by Shawn Robare | Jun 4, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
About five years ago I stumbled upon an item in an antique shop that took my breath away. It’s a shop that I adore over in the old Havre de Grace main street area just off of the Susquehanna river, and it’s one I try to hit up at least twice a year if only...
by Shawn Robare | May 21, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
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 I turned 10 years old and for the first time toys and kid-centric...
by Shawn Robare | May 14, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
About a million year ago, when I first started writing about stickers here at Branded, there was one style of sticker that I wanted to cover more than any other because it was one that, more than anything, reminded me of my childhood. Lenticular stickers, as a subset...
by Shawn Robare | May 8, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Of all the publications available to kids in the 80s I’m not sure I can find one that is so absolutely perfect as Muppet Magazine. I’ve written about the publication before, but I think it’s worth reiterating that I never had the opportunity to flip...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 29, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a collector of 80s era stickers, one of my absolute favorite sticker producers has to be the Topps Chewing Gum Company. Whether it was the plethora of sticker subsets that came in packs of their movie and television trading card sets, Garbage Pail Kids, or a number...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 28, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When you run a website steeped in nostalgia you never know exactly where the hunt for content will take you. In my quest to catalog and discuss a bunch of the stuff that I loved as a kid I’ve accumulated all sorts of weird and wonderful ephemera along the way...
