HG Toys was a company known for applying licenses to their staple of role playing items, puzzles and playsets. In 1980, they rocked the 25th century with Buck Rogers, explored the seedy streets of Vega$ and smashed a few cities with Godzilla. Shoot they even made Fantasy Island merchandise, what’s not to love? Check out the […]
I consider kids like this unsung heroes, for their presence made me invisible to bullying of any kind, the only thing that could break his spell would be to show up to school in my sister’s clothes.
My good pal at Heroes West Coast suprised me last week with some pictures of a truly rare item that I could not afford to own. This display of Marvel Comics “Action Figures” (most of us would call these Jigglers) is both wonderful and well, odd. The assortment on the front kind of proves […]
One of my sideline obsessions (because I need more) are these mid seventies to early eighties superhero school supplies by Alco. I proudly had the Batman from this set on my desk as a kid and I remember our local stationary store (remember those?) had a display of these in the window. This Shazam is […]
You’re all ready for second grade big guy!
‘Dukes of Hazzard” by Modern Publications I’m going to preface today’s CBT with the confession that I have little to no nostalgia for Dukes of Hazzard. I don’t hate it or think people who like it are dumb, I just don’t really dig it. My fondest memory of the show is it became the subject […]
The Spider merchandising empire circa 1979, the thought of this keeps Gene Simmons up at night in a jealous rage. Send me your mall appearance photos!
It may seem commonplace now but the mid seventies TV series “Police Woman” was groundbreaking televison. Angie Dickinson played “Pepper” Anderson, a no nonsense lady cop and she became the first female lead of an action series (thankfully not the last, bit of a “Xena: Warrior Princess” fan ). Horsman dolls sought to captilize on this […]
If Spidey was a real human being, he would been accused of being a complete and total sell out in the 1970s….
“Ooooh don’t Gramma’s angels look perfect!”
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