1987 Newspaper Article on Tonka Buying Kenner
I've shared old news about this before, and my two action figure marketing books -- Each Sold Separately* and Action...
Month: July 2015
“Putting the ‘hot’ in Hot Wheels”
There's no end to the fun we can find as we dig through Google's magazine archives, as I believe is...
1985 Robotech “Robot Store” Comic Book Advertisement
Do you really need me to tell you that this 1985 Robotech ad from a Comico Robotech comic is a...
“Free Hot Wheels Car” in 1981
The Spokane, WA Spokesman-Review newspaper on August 17, 1981, offers up this deal for kids who love Hot Wheels toy...
Rocked and Rezzed for Android: Netrunner
More experimentation at Medium, this time testing the YouTube video embedding features of the site. Rocked and Rezzed is my...
“There’s a million toys at ToysRUs” in 1989
If you're looking for some fun from the past then I'd like you to glance at this double-page spread from...
Irving Force and “The Violence Suppressor”
Another musical discovery on Bandcamp, The Violence Suppressor by Irving Force caught my attention the instant I read the opening...
1970 Hot Wheels Ad from Boys’ Life
Out of a 1970 issue of Boys' Life comes this ad for Mattel's Hot Wheels toy cars (Amazon.com search*), and...
