GoBots – Cap Pistol
I saw this one Facebook Marketplace for $5 at a house not 5 minutes from my house, so I figured, Why not? Unfortunately, my guy...
M.O.T.U. – Extendar
By 1986, after four years on the market, the Masters of the Universe toyline was taking a turn to the technological. What started as mostly...
Back to the Future: The Novelization
Back to the Future debuted on July 3, 1985. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and stars Michael...
Star Wars – AT-ST
Today, let’s take a look at the AT-ST, affectionately known as The Chicken Walker, from 1983. The All-Terrain Scout Transport made its first appearance during...
Wildfire Pinball
Wildfire was an electronic pinball game introduced in 1979 by Parker Brothers, the makers of the hit handheld game, Merlin. Both games were created by...
Inspector Gadget – Curse of the Pharaoh Read-Along Record Book
If you took the comedic bumblings of The Pink Panther‘s Inspector Clouseau and the goofy gadgets of TV’s Get Smart and threw them in a...
Ghostbusters Records
My Ghostbusters fandom has been kind of strange. I was nine when the original Ghostbusters hit theaters in 1984 and, like everyone at the time,...
G.I. Joe – Adventure Board Game
My wife and I went to our first board game convention this year. On the last day of the con, they had a game flea...
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
I first watched The Abominable Dr. Phibes when it played on PBS on a random Sunday afternoon when I was about 12 years old. My...
Donkey Kong Record
Here’s another Kid Stuff record from my collection, Donkey Kong, from 1983! And little did I know there’s a connection to my hometown area with...