One of the highlights of a recent trip to Chicago was being able to rummage through my friend Charlie’s basement and look at his collection. It was almost a museum to growing up in the 70’s, I thought I’d share random images of some of my favourite items. Expect a part two to this some […]
They’ll steal your man baby!
My buddy Scott sent me these wicked Sears Batman vehicles and it gives me the old “I’d have had a blast with these as a kid” thoughts.Oddly I did have a ride on car very similiar to that Jaguar, which I pretended to be a Batmobile.
With all the Pirate stuff in toy stores, I was reminded by the Matchbox line Fighting Furies, which was a line I never even saw as a kid.The figures were very well made but it was probably was hurt by the fact that the line only had two characters (although a third ghost figure was […]
So much glamour for such a low price
Added the best parts of the 1976 Hasbro Catalog to Plaidstallions.com today including the last year of G.I. Joe and the Adventure Team, Ricochet Racers, the amazing paint sets and Mickey Mouse.Oh and let’s not forget the Weebles!
Dress alike families perplex me,I know my mum tried this a few times but that sweater would instantly go to the bottom of the drawer for fear of us all wearing it on the same day. She went as far as to put our names on them once in those funky iron on letters, nice […]
Hell Yeah! Nothing like these sheets to hide all the empties when your mom comes down to your room to ask whether or not you even looked for a job yesterday.
Oh how I wanted this Mork from Ork Eggship when it first came out, I love how mattel cleverly reused the Battlestar Galactica body for ol’ Mork. At the same time you could buy Mork gum in a similiar eggship, it only cost $0.50 and placated me.On a side note, I’m attempting to create a […]
Continuing our True Value series is this cool toy catalog from 1974, it’s amazing how much things can change in a year or so. 1974 seemed to be a true mix of old guard toys mingling with the new, Big JIm rubs elbows with Johnny West. Barbie turns 16 and Ken goes Mod. Standards such […]
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