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PlaidStallions Turns Nine Contest!

  It took me by complete surprise this week that it has been nine years to this day that I decided to start this blog.  Many thanks to my then infant daughter for taking a long nap on April 26, 2006  (she doesn’t take so many these days) and giving me the time to begin […]

Jet Discs for the Tracer Gun

I kind of got giddy finding this ammo pack for the Star Trek tracer gun. I didn’t even notice that there is no mention of Trek on the package. These guns showed up at Canadian retail until the mid 80s, I wish i had kept one…. Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings is a limited edition […]

1979 Craftmaster Poster Art Catalog

Poster and marker sets were one of my favourite ways to spend an afternoon as a kid (cause that’s about how long the markers would last). I also recently have become invested in tracking down all the ones I had as a kid. Craftmaster had all the best licenses in the late 70s which included […]

Krofft Supershow Iron On Transfer Book

This past Sunday the first thing I saw when I entered GTA Comic Con was my pal Dana wearing a Magic Mongo T Shirt, which is a sentence I never thought I’d ever type in my life.  Turns out Dana had found this amazing book of Krofft T Shirt transfers that I never knew existed […]