The Incredible Crash Dummies phenonenon in the 90's was amazing. It started out as a series of public service PSA's with two talking crash test dummies reminding people to wear their seatbelts. Apparently the characters resonated with the public because they spun it off into a series of really awesome destructible toy sets and videogames. I remember really being into them when I was a kid, something about the slightly abstract non-human character designs made them a perfect tabula rasa for me. I was way into them. Now I need to go find them on eBay.
My sister used to collect these. The guy at our local toy shop used to slice open the bags, file them under which figure they were and then tape them back up.
The Incredible Crash Test Dummies were based on a series of safe driving PSAs that were shown on American television back in the late 80's. Apparently they were popular enough to inspire a toy line and cartoon.
Actually kinda surprised you've never covered the Crash test Dummies toys. They stuck around for a lot longer than you'd think and were kinda cool. Although I do think they had the effect of making horrific car accidents come across as being awesome.
Yep then kids latched onto the commercials as they played during the afternoon hours when cartoons where on, so then followed all the cool toys, shitty video games, and then the cartoon which was meh.
Yeah... I remember they had a truly bizarre saturday morning cartoon show that was based off the PSAs as well. As I recall, it took a truly bizarre concept (sentient crash test dummies) and managed to somehow make it into an impossibly bland TMNT style super... hero... thing. The fact that I can't even recall anything beyond the fact that it existed and had moderately fun action figures should hint at the quality of that show...
vince and larry:D think the tagline to the PSA's were "dont be a dummy buckle your saftey belt" and it was about the dummies doing their day job either lamenting how they do it because people dont buckle up or soemthing but one of the guys ws voiced by garfield and the other maybe ray romano. i think they ran the toylinefrom 1991 to i believe 1997 where they were just generic crash dummies with soem fun destructive action features to then superheroes who faught the Junkman, and even had a TV show in the works. then they were racers for some reason. anyway they came back in 2003 after mattel baught tyco and used them for their hotwheels line and had a TV show more in lighn with the orignal PSA's with skits about car safetey. think they lasted till 2008 or so. sure hope they coem back again. they were fun toys XD
i also remeber a movie in the works being directed by the gy who did babe pig in the city. had a website with concept art and i believe an actress in dummy makeup but it has mysteriously gone. doenst even show up on google:( was incredible crash dummies: jounry to the never never.
Commodorefan64 The toys were indeed cool, I had the car way back when. I recall the front end would crumple in a fairly convincing manner and there was a spring loaded feature that would flip the roof off and catapult the figures through the windshield.
That skateboard figure looks like the hip Christian youth ministers you find in the US. "You know who was the chillest dude in history? Everyone's main man, Jesus." lol
_Psh._ In _my_ day Lego figures had one hair style: gross melted-looking bowl cut. AND WE LIKED IT! If you wanted a different look for your Lego folk you needed to find them a hat.
Henry Johnson Oh, you were lucky! When I was a boy, you wouldn't even see lego unless you got the stitches on the sacks you were making just right. Then the mill owner would present you with a single shiny stud for your efforts.
wilfordbrimleyful We used to dream of seeing the mill owner! We used to wake up to a load of rotten fish being dumped all over us, and maybe, just maybe, we'd find a stray 1x1 piece in there!
Rotten fish? you toff! Every morning at four, the sewer pipe where we slept was doused in sewage and filth, waking us for our morning work cleaning the dangerous milling machinery after a five-mile trudge in our sandals made out of bits of old tire and baling twine. And maybe if we were lucky, we'd see into the cars passing by and spy a more fortunate child playing with a Lego Star Wars tie fighter.
The crash dummies car was so awesome. I remember it as one of the best things to play with after the technodrome. I never had the official crash car but my one was better with action force type guys driving it. "Hollywood Stunt Team" i think it was called.
The ninja was made with the same parts as the generIc ninjas from the Castle sub-series (called Ninja I believe) that came out in the early or mid nineties; I had a ton of them in gray and a few in red or black. The scuba diver was made with the same generic pieces as the scuba divers of various sets of the time period too; it was the norm to just attach a non-standard visor to a motorcycle helmet (the snorkel, a bigger gold visor for astronauts, and so on). And of course, there were Robin Hood look-alikes going back into the eighties, also part of the Castle series.
I found the Robin Hood in a Kinder Surprise egg, which was really the best surprise I've ever gotten from those in my entire life. Strangely enough Kinder never advertised that they had Lego minifigs in their eggs as far as I remember.
That clown's wig reminds me of a berry... like a mix between a blackberry and a raspberry. Like those jelly candies that come in those flavors that have weird sprinkle type things on them. yeah.
Please do continue this series. I could listen to you ramble on over random minifugres from the later series all while I enjoy my sandwiches for lunch as I usually do.
Those crash test dummies figures were brilliant. Kids break their toys anyway (crap kids, I didn't) but these were meant to be blown apart. Really funky and cool.
Dude, you make decent money from youtube by opening and playing with crap items. You don't have to reevaluate anything! Been a big fan for years. Amazing how much stuff you accumulate throughout you life.
I was baffled by the chicken leg for a long time until I saw a thanksgiving-themed Lego pack. Those legs actually fit on a Lego turkey! That's why they're so oddly created.
Ashens, you mentioned some crash test dummy action figures, and I distinctly remember those being sold in about 2004, and I had a ton of them, and they were really cool. Though, the cars you put them in were a pain in the ass, because once you crashed them, you had to spend about five minutes finding all the pieces and putting them back on, only to have to repeat the process five seconds later because you crashed it again.
The crash test dummies toys were amazing, there heads weren't the only thing that came off, they would eject all their limbs and head on impact (Though this also meant losing bits was easy) and they were rather amazingly put together toys, very sturdy since the point was they were supposed to be smashed together. The cars were by far the best part of the toys, ramming into something to smash the car up and send the crash test dummy flying through the windshield~ Ah nostalgia~
The magician looks like a strange fusion of every Doctor from Doctor Who. And then you showed us the robot which looked like a Doctor Who villain, possibly a Cyberman from the time when they finally stopped looking so bloody ridiculous.
the funniest thing about these figures is that you always can tell what kind of facial expression they where going for, but they never managed to get it perfectly right.
At Legoland Florida employees write numbers on the bags and associate the numbers with each figure and put the list of which numbers represent which figure on the cash registers, that's really helpful if your trying to complete a certain series
I noticed and loved that old space logo as well! Also, you didn't mention the, whatever the circle is, around Robin Hood's neck, and that that used to be a very common thing, like the astronaut symbol, as well.
The reason the chicken has a peg in the back was because there was a full roast chicken piece it would clip into. I distinctly remember it being part of a banquet set in LEGO Castle.
Interesting there's a ninja on this, cos I spot at least two hidden jump cuts, one during the skater boi, and one during the crash test dummy. Mmm mmm mmm mmm.
a friend had one of those The Incredible Crash Test Dummies cars and figures but he was not allowed to use it as the parts was easily lost when they crashed.
Oddly if I recall the older style scuba masks/space-ish masks were designed in such a way that the helmet matched with the airtanks and fit on all proper-like. I always found it strange that they changed it.
The crash test dummy was probably included due to a popular semi-comedic series of buckle up driving safety commercials, here in the U.S.. Think the Crash Test Dummies even had a cartoon but, the series wasn't long lived.
The Incredible Crash Dummies phenonenon in the 90's was amazing.
It started out as a series of public service PSA's with two talking crash test dummies reminding people to wear their seatbelts. Apparently the characters resonated with the public because they spun it off into a series of really awesome destructible toy sets and videogames.
I remember really being into them when I was a kid, something about the slightly abstract non-human character designs made them a perfect tabula rasa for me. I was way into them.
Now I need to go find them on eBay.
My sister used to collect these. The guy at our local toy shop used to slice open the bags, file them under which figure they were and then tape them back up.
The Incredible Crash Test Dummies were based on a series of safe driving PSAs that were shown on American television back in the late 80's. Apparently they were popular enough to inspire a toy line and cartoon.
I always cheat and feel the bag
Stevy Chips don't we all
oh I'm doing these too
"This is the true power of the Monado! I, I mean... I'm feeling it! I'm really feeling it... Uhh... yeah..." xD
I have to feel all blind bags, and "weigh" all blind boxes (with my hands, not a scale)
LordDragox412 Now it Ryen time!
I am fully convinced all these characters are from generic horror movies specifically the generic cheerleader and the "I'm about to die face"
Well what if its just the "i'm about get some free Candy i didnt ask for"-face?
Antonio Ceballos if by candy you mean an axe to the face then sure
Well you could see it is a dick to the face but axe is fine with me
Maybe she's the cheerleader from Zombies Ate My Neighbors?
Actually kinda surprised you've never covered the Crash test Dummies toys. They stuck around for a lot longer than you'd think and were kinda cool. Although I do think they had the effect of making horrific car accidents come across as being awesome.
I loved the hell out of those crash test dummy figures. Make them crash in their custom car, watch their spring-loaded limbs fly all over the room!
the incredible crash test dummies were based off a very popular PSA. If i recall correctly, it was telling people to wear their seat belts.
Yep then kids latched onto the commercials as they played during the afternoon hours when cartoons where on, so then followed all the cool toys, shitty video games, and then the cartoon which was meh.
Yeah... I remember they had a truly bizarre saturday morning cartoon show that was based off the PSAs as well. As I recall, it took a truly bizarre concept (sentient crash test dummies) and managed to somehow make it into an impossibly bland TMNT style super... hero... thing.
The fact that I can't even recall anything beyond the fact that it existed and had moderately fun action figures should hint at the quality of that show...
vince and larry:D think the tagline to the PSA's were "dont be a dummy buckle your saftey belt" and it was about the dummies doing their day job either lamenting how they do it because people dont buckle up or soemthing but one of the guys ws voiced by garfield and the other maybe ray romano.
i think they ran the toylinefrom 1991 to i believe 1997 where they were just generic crash dummies with soem fun destructive action features to then superheroes who faught the Junkman, and even had a TV show in the works. then they were racers for some reason.
anyway they came back in 2003 after mattel baught tyco and used them for their hotwheels line and had a TV show more in lighn with the orignal PSA's with skits about car safetey. think they lasted till 2008 or so.
sure hope they coem back again. they were fun toys XD
i also remeber a movie in the works being directed by the gy who did babe pig in the city. had a website with concept art and i believe an actress in dummy makeup but it has mysteriously gone. doenst even show up on google:(
was incredible crash dummies: jounry to the never never.
Commodorefan64
The toys were indeed cool, I had the car way back when. I recall the front end would crumple in a fairly convincing manner and there was a spring loaded feature that would flip the roof off and catapult the figures through the windshield.
How can you fight Dracula without wall turkey?
well, according to the manual, it's a pork chop. >.>
garcon45 My entire life has been a lie.
no idea why they call it a pork chop when it looks like that. XD
Not getting hit, ever. Not that I would ever manage that.
Or being, like, one of the post SotN heroes i guess.
Me Auntie Nora I know how Auntie Nora would fight it, five minutes of flatulance with a proper good show of the ol' split tennis ball.
Wow, a mature and not forced lego review? What a rare commodity...
Indeed
the robin hood looks like ashens...
Andrew Buist The magician looks like ashens aswell
Yes yes he dose
Cory Siggins Does*
dont you mean forest man
Andrew Buist Plot twist: Ashens is Robin Hood.
I always watch ashens when I'm eating soup
I always watch Ashens when eating poop. Shit, I mean.... shit....
Brandon Boogers BroHoof /) :D
Brandon Boogers Booger³'s Soup!
Snackcat Greypaw no
Fair enough :P
That skateboard figure looks like the hip Christian youth ministers you find in the US. "You know who was the chillest dude in history? Everyone's main man, Jesus." lol
_Psh._ In _my_ day Lego figures had one hair style: gross melted-looking bowl cut. AND WE LIKED IT! If you wanted a different look for your Lego folk you needed to find them a hat.
Monty Python reference
Henry Johnson Oh, you were lucky! When I was a boy, you wouldn't even see lego unless you got the stitches on the sacks you were making just right. Then the mill owner would present you with a single shiny stud for your efforts.
noisyturtle ive never even SEEN lego....
although ive stepped on it a LOT of times i likely have a whole crapload of it embedded in my foot.
wilfordbrimleyful We used to dream of seeing the mill owner! We used to wake up to a load of rotten fish being dumped all over us, and maybe, just maybe, we'd find a stray 1x1 piece in there!
Rotten fish? you toff! Every morning at four, the sewer pipe where we slept was doused in sewage and filth, waking us for our morning work cleaning the dangerous milling machinery after a five-mile trudge in our sandals made out of bits of old tire and baling twine. And maybe if we were lucky, we'd see into the cars passing by and spy a more fortunate child playing with a Lego Star Wars tie fighter.
5:05 "oh my god thats one grumpy bastard!" 😂😂😂
they don't look worried to me. The cheerleader looks more like a fake smile for the crowd.
The crash dummies car was so awesome. I remember it as one of the best things to play with after the technodrome.
I never had the official crash car but my one was better with action force type guys driving it. "Hollywood Stunt Team" i think it was called.
The diver just had a tracheotomy for the sole purpose of getting O2 into his lungs faster. Not a poser.
This is what I thought
Split tennis ball.
It would not be O2 because at certain depths it can be lethal to inhale as the creator of the re breather learned the hard way
Me Auntie Nora I never comprehended how obsessed someone could be with Karl Dilkington.
The ninja was made with the same parts as the generIc ninjas from the Castle sub-series (called Ninja I believe) that came out in the early or mid nineties; I had a ton of them in gray and a few in red or black. The scuba diver was made with the same generic pieces as the scuba divers of various sets of the time period too; it was the norm to just attach a non-standard visor to a motorcycle helmet (the snorkel, a bigger gold visor for astronauts, and so on). And of course, there were Robin Hood look-alikes going back into the eighties, also part of the Castle series.
Mr. Ashen - master of the well hidden jump cuts. Keep up the good work
Lego boss gave me a kiss on the lips except there were 7 other men there and I was naked plus I had never bought a mini figure in my life
mysides.mp3
That sounds kinda hot.tiff
If you had a mini figure there would be 12 men.obj
KamziKode
Have you been in the Apple store again?
ChickenPika Your comment is invalid because there's no file extension.aiff
Clever Breaking bad reference ;)
I caught that too. haha
Ben Dean-Jackson I feel stupid for not noticing, when was it?
CarterArts 2:09 Minerals
CarterArts Hank craves that mineral
It rocked
I found the Robin Hood in a Kinder Surprise egg, which was really the best surprise I've ever gotten from those in my entire life. Strangely enough Kinder never advertised that they had Lego minifigs in their eggs as far as I remember.
i wish that i had a chicken based gun turret on my head.
Nacho Libre is unironically pretty great
Save the cheerleader save the world.
That cowboy looks pretty rad! reminds me of Clint Eastwood.
2:09 Ashens is the last place I expected a Breaking Bad reference.
Ashens please do some more of these it was great fun to watch
these man damnn.. remember the new lego smell from these packs today.. good times i got the zombie and cheerleader
I now want an Ashens lego set like the one shown in the intro lol
He did one ages ago
NACHO LIBRE FTW
That clown's wig reminds me of a berry... like a mix between a blackberry and a raspberry. Like those jelly candies that come in those flavors that have weird sprinkle type things on them. yeah.
Please do continue this series. I could listen to you ramble on over random minifugres from the later series all while I enjoy my sandwiches for lunch as I usually do.
The Caveman's hair & beard makes me think of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series's last episode.
gave you a kiss on the lips... I lost it 😂😂😂
Just saw the Lego movie. Quite a cast they assembled.
Underappreciated comment of the year.
Thank you for these videos. I really enjoy them.
I like the transitions between figures that you did rather then just suddenly swapping
Those crash test dummies figures were brilliant. Kids break their toys anyway (crap kids, I didn't) but these were meant to be blown apart. Really funky and cool.
Dude, you make decent money from youtube by opening and playing with crap items. You don't have to reevaluate anything! Been a big fan for years. Amazing how much stuff you accumulate throughout you life.
That breaking bad reference 😂😂
Was just gonna comment this. Good old hank.
Where?
R.I.P Hank
*overused breaking bad reference
5:33 sneaky jump cut there I see ;)
I was baffled by the chicken leg for a long time until I saw a thanksgiving-themed Lego pack. Those legs actually fit on a Lego turkey! That's why they're so oddly created.
I'm impressed! Those were all quite nice!
I now have Lego Racers music stuck in my head...
Hey! Why didn't they have a clown racer(they may of had one in lego racers to but I don't know and don't give a shit)
HasPatrick Now so do I. Thanks for that.
same here, as soon as i saw the robin hood one
+HasPatrick Ooooohhhh I remember that game I played it when I was four or five on windows XP nostalgia ;-;
Porygon me too, but I barely remember it.
"There minerals, Marie."
Dan brought me here Ashens, you are hilarious and you amuse me. Thank you NerdCubed. I will now subscribe to you. Good day.
Breaking Bad reference for the win!
What was the reference?
"They're minerals Marie" (2:11)
*****
thank you sir
Yeah, the crash test dummies were a very fun range of toys imho. Had the sedan, really enjoyed it as a kid.
Ashens, you mentioned some crash test dummy action figures, and I distinctly remember those being sold in about 2004, and I had a ton of them, and they were really cool. Though, the cars you put them in were a pain in the ass, because once you crashed them, you had to spend about five minutes finding all the pieces and putting them back on, only to have to repeat the process five seconds later because you crashed it again.
The crash test dummies toys were amazing, there heads weren't the only thing that came off, they would eject all their limbs and head on impact (Though this also meant losing bits was easy) and they were rather amazingly put together toys, very sturdy since the point was they were supposed to be smashed together. The cars were by far the best part of the toys, ramming into something to smash the car up and send the crash test dummy flying through the windshield~ Ah nostalgia~
Wow, you've spent over £500 on Lego minifigures. That's either really dedicated or just plain sad... I can't quite decide which
You know, the guy who first came up with the concept of blind bags must be swimming in a solid gold pool right now.
I see what you did there, the skater has a Link-kind of haircut. Clever.
The magician looks like a strange fusion of every Doctor from Doctor Who. And then you showed us the robot which looked like a Doctor Who villain, possibly a Cyberman from the time when they finally stopped looking so bloody ridiculous.
the funniest thing about these figures is that you always can tell what kind of facial expression they where going for, but they never managed to get it perfectly right.
Crash Dummies were brilliant! We used to have one of the figures and the black car.
this made me want to get my old lego out....DAMN YOU ASHENS!
That cut at the fast and furious joke XD
Those crash test dummies were hella cool
The chest bit on the crash test dummy is the bendy springs.
When are you going to do the next Lego mini fig series Ashens
At Legoland Florida employees write numbers on the bags and associate the numbers with each figure and put the list of which numbers represent which figure on the cash registers, that's really helpful if your trying to complete a certain series
The caveman with the hair and beard removed is clearly Ernest Borgnine
Nacho libre was pretty good
>He's never seen Nacho Libre
I use my hand to wipe my tears.
You could mod that chicken to be a lego sized knob if you were that way inclined. Really good inclusion, Lego.
I've got around 60 of these, and a pile of doubles. I started with the Simpsons ones and have just grabbed the new series since then.
At least you're not collecting crack rocks.
FurryFenNick I try to collect those but they don't last long.
Waaaa, that Zombie I like :P The Robot was sweet!
I noticed and loved that old space logo as well! Also, you didn't mention the, whatever the circle is, around Robin Hood's neck, and that that used to be a very common thing, like the astronaut symbol, as well.
I remember the crash test dummies show. Never watched it, though, as I was disturbed enough by the commercials.
the cheer leader's expression reminds me of someone who just had a premonition in a final destination movie.
I really liked this video, please do more of these.
You should find those crash test dummies! I remember them as well and they were amazing!
The reason the chicken has a peg in the back was because there was a full roast chicken piece it would clip into. I distinctly remember it being part of a banquet set in LEGO Castle.
Puts the chicken on the logo's head. 'I cant get my head around that, at all- Ashens 2015
Interesting there's a ninja on this, cos I spot at least two hidden jump cuts, one during the skater boi, and one during the crash test dummy. Mmm mmm mmm mmm.
i loved the crash test dummy toys from when i was a kid, i had a shit load of different things to crash!
that magician looks totally boss!
Nacho Libre was a good movie!
a friend had one of those The Incredible Crash Test Dummies cars and figures but he was not allowed to use it as the parts was easily lost when they crashed.
The crash test dummy is one of my favourite ones in my opinion.
cheerleaders face - typical American forcing a smile
Nice video
wow this guy. finished a 12 minute video 3 minutes after it came out
Fucking rekt son.
I hope Ashens is going to make this a series. It's pretty cool.
coooooool
That crash test dummy... "So, we're gonna launch you into that wall at 60 mph. Are you ok with that?" :I
I had the cowboy one!
the breaking bad reference made me like your videos even more!
Holy shit these minifigs are amazing, especially the robot. Makes me want to play with Lego again.
GOD DAMNED SNORKELISTS!!!! still giggling
Now I'm reminded of that underwater Lego set from the '90s I think. Good times.
There was a whole underwater theme. Was awesome.
Nacho Libre was actually really funny, it didn't take itself too seriously, but it nailed it with the humor. The slapstick wasn't overly corny.
Oddly if I recall the older style scuba masks/space-ish masks were designed in such a way that the helmet matched with the airtanks and fit on all proper-like. I always found it strange that they changed it.
The crash test dummy was probably included due to a popular semi-comedic series of buckle up driving safety commercials, here in the U.S.. Think the Crash Test Dummies even had a cartoon but, the series wasn't long lived.
Damn you have half of The Village People on your couch man
All you need is a construction worker and a cop!
Feeling the bag is a good way if you are trying to find out what's in it
You can attach the chickenleg to a turkey body.
The cheerleader just has the iconic american fake smile.
That clown is definitely on the scary side.
I'm not even scared of clowns and that face made me uncomfortable