This vintage giftwrap represents the dilemma of doing a piece on Christmas items. Christmas has always had one foot in tacky to begin with so even though this giftwrap comes from the era of butterfly collars and jumpsuits, i could swear that I unwrapped it last year. Another thing that never goes out of style […]

Just in time for the holidays, Plaidstallions will present a tribute to all those itchy sweaters, fruit cakes and light up plastic messiahs of days gone by. As an added bonus, we’ll do a toy of the day, made up mostly of stuff I never got for Christmas!

Holy Mother Jumpin’ Crud, they made a Wonderbug Peddle car! I am beyond infatuated with this piece, too bad they didn’t make a schlep car to go with it.

More splendid numbers from the Man-Mates selection, nothing beats a little festive green polyester for the yule tide season! Just watch your eye on the collars…..

More Killer Fisher Price Adventure People Stuff, I never had these and I honestly remember pretending to like a weeny kid who did just so i could play with them.

One can only assume that Disco became uncool after appearing in this catalogHave a great weekend!

Pretty primitive compared to the Harry Potter Horwart’s castle my nephew has but easily as charming, early lego castles are kind of expensive nowadays. Another “Christmas wishlist” toy that I never got, not that I noticed at the time.

Mego gunned hard for the girls aisle and put a real dent in Barbie’s sales with their celebrity based fashion dolls. Cher was a huge hit and Farrah was also a best seller (Hasbro was no doubt ticked because of competition with their Charlies Angels line).While Mego had a lot of success with these two, […]

How can this guy miss? I think that shirt locks anyone within reach into deep hynoptic state, look away I tell you! Lest you fall under this guys spell of polyester!