Star Wars

Philip Reed July 4, 2017

How did retailers ever expect to sell us toys when using just a bunch of words? Compare the design of...

Philip Reed July 3, 2017

December 18, 1984. Here's yet another Star Wars newspaper advertisement, making me think that it's possible that there's enough material...

Philip Reed July 2, 2017

I'm back from my trip to Rochester, New York, where I spent time in the Strong Museum exploring the Playthings...

Philip Reed July 1, 2017

A lot of stores must have bought way too many Jabba the Hutt toys back in the eighties, because I...

Philip Reed June 30, 2017

December 8, 1982. I know that the Star Wars newspaper ads from the seventies and eighties can't be an infinite...

Philip Reed June 26, 2017

Part of why I think there's a chance that I may produce a third book of Star Wars newspaper ads...

Philip Reed June 25, 2017

Flip to page 57 in this 1982 newspaper and you'll find a Sears advertisement with a secret: Kenner's Star Wars...

Philip Reed June 24, 2017

This 1982 Playland newspaper ad brings us so much fun that we have gotta stop and drool. Starting with Kenner's...

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