One of the more endearing things I find about my wife is her childhood fear of Rod Hull and his puppet Emu. While I was enjoying them on “The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle” show, she was behind the couch in terror as a child and the sight of this puppet still creeps her out this day. […]
The sight of that bathrobe makes me say “Jar Jar who?”.
When he’s not being totally boring, Mr Fantastic likes to cruise around in his awesome muscle car. What I love about this toy is the Fantastic Four have a totally cool space vehicle that they ride around in but the folks at Fleetwood went and made him a car instead. That’s like releasing a Batman […]
Sweaters were put on this earth for two reasons, the first is to make you uncomfortable, the other is to make you look as silly as possible. I hate them, so should you.
First off, thank you for the incredibly kind response to last week’s entry. It’s extremely comforting to know I was not alone because that would have been pretty terrible. My next tale of nerd-woe jumps me to 1986, I had started drifting away from collecting comic books and jumped into collectibles, specifically sci fi based toys. Actually, it […]
After folding the G.I. Joe Adventure Team in 1976, Hasbro sought to give their rugged man of action a massive overhaul. Thus SuperJoe was born, bearing little resemblence to the soldier of the past, Joe had lost four inches of height and the G.I prefix. Superjoe was now set in the far off future and […]
I’m always perplexed at how much a difference an ocean makes, GI Joe by this time was all about Mike Power and Bullet Man (not complaining!) and kids in the UK were choosing different eras of machine guns.
My pal Mike sent this into me and honestly, it’s new to me, a wonderful throw away rack item that some smart soul preserved and we’re better for it. I had plenty of magic slates as a kid but never one this cool… Ewww! There’s Ape centric art on the back too, that’s awesome. Yeah, […]
Jimmy and Miles dream of the day that they’ll be drunk in the Dayton Ohio airport extolling the virture of Bill Braskey.
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