sesame street Archives

OK, I’m convinced that catalog photographers just used refridgerator boxes as a substitute for kids’ beds, the corners on that thing would cut children. That being said, there is nothing cooler than old school Sesame Street merchandising art, I miss it.

Cookie Monster Grabs A Snack

December 12, 2009 By Mantooth In Uncategorized 3 Comments

David sent in this vintage bit of awesome, at a car show in 1977 Cookie Monster decided to chow down on David, the stuff of schoolyard legend. This is our first (but hopefully not last) Sesame Street submission, great stuff!Send me your mall appearance photos!

1980 Aladin Lunchbox Catalog

September 4, 2009 By Mantooth In Uncategorized 9 Comments

Few things say “Back to School” more than a shiny new lunch box, especially one from Aladin who made really striking items over the decades. This catalog is the best of what the fall of 1980 had to offer, classic monsters, oodles of Superheroes, Good Robots, Bad Robots, Muppets and Men from the 25th Century! […]

1975 Fisher Price Catalog

July 17, 2009 By Mantooth In Uncategorized 8 Comments

Fisher Price created some of the most durable and well remembered toys of our life time, if you’re a 70/80’s kid, you likely had wonderful afternoons with the little people and possibly graduated to the real world action of the Adventure People. 1975 was an amazing year for Fisher Price, not only did they launch […]

Camping with Bert and Ernie

February 24, 2009 By Mantooth In Uncategorized 5 Comments

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.