Tanooki Joe
@TanookiKuribo
Marketing guy from NYC that loves retro pop-culture and doing high-res scans of old ads and other fun stuff. Creator of @VGArtAndTidbits
Seems they updated the Wise (chips) owl mascot. I gotta say, while I’m not crazy about it. I do give them credit for not jumping on the simplifying trend.
From my DragonBall marketing material collection… these press photos from the second Saban season of DBZ. (Press photos are typically sent to publications to use when talking about a show or movie) Anyway, they think Yamcha is Goku and Goku is Gohan in one of the photos
For no reason, here's a pic I took back in 2012 of the Dragon Ball GT premiere timer on Nicktoons during a DBZ movie marathon.
Here's a high-res scan of Rock'n Rollin' Turtles action figure concept art (1991).
For no reason, here’s glam shots of Sim City 64 for anyone that’s never seen a 64DD disk 🤷🏻♂️
Subway is offering a Happy Gilmore meal... don't know if it was wise to use the guy that eats pieces of shit for breakfast, but hey.
I’m scanning a Japanese Super Mario storybook from 1985 for my @VGArtAndTidbits account, and man… Bowser’s design looks so similar to what we got in The Super Show…
I pulled this shit once at Nintendo NY and the employee at the station was like, bro is that code?! And I was like, yup! I honestly have no idea if it was. He got kinda nervous and thought I destroyed the Switch console so I just used the rewind feature and all was good.
There's a new General Insurance commercial featuring uh... Bumblebee. There's not even a new Transformers movie to promote, he's just... in the commercial for the sake of a guest appearance. I'm down with that.
Jurassic World: Rebirth 3D video billboard in Times Square. Sometimes these 3D billboards don't work well, but this one... this one's pretty good.
Dragon Ball Daima Episode 4: Chatty - Adult Swim Toonami Commercial (airing 7/19/25)
McDonald’s is releasing a Boo Bucket in July! Well, technically no. BUT we do get a mini one in the McDonald’s Miniatures Happy Meal releasing on July 1st.
For no reason, here's a high-res scan of Tiny Toon Adventures Magazine, September 1991 cover.
