Mandela effect in toy collecting

[Klosterheim]

^ There was a Chewbacca Wookie storybook in 1979.

- Ian

Excellent. Thanks!

I think that I read that one in a library.
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I didn't watch the youtube video yet, but one Star Wars book, If I remember correctly, showed that little spaceship, which finally became a toy, pop out of the front door thing of the Millennium Falcon.

Another book, that might be hard to identify now though, in the same time period, at the school library was a book about castles and things, for children, but had a man in chainmail shot with an arrow or crossbow bolt and the guy was bleeding from his chest.
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I remember my dad saying that a movie scene that made a great impression on him was a scene where a tank totally crushed a car in the movie To Hell And Back. We watched the movie in the early 1990's or sooner, and the scene was not in the film.

I have it on DVD, but the scene is not on that either.

[Werewolf]

I still wonder if bad VHS resolution created some kind of illusion?

Nah, VHS resolution wasn't really that bad and even the earliest VHS releases clearly show she had no braces. Plus I think most people misremembering it claim she had braces in the theater and was changed some time after that.

It would have totally worked as a gag if she did have braces.

I think that's where it comes from. But I think the gag was the differences between the two. Dolly being tiny and having perfect teeth in comparison to super tall Jaws and his metal teeth. Opposites attract kind of thing.

[Brazoo]

I was surprised when I found that a large chunk of Bond fans swear Jaw's girlfriend in Moonraker originally had braces. She never did.

Haha - right on! Out of all those famous Mandela effect claims that's the one that kinda shocked me and I had to go double check!

I still wonder if bad VHS resolution created some kind of illusion? I also think it's just a great example of why a group of people misremember the same thing. 1) like most people I only saw it when I was young, and 2) it's been ages since I've seen it because it was never one of the Bond movies I loved, and 3) the idea of her having braces would make perfect sense (especially to little kids who were at braces age) because she's got a weird little-girl dorky thing going on and from what I remember Jaws seems to fall in love with her right after she smiles at him. It would have totally worked as a gag if she did have braces.

[Werewolf]

I was surprised when I found that a large chunk of Bond fans swear Jaw's girlfriend in Moonraker originally had braces. She never did.

I think some of this stuff is just internet hoaxes like the Polybius arcade game.

[Mr.Marion]

As a kid I remember a Columbo episode where he has sticker shock over a $40k price tag on a Picasso. No such episode exists but a similar scene happened in McMillan and Wife involving John Schuck.

[Earth 2 Chris]

In some rare cases, these "false" memories are real. There are a few lucky people who actually saw that scene at the end of The Shining with Shelly Duvall and little Danny in the hospital, visited by the manager of the Overlook. After a few screenings, Kubrick had every print of the film recalled and recut, to excise the scene. And apparently he destroyed all traces of it!

I had a personal Mandella Effect incident a few Halloweens ago. My kids and I Trick-or-Treated at a house on the street I grew up on. When my old neighbor answered the door I was momentarily freaked out, because I thought she had passed away several years before.

As for toys, most of my childhood memories have been solidified, with myth rewritten by facts from books and websites like this. Until Brian posts something that releases another lost memory, that is!

Chris

[Bruce Banner]

Kind of like the people that swear they saw the deleted Biggs and Luke scene in the original theatrical showings of Star Wars (they didn't).

I wonder if those people are getting confused because it was in the storybook.

Exactly... the fact that photos of that sequence were included in the SW Storybook definitely accounts for most of those claims. I've lost count of the number of times over the years that I've heard people claim they saw those scenes in a print of the movie.

And that Wookiee Storybook is awesome. Still have my childhood copy.

[YoungOnce]

To this day I still have a distinct memory of a scene in Salem's Lot where Barlow floats around the inside of the old Barlow house chasing somebody. Watching it last year and there is no such scene. Don't know where that came from.

[Hedji]

Thanks for posting that narrated Wookiee Storybook. That was REALLY well done!

[Brazoo]

Kind of like the people that swear they saw the deleted Biggs and Luke scene in the original theatrical showings of Star Wars (they didn't).

I wonder if those people are getting confused because it was in the storybook.

[favoritemonsters]

I remember trying to collect a Galoob "Speckled" Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but I think those are accepted as real.

Yes, real.

[cjefferys]

Kind of like the people that swear they saw the deleted Biggs and Luke scene in the original theatrical showings of Star Wars (they didn't).

[monitor_ep]

The Wookiee Storybook.jpgStar Wars The Holiday special.jpg

The Wookiee Storybook is sorta sequal to Star Wars A Holiday Special.

[EmergencyIan]

^ There was a Chewbacca Wookie storybook in 1979.

- Ian

[Klosterheim]

My Boba Fett rocket never came out, either.

I can't remember if the twelve-inch Boba Fett's rocket moved at all, but I could look through his head!

I did have lawn darts like on the X-Files episode that focused on this theory.

One episode of Art Bell's Midnight in the Desert also talks about it.

I remember trying to collect a Galoob "Speckled" Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but I think those are accepted as real.

Many movies I remember differently from when I saw them in the theater, but I think that has to do with various Director's Cuts and versions, sometimes changed sneaked into home video.

Sometimes what came out different years seemed to have changed.

I do think there are some elements of the theory that are true.

I'll have to look up a Chewbacca children's book to see if it was real.

Oh, and I really thought at one time that an action-figure toy line was made for the television series Wizards & Warriors.

It might have been the Remco stuff, but it might have been real, then it changed due to the effect.