Forgotten Figures

If you were a kid in the late 1970's to late 1980's, you played with little green army men. Frankly, they probably pre-date the ...

The 1994 Action Series figures are about the only 1994 releases who haven't experience a massive price bump.  This is likely due to seve...

 Back in the profile of Lt. Kawalski from the Stargate line, I mentioned that early prototypes of the Joeseph Colton Mail Away figure incl...

As a young child growing up in the original Star Wars era, I found the toys of Luke Skywalker problematic.  The only Luke that was available...

The final mail away of the vintage line was the first character who established the G.I. Joe universe: Joseph Colton.  At the time, this fig...

1994 was supposed to be a great Joe year.  The retail line had been struggling for a couple of years.  But, it was G.I. Joe's 30th Anniv...

The 1990's really brought about the rise of the collector.  For the first time, toy companies really understood that there were people w...

Back in the spring of 2002, I took these photos out in my yard.  That was 4 houses and two states ago.  But, here's another look back at...

During the week of Christmas of 1994 , I went to the local Toys R Us store on my lunch hour.  The store was completely packed and the aisles...

Back in my profile of Carcass I told of how this site's humble beginnings were heavily based on the promotion of Star Brigade figures. ...

Back in 1993 and 1994 , Hasbro offered tons of mail in figures. Basically, the line was ending and they wanted to eliminate all of their ol...

Back around Christmastime in 1994 , I went to a Toys R Us. While, today, this is a fairly common practice, back then I rarely went to any to...