Success & Failure
“Dude” on Broadway
One of the most spectacular theatrical bombs. Read the full story here.
And also here, with more pix.
The Wikipedia page.
I am going to include some quotes from the 1972 NYT article on this massive failure, but the whole piece is behind their paywall.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 19, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Success & Failure, Theater and Stage, 1970s
Journal of Universal Rejection
Similar in spirit to the Society for the Prevention of Progress.
via Book of Joe
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 03, 2024 -
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Category: Magazines, Success & Failure
Tri-Ang Bolo Game
The Tri-Ang Toy company in the UK seems to have been a conventional and successful business. But then, in some fit of madness, they chose to release "Bolo--The New Game."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 11, 2023 -
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Category: Inventions, Really Bad Ideas, Success & Failure, Toys, 1940s, United Kingdom
Intros to Failed 1970s TV Shows
Another collection of never-made-it TV shows.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 26, 2023 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Success & Failure, Television, 1970s
18 UNEARTHED TV INTROS TO SHORT-LIVED 70s SITCOMS
What a parade of forgotten flops! And yet, perhaps some of us will have a keen memory of seeing one of these shows in our youth!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 18, 2023 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Success & Failure, Television, 1970s
The Edsel Show
Even titanic star power could not save this famous automobile disaster. The interspersed commercials are great too.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 01, 2023 -
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Category: Success & Failure, Television, Disgrace, Shame, Infamy and Downfalls, Advertising, 1950s, Cars
TV INTROS TO 18 SHORT-LIVED SITCOMS OF THE 70s
Wow, what a bunch of bizarre stinkers from an odd decade.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 20, 2022 -
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Category: Success & Failure, Television, 1970s
Failed Suicide Champion
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 12, 2022 -
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Category: Success & Failure, Suicide, 1910s
Harley-Davidson Perfume
Classic business failure: "Hot Road," an eau de toilette released by Harley-Davidson in the mid-1990s and quietly discontinued a year or two later. It wasn't exactly an "on brand" product.More info: Milwaukee Magazine
image source: parfumo.net
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 18, 2022 -
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Category: Business, Products, Success & Failure, 1990s, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
The Palace of the Soviets
Take what metaphors and allegories you will from this famous failure.
The Wikipedia page tells us:
The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Дворец Советов, Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The main function of the palace was to house sessions of the Supreme Soviet in its 130-metre (430 ft) wide and 100-metre (330 ft) tall grand hall seating over 20,000 people. If built, the 416-metre (1,365 ft) tall palace would have become the world's tallest structure, with an internal volume surpassing the combined volumes of the six tallest American skyscrapers.[10]
The music on this video is annoying--hit MUTE--but otherwise it's well done.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 15, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Government, Success & Failure, Russia, Twentieth Century
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