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Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don't know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. Most kids would be keener on what you could do with the matches - not me. It seems that the fact that there were so ...
By the look of these graphics i know what you're thinking, if this is version 2, then how bad were the graphics on version one?. Well actually at the time this game was well above its rivals, a well polished look and feel and solid game play. Similar to Ant Attack, it was a a 3D ...
In 1968 a book entitled "What do People do All Day?" was released by Richard Scarry. This gem of a book has continued to be a massive seller. With incredibly detailed illustrations, kids would spend hours and hours on a journey of detail scanning and double scanning each page of illustrative detail. The book is about what ...
Talk about politaclly and morrally incorrect. In the 70s if you could teach kids the wrongness of smoking from an early age, then rot their teeth at the same time! today they are known as candy sticks, which keeps everyone happy and means the red tip is no longer needed on the end of the ...
Back in 1974 when Robin Hood was at the cinemas as the latest Walt disney release, kids could collect these great cardboard standups and scenery to act out a scene from the cartoon. This promotion featured a set of card characters and backgrounds printed on the cardboard of the box packaging. The more weetabix the ...
I never had one, but boy as i grew up i wish I had. They were chunky and clunky, with moving wheels, and clicking dials, dingers and squeeks and stronger than a Tonka truck. This really put a new spin on kids going to work. The unit comprised a mirror, a hare and tortoise slider, a ...
I bet no one remembers the ramp walkers! Back in the 1960's when battery operated toys were normally an expensive dream the ramp walkers took full advantage of clean free gravity.Made by Marx Toys mine was a Yogi Bear & Huckleberry Hound Ramp Walker. They were easy enough to use, stick them at the top of ...
The Space Explorers was a 1958 cartoon series: It's rare when a lost classic retro cartoon such as "The Space Explorers" is rediscovered after 50 years in some old dusty film archives. A new website TheSpaceExplorers.com was recently made to share the rediscovery with Baby-boomer sci-fi space fans. If you were a kid growing up in ...
In the '90s there was a movement within America that equated clarity with purity. Pepsi decided to jump on this trend and create a colorless decaffeinated soda. Pepsi hoped that people would notice a colorless soda above other darker sodas and think that it's more pure due to it's colorless appearance and assume it would ...
This blog wouldn't be complete without the good old Whoopee Cushion. The joke was funny once and once only. Ten out of ten for novelty factor. Whoopee Cushions Poo-Poo Cushions or even Raspberry Cushions were a practical joke toy that has withstood the test of time and still raises a chuckle today (for the first few ...
