I wanted to write a big long preface to this week but it was nice outside yesterday and I forgot about it. To be brief, 1982 represented the time when I stopped playing with toys, I drifted aimlessly until I started collecting them three years later.One of the last toylines I picked up was the […]
I’ve been meaning to do more 70’s DVD reviews for the site but never find the time, so today I did a quick review of the classic kids series Jason of Star Command. If you want it in a nutshell, I loved it, otherwise click here.
Today we journey back to 1973 to witness the birth of one of the hottest toys of the 1970’s the Ideal Evel Knievel line! If you you were a child in the mid seventies there was no way you weren’t aware of this toy.Coming Next Week: Plaidstallions jumps forward to 1982
I’m a self professed Martial Arts nut but isn’t wearing a simulated Gi with Bruce Lee’s picture on it pretty much like an adult verson of underoos? Not that I’m judging, if they made adult underoos, I’d be a one man Justice League.
It seems even the dress alike twins can’t contain their dislike for the “Aztec” sweater, talk about people in glass houses!Is it just me or does the Aztec sweater remind anyone else of Ozymandias from the Watchmen?
I admit it, I had a Donny Osmond doll. Even worse was that I chose him during the annual family March break shopping trip to the Scarborough Town Center, passing over the Mego Human Torch doll i had coveted for so long.All of this was done to impress my older sister who remarked how cool […]
Is your couch a boring, almost tasteful affair? Not anymore with these fabulous slip covers. That’s better!
Today’s site update is the 1979 Empire Toys Catalog. Empire didn’t make many trendsetting toys, mostly items to fit in with other companies existing lines and using a lot of licenses. Superman, Spider-man and the Incredible Hulk get a lot of face time here.
Chip and Lance are devil-may-care go getters with a real thirst for action. They live for kicks baby! Murray is the sensitive one……
My grandmother had one of these back in the day, thank you Miss Mary of Sweden!
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