by Shawn Robare | Dec 12, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This is the first year in a long time when I’m doing my best to get into the holiday spirit for the Christmas season. For a good portion of my life Halloween has basically been my “Christmas”, and for all intents and purposes the period between November...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 10, 2013 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
In my quest to document some of the awesome kid’s bedrooms from 80s flicks I’ve been kind of bummed that some of my favorite flicks don’t really have any bedroom scenes, or if they do they’re super abbreviated. A movie like SpaceCamp only...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 9, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve mentioned a few times on this site how much I love the Konami 6-Player X-Men Arcade game from 1992 (as a part of my dream arcade or while rambling about the Pryde of the X-Men Cartoon), and in general the X-Men have come up a few times (like when I was...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 6, 2013 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been a few weeks since I sat down and got all OCD combing through a DVD looking for an awesome 80s bedroom. Last night I popped my special edition of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial into the computer and spent a couple hours staring at Ellitot’s room...
by Shawn Robare | Dec 4, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ll be the first person to admit that I have my gaze set firmly in the past when thinking about pop culture art and design. The packaging, ad campaigns and poster designs, all of the branding that I love to examine, catalog and collect. I know a big part of...
by Shawn Robare | Nov 22, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a kid growing up in the 80s I felt pretty lucky when it came to be exposed to all sorts of different toy lines. I was pretty obsessed with a lot of the usual suspects, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, Masters of the Universe and Transformers of course, but also got into some...
