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Coming to a Galaxy Near You: Star Wars Burger King Drinking Glasses

Coming to a Galaxy Near You: Star Wars Burger King Drinking Glasses

One unforgettable Star Wars original trilogy collectible came straight from your local Burger King restaurant ...
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Invincible Guardians of World Freedom: Remembering Mattel’s Mighty Shogun Warriors

Invincible Guardians of World Freedom: Remembering Mattel’s Mighty Shogun Warriors

  The years between 1978 and 1980 were magical ones as far as fantasy and ...
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Equip Your Star Trek Landing Party, 1970s Style

Equip Your Star Trek Landing Party, 1970s Style

    Many of my posts here at Flashbak this year have been written in ...
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The Fastest Ship in the Galaxy? Remembering Milton Bradley’s Star Bird (1978)

The Fastest Ship in the Galaxy? Remembering Milton Bradley’s Star Bird (1978)

One of the great toy lines of the immediate post-Star Wars era comes from Milton ...
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Battleship! Celebrating Nearly 50 Years of Milton Bradley’s Strategy Game

Battleship! Celebrating Nearly 50 Years of Milton Bradley’s Strategy Game

Difficult though it may be to believe, 2017 will make the 50th anniversary of the ...
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Powerful Living Rocks! Remembering Tonka’s Rock Lords

Powerful Living Rocks! Remembering Tonka’s Rock Lords

Thirty years ago, in 1986, toymakers Bandai and Tonka introduced a generation of kids to…the ...
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Grab Hold and Pull: Remembering Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong (1976 – 1980)

Grab Hold and Pull: Remembering Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong (1976 – 1980)

Stretch Armstrong is a strange but beloved toy from the mid-1970s. The character of Stretch ...
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From Outer Space to Your Toy Store: Rom the Space Knight (Parker Bros, 1979)

From Outer Space to Your Toy Store: Rom the Space Knight (Parker Bros, 1979)

  In 1979, ads from toy company Parker Brothers blared “The age of ROM has ...
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They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass

They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass

    In The Chicago Tribune on November 5, 1961, the late Marvin Glass (1914-1974) ...
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Remembering Remco’s Earthquake Tower and Rescue Playset (1976)

Remembering Remco’s Earthquake Tower and Rescue Playset (1976)

  Now here is a disco-decade toy that Irwin Allen -- the cinematic master of ...
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Use Your Imagination to Create Nightmares: Hugo, Kenner’s Man of a Thousand Faces

Use Your Imagination to Create Nightmares: Hugo, Kenner’s Man of a Thousand Faces

  Now here’s some good old-fashioned nightmare fodder from the mid-1970s.  Hugo -- the face ...
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Enact the Story: Gerry Anderson’s Starcruiser 1 (1979)

Enact the Story: Gerry Anderson’s Starcruiser 1 (1979)

  One of the greatest spaceship model kits of all-time -- or at least my ...
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