For avid collectors, the process of collecting isn’t always an easy one. From acquiring items to cataloging, displaying, and storing items, collecting is serious business. Ottawa-area collector, Elizabeth Kondruss, knows a lot about this. As a long-time collector of Barbie and Barbie-branded objects, she knows more than most about how serious a business collecting is for some…. Read more »
The new @BatLabels Twitter account has won the Internet and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
Released in 1961, Blaze was a rocking-horse toy from Mattel that appeared to gallop when it was rocked back and forth.
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
Clue: The Movie was the first film based on a board game.
Over the course of 144 pages, author Brian Heiler has paid tribute to an oft-forgotten niche of off-brand, easily breakable, and ultimately disposable plastic toys that were typically available in supermarket checkout lines, variety stores, and pharmacy shelves.
In the age of console-gaming, what brings people out to play vintage arcade games? I talk with Paul “Yogi” Granger of Ottawa’s House of TARG about pinball, perogies and more!
Delve into the ingredients that make up Silly Putty and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
Just pop Pop’ee and watch the action begin in these games by Kohner!
Bubble-based toys were some of Kenner Products’ earliest sales successes. One of its most popular offerings, the Bubble-Matic, was a plastic gun (available in red or blue) that shot bubbles with every squeeze of its trigger.
Deliver hot dogs with your remote control Wienermobile and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
I don’t think the Astro Base really landed. It’s a conspiracy involving the government and Stanley Kubrick.
We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
McDonald’s is the world’s largest distributor of toys!
Their article is a retelling of a memory involving one girl’s request for an Easy-Bake Oven.
The recent news of Russia’s plan to build a permanent settlement on the moon by the 2030s caused me to revisit one of my favorite science-fiction television series, Space: 1999 and one of the sought-after toys that Mattel produced as a tie-in to the show: The Eagle 1 Spaceship.
A superhero universe that combines space operas, westerns, and spy adventures? Yep! Captain Action was one of the first toy superheroes on the scene in the 1960s. Thanks to CA Enterprises, the characters are being brought to life once again. I spoke with Ed Catto of CA Enterprises to find out the history behind this sometimes overlooked superhero and what makes Captain Action relevant today.
Fight bad guys with Super Science Friends and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
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