While I loved it as a kid, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze is not a good movie. It’s easily the weakest of the three live-action Turtles films,* and it’s incredibly dated by the presence of Vanilla Ice, who was already a living joke when the film came out. However, the [...]
Today’s Show and Tell comes courtesy of Poester George C. Some images taken from Yojoe.com. When I was growing up, I didn’t own too many toys–my mother didn’t approve of them or maybe we were just broke. Whatever the reason, it helped me value toys whenever I did get some, even more. As I recall, [...]
“A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, God said: ‘Let there be lips,’ and there were lips and they were red.” Every Saturday at midnight in dozens of movie theatres across the globe this line is shouted at the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of [...]
by MisterBigBo In light of Poe’s recent and good article in Toyfare on Star Wars licensed products, today I’m sharing my strangest Star Wars item, my Yard Yoda. When I bought my first home in 2004 I faced what would be generously described as a fixer-upper. Dr. Mrs. Bigbo’s contractor uncle was going to help [...]
by Justin Gammon Maybe you’re like me, and you’ve been hearing a lot lately about the Masters of the Universe Classics toyline (seems like most of the news is coming from this blog I haven’t been a huge follower of the newly-released toyline (mainly because of the prices), but it’s my impression that Mattel is [...]
While not a toy, The Official Ghostbusters Training Manual was one of my prized possessions as a wee tyke. Published in conjunction with the movie in 1984, I probably got it only a couple years after I’d learned to read, which explains why there are lines from it that were so deeply embedded in my [...]
By Jon of Doubledumbassonyou As a small child I watched three movies on a constant loop: Transformers: The Movie, Flash Gordon, & Big Trouble in Little China. They were my trifecta of ’80s cinematic awesomeness. While my friends wanted to be Indiana Jones, all I wanted in my young life was to be a truck [...]
By PrfktTear Created by the California Raisin Advisory Board, The California Raisins began as a marketing plan to sell raisins. They came up with the idea of the anthropomorphic singing and dancing raisins which would attract the attention of kids. What started as an idea to get people to eat raisins grew into a whole [...]
By googum His helmet is cracked, and his head slips off now and then. He hasn’t been mint condition in over thirty years, when some errant bug spray on a camping trip faded his logo and one eye. (His teammates didn’t fare as well.) He wasn’t even on display for almost fifteen years, which he [...]
When I first got interested in Hellboy after seeing the movie in 2004, my first order of business was to obtain a trenchcoat Hellboy figure from the movie. I gazed longingly at the great photos from Michael Crawford’s review (this was definitely one of those cases where a review got me to buy a toy–or [...]