by Shawn Robare | Apr 22, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Sometimes the most exciting aspects of nostalgia are those moments when I discover something that I never expected to exist. There’s a feeling I’ve tried to describe before, this jolt and tingling that I feel first in the pit of my stomach and then...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 21, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been getting pretty excited about the impending release of Warner Bros. Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s, Vol. 1 as it’ll finally give me a chance to revisit one of the shows I never got a chance to see much of as a kid, Thundarr the Barbarian. ...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 16, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Psychologically speaking, the urge to collect is a very strange thing. As a kid I wanted to collect everything, and at one point or another I had had amassed stacks of all the usual suspects: stamps, toys, books, baseball and non-sports cards, comics, and...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 14, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Since I acquired a huge stack of Scholastic kid’s magazines recently I’ve sort of been on a periodicals kick. Kid-centric magazines from the 70s & 80s kind of fascinate me and I’ve been trying to find as many different publications as I can...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 12, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Once again, in the spirit of spring cleaning, I’m diving back into the stack of random stuff that I’ve picked up over the years to discuss on Branded. For some reason a couple years ago I thought it would be a great idea to start up a column on 80s...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 9, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Today’s Peel Here dives back into a segment of sticker branding that I haven’t much luck tracking down, video/arcade game stickers. It’s certainly not for lack of merchandising back in the 80s, it just seems like of all the 80s toys and brands,...
