Please help me Hivemind! When I was a kid, there were dry transfers available that came with sweets (I think). The transfers were cavemen fighting different dinosaurs, they were pretty gory too. Anyone remember these?
Yeah, I remember them. Can't tell you what they were, but can confirm they existed - I also recall them being pretty violent, with gouts of blood, and pteranodons carrying hapless cavemen off.
I only remember them now that you've mentioned them.
My grandparents owned a real sweetshop. not books or comics,newspapers or anything just sweets.
I had loads of those transfers, as they would be given a ton of such items,by the sales guys.
there where many types, cavemen, spacemen, cowboys and indians. pirates. they roughly followed movies of the time, land that time forgot, or the moonraker for an example, not a direct tie in, more of a riding on coat-tails sort of thing.
they did exist that I can confirm.
you rubbed the transfer onto the printed background with a pencil or blunt stick.
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I saw the title, and was intrigued, had images of big lorries and tazers in my head.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Mangamax/sat.jpg)
This all screams Letraset to me, but can't seem to find what you're describing, so guess not
http://action-transfers.com/ (http://action-transfers.com/)
I don't remember them coming with sweets but I did have various versions of the stuff DD mentioned where you got a fold out background image on card and made up a daft scene with the transfers.
Ummm... That's them above...
Man, those Space Adventures: White Squadron ones really take me back... they've even got a robot called GRUD...
Edit: Ah, a quick look around the site Mangamax linked to, and I think I've found the ones Martin Costello was thinking of. '1000BC The Savage Age Rub-Down Action Transfers, 1982.' Sold in 'confectionary style' packets.
Fuck me that is a trip down memory lane. Used to love these.
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I am sure there is market out there for these things again.
you stick umm out in early November and get some publicity they would find their way into every male christmas stocking for the 25th! we would all want them, and likely put them in every childs we prepare for. and HELP them on christmas day.
if you really lucky of course, your partner would put a set of these in the christmas stocking and her leg in a black one, but thats not the point. :D
Thanks for the help everyone. There's no picture on that Action transfers website* but it looks like they the ones Greg M. mentioned.
*Which is a great website, check out the Sweeney and Kojak transfer sets. The website creators also state they have plans to rerelease some of the Panorama sets soon. Maybe they should make a Judge Dredd Block War set.
I frigging LOVED these! BUT, how devastating was it when you scribbled too much and got half of another transfer on your picture??? I still remember my Star Wars one with half of Princess Leia at 45 degrees in the Tattooine sky - sob!
ah, but I remember discovering that with care you didn't need to apply the whole transfer - i had a generic space one once and had hours of fun creating 6-armed spacemen and astronauts with alien heads by mixing two transfers!
There were also some fantastic Dave Gibbons (I think it was) drawn dry transfers in the first couple (I think it was) issues of Doctor Who Weekly back in the day. One of those included cave men fighting dinosaurs.
David gibbons dry transfers, I have that copy with the transfers, some day that will go on ebay though. unlike the 2k collection.
found a couple of sets of the dry transfers on ebay for a couple of pounds, I think I may well be putting them in the christmas stocking this year for the family.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 31 October, 2011, 07:57:01 PM
ah, but I remember discovering that with care you didn't need to apply the whole transfer - i had a generic space one once and had hours of fun creating 6-armed spacemen and astronauts with alien heads by mixing two transfers!
I remember doing that too. creating lion-men from two different transfers. If i remember correctly they came in differing sizes, S/M/L. the large ones were daft money. One other thing i remember is they were banned at my primary school and you weren't allowed to put them on your schoolbooks.
i remeber the star wars ones ,i had a tatooine scene ...were they uncle remus or letraset?
You could get them in certain cereal packets as well IIRC. The scene was on the back.
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Quote from: Devons Daddy on 29 October, 2011, 07:08:14 AM
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I saw the title, and was intrigued, had images of big lorries and tazers in my head.
I thought it was a reference to Real Madrid's shock signing of Gorgo the Styracosaur.
1977 Star Wars on Ebay £30.00
Very tempted.
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/230685902783?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar
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Wow. Santa brought me those very sets, my very first rub-down transfers (but not my last!) and I doubt I've recalled their existence in more than 30 years. Now however I can remember the precise crinkle the tracing paper sheets made, and the extra thickness of the transfer sheet (far thicker than in later sets)... Memory is a strange thing!
Now I've gone googling for the Sink the Tirpitz! set and I'm lost in the past for the rest of the evening...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Remus-Letraset-Action-Transfers-Sink-Tirpitz-/300586502485#ht_500wt_988
Apparently you can make your own. I may try one day.
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/arts_and_crafts/79255-homemade-rubdown-transfers/AllOnOnePage
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Sorry for the necropost folks but I want to say thanks again for the help tracking these down - they updated the Letraset website recently with pictures of them - Thomas Salter: 1000 BC The Savage Age Rub Down Action Transfers [1982] (http://www.action-transfers.com/html/Packets/packets6.shtml)
I saw this very kind of thing about 5 or 6 years ago somewhere but not since.
Similar things exist with peel off stickers of course. In some case the stickers are re-usable. Those aren't the same fun as these...
you could get everything from generic space stuff, western stuff, etc through to licensed things like Asterix, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica etc. There were different makes and you often got them free with cereals, comics, etc.
Yes, the exact same idea would still sell.
I loved these. Bought from Woolies every Saturday, the money I got for taking and collecting the Laundry was spend on one of these (that sentence won't even make sense to some younguns here),
Personal fav: Vikings!
Also doing mash ups, mixing 'leftovers' cowboys, dinos, spacemen... do you think this is how Pat Mills started? ;)
What you fellows called Letrasets, we called Presto Magix (http://prestomag.tumblr.com/). Some of them were incredibly odd.
my dad was a printer & stationer and so as a kid we were never short of pens and paper etc - we also used to get sheets of letraset (http://www.adventuregraphics.co.uk/2010/10/do-you-remember-letraset-transfers/) for text which were fun - I'm pretty sure I had the exact sheet pictured here.
Used to enjoy Letraset as a kid. I just about remember the small themed packs that were available in shops.
http://www.action-transfers.com/
I still have my Doctor Who Weekly no.1 with Dave Gibbons transfers which of course I immediately applied to the background scene. How we kids were easily pleased back then.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Doctor_Who_Weekly_1.jpg)
As a student I came across a newsagent that had piles of cheap dried up Letraset lettering and Letratone (zip-a-tone). It was usually expensive stuff but I was able to use my small stockpile without being too precious. I recently found a sketchbook in which I used it. Will scan and upload.
Seeing those Dr Who ones reminds me I used some of then in a Drink-zine strip I was involved in at the time.