3 роки тому +3

      @@roseclouds5838 aye. Sucks but yes, although once hmv goes there's very few places to buy new other than on line. So many loose jobs.

  • @Challenge
    @Challenge 3 роки тому +314

    I'm surprised that mystery boxes are still a 'thing'

    • @Mentocthemindtaker
      @Mentocthemindtaker 3 роки тому +20

      They really are, I keep getting an ad in my Instagram feed for a "SciFi Loot Crate" which is nothing but useless Westworld-themed tat that you could literally swap the logo for anything else and call it that.
      None of them are worth shite.

    • @killadomain
      @killadomain 3 роки тому +10

      @@Mentocthemindtaker there are good ones but they are expensive but yeah at the end of the day they're all rip offs.

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 3 роки тому +2

      @@killadomain The shirts are quite good.

    • @dmthandmade5674
      @dmthandmade5674 3 роки тому +14

      Not as surprised as I am that HMV is still a thing.

    • @tymilan9721
      @tymilan9721 2 роки тому

      you prolly dont give a damn but does anybody know a method to get back into an instagram account?
      I was dumb forgot my password. I appreciate any tips you can give me.

  • @sirprintalot
    @sirprintalot 3 роки тому +258

    Damn it Stuart get the goose out of storage so we can see it fight the dragon.

    • @spooky6703
      @spooky6703 3 роки тому +34

      I demand Easter Dragon v THE GOOSE

    • @mrail3
      @mrail3 3 роки тому +15

      *there WILL be eggs*

    • @merlinathrawes6191
      @merlinathrawes6191 3 роки тому +2

      Yes! Tis' a thing we must see. Makes for a cracking video.

    • @benh3518
      @benh3518 3 роки тому +4

      Peace was never an option.

    • @Aalborg42
      @Aalborg42 3 роки тому

      That would just be annoying

  • @Arthurzeiro
    @Arthurzeiro 3 роки тому +227

    That tiny little hand caught me off guard.

    • @leecroft7311
      @leecroft7311 3 роки тому +23

      I had to pause the video and try to understand wtf i was looking at. Took me a couple of seconds to figure what was going on in the world.

    • @maceo92798
      @maceo92798 3 роки тому +16

      Hah yea that’s ashens and his shenanigans

    • @gabriel13dast
      @gabriel13dast 3 роки тому +4

      8:35 😉

    • @joelbest2424
      @joelbest2424 3 роки тому +12

      All those years standing by the microwave...

    • @LiviuDragon
      @LiviuDragon 3 роки тому +4

      i see that tiny hand is from a doll or it is real?

  • @andrewsmithphoto
    @andrewsmithphoto 3 роки тому +128

    "Has all the beats of a comedy without any jokes." most accurate Big Bang review I have ever heard.

    • @mikek4610
      @mikek4610 Рік тому +2

      No way…everything about that show is a joke

    • @defs8073
      @defs8073 Рік тому

      It's just ....shit

  • @cendicate9132
    @cendicate9132 3 роки тому +176

    I like how the "extra light" is barely even noticeable

  • @JudyFrankenbutt
    @JudyFrankenbutt 3 роки тому +230

    That dragon is the greatest toy in existence and has single-handedly (single-footedly?) ruined my childhood. If I had one as a kid, I would have made my Amazonian Pirate Queen Jem doll ride it over all my Barbies and cause massive havoc in general. That would have been truly, truly outrageous.

    • @auralunaprettycure
      @auralunaprettycure 3 роки тому +10

      That was a slick and cool Jem reference

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому +15

      Toy Maker #1: What features should this new Dinosaur toy have?
      Toy Maker #2: Yes.
      I'm sorry but that egg laying action had me in stitches

    • @emilyhetheringtonyorkshire9392
      @emilyhetheringtonyorkshire9392 3 роки тому +6

      That Jem reference made me incredibly happy 😂

    • @JudyFrankenbutt
      @JudyFrankenbutt 3 роки тому +5

      @@du1987de It's so unnecessary and over the top, I love it XD

    • @Mentocthemindtaker
      @Mentocthemindtaker 3 роки тому +4

      Not going to lie, I genuinely want one.

  • @mgunter
    @mgunter 3 роки тому +279

    Those dragon eggs looked like the infinity stones that Capcom did.

    • @stewrmo
      @stewrmo 3 роки тому +28

      So that's where the infinity stones came from! Shat out a dragon's arse. Every day is a school day!

    • @GmodPlusWoW
      @GmodPlusWoW 3 роки тому +9

      To this day, Jirard Khalil still craves the Infinity Omelette.

    • @explicitbrainjuice6545
      @explicitbrainjuice6545 3 роки тому +10

      At least the eggs were whole and weren't glued down to a bit of cheap felt.

    • @epiendless1128
      @epiendless1128 3 роки тому

      Exactly my thought!

    • @Mentocthemindtaker
      @Mentocthemindtaker 3 роки тому +1

      I'm honestly surprised Ashens didn't immediately make that comparison.

  • @rooty
    @rooty Рік тому +9

    "Alex murphy was blown away" just makes it sound like he was really impressed by something

  • @davidsitter3718
    @davidsitter3718 3 роки тому +142

    Ashens: "that was the wrong kind of drumroll its ruined everything"
    Me: good old ashens thats why we still watch him after all these years.

  • @DeadwingDork
    @DeadwingDork 3 роки тому +886

    "good god there's a Sontaran"

    • @Haon1Rebmun
      @Haon1Rebmun 3 роки тому +26

      “I wiped a Sontaran’s nose!”

    • @Spectralhyena
      @Spectralhyena 3 роки тому +30

      I miss your streams, I’m a lurker I don’t really say much but thank you, you’ve helped me with losing my fiancée, she passed April 24th. Your streams are just a great way to shut off the anxious part of my Brain. I knew you had great taste in music, and now I know your a man with exceptional taste in media. I actually was at a barbecue with porcupine tree when they were touring for that album. I got to play acoustic guitar with Steven Wilson and their May be footage of us playing this jangly genesis sounding backtrack thing.

    • @DCGMatthew1
      @DCGMatthew1 3 роки тому +12

      Never have I been so surprised by a UA-camr watching someone I watch.

    • @thepolticalone961
      @thepolticalone961 3 роки тому +5

      Sonta Ha

    • @dozzer
      @dozzer 3 роки тому +17

      Deadwingdork and ashens? Don't cross the beams!

  • @CandGoods
    @CandGoods 3 роки тому +74

    with the movement in the frame, I misread the label of that Big Bang Theory pass holder as "pot holder", and was like "great! I can press Sheldon Cooper's face up against a hot surface!"

    • @FiresAndFoxes
      @FiresAndFoxes 3 роки тому +3

      Aggressive but ok

    • @Trynt33
      @Trynt33 Рік тому +1

      @@FiresAndFoxes He had it comin'

    • @philtowle4683
      @philtowle4683 Рік тому

      I thought you meant it was for keeping your weed in

  • @Unadulteratedmadness
    @Unadulteratedmadness 3 роки тому +13

    Stuart Ashen singing the Robocop song made me smile the most I have all year 😂

  • @bonzibuddy4483
    @bonzibuddy4483 3 роки тому +97

    Dragons are different in different cultures. In some places dragons are seen as animals, in others as demi-gods. In some cases dragons are a brontosaurus with tiny vestigial wings that lay easter eggs

    • @Mentocthemindtaker
      @Mentocthemindtaker 3 роки тому +11

      Pretty sure those were Infinity Stones.

    • @kevinm5940
      @kevinm5940 3 роки тому +8

      @@Mentocthemindtaker I don't get why the Avengers wasted so much time traveling through the timelines. They could have just gotten the stones from that dinosaur!

    • @eiaboca1
      @eiaboca1 3 роки тому +3

      I want to know if the eggs open!

    • @myheartandactionsareutterl9058
      @myheartandactionsareutterl9058 3 роки тому

      @@kevinm5940 because they are extinct

  • @explicitbrainjuice6545
    @explicitbrainjuice6545 3 роки тому +21

    That Ian Beale shirt is the best thing my eyes have ever seen.

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 3 роки тому +86

    The fly mutant from TMNT was Baxter Stockman.

    • @spooky6703
      @spooky6703 3 роки тому +2

      Didn't he have a brother that also turned into a fly?

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому +4

      Yes! I was shouting Baxter at the screen but couldn't remember his last name, nice one.

    • @emilyjones5062
      @emilyjones5062 3 роки тому +10

      Came here to say that! I was a TMNT superfan as a little girl at the dawn of the 1990's. My dad likes to tell the story of when he took his precious daughter to the TMNT "Coming Out of Their Shells Tour" concert, instead of going to see Eric Clapton himself. 😂

    • @TheRealTerranMarine
      @TheRealTerranMarine 3 роки тому

      I'm used to the '03 Stockman who just, well, fell apart really.

    • @leons.kennedy2747
      @leons.kennedy2747 3 роки тому +1

      @@emilyjones5062 Holy shit is your dad okay?

  • @rahmodin9209
    @rahmodin9209 3 роки тому +35

    "Everyone loves a bad boy"
    "Yeah not a terrorist though!"

  • @ericmathis4309
    @ericmathis4309 3 роки тому +44

    The catalog is a fat nostalgia hit though! I remember as a kid (at least growing up lower middle class,) getting these massive toy catalogs around Christmas was the highlight of the year! My brother and I would circle things and cut some of the pictures out and stick them on our bedroom wall. We both kinda knew we were never gonna get any of the things in the catalog, but it was like going to the toy store whenever we wanted! (Especially since actual toy store trips were rare.)

    • @natsume-hime2473
      @natsume-hime2473 3 роки тому +3

      That catalogue takes me back. I had a ton of the Barbies that were shown in it, the Optimus Prime and Megatron it had, and several of the RC cars. Although they all came from different shops and none were J.C. Penney's oddly enough. I know the RC cars all came from Radio Shack. I had their super fast exclusive in store one too. Which was so stupidly fast, it was unanimously banned from RC car games by all of the other kids in my neighborhood. As was the gasoline powered one I got later.

  • @TheHyra
    @TheHyra 3 роки тому +72

    26:33 “Japanese speakers do say in the comments what that says” I think that’s Chinese, Stuart

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому +13

      It's so foreign to him he needs to ask another foreign nationality to confirm just how foreign it is.

    • @404killer
      @404killer 3 роки тому +1

      @@du1987de to be fair until i looked at a lot of examples and studied some, i couldn't even tell apart chinese Japanese or korean

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому +5

      @@404killer Korean is the easiest for me to tell apart, but then I work for a Korean company so I see it often enough. I know what you mean though.

    • @404killer
      @404killer 3 роки тому

      @@du1987de yeah now i couldn't mistake them lol

    • @mats7492
      @mats7492 3 роки тому +1

      HeavenHammer Japanese uses Chinese symbols for the most part

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko 3 роки тому +38

    JCPenney was once a large chain of brick-and-mortar department stores, similar to its main competitor, Sears Roebuck & Co., but both companies have seen heavy downturns in the age of Amazon and other online ordering. Both JCPenney and Sears have long had a substantial mail-order business, though that's likely also gone downhill thanks to Amazon.
    I used to love flipping through the Christmas/year-end Sears general catalogue every year, when it showed up in July or August or so, with its 600+ pages of all sorts of stuff a 12-year-old almost definitely could not afford.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 3 роки тому +6

      Sears' downfall had more to do with their poor customer service, a problem that started long before Amazon. Decades ago they were known for good customer service. Amazon was just the final nail in the coffin.

    • @tncorgi92
      @tncorgi92 3 роки тому +4

      Part of me is glad to see the demise of J.C. Penney, some years ago they bought the Eckerd drug store chain where I worked as an I.T. contractor and ran it into the ground. Bastages.

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 3 роки тому

      @@KasumiKenshirou There are plenty of successful companies with bad customer service though.

    • @weregretohio7728
      @weregretohio7728 3 роки тому +2

      Death to Amazon

  • @TheCiderDrinker
    @TheCiderDrinker 3 роки тому +38

    "That's like something Batman wished he had."
    Like parents!

  • @ThomasSpychalski
    @ThomasSpychalski 3 роки тому +12

    I had that safe in the eighties and as a massive Doctor Who fan in the States, painted it blue, and used it as a TARDIS for my GI Joes lol...

  • @dreamlandnightmare
    @dreamlandnightmare 3 роки тому +87

    J.C. Penney is an American brick and mortar store, though they are on the verge of going out of business.

    • @ratmancrimes
      @ratmancrimes 3 роки тому +7

      they've actually declared bankruptcy, they're currently liquidating all of their stock

    • @bobothn
      @bobothn 3 роки тому +10

      @@ratmancrimes J.C. Penney declared bankruptcy and has already been sold to new owners. The new owners are in the process of closing 1/3 of the stores the rest of the chain is expected to keep going for now.

    • @CannaCJ
      @CannaCJ 3 роки тому +16

      I feel mixed feelings about all this. On the one hand, who cares about the fate of a corporation, on the other, my great-granddad made a living traveling across the US setting up those tableau window displays for JC Penny for thirty years.

    • @stephenclosson6992
      @stephenclosson6992 3 роки тому +3

      Yup, they used to be in pretty much every mall around here. (North Carolina)

    • @lankyGigantic
      @lankyGigantic 3 роки тому +1

      I know in Ireland, J.C. Penney's is basically Primark, which is a cheapo clothes store.

  • @michaelturner4457
    @michaelturner4457 3 роки тому +90

    More things should come with free Sontarans.

    • @PajamaManor
      @PajamaManor 3 роки тому +1

      Well at least Commander Strax, he's awesome!

    • @TheHutchy01
      @TheHutchy01 3 роки тому +2

      It'd be bloody confusing if I went to go buy a sandwich and it came with a sodding Sontaran.

  • @MT-cd7cs
    @MT-cd7cs 3 роки тому +13

    That Iain Beale T-shirt is the greatest superhero tee I’ve ever clapped eyes on. Much wanted.

  • @becca545
    @becca545 3 роки тому +9

    Really sweet to see Stuart's joy at being able to take the Robocop out of it's packaging!

  • @VegasRudeboy
    @VegasRudeboy 3 роки тому +62

    "Oh no. I've been got by a bastard."
    MUERTE

  • @ErinTurco21
    @ErinTurco21 3 роки тому +58

    Please let us see Dragon vs The Goose, we need it

    • @NCHLT
      @NCHLT 3 роки тому +4

      Don't forget the Poundland police make it go away thing

    • @Misguided_Robot273
      @Misguided_Robot273 3 роки тому +4

      We need to see it

  • @danielstephenson7558
    @danielstephenson7558 3 роки тому +12

    "and there's the 2-XL robot that look as if it's having a right strop"
    Gold, Stuart. Gold.

  • @SerrinTheElf
    @SerrinTheElf 3 роки тому +4

    Bloody hell, finding a blind bag in a blind box. Quintessential Ashens content, right there.

  • @_Stagnate_
    @_Stagnate_ 3 роки тому +32

    For those wondering, the socks, mug & travel pass I can't find on amazon so £0 amazon value. The Santaron seems to be £12, the blind bag is £14, so technically, it's not wrong about the '£25' amazon value but its how much worth the items in the box have to the owner really.

    • @kevinm5940
      @kevinm5940 3 роки тому +1

      How is that blind bag £14? Is it not being oficially produced anymore?

    • @mjc0961
      @mjc0961 3 роки тому +2

      So £0 of value, then

  • @BradleyCAbbott123
    @BradleyCAbbott123 3 роки тому +52

    Oh my that dragon is the same thing as THE GOOSE from the Easter special years ago

    • @MathewHaswell
      @MathewHaswell 3 роки тому

      With a bonus Godfrey Ho reference from Stuart.

    • @BluDog35
      @BluDog35 3 роки тому +2

      Lamplight melody it is not...

    • @stewrmo
      @stewrmo 3 роки тому

      How very dare you...

    • @MildExplosion
      @MildExplosion 3 роки тому +3

      THE GOOSE was far more aggressive, it may be the final form of the dragon 😂

    • @loganpalmer7132
      @loganpalmer7132 3 роки тому +1

      it's the goose's arch nemesis

  • @SvengelskaBlondie
    @SvengelskaBlondie 2 роки тому +10

    32:45 "I should totally back and play the fourth at some point, apparently it's really good"
    It's quite a good game, It's the first out of the main series that breaks off from the traditional formula. It's also one of the games which port to the Wii version was really nice (they even added some extra stuff like extra game modes).

  • @logan-pe4rm
    @logan-pe4rm 3 роки тому +60

    Goddamn Ashens has to be the greatest youtuber still on this platform in terms of quality and consistency. I started watching him when I was 12 cuz I remember talking about Chef Excellence in like 7th grade but now I turn 21 in 2 days and here I am still laughing at a (new) Ashens video. Life changes a lot and, not always for the best, but some things never leave you.
    One of those things is Ashens!!!

  • @DarkAvatar1313
    @DarkAvatar1313 3 роки тому +55

    When Ashens did his "dinosaur" voice he sounded like Techmoan....

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому +10

      Three cheers for cross-channel references

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 3 роки тому +2

      I clapped when I heard it.

    • @thefalsekingslayer3717
      @thefalsekingslayer3717 3 роки тому +1

      They are the same man I do believe

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому

      @@thefalsekingslayer3717 They are definitely different people

    • @JohnDoe-jy1kn
      @JohnDoe-jy1kn 3 роки тому +1

      He's actually techmoan's illegitimate love child. He once came on holiday to Cromer in the 70's where he met Ashen's mother. The rest is history.

  • @cedarstuff
    @cedarstuff 3 роки тому +140

    HMV stands for "Jumble Sale Shite". It's so sad seeing their decline.

    • @isabellamorris7902
      @isabellamorris7902 3 роки тому +7

      But Jumble Sale Shite doesn't have the same first letters as HMV!

    • @jacobmcdermott55
      @jacobmcdermott55 3 роки тому +5

      @@isabellamorris7902 It does?

    • @godzilla345345
      @godzilla345345 3 роки тому +7

      Fun fact, they're all closed down in Canada, at least the western provinces

    • @umamagei
      @umamagei 3 роки тому +7

      bit late isn't it, the company has pretty much been on life support since 2013 when they went into administration, it bounced back for a while but they went into administration again in 2018 and got bought out for less than a million pounds, its pretty sad.

    • @hyphz
      @hyphz 3 роки тому +5

      (It stands for His Master's Voice)

  • @nokes22
    @nokes22 3 роки тому +2

    I had a Roland Rat pencil case back in the 80’s...followed by a Family Ness one. All kids of the 80’s were raised on a diet of commercialism and it was a beautiful thing!

  • @phill_strange_media_1980
    @phill_strange_media_1980 3 роки тому +18

    Awww come on, that Ian Beale t-shirt is pure aesthetic!

  • @jeremysteelman2900
    @jeremysteelman2900 3 роки тому +222

    Don't you ever caress socks with that little hand again!

    • @breezy9297
      @breezy9297 3 роки тому +26

      I had to go back and watch that again because I thought I'd seen it wrong. that thing scared the hell out of me. LOL

    • @Fazeoflife
      @Fazeoflife 3 роки тому +8

      It made me cry out in pain

    • @m1rock
      @m1rock 3 роки тому +7

      I thought I’d accidentally ingested some hallucinogens.

    • @chimerschang
      @chimerschang 3 роки тому +1

      I always wondered what it would be like to have tiny hands on your fingertips...

    • @julies3837
      @julies3837 3 роки тому +4

      Breezy I went back to watch it too and then it felt wrong.

  • @mamesmck5236
    @mamesmck5236 3 роки тому +9

    Ah, I'm so glad to hear Ashen's so excited to open a 1990's toy.
    Truely heart warming such a trying time with the old pando going on!

  • @md_vandenberg
    @md_vandenberg 3 роки тому +32

    "In the history of beards, or 'beardstory' as we call it in the trade."
    For the last time Stuart, no we don't. I feel like you're not taking your Beardy Bastards Bureau membership seriously.

  • @ExplosiveTeddies
    @ExplosiveTeddies 3 роки тому +9

    "The head's not moving much but it lights up" - That's because you broke it's neck a few seconds ago.

  • @toxictrumptube7763
    @toxictrumptube7763 3 роки тому +42

    45 minutes of Ashens. Just after midnight in Europe. Thanks for corrupting my sleep cycle, again!!

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 3 роки тому +4

      Ooh you live in the future it's not midnight yet lol.

    • @fuzer909
      @fuzer909 3 роки тому

      9pmish here in The States. Its Ashens At Night to me.

  • @Irene-qk6qm
    @Irene-qk6qm 3 роки тому +31

    I can see the mug being sold at 0.50 in Poundland.

    • @johnturner3455
      @johnturner3455 3 роки тому +15

      Or for free if you pinch it from the skip it belongs in.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 3 роки тому +14

      Someone would have to *pay me* to take that mug.

  • @BoshiYoshi
    @BoshiYoshi 3 роки тому +4

    That JC Penny Christmas toy catalog was a blast to see. We used to get the Christmas catalog every year. There was always so much stuff from it I wanted and I almost never got anything from the catalog itself that I asked for, haha. I did have the Jurassic Park compound (still have some of it in storage) but sadly I lost a lot of the smaller pieces and my dog chewed up one of the pieces that came with it. I used to take the roof off of it, stick it on my head and pretend I was Raiden from Mortal Kombat.

  • @lydiaspringer8196
    @lydiaspringer8196 3 роки тому +10

    So long the days of J.C. Penny's, Sears and Toys r'us catalogs 😭

  • @DecayingReverie
    @DecayingReverie 3 роки тому +16

    That toy catalog was a blast to the past. I remember playing with that Jurassic Park set with the fences and shit like crazy when I was a boy.

    • @IanC14
      @IanC14 3 роки тому +2

      I had that set when I was a young boy. I'm not any more obviously

  • @moltenamber85
    @moltenamber85 3 роки тому +27

    Those Transformers were from the ‘90s Generation 2 line, which is why Prime’s trailer was like that, and why Megatron was a tank

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou 3 роки тому +6

      Yep. The G2 started out rereleasing some of the old toys in new color schemes (and usually with the character's name written on them even though they were supposed to be in disguise) with additional accessories. In the early 80s kids could buy realistic looking toy guns, but by the 90s that was no longer allowed, so Megatron was given a new toy where he turned into a tank.

    • @SharkNinjaBlueStar
      @SharkNinjaBlueStar 3 роки тому

      That was one of two G2 Optimus figures, the other one being an entirely new mold that transformed into a long nose tractor trailer with an oil trailer that turned into a battle station. And it is a goddamn work of 90s toy art.

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 3 роки тому +1

      @@KasumiKenshirou Yep but as much as I prefer gun Megatron, Tank Megatron makes more sense.

    • @Silver_wind_1987_
      @Silver_wind_1987_ 3 роки тому

      @@Gambit771 tank megs is also a slow fucker and controls like a potato :D

  • @YokiDokiPanic
    @YokiDokiPanic 3 роки тому +18

    Me: "The young ones" isn't that deep a reference
    And then I remember it's a show from the early 80's that's older than 80% of this channel's audience and weep softly for my aging, slowly becoming irrelevant self.

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 3 роки тому +1

      I was just pleased to hear it referenced.
      It seems Bottom gets all the references these days.

    • @espurious
      @espurious 3 роки тому +1

      Kevin Turvey or GTFO

    • @kirstygunn9149
      @kirstygunn9149 3 роки тому +1

      Any of you remember the dangerous Brothers

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 3 роки тому +4

      I really don't understand why this channel's main audience seems to be young teens from the US. Are they the target audience for jokes about 80s British tv and Microcomputer stuff?

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 3 роки тому +2

      @@TheSmart-CasualGamer No reason they shouldn't be.
      It's good to learn about things, or at least be made aware about things in other countries.
      Not something yanks are known for and maybe there's something about Ashens that appeals to them.

  • @tuckerandrewstv
    @tuckerandrewstv 3 роки тому +2

    Loved hearing the old Robocop theme after all these years.

  • @eyeballpaul700
    @eyeballpaul700 3 роки тому +19

    I am over the moon to see the return of the RoboCop song

  • @Maker277
    @Maker277 3 роки тому +14

    This makes me wish for the days before Christmas flipping through the Sears Wishbook.

  • @BunniMonster
    @BunniMonster 3 роки тому +5

    "He puts on his tape of extreme bollocking"
    Extreme Bollocking were a proto-newstyle, extreme Jazz/Crunk fusion trio from Glasgow.
    I had that Robocop with the leg holster thing, it was massive.

  • @PoisonBannana
    @PoisonBannana 3 роки тому +6

    i liked the part where the dinosaur dragon moonwalked and then shat himself.

  • @yaboyo7800
    @yaboyo7800 3 роки тому +22

    ashens is basically the only thing keeping me alive at this rate

    • @malegirlboss
      @malegirlboss 2 роки тому +2

      How are you now? I hope you are well. Caring about you despite being a stranger. Wishing you the best. May you find many amazing things to surround yourself with in life.

    • @yaboyo7800
      @yaboyo7800 2 роки тому +5

      @@malegirlboss Ah how kind! Thank you very much. My comment was a bit of satire however I appreciate your reply! I hope you are well and I wish you the best :) perhaps If I remember I'll come back to this a year from now and check up on you!

    • @FH4Player6397
      @FH4Player6397 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@yaboyo7800How are you doing in 2023?

  • @Wanton110
    @Wanton110 3 роки тому +61

    RoboCop only has his original face so the mind of Alex Murphy didn't go insane.. they didn't want any human parts because it was a weakness

    • @JustAskMeTV101
      @JustAskMeTV101 3 роки тому +1

      They were not thinking of his sanity at all, they wiped his memories

    • @Wanton110
      @Wanton110 3 роки тому +2

      @@JustAskMeTV101 They thought if a 'human mind' was looking at a robot they would go insane so gave him a human face to look at in reflection.. his own..
      /edit/ is the same reason he had a hand in the remake, because no one would trust a hand shake of a robot, so kept his hand

    • @JustAskMeTV101
      @JustAskMeTV101 3 роки тому +1

      @@Wanton110 idk where you got that because it's not in the movie

    • @Wanton110
      @Wanton110 3 роки тому +1

      @@JustAskMeTV101 The explanation in the remake was a deleted scene on the bluray, I don't remember if it was commentary or deleted scene on the original

    • @JustAskMeTV101
      @JustAskMeTV101 3 роки тому +1

      @@Wanton110 i don't think you can count the remake as Gary Oldman's character in that had a very different attitude from OCP in the original movie, they literally just wanted a robot with a human jaw and some beat cop muscle memory, no shits given about Murphy

  • @Floydthefuckbag
    @Floydthefuckbag 3 роки тому +5

    "That's the least convincing beard in beard history"
    Someone needs to send Ashens a copy of Twisted Pair.

  • @kickingmagpie
    @kickingmagpie 3 роки тому +13

    I can't believe THE GOOSE had a sequel after so long.

  • @MONTY-YTNOM
    @MONTY-YTNOM 3 роки тому +32

    the 'extra' light made no difference at all

  • @felixhenson1801
    @felixhenson1801 3 роки тому +17

    "The classic flavour is roast beef" dude I don't even like it and I know the main flavour is pickled onion

    • @PriyaPans
      @PriyaPans 3 роки тому +2

      Glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Come onnnn. Are you eating monster munch if it's not pickled onion. I'm the same with space raiders too.

  • @nikodem123asdf
    @nikodem123asdf 3 роки тому +1

    I adored the way he looked into that toys magazine, all full of childlike wonder.

  • @jansenart0
    @jansenart0 3 роки тому +19

    JCPenny was one of the largest department stores on the continent. It's in liquidation at the moment because of poor business decisions and Amazon, but in the 90s, basically if your local mall didn't have one (or a Macy's or similar), that's how you knew it was one of the crappier malls.
    I had that Jurassic Park T-Rex AND the Super Scope 6 on the cover.

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 3 роки тому +1

      This is a British channel so when you say continent it means Europe to the majority of viewers that bother to scroll this far down.

    • @jansenart0
      @jansenart0 3 роки тому

      @@Gambit771 It was an American catalogue for an American store. If you had paid attention you would've recognized that.

    • @thelaughingmanofficial
      @thelaughingmanofficial Рік тому

      Back in the 90's how I could tell it was a crappy mall was there was no Arcade or even a Babbages. Luckily the Mall closest to me had 2 Arcades and a Babbages along with a food court so it was one of the better malls.

  • @andrewflashchannelgibbs5384
    @andrewflashchannelgibbs5384 3 роки тому +45

    It looks like Errol the hamster and not Kevin the Gerbil, in the sticker pack.

  • @dRevnik
    @dRevnik 3 роки тому +8

    that tiny hand scared the shit out of me

  • @joebleasdale5557
    @joebleasdale5557 3 роки тому +7

    I would argue there is no show that more accurately showcases British culture to the world than Gogglebox. Be careful where you tread, young Ashen!

  • @OlagGan
    @OlagGan 3 роки тому +11

    Actually that wasn't an impersonation of Roland Rat, that was Blakey from On the Buses "I'll get you Butler"

  • @oldbatwit5102
    @oldbatwit5102 3 роки тому +36

    I must confess.... I would quite like the Ian Beale T-shirt.

  • @amystrader5139
    @amystrader5139 3 роки тому +7

    would love a video of ashens showing off his collectables and set up

  • @MCOmegaX123
    @MCOmegaX123 3 роки тому +4

    Point of interest/fact/contention, Stuart: There were actually two Sontarans played by "Mike the cool person" from The Young Ones, namely Commander Stark from The Pandorica Opens, and General Staal from The Sontaran Stratagem (as well as one of the Mentors from Mindwarp in the Trial of a Time Lord arc, back in Six's era, but he's not a Sontaran, so we'll forget him). But, since the box says "Sontaran General", we can assume that the figurine represents General Staal.

  • @korub1
    @korub1 3 роки тому +11

    I was hoping so bad that the dragon would have the same music chip as the Goose

  • @CatherineDupuis87
    @CatherineDupuis87 3 роки тому +3

    Having been 7 years old in 1994, I vividly remember flipping through that catalog and dogearing the pages that had stuff I wanted on them.

  • @philipcorner574
    @philipcorner574 3 роки тому +4

    41:00 Oddly, the SNES controllers briefly visible are the Europe/Japanese multi colour button versions, rather than the US "Palma violets" style

  • @jek__
    @jek__ 3 роки тому +1

    8:37 lol, that tiny squishy hand is hilarious

  • @legobrickabrac
    @legobrickabrac 3 роки тому +7

    I find so funny that you have been reviewing stuff on that Safa for years and years and years and years and have little to no thumbnail image ever. Your sence of humour literally makes the channel. Well done there sir.

  • @MedievalFolkDance
    @MedievalFolkDance 3 роки тому +33

    That was not Kevin the Gerbil, it was Errol the Welsh Hamster.
    EDIT - Anyone else feel nostalgically sentimental when they see puffy stickers?

    • @katenunyabizness9221
      @katenunyabizness9221 3 роки тому +4

      Yes, it was Errol The Welsh Hamster with the Wrench in the Kitchen to be exact...

    • @trav28
      @trav28 3 роки тому +1

      @@katenunyabizness9221 roll VT, Errol!

    • @happydog3422
      @happydog3422 3 роки тому +2

      Nothing to do with the video but saw your picture and name, I know the reference and made me laugh😁

    • @MedievalFolkDance
      @MedievalFolkDance 3 роки тому

      @@happydog3422 ;)

    • @MedievalFolkDance
      @MedievalFolkDance 3 роки тому

      @@katenunyabizness9221 M'lud

  • @JustinWillisDevil240Z
    @JustinWillisDevil240Z 3 роки тому +1

    "All the beats of a comedy but no fucking jokes"
    Savage and accurate.

  • @favoritemustard3542
    @favoritemustard3542 3 роки тому +1

    His Master's Voice Says: _I love it when a MONSTROSITY comes together!_

    • @favoritemustard3542
      @favoritemustard3542 8 місяців тому

      Everyone needs a huge egg laying brontodragon in their life!
      🦕🐉🥚

  • @PhoenixFyre
    @PhoenixFyre 3 роки тому +8

    Those were the Generation 2 transformers, basically mostly repaints and slight remolds of the G1 figures they resold to the kids growing up in the early 90's that were too young for the 80's. I vividly remember that catalog as a kid, so much stuff in there I wanted for Christmas.

    • @Silver_wind_1987_
      @Silver_wind_1987_ 2 роки тому

      Well G2 was mostly repaints....minus like 3....if I remember correctly...

  • @PixelatedH2O
    @PixelatedH2O 3 роки тому +4

    I was 12 years old in 1994. That JCPenney catalog brought back a lot of memories. They were founded in 1902, and until 2011 operated both department stores and a catalog service. They filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, and are now barely surviving.

    • @tncorgi92
      @tncorgi92 2 роки тому

      JCPenney, Montgomery Ward and Sears, places my mom dragged me to when it was time to shop for Back-to-School. I came to dread them on sight.

  • @mustc231
    @mustc231 2 роки тому +1

    I will never tire of the Robocop song

  • @daniellevy4104
    @daniellevy4104 Рік тому +1

    Ashens , I was driving to work today singing , He is a Robot , he is a Cop , He is a Robo Cop .. 😂 imagine people all over the globe driving singing that ridiculous song .. cause you of you!

  • @PhoenixFyre
    @PhoenixFyre 3 роки тому +8

    If it matters, Robocop's pistol was designated the Auto-9. In real life it was a dressed up Beretta Raffica burst fire police and military pistol.

    • @ddvsgd9508
      @ddvsgd9508 3 роки тому

      Apparently they modified it because the original looked small in his hand.

    • @PvPene
      @PvPene 3 роки тому

      PhoenixFyre the 93r is so cool but impossible to find

    • @Juicewski2
      @Juicewski2 3 роки тому

      @@ddvsgd9508 They were originally planning to give him a Desert Eagle, but since it didn't look big enough, they went with the modified Beretta 93r.

  • @mandy5313
    @mandy5313 3 роки тому +4

    “Av got nuffin left”. I remember watching that and crying with laughter, gotta love squealy bealey😂

  • @OneColdMonkey
    @OneColdMonkey 3 роки тому +2

    "It could fight The Goose" *attention intensifies*

  • @_The_Worst_
    @_The_Worst_ 3 роки тому +1

    When he showed us the Toy Catalogue from JC Penneys the dinosaur section unlocked a memory...🗝🧠 I had that big moving dinosaur that blew smoke out of it nostrils...💨 It smelled weird...😬

  • @jadeyxboox
    @jadeyxboox 3 роки тому +35

    Ashens - **huffs at gogglebox**
    Also Ashens - **makes a living by having people watch him review tat**

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому +4

      And I am not ashamed to enable his lifestyle

    • @jadeyxboox
      @jadeyxboox 3 роки тому +1

      @@du1987de I read that as "life force" but that works too 😂

    • @du1987de
      @du1987de 3 роки тому

      @@jadeyxboox his life force must be preserved for the greater good

    • @jadeyxboox
      @jadeyxboox 3 роки тому +1

      @@du1987de I wholeheartedly agree.

  • @luisvila918
    @luisvila918 3 роки тому +12

    45 minutes of Ashens? Don't mind if I do

  • @essidrovital6397
    @essidrovital6397 3 роки тому

    Best old toys video ive seen on Ashens’ channel

  • @han_pritcher
    @han_pritcher 3 роки тому +2

    I'm pretty sure that was Errol the Hamster, who would often express his love for leeks.

  • @redgrain3914
    @redgrain3914 3 роки тому +19

    JC Penney was / is? a retail store, like Sears became. They were often the "anchor" store of a shopping mall. Same kind of general retail junk. The Penney store in the original Dawn of the Dead is one.

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 3 роки тому +2

      One important point to keep in mind though, is that they're failing as a company and most of them are closed.

    • @thefalsekingslayer3717
      @thefalsekingslayer3717 3 роки тому

      Worth noting that Mr. J.C. Penny's full name is James Cash Penny, his momma must have had a feeling

    • @abloodcorpse3318
      @abloodcorpse3318 3 роки тому

      yea now its more a clothes store

    • @namebrandmason
      @namebrandmason 3 роки тому

      @@abloodcorpse3318 They never really had toys in the store; there was a lot of "catalog only" products. The mall anchors were clothes/housewares/appliances.

    • @aaronstepien2363
      @aaronstepien2363 3 роки тому

      @@namebrandmasonSears and Montgomery Wards had the best “catalogue only” items as far as toys went

  • @AngusBeer
    @AngusBeer 3 роки тому +7

    With Resident Evil i would highly recommend Resident Evil 2 Remake. I feel it stands on it's own and plays incredibly well.

  • @TaZ-MaN307
    @TaZ-MaN307 Рік тому +2

    I've just found your channel and I've been binging in them lol, god these vids are so funny and I love the intro

  • @beautyforashes2022
    @beautyforashes2022 3 роки тому +2

    Omg.... I want that flapping, screaming, walking around, egg crapping, light up dino for my cat, just to see her reaction. My guess is she wouldn't be a fan of it. But either way, that toy is absolutely nuts and I love it!

  • @DCGMatthew1
    @DCGMatthew1 3 роки тому +22

    God, is there anything better than Stuart or Barry talking?

    • @ashtonhoward5582
      @ashtonhoward5582 3 роки тому +2

      I prefer Ashens talking, rather than Stuart.

    • @kawaiilotus
      @kawaiilotus 3 роки тому

      Both together... oh wait..

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper 3 роки тому +1

      Try a girlfriend (or boyfriend (or BOTH (at the same time!))) Also... food.

    • @abbiex63
      @abbiex63 3 роки тому

      Eli 😂😁

    • @AveragePootis
      @AveragePootis 3 роки тому

      Techmoan, 8-Bit Guy and LGR arent bad