“Toy firms are creating TV programs to sell”
If you’ve read my two books on action figure marketing in the eighties — Each…
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Spotted Online – Cracker Jack Robotrons
When you start running searches for “1986 robot” on eBay you can never know what…
“Dungeons & Dragons Figures” in 1984
After sharing two different LJN Dungeons & Dragons newspaper ads earlier this week (first ad,…
“Master Your Mecha!”
I posted a 1986 ad for the Mekton roleplaying game (Amazon.com search*) earlier this week…
1986 “Insect to Robot†Vending Machine Header Art
You may remember the Changing Robot vending machine artwork I posted last year. Well, today…
Ralph McQuarrie Starkiller Sketches in “The Making of Star Wars”
We all know that famous Ralph McQuarrie painting of Starkiller squaring off against Vader, a…
Milwaukee Journal and LJN’s Dungeons & Dragons in 1984
While not as incredible as the LJN Dungeons & Dragons newspaper ad that I shared…
ExoSquad Commercial from Playmates
The Playmates ExoSquad toys from the early nineties (find at Amazon.com*) are not all that…