The mid to late seventies saw what would become a regular event in our lifetime, an explosion on superhero merchandising. Some of it cool and logical like the Mego Superheros and some of it well, just plain strange. Take for example the 1977 Tyco Superhero boxcars, an odd marriage of Comic Books and the Rail […]
There is no better day for me to pay tribute to my talented and festive mother and some of the cooler pop culture cakes she produced for me over the years. My mom made cakes for every occasion growing up, Halloween, St Patrick’s Day, last day of school but birthdays, those were the coolest. Above […]
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What was with the obsession with patches? I never really got that but I honestly remember thinking they looked cool.DVD Day Just in time for the election is this limited edition DVD of Politically themed School House Rock segements. Just hearing the words “Schoolhouse Rock” puts “conjunction junction” in my head for the rest of […]
While the Marx Naverone set is cool and you can never go wrong with some plastic dinosaurs (especially in combination with the army men!) I think the big star for me here is the Martian landing playset.Astronauts, vehicles and that Big wheel space station? That’s all i need. I’m pretty sure you can still find […]
Sharry brought me this welcome site this week, another wonderful piece of toy tie in merchandising from the era before toy based cartoons. Big Jim was Mattel’s response to parental outrage to war toys in the late sixties (which also made G.I. Joe an adventurer) here was a good natured sportsman who enjoyed things like […]
I’m always happy when I have enough of these images to fill another page. In our sixth installment we visit several toy stores on Halloween (kind of fitting). See a store visit by a giant MonChichi in 1983 and check out the many images from the video game explosion of the early eighties chockfull of […]
I wouldn’t be a good seventies orientated blogger if I didn’t address Underoos every so often. I think I saw my first commercial for these probably during the Superfriends and like a lot of kids, demanded them on the next shopping trip. Of course, they were no where to be found in my area. At […]
While I never had the figures (which are made by LJN and not Mego), I have fond memories of running around my neighbours backyard, M16 in hand, going “Duna-na-nuh-na-nuh-na-nuh-Duna-na-nuh-nuh” for what seemed like hours. Now I have the theme song stuck in my brain again, great. Megolike.com: My Pal Lou has a great page based […]
They say fashion is cyclical, how come I still can’t own a fine jacket such as these without it smelling like Value Village? DVD Day: In terms of 70’s stuff, there isn’t a heck of a lot to mention this week but if you were a teen in the eighties then the High School Flashback […]
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