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I Heart Colorforms!

If your childhood was anything like mine, then you spent many a quiet hour being entertained by Colorforms play sets. I collect colorform sets as an adult and still buy them for my kids, it’s a concept that never lost it’s appeal to me. That’s why I can do nothing but rave about Mel Birnkrant’s […]

1969 Toys R Us Toy Circular

Here’s another wonderful Toy Newspaper Circular from the good people at Toys R Us, this time it’s from this weekend 41 years ago (ok I timed that part). It’s a cool trip back to the toys of yester year and while some things have changed, others really haven’t all that much. Lots of memorable classics […]

Flipside

One of my earliest “Vintage Toy Finds” as a kid was digging through the back part of “Pinnochio’s Toys” around 1980, the 1970s were alive and well there, Mego Planet of the Apes play sets, Big Jim dolls,  Aurora models and this oddity. At nine, I had no concept of who Flip Wilson was, his […]

Nerforama

Water damaged catalogs always make me sad but lucky for me I salvaged this great pic of a Nerf store display. Come to me Nerf Man, obey…..

Colouring Book Theatre: The Bride of Frankenstein

‘Universal Monsters” by Golden When I did my poll last month, obviously the creech won out but a loit of folks seemed passionate about the Bride so it seemed fair to run a piece on this. Frankenstein is my favourite movie monster after all and it’s not like I have other colouring books to review […]