Year: 2016

Philip Reed October 30, 2016

December 4, 1972. Okay, kids, what do you want for Christmas in 1972? Maybe you need some Play-Doh? Or, just...

Philip Reed October 30, 2016

Have you ever asked yourself: What were toys like back during the Great Depression? Well, this 1936 newspaper ad shows...

Philip Reed October 29, 2016

We don't find many ads for Starriors toys. Why is that? Well, Tomy's Starriors line launched at an odd time,...

Philip Reed October 29, 2016

So far we've seen two different ads for the Space Patrol roleplaying game (1978 ad, 1980 ad), and today I'd...

Philip Reed October 28, 2016

A shared a B&W version of this ad last year, but today we get the full fun in this 1981...

Philip Reed October 28, 2016

It has been a little while since I last pointed you at some new music, but Ugress' new It Came...

Philip Reed October 27, 2016

One of the big hits in the RPG market in the late eighties was Palladium's Robotech (find at Amazon.com*), rivaling...

Philip Reed October 27, 2016

Hasbro's Transformers: Combiner Wars series (find at Amazon.com*) may be a few years old now, but that's not stopping the...

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