Two new staff members were hired by Mitch McConnell today to help him get around as he returns to Congress
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Not an expert in anything. /G\. Skeleton Army. Monsters & Robots mostly. Curator of @retronewsads.bsky.social. Kayfabe Forever.
Apologies in advance for the subpar photography; I deal in Light, it’s just not cooperating this afternoon. So you don’t see a complete set of Shreddies D&D holograms from 1986 every day!
You can now end your day saying “I got flipped off by a guy in a Klaatu mask”. Yr welcome
How did I never realize there was a Power Ranger with a stoned frog on his chest?!?
Mars had a surprise hit with their candy filled Pumpkin bucket in 1989, so for 1990 we not only got a retooled Pumpkin, but a Ghost and Goblin as well! Perfect for trick or treating and for shelf display
I had the fortune to be at the April 13th, 1998 episode of Raw in Philly. It ended up being historic for two reasons: one, it was the first time in more than 18 months that Raw drew a higher Neilson rating than Nitro
Remember those thick brass slammers with a hologram in the center that you could only get from shady vendors at the flea market? Well, look at this👀 Same holograms, now officially sold as Holo Zone Zap Caps, and by a country mile, the best of the twenty something designs all in one set!
Rawr Rawr like a Dungeon Dino. He’s been taking lipstick tips from Godzilla
Here’s an unusual find. Remember that dollar store VHS tape with hours and hours of public domain cartoons from the 30’s and 40’s? Every single household in America owned some version of of it. Well, in 1994, Hershey’s swiped game from Nabisco’s old Ugly Ball promotion…
I always say Remco was the Canon Films of action figures. They surely made up for the lack of budget by giving kids the exploitation movie sizzle that Kenner or Hasbro never would. Case in point, Secrets of the Ninja, which not only hit all the Kung Fu movie archetypes…
So my knowledge of Kenner’s Bionic Woman toys isn’t nearly as extensive as their 6MDM line, largely because it’s never been something I collected. Well, check out what I found scrounging at the flea market today! This is apparently the “Mission Purse” version…
Shark Attack! So usually I stick to hoarding *old* rubber sharks and dinosaurs; Y’know, the ones from the era before every toy, cheap and pricey, was manufactured in China. Just look at this one though: those paints apps are so good…yellow eyes, nostrils, tongue, gills. He’s a winner and -clean- too
In Kindergarten, my teacher passed out paper and crayons to the class and said “Draw your hero”. So most kids obviously made stick figure portraits of a parent or grandparent. Me, I scrawled a mess of blue and white lines in the approximate shape of Soundwave…
Y’know, between LJN and Matchbox, every kind of Freddy toy imaginable was on store shelves in the late eighties: talking dolls, giant foam heads that spit water, a rubber wrestling style figure, window clingers with the little suction cups. Everything except a bendie!
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Cthulhu would not only star in a kid’s movie (Minions) but become a kid’s meal toy at Wendy’s. Reality is stranger than fiction
Picked this mystery Godzilla and equally mysterious wrestler, having the big one like Fred Sanford, in a recent claim sale. Both are unmarked and the Zilla isn’t quite a KO of the Imperial…there’s differences. They look neat together
If He-Man was the big brother we all needed growing up, Optimus was the dad. That’s why this hurts so much; it’s like losing your pop😞 #RIP
Tabloid Terrors@tabloidterrors.bsky.social · 3w ago[The Boston Globe; Massachusetts - 8/8/1986]
There seemed to be as many E.T. toys made for his 20th Anniversary (almost a quarter century ago now👀) as during the films original run in 1982. This wide eyed bugger looks less drunk than high on a three day bump bender and supposedly makes E.T. noises when you place him near the other figures
Spooky ish🎃 This is a vintage Gurley Bleeding Skull candle from at least the mid-80’s! I remember reading about ‘em in the Church of the Subgenius’ “High Weirdness By Mail” book and by one of those dumb strokes of luck…
Tracks that Chuck is the least thoughtful of the group and Storm and Kitty the most
Bill Mudron@mudron.bsky.social · 3w ago
Always a treat finding a vintage HongKongasaur for a buck, in this case a swank green Dimetrodon
Picked up this amazing Jar Jar Sphinx at my toy show yesterday
Another toy show in the books; thanks as always to the venders and attenders🤘 you folks rock. Toy Biz took a shot at Venom early on, delivering two versions that sit somewhere between the McFarlane menace and the Larson grizzle
Well, well, wouldja look at that: a jolly rancher Gremlin! Cast from the original LJN Stripe figure who was sold with Giz and a Mogwai version of himself, who knows who made him, but God bless you sir or madam, fine work. Fine, fine work
Shark Attack! Fisher Price Adventure People Shark from the Jaws influenced Shark Hunt set