by Shawn Robare | Mar 20, 2014 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
So I recently had the chance to catch Jim Henson’s Labyrinth on the big screen and I made sure to use that opportunity to get a really good look at all the cool stuff in Sarah’s bedroom. I’ve know for awhile that there are a lot of neat items hidden...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 14, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
The League of Extraordinary Bloggers has been on hiatus for a while as Brian over at Cool & Collected has been “extraordinarily” busy with his C&C print magazine project, but it’s finally back this week with a new topic. To kick things off...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 2, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, in just a couple of weeks Branded in the 80s will turn 8 years old. Though it’s kind of arbitrary, we tend to focus on the “big” anniversaries in the five-year increment territory, but I had a couple of milestones I really wanted to hit when I...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 27, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This past week I dove back into my Awesome 80s Bedrooms dissections by taking a look at Josh Baskin’s childhood room in the 1988 Penny Marshall film Big. After posting that article a reader (The Navigator) pointed out the fact that there is an Extended Edition...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 22, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So I’ve written numerous times about how much I want to rebuild the toy collection I had as a child and how difficult that is for me because I’m not all that fond of buying loose used toys. I have a mental block against buying another kid’s...
