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Crazy Foam $0.88

$0.88 for Crazy Foam, no wonder most of us threw it out when we were done. I’m positive some of it went into my stocking at least once, most likely a Robin. While most kids wanted to Batman as a kid, I thought the teenaged Dick Grayson was the coolest.

1977 Fisher Price Toy Catalog

I’m not sure any company could represent Christmas in the 70’s more to me than Fisher Price, seeing as a lot of their offerings were larger play sets, it was the one given each and every year growing up, under the tree, there would be a Fisher Price toy of some kind. Honestly I think […]

Goldman Doll Readied

Thursday, March 24.1977:CINCINNATI (AP) – First, Kenner sold millions of the Six Million Dollar Man Then, there was a scramble for the Bionic Woman. Now, the nation’s second-leading toy manufacturer is,about to unleash its- newest bionic spinoff—the Oscar Goldman doll. Goldman is the character on both television series who watches over the two superheroes and […]

Shaun Cassidy Overload

Do you think when Parker Stevenson opened up a Sears catalog and saw stuff like above (and the previously shown stuff below) that he cried himself to sleep? I know I’d have a soggy pillow…

Dress Alike Obsessed

Is it just me or does anyone else get the creep vibe from these pictures? I think it’s combination of the dressing alike, the complete lack of personal space, that unflinching stare and the fact that the gentleman looks like every bad guy ever. Maybe I just have a problem with moustaches…..

Tree Tots

I mocked this stuff plenty when it came out (as a seven year old boy would upon seeing an icky girl’s toy) but honestly I’ve always thought this set was really cool. Please don’t call me a sissy, I really couldn’t handle that right now….

Some Finger Puppet Love

Card #14 goes out to my pal Scott Adams. Scott and I work on the Megomuseum and this is his other obsession, Child Guidance Sesame Street Finger Puppets. Scott asked me a couple of weeks before this how I felt about doing a card like this and me being a Sesame Street nut, it was […]