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, […]

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 […]

Quite possibly one of the coolest playsets ever, it even has secret passageways. Sadly I was eight when I saw my first one, so I had to be all cool about it. I want one now though, for my kids of course……

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“…

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 […]