by Shawn Robare | Jun 29, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As an 80s nostalgia nerd it’s kind of hard to pick a favorite brand or property from my childhood. There are just way too many fond memories and of the thousands of things that I love from that decade each and every one of them has the power to take me back and...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 26, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
If there’s one thing that I try very hard to do with this site it’s to attempt to transport my perspective into the mind of my 10 year-old self so that I can try and see things (like all the old cartoons, toys, and ephemera) as I did almost 30 years ago. ...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 15, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As I approach my 10th anniversary of running Branded in the 80s I can’t help but feel a pull towards revisiting some of the topics and products that helped to launch the site back in 2006. I’m a different person than I was at the outset and enough time...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 5, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I spend a lot of time writing and creating stuff for Branded to celebrate all the things that I loved about growing up in the eighties. Part of why I do this is to share my collection of junk that I’ve amassed over the years, and part of it is trying to capture...
by Shawn Robare | May 14, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, speaking of all these throwback digital trading cards I’ve been working on, I totally forgot that I was interviewed last October by Ryan Cracknell of Non-Sport Update Magazine (and his site Trader Cracks)! Just got my hands on a copy of the issue, the...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 30, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
While discussing Mannequin on the latest episode of the Cult Film Club (a podcast I co-host) we brought up the fact that in the 80s “unconventional” romances on film was sort of a thing. You know, boy sculpts girl, boy gets fired for taking too long...
