I miss getting on a plane and reading Skymall to see what batshit crazy stuff they had to sell. Anyone else?
The trip to sharper image was not complete until you got to sit in the massage chair.
Yeah dude that stuff always blew my mind as a kid. Browsing the real sharper image store then was a treat too. I got a skymall hot dog toaster one Christmas and it was amazing.
I’m convinced that all the stupid shit in Skymall is still available on the Internet, but I miss having it all collected in one place. The curated ridiculousness was perfect.
Here you go:
Yeah, they’re another good one.
I used to love going into The Sharper Image and Brookstone stores at the mall when I was a kid.
I used to love going in those two stores to sample the massage chairs.
I got on a plane a few weeks ago and realized that I didn’t have headphones. I would have really liked something to read. AA does offer 20 free minutes of WiFi so I opened a bunch of tabs in my browser, but a skymall would ah e been read for sure.
Wait, Skymall isn’t a thing anymore? Here I thought I was just picking shitty airlines…
https://www.flyingsmarter.com/what-happened-to-skymall
“SkyMall declared bankruptcy in January of 2015, but they were purchased in April 2015 and relaunched the following month as an online retailer. There was a plan to get back into planes but that never really happened. Today, SkyMall is still an online retailer.”
Huh, all online now…
I was more confused about what SkyMall even was. Even if I never went into one, I knew what Sharper Image was. I thought SkyMall must have been a regional chain.
Sharper Image style catalog in the seat back pockets on airplanes.
Yeah, I don’t fly if I can help it and I think frequent flyers overestimate how ubiquitous air travel is.
Always wanted those shoes with the spring in your step
It’s a map and you JUMP to CONCLUSIONS!
I miss the Edge Company. It was like someone took The Sharper Image and slapped a medium-thick coat of 90’s rad on it with a mild focus on EDC-style pocket junk.
A quick Google search shows both companies are still in business, so not much to miss? I imagine they are put SkyMall on some airlines
A ton of Sharper Image stuff gets sold at Walmarts in the “As Seen On TV” section.
Wow. I didn’t even bother searching. Just assumed since I no longer saw it in the plane backseat they weren’t around anymore.
For like a minute then I watch a movie on my phone
Only if my battery runs out on the plane.
How about the DAK catalogs?
Or the “Things You Never Knew Existed” catalogs, which were by the guys that used to sell a bunch of the stuff in the back of comics, Boys’ Life, etc (Johnson Smith Company) - X-Ray specs, fake dog poop, etc. But on steroids. Selling huge magnet things, car kits, Mr Mooney dolls, weird statues, magic kits, fake rocks, etc.
Edit: LOL, I found one. Man, brings me back to going through as a 9 year od:
https://archive.org/details/the-johnson-smith-company-catalog-913-circa-1991-starbrite
Why have I never owned a wrist kite???
Don’t recall that.
I miss when the products themselves weren’t cheap garbage. Back in the early 00s they hit a stride of products that were cooler versions of products available everywhere else, same function, better form.
Nope, not one bit.
