I screamed in WalMart the other day. Looking with my son at Yu-Gi-Oh cards, my eyes spotted something that my brain refused to comprehend. I did a double take. Finally, on the third look, I was ready to accept what I was seeing:
They’ve brought back Wacky Packages.
Oh. My. God.
Y’all don’t know how important “Wacky Packs” were to me when I was Zaphod’s age. I remember working my butt off to get money for a pack of Wacky Packages and a package of “Now or Laters”. (Amongst my friends, they were called “now-laters”.
This development fills me with a wistful nostalgia. The cards have not changed a bit; they are exactly as they were in 1975. Parody sticker on the front, the back has a single piece in a puzzle that forms a big parody package.
Now, if they’d just bring back clackers, I’d be in mid-life crisis heaven.
May 30, 2007 at 7:58 pm
omg!!!! My brother & I called them “Wacky Packers”!!!
So they have them at Wal-Mart, huh? I’m all over it.
May 30, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Yep, got my Wacky Packages and Nowlaters at the Westgate Pharmacy on a regular basis.
But, the stickers used to be silk, and, not the paper crap they are today.
Check this out: http://www.wackypackages.org/
May 30, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Oops, didn’t see your link the first time through.
May 31, 2007 at 4:33 am
Every notebook or folder I had in school was covered in these. What a throw back to a different time in the world!
March 10, 2008 at 7:39 am
Yes they did. See my blog, Wacky Packages