Kenner
Pic of the Day > Hiccup in the Power by Boogeyman13
Pic of the Day > Dr. Terror by (Talyn)
Pic of the Day > Kenner Aliens vs Predator – Warrior Alien by Ed Speir IV
Attack of the Show to Queen Marlena: Drop dead.
Video Game – E3 2011 – AOTS Exclusive Is the post title uncalled for? I don’t think so. Poor Queen Marlena. It looks like AFOS wins the contest, since he guessed Marlena and Stay Puft. A few other people got one right, but not two. AFOS, shoot me an email to poe AT poeghostal.com and [...]
Pic of the Day > Kitty Litter by gibbspaulus
Kitty Litter by gibbspaulus
Show and Tell > A few neat toy finds
One of my favorite stores in the Boston area is Comicazi in Somerville. The back room of the store is filled wall-to-wall with MOC vintage toys, from Star Wars to Star Trek to Simpsons to racks and racks of old Marvel and DC stuff, plus plenty of old Kenner figures. I went in yesterday to [...]
Vintage Toy Ads > Aliens by Kenner
For the most part, I think Kenner’s Aliens & Predator toys were pretty cool, even if they weren’t all that faithful to the movies. The various animal-based Aliens were great–I still have my Scorpion and Gorilla Aliens. The only thing that bummed me out was that they came out a few years after I was [...]
Pic of the Day
Night Climber Batman by FranMoff
Vintage Toy Ads > Knight Rider KITT & Care Bear Cousins
One of the niftiest things about Kenner’s KITT toy from the early ’80s was that there was a small dial underneath the car that allowed you change the speed of the voice; this was intended to counteract the tendency of the voice to go too fast when the batteries were new, and slow down when [...]