by Shawn Robare | Apr 20, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
About five years ago I wrote a piece here at Branded about my adoration for the idea of crossing over two of my favorite 80s animated series. G.I. Joe and the Transformers. Both cartoons were produced by the same animation company, Sunbow, the toys were all Hasbro...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 15, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Over the last five or six years my love for the film The Monster Squad has taken me to all kinds of weird places when it comes to adding items to my collection. Whether it’s seeking out 33 year-old paper copies of the HBO Program Guide so that I can have proof...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 14, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
In my quest to organize and clear out some of the accumulated clutter in my home office I been stumbling on a lot of fun stuff that I bought years ago but then tucked away and completely forgot I owned. There were a lot of stickers in that to-sort pile, so I spent...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 13, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Of all the fast food places one could eat, far and away my favorite has always been Long John Silver’s. I’ve had a tumultuous love/hate relationship with the chain during my 42 years on this Earth, but I’d wager that there was more love than hate...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 12, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Though I love a ton of 80s era films, by far my favorite film of all time is the 1987 Fred Dekker creature feature classic, The Monster Squad. Not only do I have one of the largest collections of Monster Squad memorabilia in the world (though no where near as...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 9, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When I was a kid I had some really weird interests. For instance, whenever my mother would get a survey to fill out, I was always right there tugging on her arm with a pencil in hand, begging her to let me fill it out. I’m not sure what it was about them, the...
