“Hot Wheels celebrating a billion cars on the road”
According to hotwheelsmedia.com the company has sold more than four billion Hot Wheels toy cars (Amazon.com search*) since the line...
Month: July 2015
Star Wars Comic-Con Reel Online
No new Star Wars trailer, but the almost four-minute behind-the-scenes video may be a better choice for us at this...
Aurora Prehistoric Scenes Model Kits at SDCC
The book Aurora Model Kits* is entertaining (reading post here), but after encountering classic Aurora prehistoric scenes model kits at...
Vinyl Alien at Super7’s SDCC Booth
I've still never bought one of the vinyl Alien toys from Super7, and yesterday in the exhibit hall I came...
“Be the Next Joe Team Member!”
In the two action figure marketing books that I published earlier this year -- Each Sold Separately* and Action Figures...
Saturday Morning Cereal Time with General Mills and the Sony Watchman
Hey, kids of 1983! Would you like to win a Sony Watchman (Wikipedia page) portable television? Sure you would! This...
“The Perfect Gift for the Holidays!!!”
The fifty cents I paid for that Robotech comic last week was worth the price just for the ads hiding...
1970 Newspaper Ad Featuring Ideal’s “Bang Box” Game
A few days ago I posted the commercial for Ideal's Bang Box game. The explosive game with balloons and nails...
