Every film lover has a ‘guilty pleasure,’ a movie one enjoys despite what popular opinion says about it. The designation has been applied to films as diverse as Grease and Plan 9 From Outer Space, but one film CONTINUE READING…
Back in the day, there weren’t many things better than having a toy catalog or toy store sale paper to browse through to get you excited about all of the toy possibilities out there. Recently CONTINUE READING…
If you took any pride at all in your toy chest—and we hope you did—it surely contained a View-Master. When the action figure war simulation wound down and you needed a short intermission before you CONTINUE READING…
A couple of weeks ago my favorite follow on Twitter (I don’t call it X) @super70ssports posted the wonderful gem below that I totally identify with. I miss when guys like Dusty Rhodes were at the top CONTINUE READING…
Toy soldiers have allowed kids all over the world to be the generals of their own armies for many decades. These enduringly popular toys have seen many variations from the basic green plastic soldiers that CONTINUE READING…
Cartoons were inescapable in the 1980’s. Saturday mornings, weekday afternoons and even on cable TV, colorful animated characters were everywhere we looked. While the majority were shoddy productions conceived as part of carefully constructed marketing CONTINUE READING…
Comic book heroes have captivated the imaginations of readers for generations, evolving from their humble beginnings in the Golden Age of comics to becoming iconic symbols of popular culture in the modern era. This evolution CONTINUE READING…
Everybody loves a good parade, especially the Macy’s Day Parade. Most of us, at least once in our lives, attended the Macy’s Day Parade in Person. Then you go to relative’s house for a big CONTINUE READING…
As you should already know, I can’t get enough ’80s nostalgia the whole year, but Christmas is an especially nostalgic time for me. In the past, I shared My Christmas Memories from 1980 , My Christmas CONTINUE READING…
It was a green box with gold bars hiding behind trees, crocodiles swimming in a lake, underground tunnels and the best adventurer ever. That’s right Christmas 1982 I got the one present I wanted…PITFALL! CONTINUE READING…
When “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” was first released in 1969 it was not intended to be a Christmas song, but it became one for me once it was included in the 1988 CONTINUE READING…
I don’t know about you, but commercials can often take me back to my formative years as quickly as any song or movie can. That is why we will continue this semi-regular feature on ’80s commercials CONTINUE READING…
Title role notwithstanding, Santa was primarily a supporting character in 1985’s holiday family feature Santa Claus. Dudley Moore got top billing as an elf named Patch, with John Lithgow taking the role of antagonist B.Z. Saint CONTINUE READING…
I want to share a story from my childhood about a Christmas unlike any other I had known before it. It was a Christmas that changed my outlook on the holiday, and as you’ll read, CONTINUE READING…
You have to wonder whether the programmers at Williams Electronics didn’t have a bit of a sadistic streak in them. It’s one thing to pit best friends against one another—Gun Fight, Warlords, and others had already taken CONTINUE READING…
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