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I live near East Aurora. My aunt submitted all our family's kids photos to them and a few of us ended up on boxes. Her kid is on the original Bubble Mower.

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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did she get money from that, or why did she do it?

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No money in it for her, I think she just thought it would be fun. I don't know how she even knew it was an option. We got paid though, like 20 something bucks per shoot (an hour or 2), and something like $100 bonus if you got on the box. I remember going to Toy's R Us to get the whole TMNT toy collection after this, or maybe it was the Field Explorer, I was on that too. My allergies were horrible that day but they used the photo anyway.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm the man in the box, buried in my shit.

[–] ShunkW@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I won't come and save you. Sorry, got too much to do today. Maybe tomorrow?

[–] blueskiesoc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You were a cute kid. I can see why they picked your pics.