Here are a couple of interesting stories relating to our hobby. The first one regarding Zizzle namechecks Hasbro pretty liberally. Who knew that a couple of ex-Hasbroids started it? ‘Pirates’ sizzles for toymaker Zizzle I actually didn’t realize that Amazon.com had launched its own toy sales division in the wake of Toys’R’Us’ departure. There was [...]

Obviously you folks can see the piece that I recently wrote interviewing toy sculptor supreme (my opinion) Paul Brooke, who created the unfreakinbelievable Vintage Original Trilogy Collection‘s Chewbacca figure for Hasbro. Still, I’m going to plug the heck out of it because it took me a lot of hours to transcribe all of that. I’m [...]

Today seems to be a big markdown day at Target stores nationwide, with prices for clearance ranging from 50%-75% off. At the store here in Atlanta (Buckhead) a local dealer loaded up ten carts full of toys ranging from Star Wars to Barbie, and he was bragging about it as he loaded up five more [...]

If it weren’t for The Star Wars Holiday Special, I might not have an obsessive love of showtunes and Bea Arthur. Of course, I also wouldn’t have that old jingle from Alcoa stuck in my head for the rest of my life – it’s been there since I was a little kid. I wouldn’t have [...]