by Shawn Robare | May 14, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
About a million year ago, when I first started writing about stickers here at Branded, there was one style of sticker that I wanted to cover more than any other because it was one that, more than anything, reminded me of my childhood. Lenticular stickers, as a subset...
by Shawn Robare | May 8, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Of all the publications available to kids in the 80s I’m not sure I can find one that is so absolutely perfect as Muppet Magazine. I’ve written about the publication before, but I think it’s worth reiterating that I never had the opportunity to flip...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 29, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
As a collector of 80s era stickers, one of my absolute favorite sticker producers has to be the Topps Chewing Gum Company. Whether it was the plethora of sticker subsets that came in packs of their movie and television trading card sets, Garbage Pail Kids, or a number...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 28, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When you run a website steeped in nostalgia you never know exactly where the hunt for content will take you. In my quest to catalog and discuss a bunch of the stuff that I loved as a kid I’ve accumulated all sorts of weird and wonderful ephemera along the way...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 27, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
In July of 1990 two essential things happened in my life. The first was turning 13 years old and achieving my peak level of childhood experience where I was just old enough to appreciate most of the wonderful things that life has to offer and yet was still young...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 21, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Branded in the 80s is an unapologetic, love letter to everything that I adore about the 80s, in particular the stuff from my childhood. That being said, I was one of those kids that never really “grew up” a whole heck of a lot over the years, and I managed...
