by Shawn Robare | Mar 24, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
We live in a time of epic super hero crossovers and comic book cinematic universes that are managing to tie dozens of movies together into singular huge stories. There are television commercials that are mashing-up tons of pop culture characters, books that name drop...
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 21, 2020 | Read
Somehow, unintentionally, I’ve amassed a rather large collection of vintage coloring books over the years even though I honestly have very little interest in them (even the rad branded ones.) I guess there have been a number of times when I was bidding on eBay...
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...
