That Old Evel Knievel Wind-up Motorcycle Toy Is Coming Back
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Every kid I knew had this growing up, and I cannot recall one ever actually working properly – he’d go sideways and fall off almost immediately. Not unlike his real-life canyon jump, it carried the expectation of coolness without much execution.
With Forever Fun remaking it from the original parts, with necessary tweaks for today’s safety standards, can they tweak it to actually do what it oughta while they’re at it? Once again, what looks cool may not deliver – but at $50, it’s cheaper than some nostalgia toys.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist