For the month of December, I’m running a contest for submissions to theupcoming book “Christmas in the 1970s” send us your best vintage snapshot/Polaroid of the day along with the date and location and anythingspecial about it (Cool present, you got in a fight with your sister, greatfamily memory etc) and we’ll add it to […]
The Oddessey by Magnavox (the TV people) was the world’s first home gaming system, it came with plastic sheets you could put over your TV to simulate colour game play. I found one of these in my aunt’s basement one day around 1980, even though it was only a few years old it looked like […]
I normally don’t concern myself with all things modern but this article from Reuters claims Disney is ready to go “in, through and beyond” the Black Hole once again. Being a GIANT fan of the original I can honestly say I never thought this day would ever come. Does this mean we’ll finally see some […]
Please send me the red number in the middle, not only do I promise to wear it often but I would visit each and every one of my neighbours houses this holiday season to express the warmest of yuletide greetings. Plus, if I add a cape, I’ll look like a young Jon Pertwee. I am […]
This 1978 Toy Fair ad for Peter Pan (Power) Records, tells us what we already knew as kids, in that they were awesome but it also gives us a look at some of the store displays used to market them: Man, that display doesn’t miss anything, Star Trek, Superman even Planet of the Apes! I […]
Let me make this clear, Brick doesn’t dress like his woman, his woman dresses like him.
Sean from creepsylvania.com sent me an awesome surprise this month, a colouring book I’ve actually been looking forward to seeing for years. The Monster Gallery Colouring Book is an early seventies masterpiece illustrated by Mark Savee (with text by Leah Waskey) and each page is a stunning tribute to a famous monster of either screen […]
Jon sent in this terrific picture of his brother Ryan encountering a rather home made looking Lord Vader at Karber’s camera store in Hamden CT. I think the chest panel is from Phantom of the Paradise. Where is Jon you ask? Well, he informs me that he was too scared of the Dark Lord and […]
In 1978, toy manufacturer Imperial, like a lot of toy companies were very interested in all things outer space thanks to Kenner’s whirlwind assault on the toy marketplace thanks to Star Wars. Now, anybody with a science fiction film was interesting and a name like Steven Spielberg even moreso. Imperial snapped up the rights to […]
What happens you combine Barbie with animal DNA? You get Mattel’s Gorgeous Creatures line, which if I had to guess was an attempt to catch some heat off the popularity of Ms. Piggy.I’m sure this line has an ardent fan base somewhere but I kind of find these guys disturbing, I prefer Blythe thank you […]
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