Transformers: “Like No Toy Robots I Had Ever Seen” Well this just happened… It was nearing 4 pm and I was frantically clacking away at the keyboard because I knew there was not much time before…too late. “Daddy!” boomed a voice from across the room, splitting the air, and my focus…this has become...
Today’s Daily Photo features girls with dolls that were popular sellers during the 1977 Christmas season. They include Suntan Tuesday Taylor and the Bionic Woman doll along with autographed Donny and Marie posters. The pictures were originally distributed with the dolls, which sold for...
A few years ago, I scored a Wolverine tin doll house at a local flea market / swap meet in Oklahoma City. I finally got around to taking pictures of it along with all the cool little furniture that came with it. Tin Doll House Value I did some checking and this particular Wolverine tin doll house...
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me, time after time. — Cyndi Lauper, 1984 This is my first Crissy Doll. It’s only been about 40 years since I first asked Santa to bring me one. I found her, a Gen-Xer first-born in 1969, (haha!) at Mary’s Flea Market. Although...
What we have here are boy troubles. Yep. Serious boy problems. This tangled Slinky will never walk down the stairs again. An entirely separate problem would be if you bought this thing and your house didn’t have stairs. Bwahhh! By the way, this is the prize you get at Chuck E. Cheese after...
source Beautiful Crissy Doll Before Samantha Parkington, Felicity Merriman and Mollie McIntyre, late-wave Baby Boomers and first-wave Gen Xers were loving on Crissy and Velvet Dolls. Cricket, Mia, Dina and Tressy, too. I bet there were a lot of these dolls given for Christmas 1969-74! I thought...
Did you know Colorforms turns 60 years old this year? I loved these things as a kid and could not get enough of them. The brand is one of the longest standing in the American toy market spanning four generations of kids including Generation X. Earlier this year Time named Colorforms one of the top...
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