November 6th, 2009

My guess is that if you opted to sample that thirty-year old stick of gum you'd either recreate the ending of THE BLACK HOLE or at least figure out what the hell it was all about. I still have a number of gum cards I bought in the 1970s - SPACE 1999, PLANET OF THE APES and such. I'm sure there's still some petrified bubble gum sticks lurking among them.

Iv been on vacation so I got a lot of catching up to do if I'm going to complete with my one comment on every blog you write commitment. Great pics by the way!

I want one of those picks.... so bad... it's not even funny

Dude - I oncew thought I had unearthed an original 1077 Star Wars Bubblegum and card set at a car booty - alas it was just the card - and that was pretty badly douched as well. Black Hole - VINCENT poster on my wall for the entire length of that year - what a movie....Maximillian scard the living shit out of me!

Nice collection Edgar. I can almost taste that Bubble Gum now.
Have you unwrapped it? I'd love to see what is on the cards.

Also - I soooo want a Scott Pilgrim plectrum for my Uke!

4 levels of play? Man, I don't know if I would ever be able to finish that game.

what lovely presents! nice of him to part with them.

maybe your lost thing will turn up in another box - prob tucked in a really clever safe place, so safe you've even forgotten where it is.

and cheered that you have a mantlepiece. not enough of them about these days.

GUITAR PICKS! :DDDD
*crossses fingers for a giveaway*

Smart choice about the gum. At a con last year, my brother and I bought a bunch of old Alf cards as a joke, and tried the gum later that night on a dare. It tasted and felt like nothing but gravel and dust. Not exactly a brilliant moment on our parts...

I need one of those plectrums!!!!
the only special edition type plectrum i have is from the dvd release of 'school of rock'

That Black Hole bubble gum is very cool, i don't remember ever playing that Alien game, i think it was Alien 3 i had on my Sega Megadrive, anyway i was totally addicted to it for about 6 months.

Good lord... I remember those trading card packs. We had a bunch of them from a Halloween package for handing out to the kids. We got to keep them for ourselves because we liked the movie so much (I guess I was 6 at that point). I also remember there were Grease trading cards in the package, which I couldn't have given a rat's ass for because Grease was just a girly movie. I think I still have the actual Black Hole trading cards stored away somewhere...wanna do some trading? : P

So it's pacman but with Aliens?

The Black Hole Gum---1979,that gum is the same age as me..

Atari Rules

never heard of the black hole but it's like those child things in japan. You get an action figure, a card, and some sort of candy! the atari game.....hmm....lets see wat the angry video game nerd has to say about alien, and lastly......those guitar picks are gay. literally. hahaha Love em edgar, nice to know you've got MARVELous friends to give you abundANT gifts for your MANtle.

Get it?

Priceless! Were any of these the thing you thought you lost? I hope so.

No...that is still unaccounted for.

So sorry. Hope it turns up.