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The Mystery Club

This is how I picture a Filmation Nancy Drew TV Series would have looked like except one of these kids would have a comicly oversized pair of glasses.

Colouring Book Theatre: Kamen Rider

 “Kamen Rider Colouring Book” Back in 1991, I spent about every weekend hitting China Town or Agincourt to find new laser disks or VHS of this cool new show I had discovered. Kamen Rider was that series, in Japan it’s a kids show and the best way to describe it is it’s one part Sid […]

Dark Lord of the Atari

Hopping the pond to the UK for this Mall Appearance which happened in the early 1980s when Darth Vader himself dropped in on a “Toymaster” (great name) shop to promote the Empire Strikes Back Video cartridges that I spent the majority of 1981 playing.Send me your mall appearance photos!

Galoob Infaceables

Even though my toy buying was waning considerably by 1984 (sadly I was getting more into Doctor Who paperbacks than girls) I do admire some of the cool gimmicks used to spawn action figures at the time..Take for example Galoob’s Infaceables line, a series of Heroes and Villains whose faces changed into horrible beasts. The […]

Conversation FunTube Socks

I’m not denying that comical tube socks can’t start conversations, what I’m wondering is what really the quality of that conversation would be:Man 1” Hey neat socks!”Sock Man ” h’yuck, yeah I got them in a catalog”Ackward SilenceMan 1 “well, bye”