I'd like to pretend this is a snippet from our office Christmas party. Thank you  everyone for a really terrific, positive year. I...

For the brief time after Star Wars and before the discovery of girls and punk rock, Atari dominated my thoughts. 

This ad from Viacom was put out in all the toy trades at the time enticing licensees that Thundarr was a good idea. I wish more of them...

GI Joe, Action Jackson, Big Jim and Mego Superheroes, pretty close to everything I thought about before Star Wars blew up.

Spidey joined the winner of shopping spree back in 1981, I dream of these things sometimes.... Send me your mall appearance...

For this year's last Friday feature, I bring you my favourite of all sections of PlaidStallions another volume of vintage toy s...

"Point to a winner." "Casual Friday?

I recently discovered this in a catalog for toymaker GLJ , who specialized in things like bop bags and inflatable Barbie Furniture.  ...

As Rack Toys go, these are a pretty solid concept.

"The Men people pay attention to will be wearing these coats this fall"   Trust me, I know from experience, I get a lot o...

This month's show starts off with Jason talking a little bit about his BAFTA Flash Gordon event but then segways into the works of...

A year after Parker Brothers launched ROM in the US, Palitoy their UK distributor, inserted him into their Action Man Space Rangers l...

Between Happy Days and Welcome Back Kotter, the 70s were a golden age for sitcom related bedding.  Sadly, my children only know Fonzie ...

If it hasn't already been established, i love the hell out of Crazy Foam and it's back!  

Drop front sailor pants: because you can hold it a really, really long time.....

The Lone Ranger toyline is easily one of the nicest action figure lines of the 1970s if not all time and Gabriel Toys had some re...

You'll be the hit of the next key party with this matching number..,. ,

Even though Star Wars was all the rage, the Mego Star Trek figures miraculously re-appeared in the 1978 Sears Catalog. The figures came...

They seem to have forgotten the word "barely".

Ladies, you can follow this piper...to Pleasuretown.