Playing with your food: Ipso!

Munchies & Crunchies #10

Some more 80's memories.


Ipso!!

They are what they look like.
Mints and fruit candies that came inside big hollowed out Lego blocks that were compatible with real Legos.
They were cool as shit.

The candy was just so-so.
They had the consistency/texture of Skittles.
The mint ones tasted like Tic-Tacs, or gumball machine gum.
The fruit ones tasted like watered down Starburst.

Blue Lego was mint, orange was orange, red was strawberry, green was lemon-lime.

After you ate the candy, you could hide little treasures inside the candy compartments.
I used them to drop little Lego bombs.

I had two of each flavor.
That's all I was able to get before they vanished from shelves in Maine.

It was a great poverty way to stretch your Legos.

The other way was Tyco blocks.

They were total clones of Legos, but they were way cheaper, came in buckets, and their figure guys weren't as good as the Lego minifigs.
I had regular and space (pictured).

What you'd do, is you'd get the littlest cheapest Lego space adventure set for the minifig, and the cooler pieces, then you'd get Tyco for filler, and Ipso to steroid up the size of your robot/spaceship/house.

And the Tyco buckets had extra space, so you could stuff more Legos in there.

Legos were pricey even in 80's money, but now they're fucking outrageous.
We need Tyco and Ipso to make a comeback for poor kids.

I gave all my Lego/Tyco/Ipso away to cousins ages ago, but I had fun times.

And it's cool to see the blue astronaut in Lego Movie; back before all these licensed characters, if you were a nerdy 80's kid, astronaut was your guy.
That's what you had.
I gave that little feller a lot of cool bases.


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KFC recipe. (MC #9)