Month: May 2016

Philip Reed May 18, 2016

My latest book project is dedicated to Star Wars ads of the seventies and eighties, and after spending the last...

Philip Reed May 18, 2016

Yesterday, several sites posted Star Wars: Rogue One images from the Rogue One Visual Guide* and in the interest of...

Philip Reed May 18, 2016

When I mentioned yesterday that it takes some effort to chase down toy ads in those Google newspaper archives I...

Philip Reed May 17, 2016

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Philip Reed May 17, 2016

Mattel has run their Masters of the Universe classics series (find at Amazon.com*) for longer than I think any of...

Philip Reed May 17, 2016

December 8, 1985. We've seen these cheap transforming robot toys before, but finding this Thrift Drug newspaper ad with the...

Philip Reed May 17, 2016

This 1985 Sears advertisement is a perfect example of why it pays to scan through the Google newspaper archives and...

Philip Reed May 16, 2016

My latest book, Collect These Figures and Accessories, has one week to go before the project closes, and yesterday I...

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