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1982 Kenner Sea Wees Catalog

  Kenner Sea Wees were a yearly staple during the late 1970s/early 1980s, poart fashion doll, part bath toy, these figures had a lasting popularity. In 1982, the theme was “Tropigals” and well, I’m not sure what the difference is..   Oh it’s probably the grass skirts, look I’m not awesome with Girl’s toys but I […]

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Popeye merchandise is a sea (i’m hilarious) of weird, re purposed stuff that has nothing to do with the character. It’s always nice to see something that while absolutely re purposed, kinda, sorta relates to the character.

The 1984 Fleetwood Toy Catalog

Fleetwood Toys was a Rack Toy manufacturer famous for nabbing the hottest licenses from TV and pop culture. For their 1984 catalog, there were a lot of new faces replacing previous characters “CHiPs” was now replaced with “TJ Hooker”, instead of “The Fall Guy” we’ve got the antics of the “A Team”, the Marvel Comics […]

Bat Lab

The mobile Bat Lab by Mego is one of those “I missed a meeting as a kid moments” as I have virtually no memory of this item. As far as I know, I never saw it in a store, nor on television, despite friends telling me they had it growing up and it definitely was […]

L’il Huggy Bear

“Word on the playground is, Sally is about to drop the dime on Jimmy after recess in retribution for the “paste incident” but you didn’t hear that from me, dig?”

Who loves me baby?

I’ve postulated on the oddness of Kojak toys to the point where I’m tired of it. I will say that this set by Harmony is one of the more logical sets, except for the whistle, but I’ll forgive that because the mental image of Telly Savalas running after a perp with a whistle in his […]

Greatest store display ever

Jodi sent in the wonderful store display that she spied in an antique mall. It’s sadly not for sale, which is too bad because i’d be tempted to get it despite the marital strife it would (understandably) cause. Can’t explain why magically being whisked to the Sears Men’s department in 1974 gives me goose bumps […]