Vintage Vending #9: Las Vegas!
In today’s video, the Vintage Vending series continues with a trip to Las Vegas:
Though you might expect a “Las Vegas” prize assortment to have everything to do with casinos and vacations, this one doesn’t. No, this one comes with a plastic machine gun.
…but it’s not like such deviations were uncommon with vending machine sets, which so often established a theme and then did very little to support it. In this case, I’m fine with that. I’m not going to complain about guns and robots when the alternative was some lame temporary tattoo that said “JACKPOT.” I play the fool, but I ain’t one.
I haven’t watched the video yet to find out what these things actually are, but I swear I see a bag of weed, some various pills on the bottom right, and perhaps a purple condom wrapper above them. Seems about right for a Vegas theme.
I’m going to say the assault rife (with some sort of grenade launcher, apparently?) is symbolic of the mafia, and the 7-up cup represents ever-present gluttony.
Also, more of these videos should end with subtitles and nuts in your mouth.
OCD Time: Every time you clean or move that room around, it changes the timbre of your voice. Not nearly enough as stuffing your gullet full or nuts, though.
Is that a fake satin stash bag with a pre-Pokemon Ash Ketchum and an astronaut frog on it!?
Also that one pink oblong jewel looks like some cross between a lucky rabbit’s foot and a fake jewel. Thing threw me for a loop.
I think the funky old foreign money is my favorite thing in the set. If I was going to try that vend that would be my item of choice. Then again it could be worthless old Chinese bills of a certain age. I remember more than once people coming to my elementary school, for reasons that are no longer clear, giving use handfuls of outdated Chinese money.
Holy shit! Those color changing insects are Huge!
@lugnut: Your condom wrapper description works for me. I still have no idea what that frog bag is supposed to be.
@Juge: But can you explain the “don’t press this button” yo-yo?
@Brian: Timbre is one of those words I sort of know and sort of don’t. So I can’t comment or I’ll expose myself.
@Pluto: The foreign money isn’t so bad, you’re right. I think I’d have aimed for the shredded money. That stuff fascinated me as a child.
I would also like to point out that the lizard shot was no non sequitur. That’s the Nevada native Gila monster.
This is one of the stranger assortments you’ve come up with yet. Yeah, I’m going to say that the rifle is probably supposed to be representing gangsters. The foreign currency and camera are probably representing tourists from around the world.
Almost everything here would have gone to our Barbies. The gun, which probably would have become a laser gun, would been turned over to He-Man or Star Wars action figures. The dice and roulette wheel would have been tossed in a random desk drawer and brought out in times of extreme boredom.
The yo-yo is the endless ups and downs of winning and losing, and it’s not actually a button, but rather a poker chip.
Matt, do you ever open up any of these vending machine cards?
For some reason, your own subtitles informed me that I actually needed to turn on the YouTube subtitles. I cannot stop laughing.
So much of it is so close that the failures are that much better. I’d pull out some choice ones, but, really, I’d just ruin it. Though, if you try it, make sure to keep an eye on the fun for the whole family.
I don’t think I can resist this one.
I think the frog bag holds the gems.
I’m only guessing this because I got some gems in a vending machine the other day and they came in a little bag.
Dude, don’t inhale a peanut! My god mother did that and it infected her lung so bad, she had to get her lung taken out…and then she died around age 21…granted she was screaming on space mountain in WDW when eating a nut covered chocolate frozen banana…but yeah…my middle name is Joy which was her first name.
As always great video. So glad that you still have the deer-in-the-headlights look, and your overanalyzing of fake foreign money in a 0.25 machine is giving too much credit for the manufacturer.
On the changing color insect insert, did it really have a trademark for “color changing insect”?
Have you been losing weight? Will you ever go more depth about your tattoos?
It’s videos like this that cement you as my favorite blogger ever. XD
Two questions, though. Number one, what is that pink thing hovering above the fake money and fake jewels? And number two, how would that roulette wheel spin if it’s covered in…rings? Or whatever those little things are.
I love the look of disgust you give the card just before the “title sequence” or whatever happens. Great video, as always. I’m with you, Matt, I’d be hoping for the shredded money, too.
That “Las Vegas” music and stock footage nearly killed me. In a good way.
I was trying to figure out if that blue robot comes from a mecha show, but I really have no idea. I fail at robot-recognizing this time around.
Also the kids on that Color Changing Insects art are fucking evil-looking. I shudder to think of what they have in store for those poor creatures.
Such a great video. I love the b-roll in these like the cold dog in X-E’s MADD Matt Halloween Countdown.
Poor fella.
I’m with Bill. Can we start a Kickstarter fund to buy that dog some top grade dog food and a year’s supply of bones.
That bag of macadamia nuts would have killed me. I developed a food allergy to macadamia and hazelnut about five years ago. But karma has balanced things out because I can comfortably enjoy eel sauce on my sushi whilst Matt can/shall not. I rejoice in that small victory.
This collection would be great for playing “GI Joe gets discharged then goes to Vegas for a good time and ends up fighting the Mafia.”
The shredded money is what Joe sends to the Mafia kingpin to let him know his reign is over. In a brown satchel via special courier. Or Fedex. whatever’s cheaper.
Every time someone mentions EEL SAUCE here, I develop a craving so intense that I am willing to do almost anything to scratch the eel sauce itch. Thanks to you, Review the World, a delivery is on its way to my face in 30-45 minutes.
I also assumed the gun was mafia related. A little retro Vegas rat pack gangster style to keep the theme going. I had no explanation for the 7 Up.
The gun and robot are obviously a tease. How could they have fit in one of those plastic bubbles? I would have spent my quarters in vain to get them.
I think the “bag of fake weed” is actually a “bag of fake shredded money”, which to me is even more inexplicable. Why would anyone want real shredded money, let alone fake shredded money? Is it so kids can make-believe that they’re so rich that they can just shred money and stuff it into little baggies for no reason?
…now I have a new life goal. Thanks Vegas Vintage Vending!
Gila monster could also be a lounge lizard if you stretch hard enough……… I’ve been drinking
Yeah I literally kept shredded money locked in my little safe
Wait, whoa.
That really is FAKE shredded money. Just looked closer. I never would’ve caught it if not for that one little strand with a bunch of not-money-related text on it.
Also, upon further inspection:
Pluto_Child’s thoughts on the purple bag being early concept art for Ash Ketchum are totally on-point. It does look like him. In this version, Pikachu is a happy frog.
The jewels on the lower-right are actually pins, each with an extremely crude thumbtack-and-cap deal glued to its back. Even considering this set’s age, they seem impossibly dangerous for vending machine toys.
And Annette is right about the family on the reverse “insect” side. Two of them practically look like Garbage Pail Kids. I’m also noticing a severe amount of cooking going on in the background — as if the family was in the middle of prepping a seven course meal, and gave it up to play with color changing snakes.
Happy Birthday, Matt!
Thanks Bill!
Happy Birthday, Cap’n
I’m thinking the gun is one of the various types of fully auto guns you can shoot on the strip. Las Vegas is known to house some firing ranges with pretty large hardware.
Holy cow is that a real pac man tattoo?
That foreign coin is probably real. It looks like the Eastern European (and other assorted world nations with crap economies at the time) coins McDonald’s was giving away as Happy Meal prizes around the fall of the Soviet Union. Come to think of it, Sugar Crisp was giving them away in boxes of cereal, too.