For this installment, I’ll be skipping back to the mid 1970s, which is pretty appropriate considering this blog. Like many of you, I grew up in what was a golden age of action figures, the Mego era.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Nerd Therapy Session: (Super) Girl Trouble
For this installment, I’ll be skipping back to the mid 1970s, which is pretty appropriate considering this blog. Like many of you, I grew up in what was a golden age of action figures, the Mego era.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Mattel Sunshine Family for 1978
The Sunshine Family were a series of (In my opinion, creepy) dolls marketed by Mattel beginning in 1974. At the time, the line was marketed with the family being very into the burgening "post hippie" early 70s craft movement.
By 1978, the line's look had begun to look dated so it was rebranded the "Sunshine FUN Family" (bet that was an all nighter at Mattel) and the characters were given a bit of a makeover. The Sunshine family had moved into the suburbs it seems...
Click here to see Mattel's Sunshine Fun Family Catalog for 1978
More Sunshine folks
Thursday, January 26, 2012
EMU Nightmares
One of the more endearing things I find about my wife is her childhood fear of Rod Hull and his puppet Emu. While I was enjoying them on "The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle" show, she was behind the couch in terror as a child and the sight of this puppet still creeps her out this day. If you'll excuse me, I need to check ebay...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Reed Richards ride
When he's not being totally boring, Mr Fantastic likes to cruise around in his awesome muscle car. What I love about this toy is the Fantastic Four have a totally cool space vehicle that they ride around in but the folks at Fleetwood went and made him a car instead.
That's like releasing a Batman figure on a tenspeed which probably got done by Hasbro in the 1990s....
Monday, January 23, 2012
A reminder about Sweaters
Sweaters were put on this earth for two reasons, the first is to make you uncomfortable, the other is to make you look as silly as possible. I hate them, so should you.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Nerd Therapy Session: So-Dumb Warrior
First off, thank you for the incredibly kind response to last week's entry. It's extremely comforting to know I was not alone because that would have been pretty terrible.
My next tale of nerd-woe jumps me to 1986, I had started drifting away from collecting comic books and jumped into collectibles, specifically sci fi based toys. Actually, it was all about toys but I was still in kind of denial about the whole thing.
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