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1978 True Value Toy Catalog

For the next little while, I’m going to devote Friday’s to features on the site, adding new toy catalogs, store pics, what I can fin relating to old toys.Today it’s the 1978 True Value Hardware Toy Catalog, which really captures the sci fi explosion thanks to Star Wars. A lot of great toys are representing, […]

Puberty in a click!

I may have been a lad but I remember growing Skipper pretty well, the idea that she blossoms with a click of a bottom was pretty damn cool. I’m surprised Mattel didn’t add this mechanism into He-Man or Big Jim somehow.Sure, today’s toys have soundchips and fancy doo-dads but ours could grow up in an […]

The saw is family

A innocent family sweetly dressing together or a cut scene from the unfinished sequel to “Motel Hell”? I’m not saying anything but the Mom has crazy eyes, that’s all.

Bionic Things for a Bionic Lady

I never paid much attention to Bionic Woman Merchandise as a kid but the one thing I’ve noticed is they were always trying to do that dangerous mix of adventure toy and fashion doll.Take her Beauty Salon/Repair Station or her Dome House, a domesticated version of Steve’s mission control center. Although I have to admit, […]

Bert and Ernie Keep Me Warm!

Could this possibly be the grooviest piece of Sesame St merchandise ever? If I owned these, they’d be the only things I’d wear and I mean only.Revamped the Plaidstallions website yesterday, drop by and let me know your thoughts.

Foxy!

While I’m elated to see the ad states this wonderful ensemble is available in “Chubby”, I’ve always been more of a “Fatty fatty two by four“…

Toys we’ll never see again

So many things about this toy would never fly in today’s world. Starting with the accurate hand gun but let’s not forget the fact that the toy makes you shoot a Gorilla, which is wrongly depicted as savage? Somehow I think these people would frown on such a toy getting out there today.If I remember […]