This is the one that was on eBay.

They read copyright 1985 because that is when the DOT originally created the characters. The figures are actually from 1991. When the line was first launched, the toys became heavily criticized and the DOT quickly did not like the association the toys brought to glorifying car crashes in their eyes. TYCO was forced to remove the Vince & Larry names, and change it to Slick & Spin. This all happened in the course of a few months in 1991.

Ahh, that is artwork from the European only "racing" line, the final line of Incredible Crash Dummies. Because it was European only, and I have no nostalgia for them, I've never collected anything from this line. They are expensive, obscure, and for some reason all the non-English on the boxes turns me off, so I've never gone after these items. Perhaps one day...



Some of these toys are rarer than Stadium Events, I swear. I haven't seen the plane pictured below (Flying Dunce)
show up on eBay boxed in years now. Even a loose, broken, incomplete one will make money.

These aren't mine, but another collector has his hands on a few very rare prototype figures I didn't realize exist.
These were never advertised in any way and I have no idea how close they ever came to release.
Rod & Gasket (these characters never existed in any form), Axel (without glasses) & one of the Darlene prototypes.
I'm amazed to see something new to me, but I feel like these would have been pretty needless figures to introduce.

its funny I was just thinking about this toy line the other day. I miss the blue car I used to have. I cant remember what else I had but I specifically remember it and the pets

Still one of my favorite collections ever on nintendoage.

Do you have an updated pic of all your crash stuff ?

I actually do not have one truly full pic like I should, I always planned to do one when I became truly satisfied with the completeness of my collection, I'm not quite there yet, but I should take an updated photo. I have everything together, i just don't keep it out. It's tough to set everything up because I got damn cats these days!

Wow.... well done.

I could have sworn they were called "Crash *Test* Dummies".... have you ever heard that? My fiance just said the same thing when I showed her the picture without the Logo.

Mandela effect.

Same, maybe it's a Canadian thing

I never even noticed the thread title, but i'm pretty sure they were Crash Test Dummies here too, although maybe that's just because of the band being popular around that time.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

/agreement

They were only known as "Crash Dummies" in Canada, not "Incredible Crash Dummies" or "Crash Test Dummies"




The "Crash Test Dummies" were Vince and Larry, the spokesmen for the safety PSAs on TV from 1985-1999
These toys are based on those commercials, but they are not the same franchise. The Department of Transportation distanced themselves from these toys early on.



These ads and commercials were not related to the toys, which I think is what has so many of you confused



In the late 80s Gary Larson released a compilation book "Night of the Crash Test Dummies"



In 1991 Tyco Toys released "Vince & Larry The Crash Dummies" and within weeks were forced to cease all production by the Department of Transportation. 
The word "test" was never used. Aside from the regular line of figures, no additional "Vince and Larry" merchandise was ever released.



Tyco quickly brought the line back to shelves in 1991 as "The Incredible Crash Dummies" and Vince/Larry became Slick/Spin.



Crash Test Dummies was a rock band from Winnepeg who had a huge hit in 1993 with "Mmm mmm mmm mmm"

I was pretty blown away to find somebody recently uploaded an Incredible Crash Dummies commercial that I never knew existed
I'm pretty sure I never saw this on TV because my friends and I used to argue as kids if these figures even existed

Crash Go Kart/ATV/Mower (1992)

If you press 4 on the keyboard you can get a cool boing sound goin.