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Letraset Action Transfers/Presto Magix.
They were really a fad in the Sixties and Seventies, and went on well into the Eighties and may still be around in some form. (I have since learned that MEGA Brands now owns the trademark for Presto Magix and has some product on the market. I wonder if they can reprint old non-license-based content.) I forget how much mine cost...we got them at a sundry or drug store. My brother had a soccer set and an Incredible Hulk set (he wanted to be Lou Ferrigno when he grew up!) and I had a car race set and a WW2 air/sea battle set. Since I can't find any visual aids for those, the following will have to do. Find the one you want in the stacks, take it home, open the envelope, and you get a fold-out panorama scene, like yea:
And a set of rub-off stickers, like yea:
And you amuse yourself by adding the stickers to the scene, paying attention to things like artistic placement and perspective and so and such. It was more intelligent than coloring books, more colorful than crosswords but still mentally stimulating, more portable than scale models or action figures (so you could keep one or two in your scholastic work folder). In retrospect I should have gotten a lot more of the things.
Nowadays the effect can be achieved with clipart and a Flash-based virtual widget. Heck, the Yahoo Avatar builder uses much of the same concept.
This Website Has More Info.
FP
PS: Producers Are Money-Grubbing Scum.
They were really a fad in the Sixties and Seventies, and went on well into the Eighties and may still be around in some form. (I have since learned that MEGA Brands now owns the trademark for Presto Magix and has some product on the market. I wonder if they can reprint old non-license-based content.) I forget how much mine cost...we got them at a sundry or drug store. My brother had a soccer set and an Incredible Hulk set (he wanted to be Lou Ferrigno when he grew up!) and I had a car race set and a WW2 air/sea battle set. Since I can't find any visual aids for those, the following will have to do. Find the one you want in the stacks, take it home, open the envelope, and you get a fold-out panorama scene, like yea:
And a set of rub-off stickers, like yea:
And you amuse yourself by adding the stickers to the scene, paying attention to things like artistic placement and perspective and so and such. It was more intelligent than coloring books, more colorful than crosswords but still mentally stimulating, more portable than scale models or action figures (so you could keep one or two in your scholastic work folder). In retrospect I should have gotten a lot more of the things.
Nowadays the effect can be achieved with clipart and a Flash-based virtual widget. Heck, the Yahoo Avatar builder uses much of the same concept.
This Website Has More Info.
FP
PS: Producers Are Money-Grubbing Scum.
