Star Wars – Burger King Glasses (Series 2)
It’s been a while since I posted my Burger King Star Wars glasses, so I figured it was time to get the second series for...
Little Thinker Tapes
As I’ve mentioned before, I grew up on a farm in Illinois. While I did have cousins and a sister living on the same old...
C-3PO’s Cereal Sticker/Trading Cards
When I was a kid, my mom wouldn’t let me get sugary cereals very often. No Froot Loops. No Frosted Flakes. No Lucky Charms. No...
Snap!, Crackle! & Pop! Read-Along Record Book
By the mid-1980s, read-along record books were becoming less and less relevant to kids. Between the advent of cable television and widespread adoption of VCRs,...
The Story of Asteroids Read-Along Record Book
When you look at video games today, it’s hard to imagine that a game built around shooting space rocks would have taken the world by...
Fisher-Price Movie Viewer
The Fisher-Price Movie Viewer was one of those toys that it seemed like everyone had back in the 70s and 80s. Well, everyone except for...
Garbage Pail Kids – Series 4
Series 1Series 2Series 3 Series 4 of Garbage Pail Kids was released in May of 1986, just five months after Series 3. If nothing else,...
Alvin & The Chipmunks Hardee’s Glasses
The Chipmunks were created in 1958 by Ross Bagdasarian, a singer, songwriter, and later record producer, who got his start writing the song “Come On-a...
Transformers Find Your Fate Books
Recently I wrote a rather lengthy history of Choose Your Own Adventure-style books, including the Find Your Fate books from Ballantine Books. In that post,...
Worlds of Power Books
It seems like getting young boys to read is an eternal struggle for book publishers. They’ve tried many gimmicks, including gamebooks like Choose Your Own...