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Hey kids I’m Dart Nader

If unison Family Pajamas (or as I like to call them “Famjamas”) weren’t weird enough, now you have your parents try to bond with you by choosing Star Wars characters. While commonplace today, most parents didn’t know what a Jedi was in 1978. BTW, “Dart Nader” is what my dentist called him once.

One Night Only

It’s the “Three Neat Guys” and they’ll be singing all your grandparents favourite songs, act now, tickets are going fast!Warning: The First Three Rows will get rocked!Today, I’ve got a cool one, it’s from my Megomuseum co-hort (and the site’s founder) Scott Adams and it’s all about his obsession with Sesame Street Finger Puppets.World’s Greatest […]

Did you invite Godzilla?

I’m loving this 1978 Sears spread featuring Hasbro Super Joe, I’m just somewhat curious as to why Godzilla from the Shogun Warriors was crowbarred into the back like that. It works though doesn’t it? Little kids don’t care that the toys aren’t from the same lines (unless you were that really anal kid) and this […]

A Piece of Personal History

I found these wicked Bert and Ernie napkins rummaging through a box at my parents house, they’re from my fifth birthday party. To think, my mom almost threw these important pieces of “Brianana” away…

Brick Mantooth’s Guide to 70s Fitness

It’s the new year and many of us spend these days making foolish promises to ourselves that this is the time to finally get into shape. It’s ok, it’s time honoured tradition, our parents did it, their parents did it and in 2057 they’ll be saying “I’ve got to lay off the zlorch and start […]

Parachuting Penguins and Jiggly Frankensteins

More additions to our growing gallery of Rack toys, this is a nice carded example of a parachuting Penguin figure from Azrak Hamway. (Photo Courtesy of Bill Frost)Check out the AHI Batman Gallery for previous entries. On the Monster front, I’ve finally gotten my hands on a Frankenstein Jiggler from AHI, I really dig his […]

Hiatus

Gone Drinkin’- Due to an overwhelming amount of Holiday cheer, Plaidstallions will be taking a short vacation. New Blog Entries will return on Dec 31st. In the meantime, I urge you to check out some of my favourite links on the site: I hope everyone has an Ovacado Green and Harvest Gold Holiday. .. ..

Somewhere in the 70s

Happy Holidays everyone, one the things I never imagined when I started this blog is how many wonderful folks I’d encounter and how positive the whole experience would be. Thanks everybody from me and Brick.

Pajama Time

Christmas Eve makes me think of Pajamas, it always has and here are some super cool stylings from 31 years ago. Given the choice at the time, no doubt I would reach for Captain America, which seems weird because I’m Canadian. That Spock is pretty darn sweet too though.Happy Holidays peoples! Where ever you are […]