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Beyond Battleship: Remembering Milton Bradley’s Sub Search

Milton Bradley’s Sub Search (1973) is another board game blast from my youth in ...

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Before Transformers There Were Gobots: Apart they’re Awful – Together They’re Monsterous

Today, everybody loves Hasbro’s Transformers toy line, but back in the mid-1980s the Autobots ...

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Capturing the Enemy’s Flag for 55 Years: Celebrating Milton Bradley’s Stratego

Created in the Netherlands in the early 20th century, Stratego was first licensed by ...

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Join the Dinky Starfleet! Remembering the Dinky Space Toys of the 1970s

Although Dinky Toys was in operation as early as 1935, I first learned of ...

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Vaal the Right Moves: Remembering Mego’s Mission to Gamma Playset (1976)

In 1967, Star Trek (1966-1969) featured an episode titled “The Apple.” In that story, ...

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Remembering Remco’s Energized Super Heroes of 1978

Here’s another great toy from the disco decade that I have never forgotten. Beginning ...

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Alexander Calder Performs His Circus Calder And Other Mobile Marvels

American-born artist Alexander “Sandy” Calder (1898 – 1976) is best known for his stellar, shivering, complex ...

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It’s You Against the Great White Shark: Remembering Ideal’s The Game of Jaws (1975)

It was the year 1975, and the apex of Jaws Mania. By some reckonings, ...

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Too Gross! Remembering Mattel’s Mad Scientist Toys of the 1980s

In 1987, Mattel introduced the world to a great -- though messy -- toy ...

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Space: 1979 – Remembering Diener’s Space Raiders and Space Creatures

In the late 1970s, Diener Industries created two memorable lines of characters (and spaceships) that ...

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Action Packs that Really Work! Remembering the SuperJoe Adventure Team (1977)

Growing up in the seventies, I absolutely loved the large scale G.I. Joe figures ...

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Who Remembers Coleco’s Quiz Wiz?

In 1979, Coleco introduced to the world a small computerized toy called “The Quiz Wiz”, ...

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