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The Secret Life of Toys was a 1994 series based on the 1986 TV special The Christmas Toy. Each of the 13 30-minute episodes consisted of two 15-minute stories. The show was taped in Monheim, Germany (near the Dutch border), and aired on the Disney channel. None of the characters were puppeteered by Jim Henson due to his death six years prior.

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George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas), is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette.

Over the past twenty years, Jones has frequently been referred to as “the greatest living country singer”.[1] The country music scholar Bill C. Malone writes, “For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved.”

Throughout his long career, Jones made headlines often as much for tales of his drinking, stormy relationships with women, and violent rages as for his prolific career of making records and touring. His wild lifestyle led to Jones missing many performances, earning him the nickname “No Show Jones.” With the help of his fourth wife, Nancy, he has been sober for many years. Jones clocked up more than 150 hits during his career, both as a solo artist and in duets with other artists.

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Pirates! Gold is a 1993 computer game, a remake to Sid Meier’s 1987 release, Sid Meier’s Pirates!. MicroProse developed this 256-color version for MS-DOS, Macintosh, Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga CD32 and Windows 3.x featuring a MIDI score and mouse support (in MS-DOS and Windows versions).

The PC versions contained a copy protection scheme similar to that employed on the 1987 Atari port. Sea, land, and sea-to-land combat were done in real-time strategy. Sun sighting was not present in this version, and there were no special items. The game did, however, include several new features.

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Thomas Earl Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch. He was also a member of the supergroup the Traveling Wilburys under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury, and currently has a recurring role on the Fox comedy series King of the Hill.

He has recorded a number of hit singles with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist, many of which remain heavily played on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. Likewise, his music, most notably his hits, have become increasingly popular among younger generations as he continues to host sold out shows.[1]

Petty and his band The Heartbreakers have been together since 1976 and celebrated their thirtieth anniversary with a tour in 2006, although Tom has occasionally released solo work, as is the case with 2006’s Highway Companion,[2] on which he performed most of the backing instrumentation himself. However, members of The Heartbreakers have played on each of his solo albums and the band has always backed him when touring in support of those albums. He has also toured with Mudcrutch in order to promote their debut album. Petty has been managed by Tony Dimitriades since 1976.[3] On February 3, 2008, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at the Super Bowl XLII Halftime show.[4]

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Twins is a 1988 movie about a physically perfect, but innocent, man who goes in search of his twin brother, who is a short small-time crook.

Submitted by Cole S

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Elefun is a game with a plastic elephant that blows butterflies around the room. The point of the game is to collect as many butterflies as you can in your butterfly net.From Milton Bradley and Hasbro games.

Submitted by Aliza

Betsy McCall was announced in April of 1951 and first appeared on the pages of McCall’s magazine in May, 1951. Nosy, her six-month old dachshund, is seen with her in that first issue. Through the years other various siblings, cousins, friends and pets became a part of her adventures. There were also friends Jimmy Weeks, Drusilla or Dru, and Suki.

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English draughts, known simply as draughts in the United Kingdom and some other countries, and also called American checkers, straight checkers, or simply checkers, is a form of the draughts board game played on an 8×8 board with 12 pieces on each side that may only initially move and capture diagonally forwards. Only when a piece is “kinged” may it move backwards or forwards.

As in all draughts variants, English draughts is played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternating moves. One player has black pieces, and the other has white or red pieces. Most commonly, the board alternates between red and black. The opponent’s pieces are captured by jumping over them.

Submitted by Mason W

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Wonderama was a long-running children’s television program that appeared on the Metromedia-owned stations before changing its title, and to some extent its format, to Kids Are People Too. It ran from 1955 to 1977, with WNEW-TV in New York City being its originating station. It ran in six other markets nationwide- cities in which Metromedia owned television stations, including Cincinnati, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Kansas City, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. The show ran three hours long and later two hours on Sunday mornings. It became a staple of children’s weekend TV shows along with Land of the Lost, H.R. Puffinstuff, Captain Marvel, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.

Submitted by Emily M

I am pretty sure this stuff slowly poisoned me in the early 1990’s with its neon colors, but man was the “mystery bag” awesome!