I’d like to pretend this is a snippet from our office Christmas party. Thank you everyone for a really terrific, positive year. I deeply appreciate all the kindness and laughs you’ve shared with me by reading, listening and writing in, I am humbled by the responses I get to this crazy project. So as I go […]
For the brief time after Star Wars and before the discovery of girls and punk rock, Atari dominated my thoughts.
This ad from Viacom was put out in all the toy trades at the time enticing licensees that Thundarr was a good idea. I wish more of them took it seriously. Heck, I still want the unproduced Mego line.
GI Joe, Action Jackson, Big Jim and Mego Superheroes, pretty close to everything I thought about before Star Wars blew up.
Spidey joined the winner of shopping spree back in 1981, I dream of these things sometimes…. Send me your mall appearance photos!
For this year’s last Friday feature, I bring you my favourite of all sections of PlaidStallions another volume of vintage toy store pictures! Celebrating the time when we had unique independent retailers dotting our landscape and came up with colourful and and interesting ways of selling us toys. Volume 18 is our biggest yet and loaded with […]
“Point to a winner.” “Casual Friday?
I recently discovered this in a catalog for toymaker GLJ, who specialized in things like bop bags and inflatable Barbie Furniture. Turns out they had the Battlestar Galactica license and planned a number of things, including this inflatable Colonial Viper that would have fit the 12″ Mattel figures. While some GLJ BSG merchandise made it […]
As Rack Toys go, these are a pretty solid concept.
“The Men people pay attention to will be wearing these coats this fall” Trust me, I know from experience, I get a lot of jealous looks at Parent-Teacher meetings…
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