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Toy Commercial Tuesday: Aliens
Originally I was going to start this post reminding everyone how much I love toy lines from the 80s and 90s based on R-rated films that kids couldn’t actually see, but what kind of BS is it making an...
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: Kenner AT-AT
Over the past few weeks, my wife and I have shown our daughter the three original Star Wars movies. She’s gotten pretty into them which is an awesome thing for me as a longtime fan of those movies....
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: Beetlejuice Vanishing Vault
I hope you’ve noticed that posting around here slowed way down for a few months there. Between the huge rush of work I had in October, moving throughout most of November and then all the usual...
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: Beetlejuice’s Creepy Cruiser
While looking around for last week’s Toy Commercial Tuesday offering which featured a variety of Beetlejuice toys, I came across this one for the Creepy Cruise as well. Next to the Vanishing Vault,...
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: Ghostbusters Dracula & Frankenstein
I don’t usually post these commercial compilations, but this is the only place I could find the Ghostbusters commercial with the live action appearance by Frankenstein and Dracula, so feel free to...
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: Batman Forever Figures
I was about 12 when Batman Forever came out. I’m fairly certain I saw it in the theaters, but don’t have much memory of the outing aside from chuckling at the “Holy rusted metal,” line that Chris...
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: The Shadow
Why did I choose The Shadow for this week’s TCT? It just popped into my head when I went to YouTube today to look for candidates. These Kenner figures were released in conjunction with the 1994 film...
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: Star Wars Droids
I still think it’s amazing that, back in the 80s, it was standard practice to simultaneously launch a comic book along with a cartoon/toy line. These days, comic book characters are bigger than ever,...
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Toy Commercial Tuesday: More Superman Goodness
A few years back I took the time to spotlight the rad 90s Kenner Superman: The Man Of Steel line (that was probably only rad to kids like me who were HUGE Man of Steel fans). The line didn’t last very...
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Toy Commercial Tuesdays: Star-Studded Star Wars
There are roughly a thousand things I love about this Kenner Star Wars spot. First off, that’s Christian Slater on the left and Christmas Story and Death Valley star Peter Billingsley on the right....
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