90's Commercials Vol. 422

[@yusakug]

Fly Away Home is a wonderful and underrated film that was horribly represented in that commercial. It's a beautiful drama based on a true story with an opening scene that makes me tear up every time, and that music they used in the background of the commercial is unacceptable.

[@MRF1983]

I hated getting up early as a kid, but I was coursing with excited energy on Saturday mornings and would get up for the early cartoons and binge until X-Men and Carmen Sandiego were over. What a time to have gotten to be a kid. Sometimes I get a little down when I watch these kid centric ad blocks. Life is so different for my nephew today versus how it was for me and his dad then. No Saturday morning cartoons on the main network stations for him, no kick ass sweepstakes like this Sega one, no book series like Goosebumps or it's companion TV show.

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

FOX Kids is the stuff of legends. I loved every second of this recording! Amazing times.

[@joshuawade8319]

I love seeing the trailers for old movies. And the prizes inside cereal boxes, those were always a great selling point when I was a kid. Great memories, thanks for uploading.

[@TeamWickedOpinion]

11:12 I remember entering that NIGHTS sweepstake!

[@blackdragon6]

That safety gear commercial is something I totally forgot lol. I always cracked up at that boy crashing his bike.

[@stratoplayer1988]

Fox Kids and Kids WB where the channels I used to watch Saturday morning cartoons back in the 1990s. To me, this defined Saturday morning cartoons more than CBS, NBC, and ABC combined.

[@TeamWickedOpinion]

I concur 1000%

[@SaffronSparrows]

I wasn’t a fan of the Carmen Sandiego cartoon, but I loved the game show on PBS

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

My time with Fox Kids ended in September 1995. That's the month they aired the final 5 episodes of "Batman: The Animated Series", and Animaniacs left the network around the same time (it moved to Kids WB, and I didn't have access to that channel until 1998). Plus, I didn't care for live action stuff like "Goosebumps" and "Big Bad Beatle Borgs", and I was getting ready to graduate high school around that time, and had less time to tune in.... But arguably, the Golden Age of Fox Kids ran all the way until 1998: "X-Men" ended in September 1997, "Spider-Man" ended in January 1998, and "Bobby's World" ends in February 1998, and the final season of "original" Power Rangers concluded in November, 1998.

[@travisa7669]

Senior year in college was 96-97. If I had zero stuff to do on a Saturday morning, I'd flip through the channels for any cartoons to watch and pass the time. I'm sure I stopped by Fox a few times.

[@UrbanNoizeMusic]

Became a fan of Where On Earth Is San Diego when I was much older than when I was a kid. Nevertheless I miss this era of TV dearly. Because we always had something to look forward to during the weekends and week days. Awhile still having an outside life with friends. It's was all a fair balance. And the age of video games made things even more special. Sega Saturn was a good system to have. Nights was a unique experience.

[@jhutto1984]

It says a lot that I grew up on Power Rangers and Beetleborgs and this is the first time I can remember ever seeing a toy commercial for the Beetleborgs.

[@tripdefect87]

Melanie's Mall is probably the most consumerist toyline that I've ever seen

[@LastoftheMayans80]

RIP Green Ranger aka Mr. Jason David Frank

[@george.s.8491]

Ahhh the good ole days!

[@stratoplayer1988]

The WMAC Masters tv show was filmed at Universal Orlando. I remember they often used the show building for the Kongfrontation ride (RIP) as set for filming the city fights.

[@charliejoson9145]

Teacher Barbie was my favorite toy for about a year but funny story was that my mom had to buy me that toy since she was going to give the same toy as a gift for a birthday girl (her friend's daughter)

[@darktetsuya]

okay wow yeah winning that SEGA contest definitely woulda been a dream come true for me back then! JOYPOLIS was a pretty stellar arcade center from what I hear... and having every saturn game wouldn't be half bad!

[@Counterpoint1951]

As a 90s girl who liked going to the mall for just about anything other than clothes shopping, I wouldn't go to Melanie's mall, either; I loved going to the arcade at both of the malls nearest me. One of those malls has since been torn down, but the other one is still around and got rid of their arcade several years ago, giving me yet another reason not to go there much.

[@dhphoto]

Man, that ad for Fly Away Home does not sell how somber and sad it is at all. What a bait and switch.

[@yusakug]

Juice 'n Cookies Baby Alive is such an awkward name, they couldn't fit it in the commercial's jingle without having the singers speed up every time they sang the name.

[@WilfredCthulu]

What an excellent break. Rest in peace pizza face. A true innovative hero who helped us make progression in the universe. Their funeral was attended by Marvel's finest and the funny fox. Aside from Wolverine who had the *audacity* to show up shirtless. I know Storm is way better than you in mvc2 but you don't gotta be an embarrassment to everyone about it! That goosebumps episode is hilariously bad btw lol. Nights is cool though :).

[@rabiroden]

Beetleborgs was another attempt from Saban to replicate Power Rangers, taking a Japanese action show and splicing it with new American footage. In this case, the Americanization involved combining comic books with a haunted house full of goofy oldschool horror monsters, who were also the good guys, lead by the eccentric ghost of Elvis Presley. The results were... odd.

[@80sCommercialVault]

IMO Power Rangers struck that perfect balance of Saved By The Bell mixed with Japanese Monster Movies. Beetleborgs comes across as something where the concept was sort of lost in translation and a bit tone deaf of what was popular/appealing to kids in America at the time.

[@rabiroden]

@@80sCommercialVault Yeah, I think the comic book angle alone would've been enough, but then they added this weird sitcom element with knockoff Universal monsters and it's just... too many ingredients. Still, I feel it was vaguely more popular than their other Power Ranger runoffs. It was certainly more memorable at least, lol.

[@WWJD85]

Wmac masters figures were in the bargin bin at Kaybee. I remember buying the belt for really cheap.

[@TerrickTerran]

no cartoon, no sales basically.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Masters Of The Universe started out as a action figure line in 1981 and wasn't supported by a cartoon until 1983. My Little Pony also started out as a toy line in 1982 and didn't get a cartoon special until 1984. A lot of popular toys did not start out having a cartoon to support it. These figures didn't sell terribly well because they were bad, unappealing action figures.

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Juice And Cookies Baby Alive- Watching that doll eat the cookies with her mouth chewing like that looks like nightmare fuel. Kirby Super Star For SNES- Those kids looking inflated throughout this commercial reminds me of how Violet Beauregard became a blueberry in "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory".

[@yusakug]

Wow, another Saturn commercial! Nights Into Dreams was an underrated game that was supposed to compete with the other big mascot platformers that came out at the same time, namely Nintendo's Super Mario 64, and Sony's Crash Bandicoot. Sadly, it didn't have the same level of hype that those two games did. While it has a loyal fanbase, and has gotten some sequels off and on, it was nowhere near as successful as it should have been.

[@raisa_cherry35]

Lovely ad compilation 💜💜💜

[@MarcAquino1095]

12:08 - Oh, the irony.

[@HeadsetGuy]

YAY FOX 32 CHICAGO! WFLD represent!

[@DanZero77]

WMAC Masters was on after American Gladiators and... well it wasn't the best but being a kung fun fan I took in all the 90s cheey-ness it could offer!

[@TTrigg]

Power Rangers Zeo-this was around the time when they started changing cast members between seasons Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego-shouldve had Rockapella do the theme song Big Bad Beetleborgs-show lasted for two seasons due to Saban running through all the stock footage of B Fighter Kabuto (the Japanese series it was based on) rather quickly.. X-Men- X-Men '97 coming to Disney+ soon.. picking up right where the Fox Kids show left off WMAC Masters-loved when Shannon Lee was the emcee during the first season..for a while rumors were that there was going to be a live-action Mortal Kombat series using the same format Melanie's Mall-was later turned into a open air mixed-use development Wear Safety Gear PSA-wonder if the game is available for the Sega Saturn

[@Drew_LaLa]

Sept. 7, 1996 is the day that Tupac Shakur was shot. He eventually died 6 days later

[@raisa_cherry35]

2:45 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 alludes to The Mask.

[@yusakug]

I kind of want to see that Attack of the Mutant episode, because I love Adam West. I'm sure it's awful, though.

[@cristinasydnor9509]

It was pretty good!

[@80sCommercialVault]

All of the Goosebumps TV show is on Netflix and has been for some time. It’s pretty mediocre when compared to “Are You Afraid Of The Dark” but it has that same mid 90’s Canadian charm and the episodes are based on books where much of the writing was not exactly great to begin with…so I won’t judge it too harshly. Some episodes like “The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom” actually manage to be pretty good.