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Set Phasers to Stun: The Five Greatest Toy (Space) Guns of the Seventies

Set Phasers to Stun: The Five Greatest Toy (Space) Guns of the Seventies

If most kids today are like my eight year-old son, they generally don’t play today ...
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The Toy Adventure is Only Beginning:  The Seven Coolest Toy Spaceships of the 1970s

The Toy Adventure is Only Beginning: The Seven Coolest Toy Spaceships of the 1970s

The disco decade was the great era of toy spaceships. This great development for kids ...
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Not Star Wars, but an Incredible Simulation: Remembering Ideal’s STAR Team Toys

Not Star Wars, but an Incredible Simulation: Remembering Ideal’s STAR Team Toys

The year was 1977 or 1978, and the thing I wanted most in the world ...
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Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

There is nothing worse for a kid than getting a new toy only to find ...
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Good Vibrations: Remembering Dynamite Magazine and its Sci-Fi Covers of the 1970s

Good Vibrations: Remembering Dynamite Magazine and its Sci-Fi Covers of the 1970s

Dynamite Magazine (1974 – 1992) from Scholastic is another great reminder of childhood in the ...
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Alfred E. Neuman Goes to the Movies: A Gallery of Seventies Blockbusters as seen in MAD Magazine

Alfred E. Neuman Goes to the Movies: A Gallery of Seventies Blockbusters as seen in MAD Magazine

In the seventies, all the options we now enjoy in terms of home entertainment  (DVDs, ...
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The Top 50 Sci-Fi Babes of TV & Cinema (1960s-80s)

The Top 50 Sci-Fi Babes of TV & Cinema (1960s-80s)

1. JANE FONDA – BARBARELLA (1968) Roger Vadim brought a comic book to life… and ...
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When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

  August 1979: Irvin Kershner is directing The Empire Strikes Back, aka Star Wars Episode ...
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Space Age Star Wars Lobby Cards From 1977

Space Age Star Wars Lobby Cards From 1977

It's 1977 and no Lobby worth the name is complete without Star Wars Lobby Cards. ...
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Unforgivably Awful Christmas Songs (Part 2)

Unforgivably Awful Christmas Songs (Part 2)

  WARNING: These Christmas songs may cause otherwise happy and healthy individuals to experience pervasive ...
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What Retro Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

What Retro Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

Everyone's contemplated the eternal questions – where would you rather live, the Star Trek universe or ...
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An Ode to the 1970s Marvel Kids Magazine PIZZAZZ

An Ode to the 1970s Marvel Kids Magazine PIZZAZZ

What kid growing up in the seventies didn't enjoy PIZZAZZ magazine? It was more a ...
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