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...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 26, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I mentioned in this past weekend’s Battle Cat toddler hopper piece that I found something pretty nifty and cheap at a local vintage toy shop. I went into Billy’s Toys expecting to come out with something, I mean with the sheer amount of cool vintage stuff...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 25, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So, felt a little listless hanging around the apartment this weekend and decided to make the 45 minute trek up to my favorite local vintage shop called Billy’s Toys. I just recently picked up an almost min-on-card Transformers Afterburner there and I was...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 23, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Things have been pretty nuts this week, but yesterday there was a slight calm in the storm with a very fun mail day. Last week I showcased my collection of pop culture 1:64th scale die-cast vehicles and in the comments my good buddy Jason Gross of the super cool...
