by Shawn Robare | Jul 21, 2015 | Read
**CONTEST UPDATE** And the winner of the Visionaries Collector’s Guide is… Ryan, @no_thriller! Congrats Ryan! For fans of 80s era cartoons and toys it’s hard to argue that we’re truly living in a Renaissance that is seeing so many of our...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 18, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a kid I spent a disproportionate amount of time wandering around supermarkets and discount outlets every weekend with my mother. Like most kids my mom would drag me out to the store to do the weekly grocery shopping, but unlike most (I think) my mother usually...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 6, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s kind of weird when you think about the difference in experiences between “normal” folks and nostalgia addicts when we stumble upon something that makes us flash back on our youth. I think there’s a yin and yang to how we perceive...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 2, 2015 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been awhile since I’ve waded into my personal archive of old magazine back issues and yesterday while moving something in the closet I saw a stack of them piled high and decided to scan through a few. Next thing I knew I was organizing a hundred misc...
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. ...
