While digging around looking for Lucky Charms images a couple days ago, I spied this Hot Wheels Skate Tony Hawk Cereal Skate Bowl fingerboard set. I ignored it initially, but it did trigger a memory something I had flagged when scanning vintage skateboard magazine ads. Volume 2, number 5 of Skateboarder Magazine had a photo a near the end showing a fiberglass wave that Skitch Hitchcock had built and was carrying around in the back of a rental truck.
Here’s the caption accompanying the photo.
Skitch Hitchcock (below) has solved the problem of disappearing skate spots: make your own. A little fiberglass and imagination will go a long way. Named “The Wave,” for obvious reasons, Skitch carts it around in a rental truck for now. What you see above is only the early prototype. Watch for more on “The Wave” next issue.
The Wave did not show up in the next issue, but I feel like I’ve seen colored pictures of this thing before. Maybe it showed up later.
And now onto the cereal bowl playset. Sure, this is corny as all get-out, but I dig it. It totally would have appealed to me as a kid, in vein of those old chunky plastic toys like the original Game of Jaws, Wacky Packages, and Garbage Pail kids. yes! Do board slide the spoon!
I guess that’s a cartoon Tony Hawk on the cereal box?
I would totally buy this today if I didn’t already have a basement full of skateboard toys that I’m trying to get rid of.
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