I always seem to fixate on boy’s toys over the Christmas season and that’s kind of a shame because I always glossed the Barbie section in envy over all the cool stuff she had. Here’s a double shot from the Simpson’s Sears 1979 Catalog, click on it to embiggen it.
My grandmother never threw catalogs out, she let them sit until the new one came in. So I can remember spending the better part of a year staring at this image, plotting as to how I would make the Atari 2600 mine. I had to get my first job but it was so worth it […]
One section of any wish book that I love is the “other” action figure pages in the era of Star Wars. There is a lot of great stuff on this page! While my time with the Mego Superheroes decreased sharply in 1979, I still viewed them like old friends. I still kinda do….
This sale comes right in the nick of time for my secret santa.
It’s no secret that I love Space:1999 toys although I don’t own many these days. An opportunity came up to own an item I have never even held before, I couldn’t pass it up. This wonderful diecast Space Eagle was made by Japanese toymaker Popy and as we’ll explore they’ve wonderfully left some cultural fingerprints. […]
I never got any Best of the West or Gabriel Lone Ranger but I certainly remember their presence in the early 1970s wish books and i miss seeing them.
I cannot wait to see the look on my daughter’s face when she opens a set of these instead of an ipad on Christmas morning…..
Christmas always reminds me of the Bionic Man, I think it’s because he was pricier than Mego or Big Jim. I honestly got every Bionic toy I had at Christmas and it was a sweet three years, let me tell you.
Come on honey, let’s go share a facebook account!
Even though I personally was a teenager at the time, I fondly remember stocking a toy aisle full of a lot the things in this Child World Toy Flyer from 1985. This piece is chock full of happy memories for 80s kids from the popular Care Bears, Go Bots and He-Man to the more forgotten […]
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