Crestwood House Monsters Books (Updated 09/22/2025)
Since we’re coming up on Halloween, I thought it was about time I share one of the spookiest parts of my pop culture collection, the...
The Many Faces of ALF
I know there was a lot of cocaine floating around in the 1980s, but even that doesn’t explain the popularity of the television show ALF....
Monster Cereal Collection (Updated 08/04/2025)
When I was a little kid, I would only occasionally get to have sugary cereal for breakfast. I mainly survived on Rice and Corn Chex,...
McDonald’s Star Trek Meal
As a late-Gen X kid, there are certain memories from early childhood that I feel are at the core of who I am as a...
The Empire Strikes Back Lunchbox
For most school-age kids here in America, summer vacation is about to begin. So now the question is: What do you do with this school...
Matchbox RoadBlasters
Every once in a while I come across a retro toy line that I’ve never heard of and it always surprises me. Not that I’m...
Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock
In the early days of hip-hop music, there were a handful of DJs that had made a name for themselves in the boroughs of New...
Bumper Blasters
It’s crazy to think that for every G.I. Joe, Masters of the Universe, and Transformers toy line that became household names, there are probably a...
M.A.S.K. – Vampire
Vampire, a touring motorcycle that turns into a flying “Turbo Cycle”, was part of the second wave of M.A.S.K. toys released in 1986. Floyd Malloy,...
Gobots – Path Finder
Path Finder (or sometimes written as “Pathfinder”) is a transforming UFO Gobot that was released in 1983 as part of the first wave of the...