I wanted to start the week with this favourite of mine but couldn’t find it in the unorganized mess that is my catalog cupboard. This page from the 1978 Simpsons-Sears catalog shows the humble beginnings of the Star Wars line (dig the airbrush detail on Vader) and the slow decline of the Mego Planet of […]

Canada got some neat exclusive Star Wars stuff and this page from ’79 represents my favourite period for the Kenner (Here in Canada Irwin) toysThe cardboard deathstar was also sold in the UK but not in the US, the Utility belts did not make George Lucas happy and were quickly deleted. I had one, they […]

From a 1978 Globe and Mail article, a reporter scowls at Star Wars toys in an article with the biline “Give him Snakes and Ladders any day” I’ve been kind of avoiding doing a Star Wars week for a couple of reasons: a) I kind of thought Star Wars didn’t need the attention b) I […]

I could never own something like this, gravy stains show up on white too easily…. All next week on the blog, we’ll take a look at the obscure 1977 Science Fiction film “Star Wars” and it’s merchandising.

I never noticed them as a kid but there were tons of cool character watches in the 70’s, while Mickey is a standard and I’m sure Holly Hobby is popular with many, that Six Million Dollar Man watch is the Sh!t.

From under the tree to a garage sale in under five months……

When I see stuff like this, I expect to see Kikaider and a bunch of henchmen leap out of the background and start fighting.

I posted this on the Megomuseum last year but I really like sharing it, my grandmother gave me my old wishlist from 1979, clipped from the Sears Canada catalog of the same year.Funny how I went from making wishlists to wantlists with much of the same stuff in it.Some disclaimers- I didn’t get everything on […]

Opening a sweater when you’re eight is an odd experience, you couldn’t care less about it but you know you have to be polite and thank your aunt for it. I still hate sweaters to this day but I now like it when I get socks for Christmas. Well meaning grandmothers everywhere probably thought the […]

“Yeah Billy beat the crap Santa, now let’s eat his guts!” Not to poop on someone’s holiday traditions here but I’m bewildered as to why you’d want to beat the crap out of an effigy of jolly ol’ saint nick. Frosty on the other hand I totally get, he can be a real pompous ass….If […]