Oooh, Global Hypercolor t-shirts.
The only real "hyper colour" being when you accidentally washed them at the wrong temperature and their magical colour changing abilities were lost forever.
Enlighten me?
I know a lot of schools banned the stickers, fearing their kids would be corrupted by them :rolleyes: While the company also got sued by the makers of the Cabbage Patch Dolls.
I remember the Mexico 86 ones very well, they were 12p a packet, and started many a playground fight over swaps:lolol:
Still not as funny to my nine year old mind as the fact that South Korea featured a player named Cha Bum-Kun.
What was that alcoholic lemon drink they launched somewhere around the late 1990s, thus introducing a generation of teenagers who'd never have touched beer or wine to the wonders of easy drunkenness?
It came in a green glass bottle and had a cartoon lemon on the front, and doesn't seem to exist...
We had to buy ours from Kadar Wear in Burgess Hill, which sells the odd combination of school uniforms and underwear for the more mature lady.
Somehow, it is still in existence now.
Rumbelows, arguably the least glamorous sponsors of the League Cup.
Dan Air, made a lot of people redundant at Gatwick, I seem to recall
And the predecessor to Iceland (but no less shabby), Bejam
We had a SodaStream at home when I was a kid.
Looking back, I cannot fathom who came up with the idea that chucking a bunch of vile tasting syrup into supposedly carbonated but ultimately flat water would be somehow better than spending- what was it it in 1985- 25p? on a can of proper Coke...
British Rail
and
(one for the geeks)
the blue and yellow InterCity 125 locomotives, as promoted by Sir Jimmy Savile, with the slogan This is the age of the train
Bought out by Stena Line, according to Wikipedia.
Townsend Thoresen was rebranded P&O Ferries. Apparently by the time they salvaged the wreck of the Herald of Free Enterprise from off the coast of Zeebrugge, the company had already scratched the TT logo from the funnel, so concerned were they...