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Nerd Therapy Sessions: Peeping Toms

This one takes place in the summer of 1977, which I only remember as being a happy one. My universe at the time was a fairly quiet street in the suburbs of Toronto. It was a pretty unassuming day until my best friend Neil broke some pretty big news to me, tonight on Six Million […]

Mattel’s The Archies

Click the link to see a larger picture After Marx introduced a series of Archie Action figures in 1975, Mattel took a kick at it in 1978 with these been bag versions that used the same construction as their then popular ‘Honey Hill Bunch” line of toys. I have to say that the Mattel sculpts […]

Caftan Fever

This page should include the tagline “..but for the love of God, stay indoors. Seriously, if you show up to pick up your kid at School in this, you are their prom date”

Super 7 Merchandise Part 1

Filmation’s Tarzan and the Super 7 series is easily one of my favourite cartoon series of all time. It’s copyright infringing characters made me a fan for life, however merchandise for the series seems few and far between. However, it seems that rack toy manufacturer Imperial did have the license and exploited it nicely, here […]

Superfine XXX

Ladies beware, the brothers Superfine are once again on the prowl, with their fists raised in righteousness! Oh, there will be panties on the dancefloor tonight…

Hanging at Kool Stuff

This past Saturday, I got to spend a day at one of my favourite haunts Kool Stuff Toys in Hamilton. Jeff the owner was gracious enough to let me set up a small photo studio and take photos for my upcoming book “Rack Toys”. This not only filled some gaps I had but also gave […]

Nerd Therapy Session: (Super) Girl Trouble

For this installment, I’ll be skipping back to the mid 1970s, which is pretty appropriate considering this blog. Like many of you, I grew up in what was a golden age of action figures, the Mego era. We 70s kids had an amazing breadth of licensed characters and they were mostly all in the same […]

Mattel Sunshine Family for 1978

The Sunshine Family were a series of (In my opinion, creepy) dolls marketed by Mattel beginning in 1974. At the time, the line was marketed with the family being very into the burgening “post hippie” early 70s craft movement. By 1978, the line’s look had begun to look dated so it was rebranded the “Sunshine […]