Comments on: PlaidStallions BIG Toys Week https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/plaidstallions-big-toys-week/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: John Scott Tynes https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/plaidstallions-big-toys-week/#comment-10313 Mon, 07 May 2018 15:55:54 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2018/05/06/plaidstallions-big-toys-week/#comment-10313 You can't write about big toys and not discuss the Remco Earthquake Tower.

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I had this as a kid. One of the plastic army-men style characters was a guy screaming and flailing his arms, and it was clear that he was not going to make it out alive. And as instructed, I put the flexidisc on my dad'd turntable and grooved to the rumbles, sirens, explosions, and screams as I mashed the earthquake button over and over and the screaming people fell from the catwalks.

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