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Plaidstallions at Detour Magazine

Detour Magazine (which is an awesome read BTW) published a cool little piece on yours truly today, as an added bonus they didn’t use the picture of me I regretted sending in the first place. Life is good! Check out the piece here.

Kenner 1978 Spring Catalog

Spring Supplement Catalogs usually include things that didn’t make it into the February Toyfair in a bid to make it out in time for the Christmas season. The 1978 Kenner Catalog is a prime example featuring some classic goodies and a few that just didn’t make it under anybody’s tree that year.Bionic Woman, Play Doh, […]

Pick Up Joint : The Playset

This disco playset probably looked a whole heck of a lot more innocent back in the day, now the guy figure looks a lot like Eric Roberts in “Star 80”. I cut it off but you can see his “Mid life crisis mobile” which was sold separately.Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.

Greens!

This isn’t just green, it’s GREEN! The kind that holds you down and beats you until you magically become Irish. The checked number in the middle is so bad, it’s kind of cool.Source: Sears 1977

Superman Talking Alarm Clock

Janex is probably best known for their Batman and Robin talking alarm clock which was a big hit. Their Superman clock is lesser known and no wonder, while Batman and Robin started your day with their snappy ” Hey Chum and Holy This!” banter, Superman seemed to just nag you. I mean “Better get up […]

Heading off into the sunset….

Dressing alike continues to boggle my mind, one stumbled upon reviewer claims it had to do with the rise of the liberated woman and that men would be forced to do such things in order to get with a girl.It’s not a stretch for me to believe, heck i could see a young version of […]

Super Heroic Goodies

By the late 1970’s, Remco was making a heroic amount of comic book merchandising including logical items like the CSF BatCopter and inflatable Hulk muscles to the truly head scratching stuff like the Hulk Helicopter and Spider-Man pistols. Check out the 1979 Remco Catalog.