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Dress in the Dark much?

Note to Guy Smiley: This kind of outfit clash only works if you’re a girl trying to be artsy. Wow, it’s too early for this….. Coming Next week! Kitschy Monster toys and merchandise from the 70’s, Halloween costumes and a lot more!

Kitschy Bar Nick Knacks

I remember my Uncle Dan had all this stuff at his house before he had kids, he may still have it. It’s all so hilarious, I imagine that a whole evening alone could be spent laughing at that toilet ice bucket. What’s really funny about this is i bet all of this stuff (including a […]

Soylent Green is Peeeeeepullllll!

I look at this childs outfit (the one on the right, although the one on the left is a doozy) and I can’t help but feel this is somewhat influenced by Charleton Heston’s outfit in Soylent Green.All that’s missing is the neckerchief!Coming tomorrow on Plaidstallions.com: The Superheroes go waterskiing!

Fugly kitchens of the past

It’s thanksgiving here in Canada and what would be more fitting than to look at some of kitchen tables that we may have eaten our feast on 30 years ago. Mmmm deep orange shag, perfect for losing table scraps in. too fancyI’m reminded of Yard Sales for some reasonMy grandparents had this set in their […]

Remco Flying Enterprise: Unrequited Toy Love

I never had the Remco Star Trek Enterprise space flight game but lord, how i remember wanting it. The TV commercial is especially memorable but to my disappointment, it’s not on youtube.Essentially a knock off of the Mattel Vertibird, Remco also did a very cool Batman version of this set. Mattel made an Eagle one […]

More Mego Star Trek Madness

Mego did a really good job with Star Trek, the electronic role play toys are some of the coolest around. They have a wonderful kind of crudeness that kind of reminds me of the hardware on the original seriesI especially remember being interested in the communicators, my neighbor Dan Munns had them and I think […]

Mr Spock’s Pimped out ride

Found this ad in a 1978 trade publication, that’s pretty late for TOS merchandising, which had cooled down some from the 75-76 explosion. I wonder if it was ever released. I imagine those thrusters came flying off in the first few minutes of rough driving.

Dorkiest Star Trek Toy ever?

I’m not sure it’s a bright thing to encourage people to comb the beach looking for car keys and loose change at an early age. I’m positive it’s a bad idea to combine that behaviour with a proud love of Star Trek. (It would probably be even worse if you combined it with yesterday’s fine […]

To protect Spock’s Brain?

I must have missed this episode, maybe after the whole “Spock’s Brain” mess, Kirk made him wear a flashing hemlet so they wouldn’t fall into the same trap again. It’s fun to think about Nimoy trying to do his lines with a straight face while wearing this.