Studies in Crap: Fun with CHiPs Colorforms

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

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CHiPs Colorforms

Date: 1981

Discovered at: DAV Thrift Store, Independence

The Cover Promises: “Create your own scenes from Chips with COLORFORMS plastic pieces that Stick Like Magic.”

Hooray for smiles, highways and authority! At the tail-end of those glum 1970s, when that peanut guy hurt America’s feelings by telling it things that were true, TV made everything sunshiney again by giving us CHiPs, that uplifting drama about male strippers who find redemption in the California Highway Patrol.