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Love is…

Love is dressing alike, so it looks like you are wearing some sort of uniform. It’s almost as if you work at some sort of romantic version of McDonalds except your name tags would read “Punkin’ Pants” and “Mr.Ticklefarts”. I miss a lot of things from the 1970s but couples dressing alike ain’t one of […]

Light Up Drawing Desks

Here is some great old school stuff, I actually had a Disney one (still have it somewhere) and it bears the marks from when I ran out of paper and drew on the desk itself. I didn’t say I was a smart kid… DVD Winners: Thanks for the entheusiastic response to my 70s Toy Explosion […]

Grrrrowwwl!

It’s official, I have a disco lady fetish or “TonyManerophelia”, thanks to the interweb, I’ll be able to find many like me in no time.

70s Toy Explosion Volume 2

Sorry, this is a shill post.Thanks to a good find and the amazing help of my pal Dave, I’m releasing another volume of 1970s toy commercials all transferred from the original 16 mm reels. The majority of these are from 1979 and from Mego, Mattel and Kenner. Stretch Monster Barbie Superstar Traveler (Judy “Dyna Girl” […]

The End of the line for the Bionic Man and Woman

1978 saw the end of Kenner’s wildly popular Six Million Dollar man line. Despite dwindling sales, Kenner revamped Steve with “Bio Sonic” power and gave him a new villain to fight in the form of the Venus Space Probe. So while Steve Austin might have been on his way out, he certainly went with a […]

Summer Pimps

These two playas be mackin da yacht club yo. You best step aside when you see Josh and Orville coming. If it meant summer would get here sooner, I would promise to dress like this every Saturday for a month…

Spider-Man pops a Wheelie?

You don’t see a great deal of AHI stuff in department store catalogs but the Zoom cycles were a little higher price point and combined superheroes with Evel Knievel, so it’s a no brainer. This page is from the 1976 Azrak Hamway Catalog and shows that Spider-Man, Batman and Doctor Zaius were in the coolest […]

Colouring Book Theatre: Dune

It’s been entirely too long since I’ve done Colouring Book Theatre but I finally found one at a flea market last week that seemed fitting. Dune is possibly the worst colouring book I’ve ever reviewed, not because it’s badly done but because it has no freaking business being a colouring book! This is Hollywood ignorance […]