I came across this cool-looking old ad recently and wanted to take a minute to talk about it in today’s post. The Karate Kid was an obvious choice to get an action figure line. From the overwhelming success of the movie at the box office, and the movie’s action-based premise, …..CONTINUE READING
A commercial for the Masters of the Universe Evil Horde Fright Zone play set from 1985. …..CONTINUE READING
We’re going back to the old comic book ad well again. Don’t worry, it’s a deep well, and I can keep going back over and over again and probably will never run out of fun/cool ads to showcase and talk about. If you’re not familiar with the concept, you can …..CONTINUE READING
So I missed this anniversary by a day, but way back on September 13, 1993, the home video game version of Mortal Kombat hit stores in an event dubbed Mortal Monday. The Mortal Kombat arcade game was an instant hit when it landed in arcades around the country, so turning …..CONTINUE READING
That’s right! It’s time for another sequel in the old comic book ads universe. This makes the fourth time that we’ll be heading down memory lane to check out cool old adds. We’ve got some junk food stuff, video game stuff, trading cards, and toys so it should be a …..CONTINUE READING
Friday Five is a quick list of five things with a common theme, and instead of doing a big write-up, I’m doing it in pictures (or videos) with just a couple of sentences to give context to the picks. You can play along by adding some of your own in the comments. The …..CONTINUE READING
This may be my favorite ad out of all of the many ones that were printed for the line. If it’s not at the top of my list, it’s certainly in the top five. The image of the kid having a ball playing with the MOTU figures with his Mom …..CONTINUE READING
Let’s look at five more old comic book ads including Game Genie, Secret Wars Action Figures, WCW Wrestling for Nintendo, Warlord Action Figures, and TMNT Cereal! …..CONTINUE READING
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