Simpson Nuclear Delivery Van by HotWheels

Atomic Toys: Homer Simpson Hot Wheels Nuclear Waste Van

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Simpson Nuclear Delivery Van by HotWheels

Not only will Homer deliver your nuclear waste for free, just like Amazon, you can also zing along a Hot Wheels orange track in your living room! Don’t forget to look inside and check out the view through the lens on the back of the truck.

In the early ’90s soon after the Simpsons first aired, the world had gone nuts for all things Homer and Bart. Don’t have a cow, man, just pretend nuclear waste is fun and exciting, or you can eat my shorts. Cowa-nuclear-bunga, dude!

You could pick this up for only $2.99 at Toys-R-Us, which you can’t do anymore. (That’s $5.88 in 2019 dollars.)

And here’s someone really enjoying their new Homer Simpson Nuclear Waste Delivery Vans.

Atomic Robot Man

Atomic Toys: Atomic Robot Man

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Atomic Robot Man

Atomic Robot Man is coming to take over your city. Look out, he’s walking down the center of the street. Run away before he runs amok!

The original Atomic Robot Man was released shortly after World War II in Japan, where there was a well-established tin toy business. Robot toys were indicative of the times, where we suddenly lived in a world with atomic bombs and rockets. The next frontier with all this technology was robots, doing the work of humans.

Modern versions of this tin toy can be found for about $15 in a multitude of colors. But if you really want to go retro and rule the world with your 1940s original Atomic Robot Man in stunning greenish-beige, expect to shell out over $1500.

Watch this original bad boy try to take over the world!

Atomic Bomber arcade game

Atomic Toys: Atomic Bomber

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Atomic Bomber arcade game

Let’s practice dropping atom bombs! Test your aim! A thrill a second! Cyclone action! It’s not for enormous destruction, just enormous pleasure!

Mutoscope’s 1946 arcade game, “Atomic Bomber,” allowed coin-droppers to line up a set of cross hairs to colored dots on the rotating drum. If a hit is achieved, a “bomb blast” is see on the backglass of the machine, or the Reflectograph.

With lots of atomic jargon in the sales brochure, the marketers practically guaranteed an outlet for “Atomic Thinking” and “chain-reaction” sales of the arcade game.

For an interesting video describing its history and to see the game in action, visit: The Story Behind 1946’s Arcade Game Atomic Bomber from GameInformer.