It came as a great surprise to me that the blog will be six years old this coming Tuesday. It’s a surprise for a number of reasons, a) I never really had anything close to a plan when I began doing this and b) I figured out the anniversary a week before it happened. It’s been a feat […]

One of the things I truly enjoy about Rack Toys is when the property and the toy itself don’t match (like the Love Boat shaving kit) but what’s even better is when the toy actually goes against what the character stands for. Case in point, I present the Spider-Man exterminator set, where Spidey eschews his values and […]

A second batch from the set Tom sent in from a Mall Appearance in Macon Georgia just prior to the release of Empire. As I mentioned last week, Tom is now a big Star Wars costumer himself these days and has a website called Costumebot you should check out. If you’re thinking “that’s a great Boba […]

Mattel toys managed in the late 70s to package some random chemicals and make into a pop culture sensation that never quite went away. Slime may have been the “big ripoff” my parents said is was (for the record my Shag carpet loving parents forbade me to own it) but every kid was drawn to […]