Some of the biggest FLOPS in history (picture thread)!

I wonder if there's any truth to the story about the dude who died in a DeLorean because it rolled over onto its roof, he couldn't open the gullwing doors, the windows didn't roll down and he eventually burned to death.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

How is that man's briefcase staying attached to the wheel of the segway?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf000/f001/f00188fhcg3.jpg

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicman.com/00pic/540.jpg

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

I've seen Segways around, but only rarely. Is there an actual demographic that uses them?

Meanwhile, Gay Dad had a SECOND album?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.desantis.com.ar/images/cds/pmcc/broad.jpg

No More Lonely Nights!

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

i remember begging my mom to see that movie. i quite liked it at age 9, or whatever i was...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, like Ned, I'm interested in the segway thing - they seem like such an anachronism already...does anyone put them to good use - or has anyone here ever, erm, taken a ride on one?

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

Some toolshiner was riding one around outside Shoreline Amphitheater. Question - is it possible for someone to ride one of those things without looking smug?

As for flops...I say:
http://www.musicman.com/00pic/1226.jpg

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

For the Trifecta....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JG4O.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008OLID.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008OLIJ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000038IDT.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000667S7.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2003/kw06/ngage.jpg http://www.techtite.com/Images/WWWRONG/3DO_Con.gif http://sen.zophar.net/emu/jaguar.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/theactionkingsd/Xanadu.gif

Budget: $20M
Opening Weekend: $1.4M

― Ryan Pitchfork, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, that's the last time I ever try to post an image.

― Ryan Pitchfork, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't get Spaghetti Incident being here. cover albums are rarely considered proper follow ups to albums of original material, at least by bands like G'n'R (although it probably sold less than Lies). but I mean, saying a covers album is a flop is like saying a live album is a flop; there's not really that kind of expectations riding on it.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fansedge.com/Images/product/33-21/33-21199-m.jpg

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.comicscardsandmore.com/promos/classicgoldtaylor.JPG

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c868/c8683964vp2.jpg
"Worst selling musical recording in Columbia Records history!" according to legend. Dunno if any morons took the title seriously; but if they did, those two hunks of cardboard-shrouded vinyl couldn'tve much harder to swallow than THIS >

http://www.ia-planet.com/ACS/1RP/orbitz.gif

> gawdawful concoction, available for a few months around '97 or so. A cousin & myself managed 3-4 swallows each, max. Anybody ever buy a second bottle? (Thx to Alex and his Zima/New Coke photos for reminding me of this stuff's brief existence.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

heh. that terrible raver drink with floating snot.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

http://fifauruguay.fifala.com/ss/denilson_neogf_bymiguelito.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

http://gob.deadly-nightshade.net/caps/pilot4.jpg http://gob.deadly-nightshade.net/caps/pilot2.jpg

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d114/d11429yumpn.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d537/d53766ip0f9.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d014/d0144573x4e.jpg

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

"Worst selling musical recording in Columbia Records history!" according to legend.

I've seen that quote attributed to Skip Spence's Oar and the D-Generation album from 1996.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

That Kevin Rowland album doesn't really exist...does it?

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

The one I have has "Thunder Road" on it, ner.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

mishka was a huge financial success actually. in japan, mind, but it did make alot of money. so not a flop! kevin rowland's album is actually really good.

― doomie x, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e766/e76620sy58r.jpg

(i liked orbitz. went well with vaseline on toast.)

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Xanadu actually grossed $22 million, making it not a huge flop.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/adg/cov150/DRT200/T210/t21096tam9c.jpg
Budget: $137 million
Gross: $61 million (worldwide)

― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

"Worst selling musical recording in Columbia Records history!" according to legend.
I've seen that quote attributed to Skip Spence's Oar and the D-Generation album from 1996.

-- Vic Funk

Dunno 'bout D-Generation, but yeah, I've seen conflicting accounts in several places (including HERE) skip spence's "oar" -- visionary underground classic or over-romanticized obscurist sham?
regarding both the Spence & Hampton recs, so that "worst-selling Columbia" designation must be one of those unattributed "dancing about architecture"-type statements.

Oar probably IS the worse-selling of the two, really. And a friend of mine once insisted that Columbia's REAL worst-seller was Terence Trent D'arby's Neither Fish Nor Flesh but he's fulla shit.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I heard it was a Yoga album.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.spreeforall.com/GoTo/PeopleStuff/Marc/Images/BillyIdol-Cyberpunk.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.jackbergsales.com/toys/Atari_ET.JPG

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

i had that... all i remember was falling in these pits and not having a fucking clue how to get out. which was apparently everyone's experience, or maybe more accurately, the only possible experience that game can provide.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

There is a popular myth that, because Atari produced infinitely more games than they could hope to sell (given the profoundly negative reception), they actually buried a bundle and paved a parking lot on top of them . In the summer, of course, the polymer ooze seeps through the cracks like poorly concealed toxic waste.

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

LOL Denilson was such as flop, he ended up in Norwegian club football last autumn, and was usually one of the worst player on his (quite average) team :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

The Onion ran an interview with Howard Scott Warshaw, who coded the "E.T." Atari game (and also created "Yar's Revenge," which ruled), where he basically debunked that myth.

― ng, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

http://i17.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/9d/2a/5b_1_b.JPG

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Because somebody would before or since come up with this bad pun, I might just add it myself:
http://literatur-lounge.de/runblog/pics/fosbury.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

haha.. that's good, geir!

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

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