{"id":6015,"date":"2009-09-01T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2010-05-12T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:09:16","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-mr-t-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-mr-t-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Mr. T Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6047\" title=\"mr.-t-bank_9897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr.-t-bank_9897.jpg\" alt=\"mr.-t-bank_9897\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr.-t-bank_9897.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr.-t-bank_9897-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<p>Made of super hard plastic, the coins reverberate when they drop inside Mr. T&#8217;s cavernous head making this a better percussion instrument than bank. Which is best given how cheap this 10&#8243; lump o&#8217; Mr. T is made&#8230; You literally have to cut a hole in the bottom to get the coins out. Which means, of course, you can never use it as a bank again as there&#8217;s no way to re-insert the plastic which is surely jagged, sharp and misshapen after using an ice pick or whatever else it might take to puncture the <em>exceedingly<\/em> super hard plastic.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6019\" title=\"mr-t-bank_7799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7799.jpg\" alt=\"mr-t-bank_7799\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7799.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7799-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<p>Made by Ruby-Spears Enterprises in 1983, this is a relatively rare piece of Mr. T. memorabilia with jewelry and other assorted bling, T-shirts, games, coloring books and A-Team vans far more locatable. I pity the fool among Mr. T collectors who doesn&#8217;t own this piece of gorgeous super hard plastic molded to a T perfection.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6023\" title=\"mr-t-bank_7795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7795.jpg\" alt=\"mr-t-bank_7795\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7795.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7795-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6027\" title=\"mr-t-bank_7793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7793.jpg\" alt=\"mr-t-bank_7793\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7793.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7793-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6029\" title=\"mr-t-bank_7794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7794.jpg\" alt=\"mr-t-bank_7794\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7794.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mr-t-bank_7794-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 396px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">Made of super hard plastic, the coins reverberate when they drop inside Mr. T&#8217;s cavernous head making this a better percussion instrument than bank. Which is best given how cheap this bank is made&#8230; You literally have to cut a hole in the bottom to get the coins out. Which means, of course, you can never use it as a bank again as there&#8217;s no way to re-insert the plastic which is surely jagged, sharp and misshapen after using an ice pick or whatever else it might take to puncture the exceedingly super hard plastic.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 396px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">Made by Ruby-Spears Enterprises in 1983, this is a relatively rare piece of Mr. T. memorabilia with jewelry and other assorted bling, T-shirts, games, coloring books and A-Team vans far more locatable.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made of super hard plastic, the coins reverberate when they drop inside Mr. T&#8217;s cavernous head making this a better percussion instrument than bank. Which is best given how cheap this 10&#8243; lump o&#8217; Mr. T is made&#8230; You literally have to cut a hole in the bottom to get the coins out. Which means, &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-mr-t-bank\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,1365,87,193,167,585],"tags":[61,3232,3245,587],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-financial","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-toy","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-mr-t-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}