{"id":14675,"date":"2024-02-16T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:36:37","slug":"merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14675","title":{"rendered":"Merch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am absolutely fascinated by this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecheapshow.co.uk\/ep-371-sauce-of-the-gladiators\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thecheapshow.co.uk\/ep-371-sauce-of-the-gladiators\">The CheapShow podcast<\/a> are doing an episode on the original <strong>Gladiators<\/strong> board game and I&#8217;m trying to work out how the hell I missed this as a twelve year old or whatever. At that sort of age I&#8217;d have absolutely scoured the toys and games bit of the Argos catalogue\/John Moores catalogue\/Kays catalogue\/whatever my Mum was using at the time and I don&#8217;t remember this at all, because if I did I would have begged to get it for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you have the power of The Gladiators? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulGannonShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@paulgannonshow<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elisnoid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elisnoid<\/a> try to find out if they have that power by playing a boardgame based on the hit 90s TV show. They probably won\u2019t. Shame.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Podchaser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@podchaser<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/podbible?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@podbible<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBgmeuDVsj\">https:\/\/t.co\/XBgmeuDVsj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ADI4ZFz9SE\">pic.twitter.com\/ADI4ZFz9SE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CheapShow (@TheCheapShowPod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCheapShowPod\/status\/1758472955581915580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was well aware of the action figure game sets they would go on to release later (and they wouldn&#8217;t have held quite the same appeal for me) but even so. Even looking back at old retrospectives I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen anyone refer to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever been surprised to discover gameshow merch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am absolutely fascinated by this, The CheapShow podcast are doing an episode on the original Gladiators board game and I&#8217;m trying to work out how the hell I missed this as a twelve year old or whatever. At that sort of age I&#8217;d have absolutely scoured the toys and games bit of the Argos\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14675\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sLcmt-merch","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}