Taking a Closer Look at an Awesome Bedroom!
I was recently inspired by Tim over at Flashlights Are Something to Eat and Johnny at Freddy in Space to finally get off my butt and write about a topic I’ve been meaning to get to for what seems like...
View ArticleReclaiming another small piece of my childhood…
I think it might surprise folks that I don’t have a huge collection of vintage toys from the 80s. Almost none of my original toys made it through the plethora of family moves throughout the 90s (my...
View ArticleKnights of the Holographic Light!
After I started reacquiring some of my childhood toys recently, specifically picking up a number of the more obscure figures from the less popular lines, there have been a few figures that have...
View ArticleFangoria Interviews The Monster Squad!
Shortly after I first saw The Monster Squad I discovered one of the magazine staples of my youth, Fangoria. At the time, around 1987-88, there were no shops around me that carried magazine back issues...
View ArticleThe Writing Squad, taking a look at the Script for The Monster Squad
One of the pieces of my Monster Squad collection that I love the most is a copy of the script that Fred Dekker and Shane Black wrote back in 1986. I love digging into novelizations and scripts to see...
View ArticleThese Should Exist: Adventures in Babbysitting Edition
This past October I had a whole hell of a lot of fun spending the entire month talking about one of my favorite movies of all time, The Monster Squad. Part of what made those 31 days exciting for me...
View ArticleYou’re in love with a…WTF?!?
While discussing Mannequin on the latest episode of the Cult Film Club (a podcast I co-host) we brought up the fact that in the 80s “unconventional” romances on film was sort of a thing. You know, boy...
View ArticleWe’re All in the G.D. Club!
On August 22nd, 1987 I saw a movie that changed my life. I didn’t realize at the time how much it would change me, and looking back I feel very lucky that I caught it when and where I did because the...
View ArticleRemember when the Madballs met the Care Bears?
We live in a time of epic super hero crossovers and comic book cinematic universes that are managing to tie dozens of movies together into singular huge stories. There are television commercials that...
View ArticleMicro, But Many!
The late 80s was a weird time for me, toy and collecting-wise, because I was racing into my awkward preteen years and the idea of playing with toys was starting to become the epitome of uncool. In 1987...
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