You know it's getting that time of year when you're in the supermarket and go down the aisle for bread and cakes and discover it has adopted a strange fluorescent orange tint. In actuality, there wasn't that much Halloween stuff in the whole store. There was far more Christmas stuff than Halloween but the bakery …
Continue reading Halloween cakes and biscuits! Spooky stuff finally on the shelves!
It was Christmas '95 or '96 and I was tearing the paper off a present from my great grandmother. Somewhat surprisingly I wasn't overly enthusiastic when I pulled the last bit of wrapping away and I was holding this. Obviously with hindsight I can see that I was a fucking idiot. If I could …
Continue reading Kenner Lava Predator action figure from 1994!
A little while ago my girlfriend went up into the attic to have a rummage around for some documents. She came back down with a bag full of toys which was exciting and unexpected and it made me make a mental note to check my parents attic when I am next in England visiting them, …
Continue reading Attic finds! My Little Pony toys and Littlefoot hand puppet!
Modern toys rarely manage to impress me so I don't tend to buy them often, but sometimes some come across my path that are so cheap that I think 'Meh!' and I buy them anyway. I have had some experience with Jakks Pacific World of Nintendo figures before, with a Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword …
After starting to plan for my Halloween countdown that I am doing this year, I got my Mighty Max toys out again. Every time I get 'em out, I realise that being a grown man, how far from being an adult I really I am. I sat for entirely too long playing with Mighty Max …
Continue reading Mighty Max Escapes from Skull Dungeon playset!
I loved and still love Ninja Turtles. It is such a weird combination, get some turtles, make 'em mutated ones that are roughly the size of humans and who can talk. And make 'em ninjas as well. What part of that isn't the best thing ever? I had quite a few Turtles toys as a …
Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Wacky Action Rock ‘N Roll Michaelangelo action figure!
It is a somewhat perverse tradition in the UK that every couple of years Walkers crisps release weird flavours of crisps. A couple are usually alright, some are okay and the rest are usually foul. A few years back there were flavours like beans on toast, and egg and bacon. This year they are going …
Continue reading Walkers Sandwich flavour potato crisps! (chips)
Due to a variety of reasons (most of them boring) it has been a while since I last did a blog post. So I am going to do my best to rectify that now. I am guessing it would have been around 1999 and I had gone over to a friends house (we had been …
Not very long ago and not terribly far away, Star Wars wasn't the massive iconic juggernaut that it is today. You can visit any toy shop in this day and age and you'll probably find Star Wars toys somewhere on the shelves, even for upcoming Star Wars movies that aren't due out for months. But …
Continue reading Vintage Star Wars! The first 12 Kenner figures from 1978!
Sometimes when eating something, a flavour can take a while to really hit the taste buds. This occured recently when I just popped these into my mouth. Chilli nut M&M's. I don't think these are something really available in the UK. I half expected them to taste like the chilli coated peanuts we get over …
The Forgotten Starship 