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Reflecto-Lite Masks

I have a weakness for store displays of any kind and it’s a true bonus when you can find them in a catalog. This sweet display of Collegeville masks inclues “The Bat” and a great generic version of the creature from the black lagoon that I’m kind of smitten with: Much more about Collegeville all […]

Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh THE BAT?

As I recall in 1975, I brought my mother my Mego Batman doll, a needle and some thread and asked her to make me the exact outfit for Halloween. My mom, prudent at darning socks and replacing buttons was not exactly a dress maker, so she did the next thing and took me to Woolco. […]

Atari Wars

I am a veteran of the video game wars, fought mostly on my schoolyard. I, being of the clan of Atari, waged daily combat against those who had sworn allegiance to George Plimpton and quoted from the Book of Mattel. Mostly about how much superior the Intellivision system really was. I can remember HATING kids […]

Holy Tooth Decay Batman!

I’m abundantly aware of how hacky and shameful that blog title is but it’s unavoidable, I assure you. As much as I begged for a Batman and Steve Austin electric toothbrush as a child (because commercials told me I needed one) it was the one luxury my parents refused to provide me with. Somehow, I […]

Casa Del Mantooth

I know it might be more than a little nuts but I like to think that this is the kind of place PlaidStallion #1 Brick Mantooth goes home to every night. Halloween Countdown: We’ve got some vintage goodness this week courtesy of fellow blogger and Halloween “countdowner” Erick from Wonderful Wonderblog with this trip back […]

Super 8 Shockers

Rob from the great blog “All in Black and White for 75 Cents” sent me these great Castle film ads from various monster publications in the 70’s. While the home video market is definitely an example of how change can be good (in this case great) thing, I still kind of miss when my parents […]

He’s no good to me dead…

Halloween 1980 and that’s yours truly rocking the Ben Cooper Boba Fett outfit. I really liked this suit for a couple of reasons, the first being that you could see through the mask but people couldn’t see in real well, the other being that the picture on the front of the smock totally looked like […]

Pajama-Rama

Loving the props in this one, especially the feats of strength although I don’t know why the Spock kid is lifting a dumbell. The Kirk PJs in the corner show the Captain in an episode called the Tholian Web, I have to admit, I’ve never seen that episode. I’m a bad trekkie. Halloween Countdown Submission: […]

Childhood scares

I was reading an article in this month’s Geek magazine about the wonderful site Kinder Trauma and it got me thinking about things that scared the crap out of you as a kid. The kind of stuff you never forgot, I thought what better way to kick off our Halloween countdown, seeing as all of […]

Plaidstallions 70’s Halloween Countdown

For the month of October, I’ve accepted a challenge put out by Jon (from Random acts of Geekery) and other blogs and entered the Halloween Countdown. Which means, I’ll be posting something Halloween related every day for the month of October. We’ll be starting out a little slow, posting additions to my usual blogs such […]