Generation Exiles

  I watched the show all the time. I saw these on the shelf. I secretly desired them. I never dared to ask for them. This was the era, boys didn't play with girls toys. Aside from the Mego Super Gals , Hasbro's 1970s Charlie's Angels would be the only other girls toys I ever really wanted as a kid. Girls toys didn't appeal to me as a little boy, and they still don't. But why these aside from a love of the show? They are after all, dolly's. It's because the show centered on action adventure, they carried guns, and always won the day. They were heroes regardless of gender. They were the cool chicks, and I was on board with that because the chicks in my life were anything but cool. They were bitchy little bullies, but the Angels were exactly as they were called. It is actually shocking how well developed and extensive this toy line was. In the era of the Six Million Dollar Man , the idea of selling the figure/doll then vario...

  Recently I was reunited with a childhood favorite. The View-Master reel set for Planet Of The Apes .  This is the Talking View-Master reel set which I prefer despite not having a Talking View-Master . The packaging is superior to the little envelopes, and I like having the option for sound if I should decide to upgrade. This set is based on the pilot episode for the TV series. I tend to favor watching these on the View-Master Projector like I did as a child, but I also use a standard viewer for daytime. If it isn't pitch black, the projector isn't always practical.

  I believe this was issued as a TOPPS variant a couple years ago, while the Escape From The Planet Of The Apes version of Zira was issued in the main retail line? Please correct me in the comments if I'm wrong. I can't say I had a crush on Zira as a kid per say, but I found her fascinating and was intrigued by her. I had a teacher in 2nd grade that reminded me of her, but luckily she didn't do lobotomy's on us. Though I think some of my classmates would have benefited from that, and I really wish she would have. It would have brought such peace to the learning process. This is one of those reissues that brought me absolute total %100 satisfaction. It is SO well done, and although I do like the new bandless body, I've been relatively happy with the modern female banded body. For this figure it works perfectly. It's always said that Kenner's Princess Leia was the first female action figure that boys p...

It was always hard to tell as a child if puzzles were a gift, treat, or punishment? Regardless, I collect them as an adult. Usually complete but in poor condition so I can assemble, glue, and frame them. I'll let you know how this one goes.

We were the last generation to really see the old movie serials regularly on television. Even then they were on the way out, but they were there. Sometimes it was on a grainy UHF channel, sometimes on the syndicated stations, sometimes they still got shown at drive-in movie theaters before the feature presentation. And at the very end of the 1980s, they began showing up on home video. Cheap home videos that is, in the first budget bins of the medium.  This is how I was introduced to this in probably 1986 or 1987? My mom came home from K-Mart one day with this Batman serial on VHS for me. My mind was blown that there was live action Batman going back this far. As I had not seen the Superman serials with Kirk Allen, I assumed the George Reeves Superman television show was the earliest live action Superhero fare. The serials I had seen up to this point were mostly science fiction, westerns, and that Captain America one where he has the gun, no shield, and isn't Steve Rogers. I had ...

I r ecieved my MEGO 50th Anniversary Reverse Flash (Eobard Thawne / Professor Zoom) from the WORLD'S GREATEST SUPER HEROES and I couldn't be happier with it! I was excited, not skeptical that we were going to get some new figures in this line we had not gotten before. Most of all, this guy! One of my favorite DC villains for decades, and among the few that truly flourished and came into being through the live action TV series The Flash . Not originally issued by MEGO in the 1970s this is a brand new sculpt and character debut. Like the other boxes, this one hits the mark on each level. Really cool and inspiring character art and a good color scheme that perfectly contrasts the figures shade. The quality is that perfect blend of being collector friendly but not over protected, bulky, or overly sturdy, and also not being cheap and flimsy. These are really close to the originals. A little factory stiff off the insert, I removed the costume to w...