by Shawn Robare | Mar 23, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Back in 1987, around the time I was nine or ten years-old and in the 5th grade, I was always in a mad rush after school. My elementary school let out at 2:30pm and my appointment television cartoon block started at 3:00pm sharp. I was lucky in that my school was...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 18, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, while I was writing the last piece on Super Mario Bros 2 stickers that I have in my collection, I knew that there was something nagging at the back of my mind, something that I was forgetting but couldn’t put my finger on. Then last night it came to me in a...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 17, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been having a blast reconnecting with vintage sticker collecting in the past year or so. It’s kind of weird how my interest in a lot of 80s stuff ebbs and flows, but vintage stickers remain an aspect of the decade that always excites me for some...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 17, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I wanted to take a second and point to a new-ish podcast that a couple of friends of mine just launched called 4 Million Years Later. The show is an episode by episode breakdown of the original 1984 Transformers cartoon, which in an of itself is not a novel concept...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 15, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
There are a lot of pop culture touchstones in my childhood that had a huge influence on the person I’d eventually become. Most entertained or thrilled me, opening up new worlds of fantasy or sci-fi adventures, but some drilled right down into my core and either...
by Shawn Robare | Mar 9, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As is hopefully obvious based on the last piece that I wrote, I LOVE the Trend Enterprises Stinky Stickers that were a mainstay of greeting card, stationary and school supply stores of the 80s. There is something so utterly perfect in the designs, a balance of...
