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...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 4, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It may sound weird, but I find myself asking this question a lot. Over the past decade I’ve noticed that a lot of the films I grew up loving have started seeing revival screenings in movie theaters. It actually probably started in the late 90s with the 20th...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 30, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So it was announced today that the 7th official Lego Cuusoo project is going to be brick artist Brent Waller’s Ghostbusters play set. I was pretty excited when I saw the news because the work he did on his Ecto-1 is kind of beyond superb… Not only is the...
