In 1974, Matchbox toys ventured into the action figure market with the Fighting Furies, a series of well made Pirate action figures that had piles of adventures to choose from. Fighting Furies is often forgotten when discussing 70s brands and that’s a shame because it’s really high quality stuff. Thanks to the generosity of Bill […]
I’m pretty sure I had this as a kid, mostly because of the disappointing weird, chubby Batman and Robin figures that are at the drivers seat. As a kid, if you couldn’t take the figures out of something, I had entirely no use for it. I was totally spoiled thanks to the good people at […]
In this adventure, he and the Electric Merry men had to go undercover to expose a counterfeit bingo card ring.
Tune into PS’s sister site: The Mego Museum today for an incredible scoop about Bif Bang Pow! I’ll give you a hint, some time this year you can have your Mego Captain Kirk get scared by a gremlin on the wing of the enterprise and your Mego Superman can finally go toe to toe with […]
Just found this cool still of behind the scenes of filming the Big Jim P.A.C.K Beast commercial, you almost never see stuff like this but the main reason I like this is that it means there are commercials for Big Jim’s P.A.C.K out there! One of these days I will track these down, mark my […]
Happy February from this Sexy Disco Mama, you can’t buy that kind of sass…
Dan Bru, a graphicdesigner/artist/blogger living in West Paris, Maine dropped me a line this week with some peaks at his uber cool upstairs office. Dan muses on comics, art and pop culture on his very own blog 3-d monster.That Brianiac figure is one of Dan’s own creations, which reminded that I used to know him […]
As promised last week, more of the Apes visiting Plymouth Hoe circa 1977. Again, I cannot begin to explain how wonderfully cool and trippy this all is. Check out Derek’s awesome blog dedicated to Plymouth local histoy and stay tuned for much more coolness from him. General Urko plans to whip humans here I gather. […]
In the late seventies, Charles Fries productions (the same people who brought you the TV version of Spider-Man) undertook an ambitious project, bringing Ray Bradbury’s acclaimed book of short stories “The Martian Chronicles” to Television as a 6 hour event. The names involved were a Science Fiction fans dream, Richard Matheson wrote the screenplay and […]
They’re back and this time, they’re out for revenge. The guy at the bottom seems to wearing one drawn by Jack Kirby.
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