This vintage toy shot means a lot because well, it’s me. I found this picture while cleaning my garage last weekend and it’s one that’s very special. 12″ IG-88 was not easily found in Canada (and purists will note that’s an American box beside me) and I remember being really happy with this. Sadly, I […]
While multi million dollar Superhero movies are commonplace today and rarely fail at the box office, in 1979, Superman the Movie was kind of new, untested thing. At the time, the DC comics heroes were represented by licensing corporation of America (LCA) and their job is to sell the Superhero license to […]
Gary and Alfonse made the lawn mowers run on time, if you know what I’m saying.
The rec room adventure is just beginning…..
This toy surfaced exactly one year after the cancellation of Battlestar Galactica, as conincedence may have it Larami used to hold that license. What an incredibly random thing to happen. As a side note, it is impossible to look at all imposing blowing bubbles. Check out our upcoming book!
Nothing says “Creepy Uncle” and “Hey, has your friend tried wine?” more than Mantique.
‘Shogun Warriors: Dragun” I have to admit, I was excited when I found scans of this book over at (sponsor) Sherryloutoys website. Mostly because it was free but also because Marvel’s “Shogun Warriors” comic usually took my 35 cents if there wasn’t a new issue of “Star Wars” or “Micronauts” on the rack. I was […]
Found a pretty neat piece of DC comics history that I’m working on for the site but I couldn’t resist teasing this little of awesome, a touring schedule for infamous 70s road show “Bugs Bunny meets the Superheroes” which also featured Wonder Woman! If you were lucky enough to see this back then […]
The 1979 release of “The Lord of the Rings” movie was a highly anticipated event by fans and toy companies, hoping to find a fantasy film franchise as lucrative as Star Wars had been. Lord of the Rings was a box office hit but it didn’t equate to much by the way of merchandise. One of […]
My world wide fascination with the world wide marketing of Mattel’s Slime continues and this time we are at looking at Italy. Where it was called…Slaim, guess what that means? It’s cool, not as cool as what they called it in Spain but hey, what are you gonna do?
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