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Rack Toys the Digital Edition Now Available!

I am so happy to announce that my baby is back! Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings is finally ready and available for download here! This new version of Rack Toys is now expanded (now weighs in at 162 pages) and includes some new stuff i’ve found, most of which i wished i had at the […]

AHI James Bond Toys

Even though they were advertised for a couple of years in their catalogs, the Azrak Hamway James Bond series of Rack toys remains pretty hard to find on the secondary market. It seems they were produced in very low numbers.  Recently a carded disc gun came on the secondary market prompting my podcast partner Jason […]

Arco Toys The Other World Catalog

Arco’s the Other World was one of many fantasy toy lines that came out in the early 80s to cash in on the “Sword and Sorcery” craze lead by Mattel’s Masters of the universe. Unlike many of it’s competitors the line had no cartoon to back it up (although comic books were included in it’s […]

Durham Kung Fu!

The Durham Kung Fu figure seemed to be everywhere in the early 1970s, not based on the David Carradine series it simply captured the culture’s then obsession with martial arts. I really wanted one of these as a kid but they’re pretty cheaply made and I’ve heard no end of stories about how his hands […]

Bendy Buck Rogers and Twiki

This past weekend I was grateful to recieve a surprising package from Jason, my podcast partner. If you had asked me to guess, I’d have never gotten it right but somehow it’s the perfect gift. More after the jump: So, it may be obvious to listeners and readers here that Brain loves hisself some Buck […]

Caption Contest Winner

 OK, let me start by saying, you made this really hard, you’re good at this.   Second, I wanted to originally go with “Rectum? Damn near killed him!” before i turned this into a contest. No less than five of you entered that into the contest. We should form a club and have meetings.   Third, […]