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Yeah, so this happened today

After four days of wrestling with one of the most horrible courier companies known to man, my advance copies of Rack Toys are here. This is the first time I’ve ever actually held my book and I admit I was shaking. Mostly because I was really worried that there would be something, anything in there that would […]

Bionic Dress up

  This play suit hails from the UK and is most likely the product of Berwick, it’s almost like a larger version of the Kenner Steve Austin doll’s outfit. I’d have loved it to pieces as a kid, imagine combining it with the Funstuf Electrogenic arm?

Dare Devil Rider?

   I think this figure from Durham wonderfully illustrates the true joy and cheap chicanery often involved with Rack Toys. The packaging is enticing and vibrant, not to mention well done. It promises action with a slightly “Evel Knievely” setting.  The figure however,  is a chubby guy with a flag, who looks like he might […]

Review: Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation

Review: Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation By Lou Scheimer and Andy Mangels My earliest memory in this life, other than eating delicious Play Doh on Christmas morning 1971, was watching a Batman cartoon with my sister in the TV room one random morning in  1972. The Penguin was stealing a tank and gassed a […]

Rack Toys Memories Contest Results

I am elated  to be posting the results from the Rack Toys memories contest. Let me begin by saying, you people rock. I was floored by the amount of entries and the fact that so many of you took the time to craft such well written ones. It also gave me a renewed sense of […]

Judo Nap!

As a former child, I see the inherit coolness of pajamas that look like a Judo uniform. As a current parent, I fail to see the joy in something that encourages even more wrestling around before bedtime…

Kar-a-a-ate Men!

I had honestly forgotten that the correct spelling of this toy isn’t “Karate Men” but “Kar-a-a-ate Men”  which is infinitely cooler. As much as I see this fun toy in the wild, I rarely see them in the box.  The box gives me goosebumps, it really connects into Christmas morning 1975, where I really could […]

Train with Rocky

From left to right it goes from logical to odd to downright sublime. I don’t know who ever stumbled out of a Rocky film and said “bubble fun!” but clearly it occurred and they made it happen. Check out the facebook page for our upcoming book.