I've got no memory of "Pocket Shockers" at all, but as soon as I saw that green foot I realised I had it, and it could well still be lurking around in a drawer here somewhere.
I think they were initially meant as a mini series but he decided to merge them, dragged around the bits but forgot to remove the additional patron bits.
Clowns already get a bad rep even though they’re innocent it doesn’t help when you have ones with gouged out eyes performing along side dead jelly babies
I assumed there would be a joke about him burning those or at least throwing them out as he ended the video on a suspicious "I'll put them away in a miniaturized area"
What's weird is I totally recognized the sculpt and paint job of that cat one, and wondered if the same company made 'Kitten In my Pocket' and the 'Puppy In My Pocket' toys that I was obsessed with in the 90s, and they did!
I totally didn't notice that until you mentioned it...had to go back and rewatch that part...but you're right! I had so many of those "--- In My Pocket" s as a kid...I was obsessed with them. They had horses and I think bunnies as well, and a few playsets with various other animals. I even still have them!
"I mean, I haven't been to the circus for a _while,_ but... Is _this_ what they consist of now? Sort of metaphysical horror?" ...Honestly, Stuart, I think that's what circuses _always_ consisted of.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Those PocketShockers, if imported to the US, could probably sell for $50 to $100 a pop if theyre unopened and not completely destroyed. Thats only because they would be foreign. In the UK they are basically worthless. Vintage novelty toys are very sought after here in the states.
For those modular, stackable Teeny Tiny World sets, take the pictures out, paint the octogons white, put entry/exit holes in the tops and sides, and you too could have your own playset of the 1997 Canadian existential sci-fi horror movie *Cube*. I know Tara Toys because they also make the licensed Hot Wheels carrying cases, or at least they did in the 1990s and 2000s, I'm not sure if they still have the license today or whether Mattel just makes them themselves.
the fact that he doesn't even notice and leaves it there while continuing to talk is the funniest part. ...Unless he DID notice, but just didn't care. XD
Ashens I love that you describe each thing a bit as I'm fully blind but can still usually enjoy the video regardless! I mean the jokes by them selves are already funny, but when you know what the item that's the butt of the joke is all about it makes it even better.
I actually saw the flash on screen when the spit flew out and didn't know what it was. When I spotted the spit on the toy later on, I backed up the video to try to find when it had come in, at which point I discovered that that was the flash I'd seen.
I used to collect Mighty Max and my sister collected Polly Pocket. I liked that they made the two series relatively the same size so we could use both to play together. Polly Pocket trapped in the Giant Arachnid Lair was always a favorite of mine.
I had some of the pocket shockers cages when I was a lad. As you went through the ones to collect I recognised about 8 of them. I think the skull was my favourite. In the pre-smarphone days, this is what passed as entertainment
19:25 just what we want some of ashens gob on the toy for the rest of the vid, man you even had the opportunity to wipe it. Amazingly after all the crap he’s eaten this is the thing that makes me feel the most sick
16:36 They still make and sell these things. I've seen them for YEARS in pharmacy toy aisles and in dollar store toy aisles. I don't think that they ever STOPPED producing them. They just keep making them, and putting them in different packaging every other run and just ship them out in bulk to the dollar stores and places like that. None of these sets ever have the same name.
That was so weird to hear Ashen's say Hauppauge, I live like 10 minutes away from there! Long Island actually used to make something and have a manufacturing industry unlike today
Stuart, he's a MAD scientist. Of course all his switches are in really questionable places. It's sensible scientists that put them in places where they're practical to use.
12:22 I had one of those!! I loved it. No idea what happened to it over the years. Damn, I actually wish I still had it. Also, that little hook on the base lifts up, and you pop the little black shackle on the figures into it to clip it onto the base.
the last toy reminds of of a super cheap and primitive version of that electronic toy from like 10 to 15 years ago. they had LCD screens with real doll house fixings in the background.
Not gunna lie, I probably would have really liked those tiny teeny things as a kid. I think my 6yr old daughter would really like them too. Polly pockets were awesome :p
I love any Polly Pocket style toys, I still have so many of mine. Basically, any old or weird toys were always neat to me. I recently found out that most of my toys *were* old weird vintage toys to begin with. I grew up with toys from 10 & 20ish years before I was born, so now I know why I have such a love of 70s & 80s toys as well!
So yeah ive come to the conclusion that Ashens is my favorite youtuber I love his mix of content and his personality is astounding I can always watch and rewatch any of his videos.
Ahhh, yes. I remember this Dr Who arc, Corporation of the Daleks. The Daleks realized human female girls are dramatically keen in operating their timeline dial modules, so in secret effort to wrestle against Time Lords hegemony, they turned up in mid 80s Earth, posing as a Mattel like company thanks to a bunch of greedy human accomplices. They produced this Tiny Tweeny hive shaped playset, with a hidden slave device to manipulate children into executing their plan, all at the expense of their health. The Supreme Dalek in charge of the mission looked to rescue the time stranded Dalek Time-Controller, in order to exploit his expertise against Gallifrey. Very good overa- What? You haven't watched it? Blimey.
SOMEBODY had a lot of nerve calling those "playsets", let alone "toys". Tat plastic that you can't even chuck into the recycle bin when they get broken.
I forgot your channel existed- I used to watch your food reviews when I was a bit younger and now my whole birthday has been made amazing just cuz I found your channel again
Mmmm... A mobile phone provider accepting payment in cryptocurrency and no credit checks sounds like an excellent provider for people up to no good >->
Well those Pocket Shockers certainly brought back memories. I distinctly remember owning the severed foot as well as one of the larger cage sets. I think it was a spider that ran around inside with a skull when you moved the magnet.
Ashens, I just want to take the time to say Thank You for helping me to vicariously indulge my childhood Nostalgia by finding and messing around with all this old plastic crap.
I had a sleeping beauty castle one.. it also had a string on it so you could wear it like a necklace.. not sure why you'd want a tennis ball sized castle as a necklace but it was an option hahaha
l remember when l was younger on tv they had ads for those connect playset things except these ones were electronic and had stickmen and when you connected em they would interact l think they made a tomogachi one too eventually or maybe that one was before
Which would later have most of its molds licensed for Transformers, then replaced entirely by Transformers when it was brought over by the same company that owned Diaclone.
@@vustvaleo8068 ...I did think to include that in my comment earlier, but apparently I didn't actually do it for some reason. Go me. Apologies for not doing that, and thanks for doing that for me.
The "custard pants" clown may indeed be clothes-lining children with it's left arm, but I'm more worried about what it's right hand is up to underneath it's overalls.
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no
Maybe
no
Possibly
seems like a great deal but whoever designed that website... lol
"It's got like lobster claws as well"
Or... hear me out, here, Ashens.... Like scorpion claws?
l went to the comments to read this.
Or crab claws, even. Pretty much the same claws every crustacean has.
That’s crazy talk, mister!
excuse you, but that's a sting thing. trust me, i know one when i see one.
I had that circus one as a kid
For some reason bugs kept trying to getting in it
When I opened it it was full of dead bugs
As if it weren’t creepy enough...
Sorry to bother but do you recall what brand made the toy? I find it quite cute and when I search for it online only 1 dead listing comes up.
I also would love to know the brand or name. My kid would lo e it
Bugs just love the circus I guess. Flea ancestors
The colour yellow attracts insects.
I miss when he used to light things on fire on his own couch, using a flammable piece of wood for 'fire protection'.
I mean, I always found that a little half-hearted. Thew Adams used to drop TVs, run over, stamp on, chainsaw and melt his knockoffs.
@WhomItMayConcern "Don't be like Thew.
He's a dickhead"
Thew Adams - Beatdown IV.
Probably got health and safety on his ass
@@TheSmart-CasualGamerHow fitting, was just watching a Thew vid
I like the fact there's a mini fig of a clown that clotheslines kids
Four outros? We're being spoiled.
Those patreon backers are getting their money's worth, that's for sure!
Oh my goggly goodness
Lights flashing and lasers going in my room, these outros are making me have my own mini dance party.
collect them all!
It's the holy quadrilogy!
I've got no memory of "Pocket Shockers" at all, but as soon as I saw that green foot I realised I had it, and it could well still be lurking around in a drawer here somewhere.
I had the scorpion/lobster/Sting Thing. It’s irritated me that he didn’t know to flick open the hoop in the corner to attach to their shackles.
Ayyy, didn’t expect my main source of transformers content here
Had loads of them along with the large blue mansion that had slime. Made great big enemies for Mighty Max. For years never knew what they were called.
@@Chonesy19 oh
and if that was a Rack, then where's Timothy Young?
"It has a mouth and it can scream" as all amorphous blobs should
It's a reference to the story and video game 'i have no mouth and i must scream'
Its to reference the short story "I have no mouth, and I must scream"
@@viktorkongskov5692 short story* it was later made into a game
“I’m only 24 years late!”
Hey, don’t laugh, that’s actually great for Ashens’ channel! Barely late at all. Bet his lunch today was even older.
24 years out of date is basically fresh for sofa foods. In the case of that horrifying Scandinavian tinned sandwich meat it was literally fresh.
Behold them. Behold the excellent patrons. BEHOLD THEM. ALL PRAISE TO THE GREAT ONES. BEHOLLDDDD
One of them runs & owns a certain popular furry art site.
@@bluekewne it's me
(Please no I don't want that responsibility)
I think they were initially meant as a mini series but he decided to merge them, dragged around the bits but forgot to remove the additional patron bits.
@@SailorLoonie well all i can say is thanks for keeping our ashens fed
Ok calm down
Clowns already get a bad rep even though they’re innocent it doesn’t help when you have ones with gouged out eyes performing along side dead jelly babies
Yeah
Because kids LOVE "Gestapo the Clown!"
With his round red nose, his bright suspenders, his blue eyes and shiny patent leather "stormtrooper" boots.
Or "The Tory" as he's often known.
Probably something to do with the hair style that makes them go that way
Wasn’t that a lost Jerry Lewis film?
@@5roundsrapid263 The Day the Clown Cried
These are so bad, that Stuart actually spits on them: 19:24
Came here to say this. Glad someone shares the same eagle eye as me 😂
I just sat there watching it bubble on the plastic...
Glad I'm not the only one who saw lol
What the bloody hell was going on at the end, it was like the video didn’t want to end 🤨
4 sets of credits ever so slightly glitchy and terrifying
I assumed there would be a joke about him burning those or at least throwing them out as he ended the video on a suspicious "I'll put them away in a miniaturized area"
@@wolf3dv I'm sad he doesn't burn much of anything anymore. I understand why, but it's still a shame.
It's the Grass Masks. They're getting ready for Xmas.
I thought my computer was having a fit. It does tend to get stuck and loop several seconds of something for two minutes or so every now and then.
"They're stackable and modular"
*Somewhere in the distance Eli Silverman's ears prick up and he smiles*
What's weird is I totally recognized the sculpt and paint job of that cat one, and wondered if the same company made 'Kitten In my Pocket' and the 'Puppy In My Pocket' toys that I was obsessed with in the 90s, and they did!
I still have some of the puppies, like Winston the bull dog. IMO the puppies were more realistic than the kittens.
I totally didn't notice that until you mentioned it...had to go back and rewatch that part...but you're right! I had so many of those "--- In My Pocket" s as a kid...I was obsessed with them. They had horses and I think bunnies as well, and a few playsets with various other animals. I even still have them!
Yes, they were made by Vivid Imaginations in the 90s. 😊
i was obsessed with those in the 2000s as well!
I have my entire collection except the houses. After 20 years the plastic didn't last. 😅
"I mean, I haven't been to the circus for a _while,_ but... Is _this_ what they consist of now? Sort of metaphysical horror?"
...Honestly, Stuart, I think that's what circuses _always_ consisted of.
Those clowns look like guy out of the movie "Event Horizon" where he digs his eyes out half way through.
OMG yes he does! That was Sam Neil btw. Freaky movie.
Where we're going we won't need clowns to laugh...
That movie was shit, huge let down.
LIBERA TE TUTEMET EX INFERIS
Lol
I love how ashens just absolutely destroys any resale value to his collectable old tat. Really a true collector lmao
What in this video has resell value?!
@@TheSmart-CasualGamerthe sofa
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Those PocketShockers, if imported to the US, could probably sell for $50 to $100 a pop if theyre unopened and not completely destroyed. Thats only because they would be foreign. In the UK they are basically worthless. Vintage novelty toys are very sought after here in the states.
It looked asif you was supposed to attach the black ring things on the creatures to the hooks all the bases had, I might be wrong but I think so!
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Yes! This annoyed me way too much
You know what I love about ashens. Consistency. In a world that demands change. He won't.
For those modular, stackable Teeny Tiny World sets, take the pictures out, paint the octogons white, put entry/exit holes in the tops and sides, and you too could have your own playset of the 1997 Canadian existential sci-fi horror movie *Cube*.
I know Tara Toys because they also make the licensed Hot Wheels carrying cases, or at least they did in the 1990s and 2000s, I'm not sure if they still have the license today or whether Mattel just makes them themselves.
Damn, I want to do that now. lol
I think the trapeze woman’s stick is supposed to go in one of those holes you were wondering about at the top
Agree
Yes i agree
"I think it's supposed to be a seal"
*faint bai-yaa in the distance*
I was expecting Barry's head to pop up.
Glad it wasn't just me that thought that!
Some one call Barry Lewis?!
Lmao i thought so too!
Not just any seal. He is the seventh seal; whose coming brings apocalypse and heralds the kingdom of krusty.
Big bit of spit flies out at 19:25 and remains bubbling away for a while. Love it.
I was so hoping someone else caught that.
You're not the only one who noticed. I was waiting for that bubble to pop for seconds I tell you.
I saw it bubbling when he held it up to the camera and went back to see where it came from. I don't know how I missed that apocalyptic meteor.
the fact that he doesn't even notice and leaves it there while continuing to talk is the funniest part. ...Unless he DID notice, but just didn't care. XD
i mean, that crap deserved to be spat on anyway, so...
Ashens
I love that you describe each thing a bit as I'm fully blind but can still usually enjoy the video regardless!
I mean the jokes by them selves are already funny, but when you know what the item that's the butt of the joke is all about it makes it even better.
Why is the hive diorama bubbling near the end?
Nevermind. Looks like Ashens was just speaking a little too enthusiastically.
His contempt for the terrible toy overflowed a little too generously.
I actually saw the flash on screen when the spit flew out and didn't know what it was. When I spotted the spit on the toy later on, I backed up the video to try to find when it had come in, at which point I discovered that that was the flash I'd seen.
He couldn't restrain his disgust with the toy and had to spit on it
@@Squonk06 It was when he said "70's"
I really didnt want to be the one who pointed it out, so thanks
“Creepy Amorphous Blob” was my nickname at High School. ;P
the circus is accurate.
That's what it looks like since the Coronavirus outbreak.
All the clowns are dead and the animals have escaped.
Last time I was this early to an Ashens video, toys were still painted with lead paint.
..And clocks were coated with radium.
And the attics were stuffed with asbestos...
Great timing!, just been watching through some older Ashens videos and this pops up! Nice one :D
Dammit, Barry Lewis has me conditioned now, any time someone mentions a seal...
Bayayaa 👍🏻
@@MudSluggerBP Me too.
16:45 Modular? Does Eli Silverman know such a thing exists? Surely he must get one too for display in the House of Pickles!
Ashens: Modular
Me: someone call Eli!
I used to collect Mighty Max and my sister collected Polly Pocket. I liked that they made the two series relatively the same size so we could use both to play together. Polly Pocket trapped in the Giant Arachnid Lair was always a favorite of mine.
I had some of the pocket shockers cages when I was a lad. As you went through the ones to collect I recognised about 8 of them. I think the skull was my favourite.
In the pre-smarphone days, this is what passed as entertainment
19:25 just what we want some of ashens gob on the toy for the rest of the vid, man you even had the opportunity to wipe it.
Amazingly after all the crap he’s eaten this is the thing that makes me feel the most sick
16:36 They still make and sell these things. I've seen them for YEARS in pharmacy toy aisles and in dollar store toy aisles. I don't think that they ever STOPPED producing them. They just keep making them, and putting them in different packaging every other run and just ship them out in bulk to the dollar stores and places like that. None of these sets ever have the same name.
That was so weird to hear Ashen's say Hauppauge, I live like 10 minutes away from there! Long Island actually used to make something and have a manufacturing industry unlike today
The magnet ones have that shackle. Surely it secures onto the thing in the corner so they don't leap off
Stuart, he's a MAD scientist. Of course all his switches are in really questionable places. It's sensible scientists that put them in places where they're practical to use.
Not going to lie, that “trapeze artist” was giving me Tusken Raider vibes
12:22 I had one of those!! I loved it.
No idea what happened to it over the years. Damn, I actually wish I still had it.
Also, that little hook on the base lifts up, and you pop the little black shackle on the figures into it to clip it onto the base.
Seems like they have a chain attached to some of them that you join to the base to stop it falling off
I was watching an old Ashens video and a new one pops up! How convenient!
Ashens was especially appreciative of his patrons this video!
Then ever ending ending.
the last toy reminds of of a super cheap and primitive version of that electronic toy from like 10 to 15 years ago. they had LCD screens with real doll house fixings in the background.
Pixel Chix?
The second clown is clearly a failed attempt to reboot the Joker that never made it anywhere.
Loving the avalanche of Ashens videos lately 👍🏻
Not gunna lie, I probably would have really liked those tiny teeny things as a kid. I think my 6yr old daughter would really like them too. Polly pockets were awesome :p
The Tiny Teeny crappy dolls look like something you would get at a generic 5 and 10 store in the early 80's.
I love any Polly Pocket style toys, I still have so many of mine. Basically, any old or weird toys were always neat to me. I recently found out that most of my toys *were* old weird vintage toys to begin with. I grew up with toys from 10 & 20ish years before I was born, so now I know why I have such a love of 70s & 80s toys as well!
Nice to see the baby from P.T. getting some work. Not sure I would've cast him as a seal but what do I know?
Well you say we don't need clown goose stepping, I thought clowns invented goose stepping?
When I saw the 'seal', for some reason my first thought was the weird foetus thing from Eraserhead.
Suffering with bad depression I needed this upload . Thanks
The second clown reminded me of those ghoul things from Fallout games
He misread "Tiny Teeny" as "Teeny Tiny" twice. And there are 4 outros in the end. Just wanted to point that out.
Wait, "tiny" is actually pronounced as "teeny" and "teeny" as "tiny"? The things you learn on the Internet...
@@Kentauros1991 What? No, the packaging said Tiny Teeny, but Stuart read it out as Teeny Tiny, twice.
Yeah it's clearly marketed as "Teen", because girls want to be teens.
I can't look at that trapeze artist without seeing Margaret Thatcher.
@WhomItMayConcern "The problem with grave robbing is that eventually you run out of other people's corpses."
"Mad scientist without any trousers" is many peoples' ideal job description.
Today I learned that if I were a toy set, I would be Cages of Rage.
So yeah ive come to the conclusion that Ashens is my favorite youtuber I love his mix of content and his personality is astounding I can always watch and rewatch any of his videos.
"Creepy amorphous blob" - how'd you know my secret special sexy-time name?
I remember loving Ashens’s videos when i (must have been) 13. I’m now 20 and I still love his videos.
"How big do you need your demon to be?"
idk, i would prefer something bigger than a cat...
Ahhh, yes. I remember this Dr Who arc, Corporation of the Daleks. The Daleks realized human female girls are dramatically keen in operating their timeline dial modules, so in secret effort to wrestle against Time Lords hegemony, they turned up in mid 80s Earth, posing as a Mattel like company thanks to a bunch of greedy human accomplices. They produced this Tiny Tweeny hive shaped playset, with a hidden slave device to manipulate children into executing their plan, all at the expense of their health. The Supreme Dalek in charge of the mission looked to rescue the time stranded Dalek Time-Controller, in order to exploit his expertise against Gallifrey. Very good overa- What? You haven't watched it? Blimey.
SOMEBODY had a lot of nerve calling those "playsets", let alone "toys".
Tat plastic that you can't even chuck into the recycle bin when they get broken.
I forgot your channel existed-
I used to watch your food reviews when I was a bit younger and now my whole birthday has been made amazing just cuz I found your channel again
bro the best micro playsets were the digimon ones that doubled as figures and you could add on parts to digivolve them
No the best ones were polly pocket
@@MinaF99 I was totally coming to the comments to say the same thing! For girls Polly pocket was the back then boys toys were stupid! LOL 🤭😂
Except they wasn't micro machines were the best boy micro toys!!
I was actually binge watching older Ashens videos when I saw the notification for this. Sweet. 😊 Thanks the gods!
Mmmm... A mobile phone provider accepting payment in cryptocurrency and no credit checks sounds like an excellent provider for people up to no good >->
Well those Pocket Shockers certainly brought back memories. I distinctly remember owning the severed foot as well as one of the larger cage sets. I think it was a spider that ran around inside with a skull when you moved the magnet.
Everytime Ashens rips open a collector item, the child in me cheers, the collector in me is brought to tears! 😆
Ashens, I just want to take the time to say Thank You for helping me to vicariously indulge my childhood Nostalgia by finding and messing around with all this old plastic crap.
I had a sleeping beauty castle one.. it also had a string on it so you could wear it like a necklace.. not sure why you'd want a tennis ball sized castle as a necklace but it was an option hahaha
My brother and I had Star Trek playsets (a Tricorder and a phaser) that opened up into dioramas, back in the 90s. Fun times.
Interesting Christmas you're planning. Can't wait for Halloween when you get the tree out
Ashen talks about metaphysical horror circus and all I can think of is "Oh, did The Magnus Archive have a playset?"
I was thinking the same thing, love The Magnus Archive such a good podcast.
Isn't it rich, aren't we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground, you in mid-air.
Goddammit, if I get that song stuck in my head...
@Samson Themighty Must've been a street fighter level uppercut if she was in the air for that long
@@cclyon ;)
I remember a toy like the Tiny Teeny toy, they were stackable with animals I think, possibly early 2000s?
That "goose stepping clown" got me good. 😂
l remember when l was younger on tv they had ads for those connect playset things except these ones were electronic and had stickmen and when you connected em they would interact l think they made a tomogachi one too eventually or maybe that one was before
Ah yes, every one year old’s favorite meals...
Speaking of things that have fallen out of favor in circus events, the clown playset sure nails the freakshow down.
A Killer Klowns from Outer Space playset? 🤣
Love how he'll say something, and then say it again in italics.
meanwhile in 1980's Japan they have Diaclone, tiny figures with magnets on their feet piloting mechs, has a base and stuff.
Which would later have most of its molds licensed for Transformers, then replaced entirely by Transformers when it was brought over by the same company that owned Diaclone.
@@LonelySpaceDetective Diaclone now exists alongside Transformers with the Diaclone reboot line in 2016.
@@vustvaleo8068 ...I did think to include that in my comment earlier, but apparently I didn't actually do it for some reason. Go me.
Apologies for not doing that, and thanks for doing that for me.
Quite sure the 2nd clown is an active member of the ministry of silly walks. Cheers from Portugal!
Was the Outro Rolling like.. 5 times intentional?
The Tiny Tiny Collection reminds me of those Cube World things. Except Cube Worlds were actually cool. Man, I miss my Cube Worlds.
My fave was the bubbly Ashens spittle in between the two octagons! Delicious. 😋
Those clown toys just look like the Killer Klowns from outer space.
Oh, ashens is 100% haunted now. All of this is the most cursed
I had that clown thing and the teeny tiny dolls, stuff my gran bought me, major flashbacks of horror!
Limited data on mobile?
4G on 5G times?
Are you still going after witches with pitchforks?
Rubbish
I'd love 4G where I live, half the time I can't even make a call or send an SMS
@@AndyFletcherX31 sounds nice. 🤭
3:16
Oh no......... I've seen that one before....... You've brought back terrible memories of a toy i burned in the school yard!
The "custard pants" clown may indeed be clothes-lining children with it's left arm, but I'm more worried about what it's right hand is up to underneath it's overalls.
Those clowns made watching this a very uncomfortable experience. A+!
How many credits you need?
That trapeze figure would be an amazing character in the dark, gritty reboot of Indian In The Cupboard.
1:33 it's a sad state of affairs when we, as a nation, don't recognise our own prime minister when he's right before our eyes.