Plaid Stallions : Rambling and Reflections on '70s pop culture
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Super 7 Merchandise Part 1

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Filmation's Tarzan and the Super 7 series is easily one of my favourite cartoon series of all time. It's copyright infringing charac...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Superfine XXX

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Ladies beware, the brothers Superfine are once again on the prowl, with their fists raised in righteousness! Oh, there will be panties on ...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Hanging at Kool Stuff

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This past Saturday, I got to spend a day at one of my favourite haunts Kool Stuff Toys in Hamilton. Jeff the owner was gracious enough to ...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Nerd Therapy Session: (Super) Girl Trouble

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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 u...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Mattel Sunshine Family for 1978

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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 ...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

EMU Nightmares

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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 ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Bedtime: A New Hope

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The sight of that bathrobe makes me say "Jar Jar who?".
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Reed Richards ride

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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 ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

A reminder about Sweaters

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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 possibl...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Nerd Therapy Session: So-Dumb Warrior

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First off, thank you for the incredibly kind response to last week's entry. It's extremely comforting to know I was not alone bec...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

1977 Hasbro Super Joe Catalog

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After folding the G.I. Joe Adventure Team in 1976, Hasbro sought to give their rugged man of action a massive overhaul. Thus SuperJoe was b...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Action Man for 1976

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I'm always perplexed at how much a difference an ocean makes, GI Joe by this time was all about Mike Power and Bullet Man (not complain...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Rope burn

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Jeans that remind me of 7th grade gym class and  total embarrassing failure. Please, send me ten pairs!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Super Slate of the Apes

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My pal Mike sent this into me and honestly, it's new to me, a wonderful throw away rack item that some smart soul preserved and we'...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Junior sales achievers

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Jimmy and Miles dream of the day that they'll be drunk in the Dayton Ohio airport extolling the virture of Bill Braskey.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Nerd Therapy Session: Adventures in Cosplay

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In order to flex my (somewhat scrawny) writing muscles and perhaps to deal with some pain, I've decided to start posting little ess...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Bionic Bubble Bath

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From the "Stuff I hadn't seen before but now can't live without" department comes this Six Million Dollar man bubble bath...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Pimpin' ain't easy

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First name Smooth, last name Jenkins...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Karosel Kitchen

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Is anyone else getting a total "TARDIS" vibe from this?
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Paging Wayne Rogers

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My pal Steve found me this and I wanted to hug him. This toy makes total sense, I mean what kid didn't have a Pernell Roberts poster o...
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