( Posterization is a technical printing technique for when you remove some level of the details in a photograph or image by heightening the level of contrast. “Max Headroom.”This features a posterized Max with mouth open and no sunglasses with usual black-block background with lines in purple, green, yellow, and orange. (I am fairly certain these transfers were officially licensed products, but I haven’t seen them on eBay since probably the mid-2000s.) There are also fan-made shirts, often using iron-on transfers. There are several other kinds of shirts, though, including some that advertise the Lorimar Max Headroom TV series, some the Cinemax “Max Headroom Talk Show,” and others that present just plain ol’ Max with no advertisements. Most of these promote one of the official Coca-Cola TM advertising campaigns. In my personal arsenal of Max Gear, I’ve accumulated a few shirts featuring Max. The overall look and color scheme happens to match a plastic mug This is especially memorable since golfing is (ironically) Max Headroom’s favorite sport. A white plastic golfing-style visor(1986).
For those who aren’t familiar with the term toque, it’s a Northern American and Canadian word for a pullover winter hat.
#Max headroom mask Patch#
A grey toque-style roll-up facemask hatwith a quilt-stuffed Max patch sewn onto the front (1986).A black baseball capwith an embroidered red and black Network XXIII patch on the front.I’ve seen several kinds of Max hats over the years: (No elastic band included.) As far as I know, the carton version and the pre-cut versions are the same size, but I’ll need to confirm or correct that detail. Coca-Cola also put a do-it-yourself cut-out Max face mask onto the 12-pack carton for cans. It is 7″ at the widest point and 11″ tall. This is the one shown on a fluorescent flamingo pink backing so you can see the size of the teeny eye holes, and the holes on the sunglasses for the elastic band. I got mine with a Coca-Cola™ press kit for distributers. Occasionally these are found pre-cut, with an elastic band for easy and effective wearing. A cardboard Max face with either punch-out or cut-out places for the eyes, nose die cut around the rim, and punch-out or cut-out rounded slit for the mouth. Package shows 1986 copyright by Ben Cooper and 1987 copyright by Chrysalis Visual Programming, Ltd.
#Max headroom mask plus#
It includes a black poncho with the usual Max neon lines, plus a flat half-mask (only the sunglasses on up with that special vinylized Max hairffant, allowing one’s mouth the freedom to say “Trick or Tr-Tr-Tr-Treat!” unimpeded). This is a packaged costume, one-size-fits-all for ages 8-14, produced in Taiwan for Ben Cooper, Inc., company in New York. Several costume items were produced for Max wanna-bees. Additional details and photos forthcoming. The suspenders have a similar design to the web-belt, with silver-tone clips, approximate.
#Max headroom mask series#
The belt itself is a series of slanted, alternating stripes of yellow and black, plus several large overlaid sections with a white bar and red capital letters spelling out MAX HEADROOM. There was a web-belt featuring Max in a white tuxedo, black tie, and white sunglasses on the slide-roll buckle.