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Fashion Mockery Contest Results

Ok, so I got a little ostentatious in thinking I could juggle school, beer,  a six year old’s birthday party, beer, fighting a lifelong inclination to nap and judge a tough contest in a single weekend. As a consolation, I’ve increased the amount of winners:   I got PILES of great stuff, here are some of […]

Creepy! Gruesome! Awesome.

PS reader Robb sent in these awesome pictures from his collection to add to the AHI World Famous Supermonsters section of the site. These are the slightly smaller versions of the monster jigglers on their original cards which Robb has owned since childhood, absolutely stunning. Not many kids saved their toys, let alone rack toys […]

1978 Berwick Toys Catalog

Most North Americans have probably never heard of UK based Berwick toys before but that should change because they created a lot of fun and inspired toys  for the English market. Berwick’s main items seem to be role play such as their line of play suits and games. 1978 saw the introduction of a toy called […]

Black Beauty by Marx

Kind of ingenious item, take an existing horse mold (most likely from Johnny West) paint it black and use the public domain good will of Anna Sewell. I’m surprised more companies didn’t offer Black Beauty toys aimed at girls. As an aside, my sister loved horses and every birthday party she got two copies of […]

Creators of Zorak

This fun little ad is the kind of stuff I love to find, meet Ed and Bonnie Fogarty inventors of 70s childhood friends like the Nerf Glider, Weebles Fun House and Double Trouble Big Jim and Zorak. This ad is from 1978 where they seem to have had a string of items produced, it would […]

An underwear treat

Oh, you’re welcome ladies… This guy looks like all the seniors did when I first entered high school,  like they were 38 years of age. Some guys had full beards in the tenth grade. When I got to senior year, I still looked like a giant 13 year old.