One man, one sofa, infinite tat. But what happens when that sofa is gone? "Buy a new one" is the obvious answer but there's no fun in that, so the time has come for a convoluted roaming investigation involving lots of other YouTube folk in a weird, wonderful and awkward adventure! Will the sofa be found or is it gone forever? The answer lies partially in your hands! What’s the worst that could happen?
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One man, one sofa, infinite tat. But what happens when that sofa is gone? "Buy a new one" is the obvious answer but there's no fun in that, so the time has come for a convoluted roaming investigation involving lots of other YouTube folk in a weird, wonderful and awkward adventure! Will the sofa be found or is it gone forever? The answer lies partially in your hands! What’s the worst that could happen?
Once again the gates of Wish open, revealing to us the bounty of Lucky 9 - arguably the most ironic title for a video format because we usually ain't that lucky...
This time round we've got a lovely printer, some protective stickers, a novelty watch, a weird ring, a little fox and a very tiny shipwreck amongst the... er... treasures. And then there's the pimple nose thing that I don't want to think about.
Video games are becoming more and more digital only. Let's go back to when you could buy insanely expensive versions with a load of weird tat included!
We've got: Call of Duty and a stick camera! Wolfenstein and a doll! Heroes of Might and Magic and some lovely tarot cards (and a bad t-shirt)! And some more interesting merchandise, like Street Fighter figures and a replica Space Invaders machine.
#ashens #collectorsedition #videogamesAshens Easter Special 2024ashens2024-03-29 | EASTER INNIT Really good selection of new items in Poundland this year. Including: Shape eggs! Urn rabbits! Horrid bowls! Carrot whisks! And of course a gonk, because everything is terrible.
I think we're just slipping in under the finish line with this one. Phew!
Once again, St. Valentine, the patron saint of buying pink things, has blessed us with his copious bounty. What do we have? Wonky glasses! A duck! A die! Keyrings! Loads and loads of paper! And even crackers for some reason!
#valentinesday #ashensThe Dark Side of the Moon Logic | Ashensashens2024-01-31 | Near Norwich? Join us! norwichgamesfestival.co.uk
I feel like there's always a puzzle in an adventure game that you won't get. But some games inhabit a world all of their own logic...
(This talk feels weirdly ancient to me now - I started putting it together in 2019 then, obviously, it sat in a folder for years.)
Big thanks to Daniel Crocker for filming this at the last second. And my apologies to all humans for the way I kept moving away from the microphone, meaning it took aaaages to fix the audio.Ashens Christmas Special 2023ashens2023-12-22 | Patreon Lives! patreon.com/ashens Christmas has appeared on the doorstep once again, demanding turkey-based meals and enough chocolate to sink a battleship. But what of Poundland this year? We've got a rubber duck that... well... have a look for yourself. And a lollipop! And tealight holders! And many crackers! And we've got those monstrous colouring books again! Sorry!
#Christmas #2023 #AshensFeasters Microwave Burgers | Ashensashens2023-12-09 | Late pledges for horror film possible? Yes! http://turnbackmovie.com Burgers and microwaves: Together again in our hearts. Or, more to the point, our arteries. Previously a dark combination of damp, spongey bread and reheated mashed-up cow flesh, they've improved over the years (mostly by telling you to toast the bun). Now we've got some super-budget microwaveable snacks - burger, sausage and hot dog - to look at. So, er, let's do that.
#microwave #burger #ashensAdvent Calendars 2023 Day 1 | Ashens and Nerdcubedashens2023-12-01 | ALERT! Future entries in this series will be on youtube.com/user/extraashens
This year it's a 4-way battle: Barbenheimer, weird science and sitcoms! Whoever wins, we all lose, as we have to experience the dreaded punishment calendar.
Once again: Many, many salutes to Matt Collins for doing all the editing.
#advent #2023 #ashensBritains Forgotten Space Toys | Ashensashens2023-11-22 | Do a support! patreon.com/ashens
Back in the midst of ancient history (1981) a very British toy company realised that kids were more interested in Star Wars than obscure army regiments and farms. And so! Space was born!
With the Stargards fighting the... non-Stargards? And memorable characters like... guy with a moustache? It's that rarest of toy lines - one with no back story at all! (I mean, seriously, you could knock a generic story together in a few hours and it'd be fun to write...)
Anyway, it's a cool semi-construction setup with nifty looking flying saucers so it's OK by me. And there's a dragon thing for bonus points!Wish.com Random Item Reviews 12 | Ashensashens2023-11-07 | TURN THEE BACK: http://turnbackmovie.com Do YOU need to cover your fingers whilst warning people away from your flexible saw? Then this is the video for you, especially if you're a fan of French rock 'n' roll singers!
For this instalment of Lucky 9 we've got warning lights! Small bottles full of concepts! Things to cover screws! Socks! Finger sleeves! Chain saws! And, of course, what may be the greatest t-shirt ever designed by humanity.
(Infothing: If you've not heard of him, Johnny Hallyday is SUPER famous in France. Like, one of the biggest singers in history.)Horror DVDs of Mystery | Ashensashens2023-10-31 | The Horror! http://turnbackmovie.com Twelve DVD's chosen for being as obscure as possible (from a box of 100 horror films). How many have we heard of? How many have we seen? How many have teal box art? LET US LEARN! But first we have to learn how to decipher written Klingon, apparently...
(And if anyone who watches the Twitch streams is wondering: Yes, it is that Steve who left in the INTERESTING IMAGES that time...)Ashens Halloween Special 2023ashens2023-10-26 | Check it out: bit.ly/turnbackmovie It's Halloween yet again! And this year I've spread the net a bit wider and been rewarded with fresh seasonal tat. We've got: Spiders! Masks! Loud Skulls! Hairspray! Gonks! Actual Gonks! Skeletons! And bags of rats because HALLOWEEN.
Slither! Good ol' Maccy D's. The Golden Arches. McDo. Macca's. And probably plenty of other nicknames I haven't heard of. Yep, it's that place what does the burgers and fries and all that. And by "all that", I mean "occasionally weird toys."
We've got some dragons which probably should have been designed differently, an intriguingly strange modular spaceship set, a scary doll, a Luigi with a very weird expression and some cool but odd Japanese collectables.
#mcdonalds #ashens #toysI Bought More Undelivered Mail and Horror Followed | Ashensashens2023-10-13 | JOIN US: http://turnbackmovie.com In a world of mystery boxes, we're cutting out the middle man and just getting hold of things nobody wanted - it's undelivered mail time again! This time we've got giant door stickers, weird plush toys, loads of clothing, a mug and even very specific computer parts.Ive Always Wanted To Do Thisashens2023-10-10 | SPOOK: turnback.ashens.com
We're making a horror film! And you can help if you like. And get nifty things too, obv.
Do you like movies? And discs with movies on? And action figures? And really cool VHS style packaging? And actual VHS looking movies? And art prints? And badges? And prop replicas? And really weird things? Then we've got you covered, buster.
But the main thing is: If you like eerie films, and especially reverse narratives, we've absolutely got you covered from here to the blood moon and back. Join us and see what Ol' Black Shuck's been up to...Poundland Technology Special: Viido Returns | Ashensashens2023-10-05 | Patreon! Yes? patreon.com/ashens Poundland's fascinating and surprisingly wide-ranging range of electronic goods, Viido, is still producing new products every so often. And they've got other tech-o-items with different branding too. Let us cast an eye, and an ear, and possibly even a lung over them.
We've got a Bluetooth speaker, headphones, microphones and a keyboard. Are they any good? Watch and find out out! That's how videos work!
#poundland #technology #ashens20-year-old Spider-Man Cake | Ashensashens2023-09-26 | Patreon is a thing! patreon.com/ashens Music for the Spider-Cake song written and performed by Jerden Cooke. And he sings the nice version at the end!
Do YOU remember Spider-Man? Do YOU remember cake? Well, this will probably make you wish you'd never heard of either of those things. A superhero themed cake with an incredible amount of icing, it shows everyone's favourite webslinger climbing up a wall! Or at least it did 20 years ago, it now shows his crumbling body stuck to a mound of rot. Lovely. Just be glad you can't smell this one...
Due to the potentially lethal nature of this cake I couldn't try any, so you get a nice song instead. Seems a fair trade-off.
#spider-man #cake #ashensWeird 90s Doctor Who Playset | Ashensashens2023-09-16 | Massive thanks waft in the direction of Elliot for supplying this beauty - youtube.com/@TheRetroFuture It's the Doctor! Y'know, the one with the scarf who everyone over the age of 35 thinks of when Doctor Who is mentioned. (I think he's pretty much the only classic Doctor shown in the USA, thinking about it.) ANYWAY. His most famous foes are the Daleks, essentially horrible space maniacs in personal armoured vehicles that have a sink plunger for an arm. And back in 1997, you could buy one that contained an entire playset! Even though the Fourth Doctor hadn't been in the show since 1981! And the show had actually been cancelled 8 years prior! Further proof, if it be needed, that time means little to a Time Lord.Not a Ninja Turtle Action Figureashens2023-07-28 | A knock-off Ninja Turtles toy from the eighties. This isn't a joke or an art project - there was an entire range of these things. Give 'em a Google!Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Retrospective Extravaganzaashens2023-07-01 | CeX Website: webuy.com, YT youtube.com/c/cex Let's tickle the nostalgia bone with a look back at Sega's most beautiful baby: The Mega Drive! AKA the Genesis if you're in North America, or the Klakhammus if you're in Berbintua.
I'd forgotten just how many things there are to potentially plug into the Mega Drive. And, perhaps more precisely, that you need 3 plug sockets to play those few Mega 32X games. Must get a 3-in1 adapter or something.
Anyway, we throw our eyes over the Mega Drive, the Mega CD, the 32X, various accessories, and then ten games of interest that you can't play on any other system. And then an eleventh game because reasons.
On another note, I'm so pleased that the Activator was never released here so I didn't have to faff about with one. Thanks past Sega.
Note! All dates mentioned refer to the UK releases of stuff. I'm sure you've worked that out though, mostly as I mention it several times.
Thanks and more thanks to Matthew Stogdon who played all the games while I cranked up the footage-record-o-tron. (Setup for those interested: Mega Drive to Retrotink 5X via RGB cable, then into an Elgato HD60 S.)
Also big thanks to the awesome Quang (Asobitech) for giving me photos of some of his amazing console collection, and the mighty @Mentski for fact checking and technical gubbins. Also a further tip 'o' the hat to CeX for trusting me to borrow some of their stuff and not get jam all over it.Nintendo 64 Retrospective Extravaganza | Ashensashens2023-06-17 | CeX Website: webuy.com, YT youtube.com/c/cex Do YOU remember the Nintendo 64? I certainly do, and will show you things about it for nearly an hour if you watch this video! We've got weird controllers, a plethora of "paks", some nonsense with import adapters and a Power Rangers game so bad a magazine gave it -25%! Oh, and that Superman game, unfortunately.
Big thanks again to Jon Firth-Clark who play the games while I finagled the record-o-tron. (Setup for those interested: N64 to Retrotink 5X via S-Video cable, then into an Elgato HD60 S.) Also a further tip 'o' the hat to CeX for trusting me to borrow some of their stuff and not get jam all over it.PlayStation Retrospective Extravaganza | Ashensashens2023-06-03 | CeX Website: webuy.com, YT youtube.com/c/cex Do YOU remember the Sony Playstation? Well I don't care, I'm talking about it anyway. You can reminisce or learn things depending on your personal situation! We take a look back at the hardware, accessories and games of Sony's game-changer. Yes, we look at that glove controller and yes, it is awful. (Viewer advisory warning: This video contains footage of Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi.) Oh, and Pingu appears too. Good for him!
Big thanks also to Jon Firth-Clark who played all the games while I operated the footage recording gubbins. (Setup for those interested: PSOne to Retrotink 5X via RGB SCART cable, then into an Elgato HD60 S.) Splendid image by cookie_studio on Freepik: freepik.com/free-photo/portrait-bald-bearded-man-with-funny-expression-holding-his-pinky-near-mouth-white_20920580.htm#page=2&query=pinky&position=6&from_view=keyword&track=sph Also thanks fly out to @DidYouKnowGamin for lending me the Glove controller, and obviously CeX for not only sponsoring the video but lending me bits & bobs.Worst Diet Pepsi Ever | Ashensashens2023-05-20 | Patreon exists! patreon.com/ashens Sometimes life gives you something beautiful. Something useful. Something profound. And others times, you find a bottle of Diet Pepsi that's been outside for years and is covered in bird mess and decide to try it. Well, after cleaning the bottle first, obviously.Coronation Tat Special | Ashensashens2023-05-06 | Patreon exists!
Well, it's been about 70 years since we last had one, so let's do a coronation! Yay! I wonder what the tat was like in 1953...
Anyway, we can now dress up our life-size cut-out of the King with deeley boppers, bunting, glasses, crowns, "car flags", mugs, posh flags and... a cape. Yes, a cape. I DON'T KNOW.
Anyway, Prince Charles is now King Charles III and he'll be doing whatever kings do. So, er, yeah.Ashens Easter Special 2023ashens2023-04-09 | Patreon exists: patreon.com/ashens Easter happens yet again! We've got eggs on sticks, weird hats, things to stick cutlery in and of course gonks. Because the gonk plague is apparently not over yet, and we just have to live with it.Massive DVD Mystery Box Thing 6 | Ashensashens2023-03-26 | OLL Convention! ollgames.co.uk Bar! kickstarter.com/projects/nostalgianerd/barcadia-arcade-bar Do you like movies? Do you like shiny round things? Do you like movies digitally encoded on shiny round things? I hope so, because this video has more MPEG2 files on optical media than any reasonable person could hope for! Or something!
There's a surprising number of films here that seem pretty mainstream but I've never heard of. Is there a whole substrata of kid's CGI animations featuring talking animals that somehow fly under the radar? I'm not sure I want to know.Wish.com Random Item Reviews 11 | Ashensashens2023-02-11 | Support is possible: patreon.com/ashens I'm back! And Wish is back! I just checked and it's somehow been well over a year since the last Wish video, which is insane. I thought I'd leave it for a bit but accidentally left it FOREVER.
Anyway, our non-patented Lucky Nine system returns to slowly drain my bank balance and provide tat straight from where it's made. We've got a hearing aid! A sticker! A badge! Watches! A million bracelets! Some kid's learning toy! And a whole lot more!
Ah, the endless joys of Christmas. By which I mean low grade chocolate and gonks! And an endless parade of weird things to put on your tree! And a shaved reindeer because... well, I don't know, but it is pretty special in the worst possible way.
#ashens #Christmas #2022I Bought Some Amazon Returns Because I Never Learn | Ashensashens2022-12-20 | Patreon! patreon.com/ashens You know who sells a lot of things over the internet? Jeff Amazon! He's got loads of warehouses and everything. And sometimes items are sent back by unhappy customers, and some bloke on eBay sticks them all in grey bags and I buy a big box of them for some reason. Huzzah!
It's a proper random selection this lot. But the main thing is there are several cases for totally unknown items! Huzzah again!
#Amazon #Returns #AshensMicrowave Burgers: The Easy and the Vegetarianashens2022-12-12 | Support is feasible! patreon.com/ashens Time to finish off the recent microwave burgers thing we've had going on!
There are as yet two unexplored avenues: The super-easy snacks where you just put the entire box in the microwave, and the plant-based vegetarian (and in some cases vegan) burgers. The results of these taste tests may SHOCK and ASTOUND you, causing you to INEXPLICABLY CAPITALISE words in YOUTUBE descriptions!
Anyway, that's enough microwaveable fast food stuff for a while. (Unless a whole new range appears or something.)
#microwave #fastfood #ashensAdvent Calendars 2022 Day 1 | Ashens & Nerdcubedashens2022-12-01 | Future entries in this series will be on youtube.com/user/extraashens
We have ascended beyond shop bought calendars. This year, we're all custom. We've both made special calendars for each other and filled them with... well... you'll have to see, won't you?
Huge love to Matt Collins for doing all the editing yet again!
#advent #2022 #ashensWeird Old Action Figure Showcase | Ashensashens2022-11-16 | Podcast O' Fun: shorturl.at/rBNRV I love weird action figures so much. And the great thing is, they're often the cheap ones! Which is nice as the price of old toys has gone through the roof over the last few years.
In this video of exciting items from the Norwich Toy Fair, we have: Hairy Snake Man Rubber Not Hulk Big Green Pirate Fancy Cyborg Evil TV Face Giant Mutant Fish Boi Friendly Pink Guy Angry Red Boi Surprised Big Hair Peeved Big Hair Bad Old Bald Man Rude Police
What more could you ask for?
#figures #ashens #haulAshens Halloween Special 2022ashens2022-10-29 | Patreon? Why yes! patreon.com/ashens Halloween beckons! And it's full of weird metal bugs, leggy spiders, funny skulls and skeleton arms. Oh, and gonks of course. All the gonks. Great.
#Halloween #Poundland #ashensWhat a whole chicken in a can looks likeashens2022-10-26 | ...Are These the Best Microwave Burgers? | Ashensashens2022-10-23 | Patreon is a thing for support and that: patreon.com/ashens Time to look at some speedy-quick microwave burger things from Rustlers, who to my mind made the best of such things before making this video. Do I still think so afterwards? You'll have to watch the video to find out! Or read this word: Yes.
Covered in this video are: Mini Sausage Bap BBQ Rib Burger Classic Hot Dog Southern Fried Chicken Sub Deluxe Bacon Cheeseburger Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road Heated Meat Snack Pancake Stack
#microwave #burger #ashensI Bought Returned Electrical Goods and I Question My Life Choicesashens2022-10-03 | Patreon exists! patreon.com/ashens Have you ever wondered just how faulty items returned by customers actually work perfectly? Me too! Why do we think of such mundane rubbish?
When I worked in retail in a medium-ish store you sometimes had to take things back as you didn't have time to test them, or a manager just told you to. But! Imagine what that must be like in a busy, understaffed supermarket where you just need to get the queue down before the manager complains, even though he knows full well that Sarah is off sick and he just made John go over and work on the checkouts even though there are supposed to be three people in this department at all times and my god they only pay you for doing one job and frankly that's not enough to cover the rent and electricity bills these days. And I mean come on how the heck are you supposed to test a TV aerial anyway, they won't let you set a TV up as it has to come out of existing stock and they won't write it off?
So anyway, I bought returned items for effectively £1 each, so anything that still works is s SUPER BONUS. But just how many worked and how many didn't? I've got no idea as I didn't keep count!I Bought Some Undelivered Mail and Now I Live in Regret | Ashensashens2022-09-10 | Patreon is a thing:patreon.com/ashens Well here's a thing. Undelivered and returned mail! The ultimate mystery box! We've got bits of cars, toys, fake designer gear and some things I can't show or even refer to in the video! (You can use your imagination for number 4 was. You'll probably be right.)Canadian Food Special | Ashensashens2022-08-15 | JOIN US: bufferfestival.com/schedule/buffer-festival-2022-toronto The snack joys of Canada have made their way to the sofa! And no, not that chewing gum that tastes of soap. We've got: Kraft Dinner, All Dressed Ruffles, Dill Pickle Chips, Canada Dry, A&W Root Beer, Coffee Crisp, Turtles, Lifesavers, Big Red Gum... All the things that Canadians said I must try for this video! Sadly no poutine, but I'm totally getting some of that when I'm in Toronto...Fake Lego Week Day 7: Attack of the Giant Figures | Ashensashens2022-07-31 | Patreon!: patreon.com/ashens Twitch! twitch.tv/ashens Fake Lego Week Day 7! MA SPOON IS TOO BIG. And also my minifigs! Poundland take us on a journey to the land of the giants with these super chunky giant figures. Based on their own 100% original super heroes, which is nice. Plus we've got a C-3PO knock off so bad it made my leg hurt, so that's nice.
#Lego #Fake #AshensFake Lego Week Day 6: Animals Unleashed | Ashensashens2022-07-30 | Fake Lego, Genuine Patreon: patreon.com/ashens Fake Lego Week Day 6! Animals never really translate well to Lego builds do they? That'll be why Lego themselves usually make them out of a couple of specifically moulded parts. If not they might end up with jungle animals such as a blue pizza oven and The Mechanical Chicken, as seen in this video. And for fans of Jurassic Park, we have nothing whatsoever! But for fans of weird guys in hats and spindly lizard monsters, we've got everything!
#Lego #Fake #AshensFake Lego Week Day 5: PUBG PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds | Ashensashens2022-07-30 | Chicken Dinner: patreon.com/ashens Fake Lego Week Day 5! PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or PUBG, is obviously something that's crying out for a Lego set because... er... yes? But that didn't stop Lele, 818 and OBM from making them and firing them off to the darkest of grey markets.
Anyway, here's my pet bat LeGrounds 🦇
#Lego #Fake #AshensFake Lego Week Day 4: Red Alert 3 Tesla Tank | Ashensashens2022-07-28 | SPACE! patreon.com/ashens Fake Lego Week Day 4! Do YOU remember Red Alert? Specifically the third game? Then you'll be amazed to see that this model of the RA3 Tesla Tank looks more like the one from Red Alert 2! But still not quite right! In other news, I've just remembered that Peter Stormare and Jonathan Pryce were in Red Alert 3 as well. Blimey.
#Lego #Fake #AshensFake Lego Week Day 3: Tesco Delivery Van | Ashensashens2022-07-28 | Support! Is a thing! patreon.com/ashens Fake Lego Week Day 3! I mean, sure, you could have some kind of spaceship that screams through the cosmos blasting lasers into evil robots and saving the galaxy... Or you could have a Tesco delivery van that drives groceries to people's houses. Which is more appealing and exciting? It depends how hungry you are.
#Lego #Fake #AshensFake Lego Week Day 2: The Cart and the Mirror | Ashensashens2022-07-26 | Twitch exists! twitch.tv/ashens Fake Lego Week Day 2! And now some random Chinese brands, marketed towards girls. Because girls love carts, medieval horsemen, and weird chairs! And boys hate all those things!
#Lego #Fake #AshensFake Lego Week Day 1: Not Captain America | Ashensashens2022-07-26 | Patreon Ahoy! patreon.com/ashens Fake Lego Week: ACTIVATE! First up are some offerings from the mighty Poundland, featuring a definitely original superhero, a cool attack aircraft, and a weird building! Also there are some spacemen and aliens because I like those things.
#Lego #Fake #AshensWorst Villain Ever - Airfix Action Figures | Ashensashens2022-07-11 | You can do a support! patreon.com/ashens Plasty Airfix may sound like a character from Star Wars, but it's a company that made the most wonderful action figures. With rubber trousers!
But the best isn't the sheriff, or the water police, or candyman / road worker, or even Batman - it's the most villainous villain to have ever villained, DR WAR!
UK comedy references: Dr War without his helmet looks a bit like Kryten from Red Dwarf, and Batman looks more like Del Boy dressed up in Only Fools and Horses!
#Figures #Airfix #Ashens
Airfix EaglesMonstrously Outdated Knock-off Transformers | Ashensashens2022-06-25 | Twitchiness: twitch.tv/ashens Hey you! Person human! Do you remember things from the past? Such as vertical camcorders, flip phones and handheld gaming systems? Well here are some abysmal knock-off Transformers that turn into those farcically outdated items! Were they made in the past when such things were relevant? Or are they weird throwbacks? We may never know, mostly because there aren;t any dates on them!
#ashens #transformers #bootlegPOP Station Watch 2022: Steering Wheel | Ashensashens2022-06-08 | Do a support if you like: patreon.com/ashens POP Stations return! Kind of! I mean I got another old one! But we haven't seen one like it before! Exclamation Mark! Yep, it's the return of the LCD horrors and they're just as naff as ever. But hey, at least it has a weird steering wheel control system and some digitised audio!I Bought Mystery Boxes from Ali Express and Got What I Deserved | Ashensashens2022-05-14 | Patreon is a thing! And you can give Super Thanks, which is also a thing! patreon.com/ashens
Ali Express mystery boxes! The true enigmas of life! Unless you buy them and open them. Basically, it seems to be a way of clearing stock and charging you more for it at the same time, which may be a stroke of evil genius (assuming anyone's buying them.)
Anyway, I bought three of differing values and ended up with an impractical and grotesque keyring, a naff watch, some outdated tech, some deprecated tech, and a very pretty thing. Which one was Huggy Wuggy from Poppy's Playtime? You'll have to watch the video to find out! (Or read this word: Keyring.)
#aliexpress #mysterybox #ashensMore Amazing Dollar Tree Action Figures | Ashensashens2022-04-28 | Do a support if you like: patreon.com/ashens Final Faction return back again! There have been a load more releases in this line of ludicrously low cost action figures, and if anything they're getting better. Also they have vehicles now for US$1! (Or US$1.25 or whatever the cost is in your area.)
I really love that kids can get handfuls of imaginatively designed toys for a couple of dollars, especially when most kid-friendly lines are now pretty pricey. It's the good side of pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap.