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Camping with Bert and Ernie

As weird as this set seems, my kids have a modern version if this that’s almost entirely the same except Elmo is now crowbarred in there. Bert looks totally at home on a chopper, I should have known he was an outlaw biker.

Mobile Action Command Challenge

Matchbox’s Mobile Action Command is one of those fun toys a lot of people had but have no idea what they were called. These guys had a real limited back story and I honestly don’t remember if they had any sort of TV advertising. I was surprised to find out as an adult they were […]

Charlton Heston Not Included

Ever since I first saw it in the 1976 Remco Catalog, I’ve been a little fascinated by the Earth Quake Tower Playset, which obviously was inspired by the many works of Irwin Allen and the disaster craze of the early seventies. It’s kind of morbid but if I had seen it as a kid, i’d […]

Captain America visits Illinois

I loves me some Steve Rogers. Got his autograph once and he signed it on his shield… Do you have a vintage Mall Appearance shot? Send it on down! Check out the Mall Appearance Gallery for more vintage spandex goodness…

Perk up your Parties!

With the holidays approaching one might consider purchasing some of this crap to make the booze flow a little better (drunk=perky). Might I suggest the little boy peeing dispener? that’s always worth a laugh. Truth be told, my wife inherited the R Lamp seen here recently from a relative, I’m oddly proud of it. After […]

Random scenes from a 70’s department store

I recently got a copy of a catalog from a Dolgin’s department store (I’ve never heard of them either) and I loved the little images on the cover. People in a mustard yellow store buying mustard yellow things and even though these are likely staged shots, there is some nostalgia to be had. Ah the […]

Playset Love

While the Marx Naverone set is cool and you can never go wrong with some plastic dinosaurs (especially in combination with the army men!) I think the big star for me here is the Martian landing playset.Astronauts, vehicles and that Big wheel space station? That’s all i need. I’m pretty sure you can still find […]

Caveman Game Consoles

I remember the day my dad brought home a telestar, he went up several points in popularity. a few years later with the onset of Atari and several (sleazy) arcades opening up in town, it made the ol’ telestar look down right Paleolithic.I imagine if you were to make one now, it would be the […]

Master of the Mystic Nap

When you look at vintage pajama shots, you see a lot of staples, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Hulk are the biggies. Rarely do you see a B-List hero in the lot (please no hate mail) such as Doctor Stephen Strange. Doc never got much respect in the way of merch as a kid, as far […]

JJ and OJ

Two celebrity dolls, two very different professions. The guy on the bottom is J.J Armes by Ideal, a real life detective who lost his hands as a child and uses prosthetics. I saw the commercial for this as a kid but for a long time thought I dreamt it. The other doll by Shindana had […]