Orangey Tangs: Jaffa Cake Monsters (Heaving Toy Chest)

[@orangytang]

So this is weird. I've had this username for about 20 years now and this is the first time anyone has ever acknowledged the existence of these other than me. "Who cares about this?" Me, apparently. And Ms Sterling. Seems like it's an exclusive club.

[@thelazy0ne]

☝️ True commitment.

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

At last, you get to dash into the comments section like the Charge of the Rohirrim.

[@Venatius]

I'm going to take that you happened to find this video as some kind of good omen for the future.

[@D-S-9]

For what it’s worth, which is virtually something I’m sure, this totally resonated with me. I’m pretty sure we had similar childhoods - pop culturally speaking - so I love seeing all these toys as I stare down the face of my own mortality. And since people older than me have hoarded all the money, it’s not like I’m gonna buy a shiny red sports car to mark the occasion, might as well go for nostalgia.

[@craniifer]

I like that idea. I guess I'm getting back into Crazy Bones.

[@Diarmuhnd]

Have a fun weekend everyone. Thank god for Stephanie Sterlings Heaving Toychest.

[@affsteak3530]

I'm a U.S. adult and have never seen these things before. I'm pretty sure I will watch anything Stephanie puts out. EDIT: God I forgot how every fictional group in the 90s had to have a "cool" member

[@NightpawsDarkwolf]

I remember playing with these and having literally no idea what they were. Thanks for solving a random childhood puzzle for me ^^

[@_hunu]

Same here, and I hate jaffa cakes.

[@rayceeya8659]

The vintage commercials always put a smile on my face. One of my favorite things about this channel.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

That milk one was great. Always a pleasure listening to Ali.

[@Auburnleavesfall]

Being at the relatively older end of gen z, these Heaving Toy Chest ™️ vids are always an...experience

[@stingerjohnny9951]

As a midrun millennial who was born in the early 90s and has seen some weird shit advertised to kids, these videos make me oddly nostalgic.

[@BurningFyre]

as someone at the top of genz, i just want that chest

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

@@BurningFyre You're not man OR woman enough for it.

[@BurningFyre]

@@CarbonRollerCaco you cannot possibly have known this, but im also nonbinary. So accidentally yes!

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

@@BurningFyre Still not man, woman or NB enough. :

[@MrPooleish]

It's nice to know I'm not the only person who's Transylvanian accent dips into Jamaican from time to time.

[@oddatea9099]

Had to watch just because I remembered having one as a kid only for a younger sibling to chew all its limbs off. Cain instinct was strong that day.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

I do love a few good Jaffa Cakes now and then. I say a few, because it's hard not to smash back half a pack, since they're basically snack cakes. In fact, there was a court case involving Jaffa Cakes, since in the UK our VAT doesn't apply to certain items. VAT is applied to biscuits, but not to cakes, since cakes are considered an essential or something. So McVities basically made a giant one to prove that Jaffa Cakes were indeed cakes, so that despite being the same shape and size as biscuits, Jaffas could be regarded as cakes in the eyes of the mighty taxman. The key is in how biscuits and cakes "degrade": biscuits tend to go soft as they draw in atmospheric moisture, while cakes go hard as they lose moisture and dry out.

[@StupidCommentaryChannel]

hey alright

[@deminumenera1758]

I remember this lol. It was a HUGE deal. Also, I do like the variants - lime, orange & cranberry, pineapple... all good stuff

[@GmodPlusWoW]

@@deminumenera1758 I do like the pineapple variant, but IIRC I wish it was a little tangier. And while we're talking about snack cakes, ever have French Fancies? I feel like they have almost the right amount of icing to balance against the cake and cream. With that said, I wish that the seasonal variants were produced outside their native seasons. Easter and Halloween have their lemon and orange variants, with lemon being my favourite out of the traditional three found in the normal boxes. I will say that I don't give a toss about the Christmas variant which is just vanilla, when I'd rather it be mint like a candy cane.

[@Xfade81]

@@deminumenera1758 meh in my country there's only the orange one :(

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

The go hard versus go soft remains the only pragmatic distinction for everyday use. There are technical differences in composition that turned out to be true across the board, but are useless to anyone who isn't a culinary academic or food archaeologist.

[@TerraHv1]

I love that Steph breaks down in nearly every toy chest video because that's how I feel every day and it's nice to know I'm not the only one.

[@villano37]

Stephanie doing a vampire accent and minutes after breaking down about them being an adult is just... I love you commanderu-chan ♥️

[@dunebugs]

Holy shit that “full moon” Jaffa advert, that brought back some powerful nostalgia. The sunglasses one of these was my most treasured possession for ages when I was a kid until it just disappeared into the ether somehow. Never quite got over it. They seemed to be popular at the same time when comic relief would release collectible red noses and they became a brief fad. British 90s childhood was strange man, those aliens in goo that you could supposedly breed were a bizarre craze. And walkers crisps having free pogs (or tazos I think they were known as) in them was most of the reason for my childhood obesity.

[@Jonqen]

Sounds like my Swedish childhood. I guess some of us europeans had similar toys. Same with gaming

[@chrisball3778]

What's the opposite of nostalgia? When she says 'half moon', the Jaffa Cake is actually a crescent moon shape. Watching it again all I could feel was the same feeling of pedantic irritation I felt all those years ago.

[@MamboCat84]

TAZOS!! Yes! You could click em together to make weird structures, so kinda better than pogs lol

[@funoff3207]

My sister worked for Walkers so I got given a fully completed star wars tazo ring binder thing. King of the playground for a week

[@MusyVideos]

Oh man, the aliens in goo things. A friend had to get carted off to hospital to have the goo removed from his nose after he thought it would be funny to snort it. They’re probably not allowed to make toys like that any more…

[@Sylocat]

Koosh balls, I haven't thought about those in years. I wonder if my old ones are still stretchy and bouncy (and I also wonder where I put them).

[@Jezbenns]

I was pathetically obsessed with these as a kid, and have some facts/corrections for you: To get Orangey Tangs you collected cut out vouchers from Jaffa Cakes and sent them off with some money. They were also in some multi-packs. If you found one in a multi-pack you should go back to the supermarket and buy more as the "random" multi-packs with them in always came from the same batch. The reason you probably don't have Tootz in your collection is because he is now unavailable as he was the only one with "curly" hair - which was made out of biodegradable plastic. All the Tootz's have literally deteriorated over the years and he is now extinct. After the Original 1997 line-up and the Halloween special edition "Fangz", they released the football series to coincide with the 1998 world cup. The special edition Tang of this lineup with "Orangio" which is the one you hung on your robot, doing a belly slide goal celebration. The third and final series of Orangey Tangz was the Space series and only consisted of three characters, unlike the previous sets of 6. These were a spacemen version of Chip, a spacemen version of Boz which you have (although he is missing his space scooter accessory) and the special edition of this series which you also have, Marstiang. As you pointed out you can move their arms and legs unlike the previous series', but there's more. Each of their appendages can be removed so you can "mix and match" the space series, giving Chip the mohawk from Boz or Boz the mental long legs from Marstiang or whatever. The un-Koosh Orangey Tangs you have (The wretched fluffy chip, the plastic Orangey Tangs fighting over the Jaffa Cake etc...) are a collection of Burger King free toys that came with the kids meals in 1997. Final bit of trivia, Jaffa Cakes ran an advertising campaign in the Beano Comic during the Orangey Tang years. These adverts were full page comics about the Orangey Tangs, so although it was a paid advert it looked like another set of characters in a comic strip and were actually fairly good. So there we are. As you probably found Stephanie there's basically no information on these on the internet at all, so hopefully this information is useful to other saddos like me!

[@halfalbino3756]

I’m loving the toy chest vids. It’s comforting but also hilarious to just hear you talk about stuff you’ve collected and like.

[@KeldNeedsCoffee]

I'd kill to see you and Conrad collab on a series with that filmed on tape aesthetic. Part nostalgia and part scathing jab at Reaganomics era television.

[@jfmangano]

Have you ever looked back at children's toys from the 90's and just thought, "What the hell were these designers smoking?" 😅

[@lunasophia9002]

Capitalism. They were smoking capitalism.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

We would literally buy anything that was marketed to us on Saturday morning TV.

[@Tw0DrunkGuys]

big phat balls of KOOSH

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

In the '80s, the "weird gang" toymakers' substance of choice was Teenage Mutant Ninja Truffles. In the '90s, it was Sonic Fumes. The 2000s, Cokémon and Girl Powder.

[@TheOnlyCathyCat]

Thanks, now I know what my nan meant when she used to say that Humphries were going to steal my milk (four years after she died).

[@CG-sv2nw]

It's ok Steph. You could do a video on Jaffe cakes

[@dr.chungusphd108]

He could do a good video on anything.

[@michimatsch5862]

They.

[@dr.chungusphd108]

@@michimatsch5862 fair enough. I meant no offense.

[@michimatsch5862]

@@dr.chungusphd108 oh, I didn't think you did. Just wanted to give a friendly reminder. I sometimes mess up with pronouns as well.

[@RazorFringe2]

"Bury me..with my Tangs..." And my family ignored my request because they thought it was the dementia talking. The End.

[@myrixica4222]

You coulda recreated the "Full moon, half moon, total eclipse" advert :P

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

I remember these. I used to enjoy the sound it made when I plucked the elastic stuff

[@nealwoods3482]

Conflicted between feeling confused as to what I just spent 18 minutes watching and sickening delight at the trollish pleasure of telling people Miyazaki stole his dust sprite character design from Jaffe Cakes marketing department... 10/10 content I guess

[@natmorse-noland9133]

I had this video playing in the background while I cooked lunch, and it was a very pleasant experience - like having a friend keep me company while I worked by chatting about whatever.

[@Badger13x]

Interesting thing about Jaffa Cakes, McVities they had a run in with HMRC as the vat on biscuits and cakes are different. With the argument is a Jaffa Cake a biscuit or a cake ?, with the attending increase in VAT.

[@riddypr]

Oh, I remember Koosh balls! ... I don't properly remember what they were FOR, but I remember fiddling around with them when I was a kid.

[@LoveProWrestling]

that was the entire purpose.

[@riddypr]

@@LoveProWrestling Fair enough.

[@fergie0044]

I remember these! The football variants were for the 98 World Cup if memory serves. I spent ages on the phone trying to win the goal keeper shades

[@irhymewithpurple]

"So that's good, innit?" - best catchphrase

[@themannaking]

I appreciate all your hard work, thank God for you.

[@lunasophia9002]

The editing in this is genuinely lovely :)

[@Dintendo64]

Oh god I used to have one of these! Also, Jaffa Cakes are amazing.

[@mesektet5776]

“Heaving Toy Chest”. Of-course you called it that JSS, of-course you did.

[@bleakautomaton4808]

Throwing koosh balls at each other was always fun growing up. Someone walking up the steps - koosh ball! Grabbing a coat from the closet - koosh ball! You get it.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Sounds like your childhood was a lost toy commercial.

[@bleakautomaton4808]

@@CarbonRollerCaco Well, if you cherry pick the nice bits then maybe lol.

[@Loinscurvey]

smiles but is clearly in pain yeah that sums me up

[@wariodude128]

"Smiling, but... clearly in pain." Mood

[@BoomBoomBrucey]

I probably ingested a dangerous amount of my sisters Koosh when I was younger. Even when I was more than old enough to know it was wrong to chew on it, I still did..

[@thatbritishguypatrick]

Smiles, but clearly in pain. Ooof that hits hard.

[@EAPvideoz]

Completely unrealted to the video, but the pink dog collar looks really cute!

[@BRUXXUS]

A British KZbinr I watch always talked about their love of Jaffa Cakes during live streams, so I ordered some to give them a try. When they arrived, I broke into a sleeve and took a bite of one. I thought, "ehh, it's nice, but nothing special". Next thing I knew, I looked down and had eaten like half a sleeve without realizing it. haha. I'm almost glad I can't get them locally. It would be dangerous.

[@montgomerypowers7205]

I was feeling the legally distinct musical reference to Lord of the Rings.

[@executioner_ecgbert884]

Seeing these make me realize how much I missed out on as a child

[@Allthesepseudonyms]

I love watching Stephanie's Heaving Toy Chest! More of this content (if you like doing it)! ☺

[@nicholasjensen6827]

I would watch a film in this style. Good on you Steph

[@BetterCallJamie]

I saw the “monster wrestlers in my pocket” still got the collection somewhere including the Tony the Tiger one what odd childhood we had growing up in the 90’s it was smashing

[@jeffmaesar]

Jaffa Cakes, we got this kind of cake in France, it s called Pim' s to sound more British.

[@UnvisibleINK]

Damn you, now I'm craving Jaffa Cakes.

[@stargazing3173]

Yay!! So glad you're still doing this series

[@randomdeutsch5489]

I habe to say I clicked on this video by accident but I really enjoyed it, I think I'm gonna start watching the heaving toy chest from now on every time

[@myrixica4222]

Awww man I remember those things, the online game they had for them was great too.

[@TheJunnutin]

We didn't have The Tangs where I live but I do remember Koosh balls

[@FirestormMk3]

Thank you for taking some time out of your busy morning to let me spend a few minutes of my weekend seeing you live your best life! You're an adult now. You decide what adult behavior is!

[@WardNightstone]

i remember we had somthign like those in the states but the hands and feet were made of felt and the feet on some were a sticker so you could stick them places

[@jmackmcneill]

The hours and hours I spent with that robot, the bizzare lanscape film scrolling on it's tellytummy, the fact that it would only walk five steps before another loop of the same film, the awful grinding (thankyou for turning the volume down!). The tiny missiles that would get lost the first time you fire them... it's all coming back.

[@Pirochiro]

I could really go for a sleeve of jaffa cakes now, thanks.

[@ruhfuhquh]

I like how there's a lore around these monsters that like Jaffa cakes so damn much

[@thejackal007]

I still have my Koosh from the 90's. Still in the same basic shape, too. Jaffa Cakes are life. Even though I only had my first one a few years ago, they're amazing. Reviews like this are more fun for me than I thought it's be, too. It's like you're the local TV host I forgot about as a kid.

[@timothymckane6362]

We could get a food review video of Jaffa Cakes. It'll be (possibly) titled "Stephanie's Sweeties."

[@nickmoranis2865]

I remember literally wetting the bed when my mum surprised me with a Buzby nightlight as she was putting me to bed! LOLS!!! I was 28 years old.

[@delsydsoftware]

Wow, a Transformers Astrotrain! I had totally forgotten about those. I had one as a kid in the 80s, and it was one of the most bizarre transformers I can remember.

[@talesfromiDEATH]

I used to have a bunch of these.

[@argonautilus9540]

I love hearing the history of all these forgotten toys. Effort went into these products. Maybe someone on the toy team really cared about them and had a whole, rich mental history for them that they secretly hoped they’d be able to use if the toys proved popular. Probably not, but maybe. Maybe one was some kid’s favorite toy. Maybe they gave their favorite one to their crush and always regretted it. Maybe they left one in a supermarket and never got over the heartbreak. Maybe someone threw one at a sibling, it hit them in the eye, and the family spent hours in the ER that night. It’s fun. I can’t wait for the next peak into the heaving toy chest.

[@Cheese_Kun]

If anyone knows where Stephanie’s hoodie is from please link! I love it so much 🥺

[@StitchesStatistic08]

This just unlocked a lost memory of Kooshlings, the little people/creatures they made of koosh balls. ❤️

[@THCLEE]

i missed all this in a drug / rave haze of the late 80s/90s lol good to catch up on what i missed out on lol

[@Nopenotyou]

I appreciate any video where Astrotrain has a cameo appearance.

[@MissNixable]

Oh my God this unlocked a deep memory in me. Both the tangs and that full moon advert

[@dwaynezilla]

the projected pattern on that robot's torso is like the establishing shot of fast-forward sunrise-sunset that was used to portray the passage of time. Like H.G. Wells' Time Machine.

[@WolfHagenSdW]

Can we admire, how lovely watching J.S.S. playing with orangy balls, arranging them towards a purple steam locomotive autobot as big fuzzy balls.

[@Doshirrosden]

The other day I was playing Hypercharge Unboxed and saw the Boglin inspired enemies and realized that all I wanted in the world was another episode of this show. So glad to see it again!

[@EdyGlockenspiel]

I love these almost as much as the monday videos.

[@yeho8]

ngl, I was just staring at the G1 astrotrain for the whole video

[@sathoon5973]

I remember wanting these so badly as a child. So much apparently, that I remember dreaming one actually turned up in a box, and it was REALLY heavy (yeah I dunno either).

[@BingleBangleBungle]

So that's what these things were called. Thanks for solving the lifelong mystery of "the toys that were like Kooshkins but different."

[@anotherhopelessuser]

I remember these, I only ever got the one and he's sat on a shelf just been his orangey glasses self

[@StanMarsh1]

You must be around the same age as me Steph but you have a much better memory than me about old British toys and ads, a few times something I haven't thought about for years will pop up and instantly bring back memories.

[@danielhergert7446]

Is that the Cailou theme or is it just me?

[@davybarker]

man i remember having these as a kid, i do love this series that just slaps you in the face with nostalgia!!!

[@donovansingleton9096]

Love the branching out steph!

[@arch1017]

Yeah, I loved these when I was a kid. I think that you had to collect coupons from the boxes of the Jaffa Cakes and send off for most of the normal ones. Then there was one where you had to ring up and submit a code to win (although I just kept ringing up with the same code and it was just luck of the draw really). If memory serves, Chip was the one you had to win first time around, then Fangz for a Halloween promotion they did. I found all mine recently - but the plastic had started to perish. Especially the glow in the dark bits on Fangz.

[@masc4mascara39]

My era of Jaffa Cakes was the whole 'Full moon, half moon, total eclipse' advert thing, which if you think about it was a bit of a meme before memes existed. Good video Steph!

[@darrenscott6931]

Anyone else notice the terrifying man standing in the doorway half way through the full moon / half moon ad? I remember that ad vividly from my childhood, but someone only pointed him out like 5 years ago XD

[@Harminder1]

if you live near a polish shop they have there own version of jaffa cakes. what's good about it is the multiple flavours you probably would have thought about like banana , blueberry and raspberry.

[@mizzzdoom]

I remember having the giant vibrating jaffa one and had no idea what it was. It was in a kids meal either McDonalds or Burger King

[@CG-sv2nw]

Toy chest is a great bit "THIS FUCKING THING" ,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤮🤮🤮🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤮🤮🤣🤣🤣

[@zebulon3044]

So close to the 850k Subscribers special. I'm so excited.

[@RigsyB]

iirc you had to cut out tokens from the boxes (for the first wave at least) and include a cheque for postage. I remember going to Morrison’s with a friend from school to buy an ungodly amount of packs and walking home with a pocket full of tokens and a carrier bag of orange sleeves of jaffas. I don’t think you got to pick the one you got as I remember having 2 tootz which means you needed to buy an ungodly amount of Jaffa’s to get a full set during the run. I remember Fangz being super exclusive (likely due to the phone call thing) and I think the football ones were for Euro ‘97 or something. I’ve never seen those sci-fi ones so they must have been a later run.

[@wrenbeck3370]

I love their slowly-rising anger at the Orangey Tangs.

[@grifini27]

Omg I remember that! 😂 TOTAL ECLIPSE!

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

the plastic is so bright and shiney, i can still remember how a koosh ball smells. that halloween one feels good to know about. i bet shuffling them around in their box together feels amazing on your hands. I can't buy em cuz uk shipping. i can only be happy for you

[@NotSoFinalProductions]

Unexpected Lord of the Rings music.

[@TheMegaultrachicken]

That's strange, where is another video talking about abuse in the video game industry?

[@Donolohe]

I'm still weirded out by Jaffa Cakes, because an off-brand (I guess) version was produced in Poland since at least '80s and it's always surreal to see such a familiar thing being completely different, popular brand abroad.

[@markreson]

I had a bunch of these way back when. I can remember calling the number for the spooky one from a phone box and quickly losing my pocket money before getting to the end of the recording - good times!

[@narcopsy]

These videos are great, thanks Steph!

[@dwaynezilla]

Is it weird that they're that old and still so vibrantly orange? I'm gonna go ahead and assume "yes."

[@San_The_Sly]

This just unlocked a portion of my brain I'd completely forgotten even existed.

[@Walley-zu7ks]

I used to buy a box of jaffas like once every couple weeks from a British candy import store. They are delicious and now you've got me craving them!

[@JFKCracker]

I thought the mohawk was a shoe coming out their head for a minute.

[@TheTC]

I think our school gave off bootleg these. Like I vaguely remember the design but they were green or something and had realistic feet.