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Construx Toys
Back in the golden haze of the 1980s, when Saturday mornings were sacred and the living room carpet doubled as a battlefield, I had a deep and abiding love for …
Retro Ramblings
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My Comic Book Collecting Origin Story
Ever since I was a kid, comic books have been part of my life. Not in the obsessive, bag-and-board collector kind of way, but more like a steady companion. They …
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My Six Month Romance With Hardee’s New York Patty Melt in 1993
In the spring of 1993, when my teenage appetite was as bottomless as my love for fast food, Hardee’s introduced a burger that, for a brief and glorious moment, felt …
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LJN WWF Wrestling Superstars Action Figures
There was a time when wrestling wasn’t just something you watched. It was something you lived. And for me, that life came in the form of stiff rubber figures with …
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I Miss Fat Pro Wrestlers
The other day, I was flipping through my well-worn copy of Wrestling at the Chase: The Inside Story of Sam Muchnick and the Legends of Professional Wrestling, and somewhere between …
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Matchbox Memories
Growing up in the 1980s and early ’90s, my world was built on four tiny wheels. Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars weren’t just toys. They were the backbone of childhood …
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1992’s Christmas Creatures TBS Movie Marathon
Back in the early 1990s, when cable TV still felt like a treasure chest and not just a scrollable blur of sameness, there was one channel that stood out like …
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KFC’s Chicken Littles Sandwiches of the ’80s
There was a time, long before artisanal buns and aioli sauces took over the fast-food landscape, when a humble little sandwich ruled my world. It was called the Chicken Little, …
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The Excitement of Excitebike
There are certain sounds that live forever in the attic of memory. The whine of a two-stroke engine, the digital chirp of a pixelated crowd, and the unmistakable crash of …