This ad for licensing Captain America products from 1981 is interesting not only to comic fans but also trek people ( can’t remember if “trekkie” or “trekker” is offensive so I’ll steer away from that controversy, thank you) as I’m 90% certain that’s none other than Commander William Riker actor Jonathan Frakes under that ill […]
Parker Brothers was already a household name for board games and in the 1970s, like a lot of other toy manufactureres, they were attempting to the name in the growing electronic game market. Competition was fierce but Parker in 1979 had some memorable concepts like Merlin and Wild fire Pinball. While ROM: Spaceknight was a […]
Cause nothing “locks that down” better than a matching outfit from Montgomery Wards..
You can almost feel the skinned knees…
There goes my whole “grown on trees” theory…
As much as I’m a monster geek, I bet the Sesame Street was way more funner.
All those at the Columbus car show must yield! Another winner from Larry, this time it’s Captain America, the perfect hero for the fourth of July weekend. Cap was pretty busy with appearances around this time. Again I have to say huge props to Larry for these wonderful shots, check out his site for classic […]
Another look into the wonderful world of Rack toys and one of it’s shining stars Azrak Hamway, who in the 1970s were the kings of fun, inexpensive licensed toys. 1977 was a pretty big year for Azrak Hamway Inc and they had all the hottest licenses including the superheroes from the house of both DC […]
“I’m Ted your instructor and this is Steve and Bill, they’re my assistants, take your shoes off, would you like a warm cup of Chicory while we wait for the others to arrive?”
An open message to all children of the 1990s, this is what we had and we liked it dammit! Sure, Super Mario was cool but did his console have a wood grain finish? I didn’t think so…
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