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Star Wars….exclusively at Sears

While I personally don’t remember the Rebel Command Center (which surprises me) I do recall the weird loyalty you had to have to Sears in order to “collect” Star Wars figures as a kid. Sears wasn’t close to our house, so I’d have to tag along with my mum to get groceries or other mundane […]

Goodbye to the World’s Coolest Basement

This week got a l’il emotional as I bid goodbye to my grandparent’s home. Even though they both had passed a while back, my whole family was a bit attached to their place and it took some time to finally decide to let it go. For me, the hardest part about it was that it […]

Sales will climb with Spider-Man!

It’s fitting that i found this ad as i recently discovered the destroyed remains of my  corgi Spider-Copter in my kid’s room recently. It made no comic book sense and even at 7 years of age  I knew it was aerodynamically impossible but I thought it was the greatest vehicle ever. More Corgi goodness:

Black Hole Kites

I was amused to find these ads for Black Hole branded kites from Hi-Flier tucked in a trade magazine from 1979. The toy industry really thought the robots from Disney’s space epic were going to be the next big thing. And for me and my friends, they totally were! I had every Black Hole item […]

An original Mantooth

Last week I got a wonderful “Mystery box” from my friend Robyn. The majority of which were amazing mementos of our last couple of decades working together on the “Mego Museum” website but at the bottom was this. An original sketch when we were planning (ok she was planning, I’m useless) to do a Brick […]