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 25, 2014 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been a little while since I sat down and dissected an awesome pop culture bedroom so I thought I’d dive back in by taking a closer look at Josh Baskin’s childhood room in the 1988 movie Big. First off I love this movie to death, and love all...
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...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 21, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Recently while organizing one of my bookshelves I found myself reminiscing over a stack of my old RPG game books. I haven’t gamed in well over a decade and a half, but I’ve clung to the various modules, rulebooks and expansions because I spent so much...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 17, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This past weekend my girlfriend Jaime and I took the opportunity of some downtime to check out a couple of cool sites in and around Baltimore. I’m still seeing a lot of the city for the first time and we lucked into a pair of free tickets to Geppi’s...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 10, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I was recently flipping through a few of my issues of ThunderCats magazine (as you do) and decided to finally remove and unfold some of the included posters that each issue contained. Most of them are pretty bad, awkwardly painted versions of the characters in a sort...