Saturday, January 30, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Go-Go Godzilla!
After Saturday's post about some of our fave blogs, Jon K from Dracula's Crypt of Collectibles clued me in to one of its sibling blogs, Go-Go Godzilla! As a fan of the Kaiju I couldn't pass it up! Here's links to all of Jon's genre related sites!
Go-Go Godzilla!
Saturday Morning Superstars!
Blog of the Creature!
Curse of the Mummy's Blog!
Blog of Frankenstein!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Reporting for Duty!
The Doc is a man after my own heart...but so far I've managed to fend off most of his agents! The Nega Claus will have all the toys! Sorry to all the girls and boys....
Let them eat cake! Just not these....
If you've not been to Cake Wrecks, it's a wonderful way to spend time on the interwebs. Some of them are laughable, but the Sunday sweets are amazing. Oh the things people can do to and with cakes!
Blackstar! Thundarr! He-man!
Thundarr was one of my favorite shows of all times. I even recall that Janus(?) was the only villain to appear on more than one episode. I think this was more of an attempt to cash in on Conan the Barbarian and Beastmaster type movies more than He-Man. I also think this was before the end of the restriction on cartoons having related merchandise.
So, no toys...maybe a lunch box, those were still common even before He-man.
He-man was the first cartoon to cash-in on the allowed toy tie-ins in the '80s. The toys pre-existed the cartoon by a bit. If you ever owned any of the first few (Battlecat was my first) the little comic inside told a completely different story from what was the Saturday morning cartoon. The DC mini-series developed the cartoon plot a lot.
Here's another trip down memory lane! I had a few of these figures, the 'good guys' came with a little Trobbit figure (troll+hobbit?) and the bad guys came with a little gremlin looking guy. I even had the dragon that Blackstar used, probably the best toy in the series. Blackstar was one of the more obvious He-man rip-offs, mainly for the two-halves of a power sword plot in there.
So, no toys...maybe a lunch box, those were still common even before He-man.
He-man was the first cartoon to cash-in on the allowed toy tie-ins in the '80s. The toys pre-existed the cartoon by a bit. If you ever owned any of the first few (Battlecat was my first) the little comic inside told a completely different story from what was the Saturday morning cartoon. The DC mini-series developed the cartoon plot a lot.
Here's another trip down memory lane! I had a few of these figures, the 'good guys' came with a little Trobbit figure (troll+hobbit?) and the bad guys came with a little gremlin looking guy. I even had the dragon that Blackstar used, probably the best toy in the series. Blackstar was one of the more obvious He-man rip-offs, mainly for the two-halves of a power sword plot in there.
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