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In the 2021 Christmas Special, [https://warrocketajax.libsyn.com/episode-573-save-santa-squad-f-matt-fraction Save Santa Squad], [[Matt D. Wilson |Matt]], [[Chris Sims|Chris]] and perennial holiday guest [[Matt Fraction]] picked a team of 8 holiday characters to rescue Santa Claus from a kidnapping. Repeating the gimmick form 2020, they did so via a snake draft. Wilson went first, then Sims, then Fraction, continuing boustrophedonically. Here are their choices, in the order they picked them:
Gimmick Street is a magical place where in days gone by you had to visit in order to sign up for the [https://www.patreon.com/WarRocketAjax WRA Patreon], but if you sign up now at the $15 level (or higher), you can be the one to say that ''you know'' what else is on Gimmick Street. Send your submission via a Patreon message, but don’t submit anything offensive or gross.


==Matt Wilson's Picks==
Tell your friends to vote to #SaveGimmickStreet.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="vertical-align: top;" border="1"
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Address !! Location
|-
| 1-68 || [unspecified]
|-
| 69 || [[Chris Sims|Chris's]] childhood home
|-
| 70-122 || [unspecified]
|-
| 123 || Shawn Waltman’s House
|-
| 124-315 || [unspecified]
|-
| 316 || Hell Yeah Construction Company (Where the podcast is recorded, as stated in 708.)
|-
| 317-419 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 420 || [[Matt D. Wilson|Matt's]] childhood home that is now an Internet Cafe
|-
| 412-569 || Internet Cafe
|-
|-
! scope="col" | Round
| 570 || Furnace Repair Shop
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | Character
|-
|-
| 1
| 571 || Internet Cafe
| Heart
| Linus from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas]
|-
|-
| 2
| 572 || Internet Cafe
| Leader
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Belle Jingle Belle by Paul Dini]
|-
|-
| 3
| 573 || HVAC Place
| Speedy
| Hardrock from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKGonDIq8gw Hardrock, Coco and Joe]
|-
|-
| 4
| 574 || Internet Cafe that moves through space and time
| Muscle
| [https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/the-yule-cat-of-iceland-a-different-kind-of-christmas-tradition/ The Yule Cat]
|-
|-
| 5
| 575 || Internet Cafe
| Technician
| Charles Dickens, [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6225520/ The Man Who Invented Christmas]
|-
|-
| 6
| 576 || Internet Cafe
| Wildcard
| [https://comedybangbang.fandom.com/wiki/Ho_Ho_the_Elf Ho Ho the Elf], as portrayed by Lauren Lapkus
|-
|-
| 7
| 577 || Internet Cafe
| Strategist
| [https://homealone.fandom.com/wiki/Kevin_McCallister Kevin McAllister] (adult form)
|-
|-
| 8
| 578 || Internet Cafe
| Flex
|-
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY Mariah Carey]
| 579 || Internet Cafe
|}
|-
 
| 580 || Internet Cafe
==Chris Sims's Picks==
|-
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="vertical-align: top;" border="1"
| 581 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 582 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 583 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 584 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 585 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 586 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 587 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 588 || Public Library
|-
| 589 || Tire Place
|-
| 590 || Dairy Queen
|-
| 591 || Walk-in Clinic
|-
| 592 || Spirit Halloween
|-
| 593 || Gimmick Street Park
|-
| 594 || Roller Bladery
|-
| 595 || Gimmick Street Park
|-
| 596 || Post Office
|-
| 597 || Krispy Kreme
|-
| 598 || A Different Walk-In Clinic with COVID Testing
|-
| 599 || McDonald’s
|-
| 600 || [unspecified]
|-
| 601 || The Gimmick Street Bridge (Where Phil Collins saw that guy who saw that guy drown)
|-
| 602 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 603 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 604 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 605 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 606 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 607 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 608 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 609 || The Gimmick Street Bridge
|-
| 610 || Internet Cafe
|-
| 611 || Internet Cafe Annex
|-
| 612 || A Haunted House
|-
| 613 || The Creepy Dracula Castle that Chris inherited.
|-
| 614 || Convenience Store
|-
| 615 || Hedge Maze
|-
| 616 || 616 Gimmick Comic Book Shop
|-
| 617 || [unspecified]
|-
| 618 || [unspecified]
|-
| 619 || Ray Mysterio’s House
|-
| 620 || The Fireworks Stand
|-
| 621 || Kevin Nash’s House
|-
| 622 || Kevin Nash’s Magic Mike Diesel Truck Stop
|-
| 623 || Scott Hall’s Estate
|-
| 624 || Ramon’s Razers
|-
| 625 || Shawn Michael’s House
|-
| 626 || Carmax and a historical marker for Matt’s two Mazda 626s
|-
| 627 || Justin Credible’s House
|-
| 628 || Arby’s
|-
| 629 || Dominik Mysterio’s House
|-
| 630 || Toy Store
|-
| 631 || Adult Toy Store
|-
| 632 || Castle Frankenstein (and possibly 2 houses owned by Steve Austin?)
|-
| 633 || Your local polling place
|-
| 634 || Your local election commission
|-
| 635 || A mailbox? Maybe a post office?
|-
| 636 || An undefined void that might be a portal to Patreon or The Lost Woods
|-
| 637 || The Great Deku Tree
|-
| 638 || The place where a mailbox used to be
|-
| 639 || The birthday cake bakery
|-
| 640 || Chuck E. Cheese - converted  to the Gimmick Street AMC Regal Cinemark Multiplex 123 (Now playing: The Flash)
|-
| 641 || The end of the road... for Greunies. (Unofficial)
|-
| 642 || One-Hour Photo to get cherished memories that you can keep for a lifetime
|-
| 643 || Pie Shop from Pushing Daisies
|-
| 644 || Ajax Local 1, the War Rocket Ajax Employees Union
|-
| 645 || T-shirt Printing Place
|-
| 646 || The dispensary
|-
| 647 || Water
|-
| 648 || Water
|-
| 649 || The Island where Master Roshi lives
|-
| 650 || A costume shop
|-
| 651 || It’s gotta be Kane/Cain/Caine/Kayne/Cane
|-
| 652 || Bojangles
|-
| 653 || The Apple Store
|-
| 654 || Panera Bread
|-
| 655 || Spirit Halloween
|-
| 656 || Candy Shop (by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson off the critically acclaimed 2005 sophomore album The Massacre)
|-
| 657 || Spooky Haunted Mansion (in the Haunted Mansion district)
|-
| 658 || GhostBusters™ Headquarters
|-
| 659 || A Disney Store
|-
| 660 || A butcher shop with a turkey as big as [[Chris Sims|Chris]]
|-
| 661 || A year-round petting zoo with reindeer, but for adults only, but not in a sexual way?
|-
| 662 || The Blockbuster where you can rent Blue Streak, and other movies that Chris and Matt rented as kids.
|-
| 663 || Mount Premise
|-
| 664 || Flash Gordon Memorial Auditorium
|-
| 665 || The ticket booth for the Devil's Tramping Ground
|-
| 666 || The Devil's Tramping Ground
|-
| 667 || Gimmick Street Full Gospel Assembly Independent Non-Denominational Mega-church
|-
| 668 || The Money-changers
|-
| 669 || The Mattress Store that used to be a Hardee's (but really, truly, canonically: the porn store, as god intended)
|-
| 670 || The Public Showers
|-
| 671 || The New Hardee's
|-
| 672 || The Greensboro Coliseum
|-
| 673 || Stamey's Barbecue
|-
| 674 || The Dallas Sportatorium
|-
| 675 || A Headshop
|-
| 676 || A Doctor's Office
|-
| 677 || The Only Ranchos Pet Store that only sells Tarantulas
|-
| 678 || The Canadian Consulate
|-
| 679 || The Nearly-forgotten Gimmick Street Nuclear Power Plant
|-
| 680 || The Day Care for Gimmick Stree Nuclear Power Plant Employees that used to be a "This is not a place of honor" that has an exact replica of the fucked-up playground from Final Fantasy VII/T2: Judgment Day
|-
| 681 || The Vitamin Store
|-
| 682 || The GNC where you get the supplements to bulk up after the irradiated tarantula bites you
|-
| 683 || The hospital where Matt was born
|-
| 684 || The "Hospital" where Matt will die: Alston Bridges BBQ
|-
| 685 || The High School that Matt attended
|-
| 686 || Dix Sporting Goods
|-
| 687 || A mailbox that takes checks or money orders outside the post office where you can get money orders
|-
| 688 || The T-shirt printer
|-
| 689 || A charitable t-shirt store
|-
| 690 || The Batcave
|-
| 691 || Trampoline Laser Tag
|-
| 692 || Showbiz Pizza
|-
| 693 || Putt Putt Course (where Matt went to Second Grade?)
|-
| 694 || Odin Borson Memorial Ballpark, home of the minor league Gimmick Street Goodhats
|-
| 695 || The parking structure for the ballpark
|-
| 696 || Good Tap Sports Bar
|-
| 697 || Matt Fraction Memorial Field, Home of Women's Proffessional Soccer Team, the Gimmick Street Machines
|-
| 698 || Beyond Corporation Arena, Home of the Gimmick Street Curt Connors Lizards (they ate a boy), a 2x2 Basketball Team
|-
| 699 || Gimmick Street Sporting Apparel
|-
| 700 Lost || Partee Citi - Bank that sells balloons and clown makeup
|-
|-
! scope="col" | Round
| 701 || Local Organizers
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | Character
|-
|-
| 1
| 702 || Your favorite charity: a local shelter for food and assistance
| Leader
| [https://comicsalliance.com/ask-chris-202-scrooge-mcduck-america-usa/ Scrooge McDuck]
|-
|-
| 2
| 703 || Pozhar (The Russian Firestorm) Anarchist Bookstore
| Strategist
| [https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Holly_Gennero Holly Gennaro McClane]
|-
|-
| 3
| 704 || Year-round Christmas tree lot
| Heart
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_Otter%27s_Jug-Band_Christmas Emmet Otter] on Washtub Bass
|-
|-
| 4
| 705 || Reindeer stables where they serve mulled Cheerwine
| Technician
| [http://www.the-isb.com/christmas-special-yes-virginia/ Virgie Hanlon] from Yes, Virginia, There is a SANTRON
|-
|-
| 5
| 706 || Mount Premise
| Muscle
| [https://www.knoxnews.com/story/entertainment/2018/12/07/wwe-knoxville-kane-gimmick-knox-county-tennessee-mayor-glenn-jacobs-christmas-creature/2202004002/ The Christmas Creature], portrayed by Glenn "Kane" Jacobs
|-
|-
| 6
| 707 || Flash Gordon Memorial Auditorium
| Speedy
| [https://www.viz.com/sweet-rein Kaito] from Sweet Rein
|-
|-
| 7
| 708 || In-N-Out where the winners go after the show
| Wildcard
| Mark as portrayed by [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/love-actually-andrew-lincoln-stalker Andrew Lincoln in Love Actually]
|-
|-
| 8
| 709 || Gimmick Street Fire Station
| Flex
| [https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/Samus_Aran Samus Aran]
|}
 
==Matt Fraction's Picks==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="vertical-align: top;" border="1"
|-
|-
! scope="col" | Round
| 710 || Gimmick Street Water Department
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | Character
|-
|-
| 1
| 711 || Wawa
| Heart
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EvZOXEoJ84 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)] by Darlene Love
|-
|-
| 2
| 712 || Sheetz
| Speedy
| John Blakely and Robert John playing guitar on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkSYiKHhp0E Donner and Blitzen] from Rob Halford's Christmas album Celestial
|-
|-
| 3
| 713 || The British consulate
| Strategist
| Backdoor Santa from the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NoalRsk5w Clarence Carter song]
|-
|-
| 4
| 714 || The lamp store
| Wildcard
| Three Icelandic [https://benito-cereno.tumblr.com/post/38237464762/the-yule-lads-pt-2 Yule Lads] :Sausage Swiper, Doorway Sniffer and Window Peeper
|-
|-
| 5
| 715 || Lizzie Duece’s Olde Fashioned English Pie Shoppe (feat. savory and sweet pies)  
| Muscle
| Lt. Fuller portrayed by John Saxon in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Christmas_(1974_film) Black Christmas]
|-
|-
| 6
| 716 || Greggs Sandwich Shoppe
| Leader
| Mrs. Claus portrayed by Shirley Booth in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Without_a_Santa_Claus The Year Without a Santa Claus]
|-
|-
| 7
| 717 || A Pharmacy
| Technician
| The Old Man Parker when he [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVmyaUHNdOQ fixes the boiler in A Christmas Story]
|-
|-
| 8
| 718 || The Sims & Wilson Manor, the boys' haunted ancestral castle.
| Flex
| James Bond portrayed by George Lazenby in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_(film) On Her Majesty's Secret Service]
|}
|}
==Future Locations==
In the future it will be revealed that Steve Austin will have three houses at 948 Gimmick Street.

Revision as of 13:23, 8 April 2025

Gimmick Street is a magical place where in days gone by you had to visit in order to sign up for the WRA Patreon, but if you sign up now at the $15 level (or higher), you can be the one to say that you know what else is on Gimmick Street. Send your submission via a Patreon message, but don’t submit anything offensive or gross.

Tell your friends to vote to #SaveGimmickStreet.

Address Location
1-68 [unspecified]
69 Chris's childhood home
70-122 [unspecified]
123 Shawn Waltman’s House
124-315 [unspecified]
316 Hell Yeah Construction Company (Where the podcast is recorded, as stated in 708.)
317-419 Internet Cafe
420 Matt's childhood home that is now an Internet Cafe
412-569 Internet Cafe
570 Furnace Repair Shop
571 Internet Cafe
572 Internet Cafe
573 HVAC Place
574 Internet Cafe that moves through space and time
575 Internet Cafe
576 Internet Cafe
577 Internet Cafe
578 Internet Cafe
579 Internet Cafe
580 Internet Cafe
581 Internet Cafe
582 Internet Cafe
583 Internet Cafe
584 Internet Cafe
585 Internet Cafe
586 Internet Cafe
587 Internet Cafe
588 Public Library
589 Tire Place
590 Dairy Queen
591 Walk-in Clinic
592 Spirit Halloween
593 Gimmick Street Park
594 Roller Bladery
595 Gimmick Street Park
596 Post Office
597 Krispy Kreme
598 A Different Walk-In Clinic with COVID Testing
599 McDonald’s
600 [unspecified]
601 The Gimmick Street Bridge (Where Phil Collins saw that guy who saw that guy drown)
602 The Gimmick Street Bridge
603 The Gimmick Street Bridge
604 The Gimmick Street Bridge
605 The Gimmick Street Bridge
606 The Gimmick Street Bridge
607 The Gimmick Street Bridge
608 The Gimmick Street Bridge
609 The Gimmick Street Bridge
610 Internet Cafe
611 Internet Cafe Annex
612 A Haunted House
613 The Creepy Dracula Castle that Chris inherited.
614 Convenience Store
615 Hedge Maze
616 616 Gimmick Comic Book Shop
617 [unspecified]
618 [unspecified]
619 Ray Mysterio’s House
620 The Fireworks Stand
621 Kevin Nash’s House
622 Kevin Nash’s Magic Mike Diesel Truck Stop
623 Scott Hall’s Estate
624 Ramon’s Razers
625 Shawn Michael’s House
626 Carmax and a historical marker for Matt’s two Mazda 626s
627 Justin Credible’s House
628 Arby’s
629 Dominik Mysterio’s House
630 Toy Store
631 Adult Toy Store
632 Castle Frankenstein (and possibly 2 houses owned by Steve Austin?)
633 Your local polling place
634 Your local election commission
635 A mailbox? Maybe a post office?
636 An undefined void that might be a portal to Patreon or The Lost Woods
637 The Great Deku Tree
638 The place where a mailbox used to be
639 The birthday cake bakery
640 Chuck E. Cheese - converted to the Gimmick Street AMC Regal Cinemark Multiplex 123 (Now playing: The Flash)
641 The end of the road... for Greunies. (Unofficial)
642 One-Hour Photo to get cherished memories that you can keep for a lifetime
643 Pie Shop from Pushing Daisies
644 Ajax Local 1, the War Rocket Ajax Employees Union
645 T-shirt Printing Place
646 The dispensary
647 Water
648 Water
649 The Island where Master Roshi lives
650 A costume shop
651 It’s gotta be Kane/Cain/Caine/Kayne/Cane
652 Bojangles
653 The Apple Store
654 Panera Bread
655 Spirit Halloween
656 Candy Shop (by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson off the critically acclaimed 2005 sophomore album The Massacre)
657 Spooky Haunted Mansion (in the Haunted Mansion district)
658 GhostBusters™ Headquarters
659 A Disney Store
660 A butcher shop with a turkey as big as Chris
661 A year-round petting zoo with reindeer, but for adults only, but not in a sexual way?
662 The Blockbuster where you can rent Blue Streak, and other movies that Chris and Matt rented as kids.
663 Mount Premise
664 Flash Gordon Memorial Auditorium
665 The ticket booth for the Devil's Tramping Ground
666 The Devil's Tramping Ground
667 Gimmick Street Full Gospel Assembly Independent Non-Denominational Mega-church
668 The Money-changers
669 The Mattress Store that used to be a Hardee's (but really, truly, canonically: the porn store, as god intended)
670 The Public Showers
671 The New Hardee's
672 The Greensboro Coliseum
673 Stamey's Barbecue
674 The Dallas Sportatorium
675 A Headshop
676 A Doctor's Office
677 The Only Ranchos Pet Store that only sells Tarantulas
678 The Canadian Consulate
679 The Nearly-forgotten Gimmick Street Nuclear Power Plant
680 The Day Care for Gimmick Stree Nuclear Power Plant Employees that used to be a "This is not a place of honor" that has an exact replica of the fucked-up playground from Final Fantasy VII/T2: Judgment Day
681 The Vitamin Store
682 The GNC where you get the supplements to bulk up after the irradiated tarantula bites you
683 The hospital where Matt was born
684 The "Hospital" where Matt will die: Alston Bridges BBQ
685 The High School that Matt attended
686 Dix Sporting Goods
687 A mailbox that takes checks or money orders outside the post office where you can get money orders
688 The T-shirt printer
689 A charitable t-shirt store
690 The Batcave
691 Trampoline Laser Tag
692 Showbiz Pizza
693 Putt Putt Course (where Matt went to Second Grade?)
694 Odin Borson Memorial Ballpark, home of the minor league Gimmick Street Goodhats
695 The parking structure for the ballpark
696 Good Tap Sports Bar
697 Matt Fraction Memorial Field, Home of Women's Proffessional Soccer Team, the Gimmick Street Machines
698 Beyond Corporation Arena, Home of the Gimmick Street Curt Connors Lizards (they ate a boy), a 2x2 Basketball Team
699 Gimmick Street Sporting Apparel
700 Lost Partee Citi - Bank that sells balloons and clown makeup
701 Local Organizers
702 Your favorite charity: a local shelter for food and assistance
703 Pozhar (The Russian Firestorm) Anarchist Bookstore
704 Year-round Christmas tree lot
705 Reindeer stables where they serve mulled Cheerwine
706 Mount Premise
707 Flash Gordon Memorial Auditorium
708 In-N-Out where the winners go after the show
709 Gimmick Street Fire Station
710 Gimmick Street Water Department
711 Wawa
712 Sheetz
713 The British consulate
714 The lamp store
715 Lizzie Duece’s Olde Fashioned English Pie Shoppe (feat. savory and sweet pies)
716 Greggs Sandwich Shoppe
717 A Pharmacy
718 The Sims & Wilson Manor, the boys' haunted ancestral castle.

Future Locations

In the future it will be revealed that Steve Austin will have three houses at 948 Gimmick Street.

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