Reliquary of The Rare, Ridiculous & Really Damn Weird - NOW OPEN

[Lexicon]

Welcome to TypoC’s newest exhibition gallery- showcasing the odd, obscure, creepy and downright ridiculously regrettable artifacts of yesteryear that most would much prefer to forget, or ideally never encounter at all.

Admission is free.


Donations are not only welcomed but encouraged. Here, you may deposit any strange bit of art, media, machinery, architecture, fashion, invention, (etc) - providing their origin is prior to the year 2000.


The more bizarre, the better.





I’ll start things off with this nightmarish contribution, passed along to me by a dear friend:
(Animation, The Peanut Vendor, circa 1933)

Enjoy!

 

[Peter Deadpan]

You have my attention.

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

 

[Lexicon]

Modern fast food adverts have always been offputting. Sort of manipulative with their catchy jingles, trying their hardest to be hip and with it. Fun characters to attract the kiddies.

Bit scary, when you think about it.

Back in the Good Ol’ Days, fast food adverts were just as scary— albeit in a different manner.



I give you the original Ronald McDonald from the 1960s.

Costume supplied directly from the dumpster:

This is like the opening of a Law & Order SVU episode:

Just... why?

 

[The Cat]

 

[Luminous]

I had a doll which talked and said certain things, like that she was tired or asked you to sing to her. She never worked quite right. A few times in the middle of the night, she switched on and asked to be fed, freaking everyone in the house out.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Lexicon]

I had a doll which talked and said certain things, like that she was tired or asked you to sing to her. She never worked quite right. A few times in the middle of the night, she switched on and asked to be fed, freaking everyone in the house out.

*shudder*
Reminds me of Talky Teena from that episode from The Twilight Zone, “Living Doll.”

(Full episode avail on Netflix. s5 e6)

 

[Lexicon]

Norman Bates had to start somewhere, right? Novice mistakes?

Or is that a rendering of Gmork from The NeverEnding Story as a pup?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Wasn't there something like that on Shining Time Station? I seem to remember a creepy animatronic band, there, too. Although I think in that case, they were nightmarish simulacrums of humans, rather than fauna.


As for my contribution:

Note to creature desginers: whenever you give a creature an exposed brain, it's impossible for it to not also look like a giant ball-sack.

 

[Lexicon]

As for my contribution:

Note to creature desginers: whenever you give a creature an exposed brain, it's impossible for it to not also look like a ball-sack.

That’s from the computer virus episode on Are You Afraid of The Dark!
Technically not prior to 1990, but now I’m considering amending it to prior to 2000.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

That’s from the computer virus episode of Are You Afraid of The Dark!
Technically not prior to 1990, but now I’m considering amending it to prior to 2000.

Oh, I missed the fine print. I owe the reliquary another.

 

[Lexicon]

[MENTION=4660]Julius_Van_Der_Beak[/MENTION] - I already changed the fine print to prior to 2000, so, you’re paid up.

The 90s were about 20yrs ago... that’s far back enough for ‘vintage,’ imo. There’s some gloriously terrible stuff buried in that decade.

 

[Lexicon]

Glad this cosmetic contraption never took off:


1920s

 

[Jaguar]

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[Lexicon]

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I love how NONE of the kids appear to be enjoying these.. things.. at all.

I can’t imagine how many head injuries occurred from those.

 

[Peter Deadpan]

More creepy, less ads.
Puh-laese.

 

[Lexicon]

More creepy, less ads.
Puh-laese.

Here’s some nightmare fuel from ‘85.

Just wait for the mirror scene a minute or two in.

 

[Peter Deadpan]

Here’s some nightmare fuel from ‘85.

Just wait for the mirror scene a minute or two in.

A lot of creepy things came out that year.
Such as myself.
Fucking terrifying.