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Albert Pyun’s Captain America actually had a “blink and you’ll miss it” theatrical run in the UK. Check out his director’s cut if you’ve never seen it. Whole different movie and *so* much better (Evening Telegraph, Derby, Derbyshire, England, 12/15/90)
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Albert Pyun’s Captain America actually had a “blink and you’ll miss it” theatrical run in the UK. Check out his director’s cut if you’ve never seen it. Whole different movie and *so* much better (Evening Telegraph, Derby, Derbyshire, England, 12/15/90)
The elusive GREEN BOGLIN
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The elusive GREEN BOGLIN
Some Oh Lantern Family ads. One of the highlights of being dragged to the Acme with my parents in ‘88 was getting to see a massive display of Oh Lanterns
October 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Some Oh Lantern Family ads. One of the highlights of being dragged to the Acme with my parents in ‘88 was getting to see a massive display of Oh Lanterns
Nothing screams 1989 like Toy Biz Batman and the TMNT game for Nintendo (Morning Call, Allentown, PA, 5/4/90)
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Nothing screams 1989 like Toy Biz Batman and the TMNT game for Nintendo (Morning Call, Allentown, PA, 5/4/90)
Trick or Treat pro tips from a veteran beggar (Akron Beacon Journal, 10/28/90)
October 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trick or Treat pro tips from a veteran beggar (Akron Beacon Journal, 10/28/90)
Toxic Crusaders on sale at Child World (Journal News, White Plains, NY, 11/29/91)
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Toxic Crusaders on sale at Child World (Journal News, White Plains, NY, 11/29/91)
Here’s a swell write up on the creator of the “Laser Glove”, the Freddy Krueger glove with “blades” that light up. These were a big deal at Halloween for a couple years (The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 3/29/90)
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Here’s a swell write up on the creator of the “Laser Glove”, the Freddy Krueger glove with “blades” that light up. These were a big deal at Halloween for a couple years (The Oregonian, Portland, OR, 3/29/90)
Memory unlocked. These skull keychains were at every flea market in the early nineties, usually with the same vendors selling knives, swords, throwing stars and “ninja masks”
October 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Memory unlocked. These skull keychains were at every flea market in the early nineties, usually with the same vendors selling knives, swords, throwing stars and “ninja masks”
Toy Biz was feeling the Halloween vibe with their Ghost Rider action figures! Demons, vampires, glow in the dark fire accessories…killer stuff. Love those stunt bikes too (Mississippi Press, Pascagoula, MS, 11/23/95)
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Toy Biz was feeling the Halloween vibe with their Ghost Rider action figures! Demons, vampires, glow in the dark fire accessories…killer stuff. Love those stunt bikes too (Mississippi Press, Pascagoula, MS, 11/23/95)
Cloneheads was a neat idea: costumes with extra shoulder mounted inflatable heads. I feel like this one may have influenced the original Karate Kid just a smidgeon (The Record, Hackensack, NJ, 10/23/83)
October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Cloneheads was a neat idea: costumes with extra shoulder mounted inflatable heads. I feel like this one may have influenced the original Karate Kid just a smidgeon (The Record, Hackensack, NJ, 10/23/83)
Imagineering licensed Terminator 2 in 1991 and blew everyone away: check out their cyborg mask and make up kit with blinking T-800 eye! (Buffalo News, 10/10/91)
October 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Imagineering licensed Terminator 2 in 1991 and blew everyone away: check out their cyborg mask and make up kit with blinking T-800 eye! (Buffalo News, 10/10/91)
Return of the Jedi costumes were some of the biggest hits at Halloween ‘83 (TampaTribune, 10/28/83)
October 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Return of the Jedi costumes were some of the biggest hits at Halloween ‘83 (TampaTribune, 10/28/83)
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Few artists’ entire body of work have meant as much to me over the course of my life as Drew Struzan’s has. With his gift every movie felt epic & important whether the artwork was framed in the movie theater lobby or sitting on the video store shelf.
June 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Few artists’ entire body of work have meant as much to me over the course of my life as Drew Struzan’s has. With his gift every movie felt epic & important whether the artwork was framed in the movie theater lobby or sitting on the video store shelf.
Only in 1990 would Freddy, Jason and an Elvira impersonator handing out McGruff safety bags to kids in a shopping center be a thing😁 (The Argonaut, Marina Del Ray, CA, 10/25/90)
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Only in 1990 would Freddy, Jason and an Elvira impersonator handing out McGruff safety bags to kids in a shopping center be a thing😁 (The Argonaut, Marina Del Ray, CA, 10/25/90)
You don’t say (Austin American Statesman, 3/15/87)
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
You don’t say (Austin American Statesman, 3/15/87)
Star Wars on clearance at New Years ‘86 (Detroit Free Press, 1/1/86)
October 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Star Wars on clearance at New Years ‘86 (Detroit Free Press, 1/1/86)
More Weng Weng! Here’s a newspaper ad for Da Best in Da West playing at a Filipino theater in California! (The Californian, Salinas, CA, 5/22/82)
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
More Weng Weng! Here’s a newspaper ad for Da Best in Da West playing at a Filipino theater in California! (The Californian, Salinas, CA, 5/22/82)
That would be quite a lot of 🍦 (News Journal, Mansfield, OH, 5/16/78)
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
That would be quite a lot of 🍦 (News Journal, Mansfield, OH, 5/16/78)
RNA breaking the internet once again! Not really, but here’s a never before seen photo of Weng-Weng and an ad for him performing “feats of strength” at movie theaters during a 1984 tour of Guam (Pacific Daily News, Agana Heights, Guam, 10/30/84)
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
RNA breaking the internet once again! Not really, but here’s a never before seen photo of Weng-Weng and an ad for him performing “feats of strength” at movie theaters during a 1984 tour of Guam (Pacific Daily News, Agana Heights, Guam, 10/30/84)
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I need to mail this off immediately so I can get my CREEPSHOW pin, poster and membership card!
#CREEPSHOW
#CREEPSHOW
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I need to mail this off immediately so I can get my CREEPSHOW pin, poster and membership card!
#CREEPSHOW
#CREEPSHOW
Journey Into The Beyond was a German occult Mondo film adapted for US audiences by adding John Carradine as a narrator. It’s interesting to see the various ways it was marketed in different parts of the country. There’s actually some legit gruesome stuff mixed with obviously hoaxed “miracles”
October 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Journey Into The Beyond was a German occult Mondo film adapted for US audiences by adding John Carradine as a narrator. It’s interesting to see the various ways it was marketed in different parts of the country. There’s actually some legit gruesome stuff mixed with obviously hoaxed “miracles”
Empire’s 1984 film Dungeon Master may not be a lost gem, but it’s pretty fun. Richard Moll hams it up as an evil wizard and the hero trips through different “genre worlds”, like a slasher movie world and a Mad Max world, each made by a different director. It also had at least three different titles
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Empire’s 1984 film Dungeon Master may not be a lost gem, but it’s pretty fun. Richard Moll hams it up as an evil wizard and the hero trips through different “genre worlds”, like a slasher movie world and a Mad Max world, each made by a different director. It also had at least three different titles
Oral B used the Jedi ghosts as an exclusive to sell three packs of Return of the Jedi toothbrushes in 1984. Far as I can tell it’s the first use of them on merchandise, predating the Anakin Skywalker action figure offer by a few months (Chicago Trubune, 11/1/84)
October 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Oral B used the Jedi ghosts as an exclusive to sell three packs of Return of the Jedi toothbrushes in 1984. Far as I can tell it’s the first use of them on merchandise, predating the Anakin Skywalker action figure offer by a few months (Chicago Trubune, 11/1/84)