Are you old enough to remember seeing this every week on Saturday mornings?

88 points Gold_Ticket_1970

I can put my arm back on,you cant

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39 points MajorMiners469

So play safe

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39 points Mawk1977

And now, back to the Racoons.

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18 points Zymoria

Run with us! I see the passion in your eyayes. Run with us! We are freeeeee.

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4 points Sasquatch1729

I'm surprised The Raccoons and Captain Planet haven't been rebooted, given how the environmentalism movement has gained traction lately.

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4 points Overall-Phone7605

I was just watching Raccoon's Christmas special and I love how Cyril Sneer is just a lumber exec who wants to cut down trees and evergreen forest was somewhere in BC.

Remember when the lumber industry were the bad guys? Kraft Dinner remembers.

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1 points SuperRonnie2

Holy shit, right down to the plaid shirt and cigar. Never put this together before.

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2 points lw5555

There was an attempt to reboot The Raccoons in 2019, but it didn't really go beyond the pitch phase.

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48 points vinnybawbaw

Je suis Astor, un robot. Moi je peux remettre mon bras, vous pas. Jouez prudemment.

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15 points dictionary_hat_r4ck

They had this au Québec?

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25 points vinnybawbaw

Yup. Traumatized me as a kid, fuckin’ creepy gymnast robot.

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1 points orundarkes

Tabarnacle, j’habitais en Ontario dans le temps d’Astor, aucune idée qu’il avait traduit le commercial!

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1 points OBLAC2

Exact, première fois que je le vois en anglais 😂

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22 points StupidGenius11

https://preview.redd.it/2gnx01azod9g1.png?width=4096&format=png&auto=webp&s=683895370eb90ad6c07a4cbf13dcc41004e50a2b

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16 points iwasnotarobot

I loooved this PSA as a kid. I was fascinated with how real it looked.

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12 points BodhingJay

production quality was insane compared everything else everywhere else at the time.. i wanted a movie about this dude

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1 points NeighbourNoNeighbor

TBH it honestly made me think more about how I wanted to be a robot than about how I should play safe. That being said - the tagline was so iconic it still sticks with you.

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14 points JimroidZeus

And Sunday, and at the start of every weekday morning cartoons too.

For years. 😂

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7 points _badmedicine

Core memory unlocked.

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6 points CeeArthur

I still remember the sound the downed powerline made for one of these safety commercials.

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10 points elseldo

I hated that thing.

WarAmps would have a float in our fall parade with that goddamn robot on it. Bad enough seeing it on tv, then a 15ft one looking over my tiny child self?

No.

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1 points FrontLongjumping4235

Why did you hate it?

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1 points elseldo

Scared the crap out of me as a wee baby

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4 points BakedGoods

man what production value, anyone know who produced this?

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1 points Overall-Phone7605

oh wait there's an ottawa citizen article too! (also googleable)

From the War Amps Ottawa offices on Riverside Drive, Astar moved into production with detailed storyboards drawn up that outlined action sequences for a 30-second TV spot. Using conventional early-1980s special effects techniques, a gold formed robotic suit was fabricated. It was worn by a gymnast actor interacting with a bluescreen set of full-scale prop saw blades in order to bring Astar’s safety message to life.

also www dot cinematheque dot qc dot ca/en/works/playsafe/ has original storyboards done by Luc Champagne

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4 points lyidaValkris

one of the best PSAs ever

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7 points theangryfrogqc

The message was clear: stay safe kids.

But the whole rest of this thing was 1) Creepy AF, 2) 100% over the top and 3) A disastrous creative choice.

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3 points adamonfireyyc

Nightmares as a child revisited. Thanks

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3 points Mawk1977

Holy cow that brings back old time memories.

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3 points whyarenttheserandom

Hahahha oh my gosh, thanks for the wonderful memory today 💖

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5 points hind3rm3

Not my proudest fap

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2 points dinosaur_decay

“I can put my arm back on, you can’t. Stay safe” - cyborg

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1 points Roll_the-Bones

I remember seeing this early 90s too

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1 points zacmobile

Why don't they have warnings for kids like this anymore? Is it safer nowadays? Not as much rotating machinery to play around?

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1 points kaiser_mcbear

Yes, and it scared the living shit out of me. I thought the character was horrid looking.

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1 points NickDynmo

I hate that smug fuck, rubbing our faces in it. Yes, you can put your arm back on. We're all very impressed.

Dick.

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1 points PhillGuy

My arms are still well attached because of this.

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1 points Southern-Morning-413

Yes, yes I am.

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1 points Bartakus

I learned by watching you!! Haha

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1 points EvaSirkowski

2spooky4me

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1 points RaymoVizion

My older sister and I used to quote this when we were kids except we would frequently replace his arm with more vulgar sounding body parts. Then laugh hysterically.

I still laugh thinking about it.

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1 points koolaidkirby

I could've sworn I remembered this as early 90s cgi and not someone in suit with greenscreen.

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1 points NeighbourNoNeighbor

There was another one later that I think was more CGI. I tried to paste a link but it's not allowed on this sub. You can find it easily on youtube, though.

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