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1980 Aladin Lunchbox Catalog

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

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

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.

One Night Only

It’s the “Three Neat Guys” and they’ll be singing all your grandparents favourite songs, act now, tickets are going fast!Warning: The First Three Rows will get rocked!Today, I’ve got a cool one, it’s from my Megomuseum co-hort (and the site’s founder) Scott Adams and it’s all about his obsession with Sesame Street Finger Puppets.World’s Greatest […]

A Piece of Personal History

I found these wicked Bert and Ernie napkins rummaging through a box at my parents house, they’re from my fifth birthday party. To think, my mom almost threw these important pieces of “Brianana” away…

Some Finger Puppet Love

Card #14 goes out to my pal Scott Adams. Scott and I work on the Megomuseum and this is his other obsession, Child Guidance Sesame Street Finger Puppets. Scott asked me a couple of weeks before this how I felt about doing a card like this and me being a Sesame Street nut, it was […]

Zayre Toy Circular from 1975

It’s hard to find vintage newspaper toy circulars, most people threw them out five minutes after reading. That’s a shame because they are such a neat and attractive way to see pop culture history. That’s why this toy circular from the Zayre stores is one of my favourites, first I was five years old when […]

Play-Doh + Bert and Ernie = Goodness

I must have missed a meeting in the seventies, I had no idea there was a Sesame Street Play Doh set. This is all kinds of awesome and I’d like to send a set back in time to the four year old me. Right after I sent myself back in time for some shopping that […]

1978 Child Guidance Sesame Street Catalog

Wrapping up Sesame Street week the only way I know how, with another catalog. Child Guidance was one of the bigger producers of Sesame Street Merchandising in the 1970’s, at this point they were a division of Gabriel (makers of the cool Lone Ranger line of toys) but eventually would become part of the Azrak […]