by Shawn Robare | Apr 26, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been thinking a little bit about 80s era robot nerdom because of all the excellent research and work that Steve, over at the Roboplastic Apocalypse, has been putting into his Robo Force blog-a-thon. Not only has he dug deep into the surprisingly...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 23, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been thinking it might be fun to block out Fridays at Branded in the 80s for posting some of my favorite pop art, the super colorful simplified imagery of non-sport bubblegum card wax wrappers. So for this first in a series I present the 1st five...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 22, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Sometimes the most exciting aspects of nostalgia are those moments when I discover something that I never expected to exist. There’s a feeling I’ve tried to describe before, this jolt and tingling that I feel first in the pit of my stomach and then...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 21, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’ve been getting pretty excited about the impending release of Warner Bros. Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s, Vol. 1 as it’ll finally give me a chance to revisit one of the shows I never got a chance to see much of as a kid, Thundarr the Barbarian. ...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 16, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Psychologically speaking, the urge to collect is a very strange thing. As a kid I wanted to collect everything, and at one point or another I had had amassed stacks of all the usual suspects: stamps, toys, books, baseball and non-sports cards, comics, and...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 14, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Since I acquired a huge stack of Scholastic kid’s magazines recently I’ve sort of been on a periodicals kick. Kid-centric magazines from the 70s & 80s kind of fascinate me and I’ve been trying to find as many different publications as I can...
