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Ask me to name some '80s toy lines that would transition well into the art world and I'm pretty certain Jayce and Wheeled Warriors wouldn't be anywhere on that list. Nothing against Jayce, it just wasn't one of those shows th...
| Jeremy Emerje Crocker |
Back in the late '70s and '80s there was an industry wide shift in figure scale as companies moved away from large 'dolls' and smaller action figures dominated. Even so, there were some ambitious figures that just had to be b...
| Jeremy Emerje Crocker |
Sometimes all you can do when reading an article is just stop, stare at your screen, and say, 'Wooooowwwww....' Cracked is known for writing lists that make me spend hours reading through them, but this recent post of the 8 M...
| Rio McCarthy |
Last week, I laid eyes on the first Transformers product that I thought I might actually buy -- the Perfect Effect camera set, which looks like a DSLR but is transformable into a robot. "That,"I thought to myse...
| Colette Bennett |
"I ain't 'fraid of no ghost!"Like me, you probably grew up with the Ghostbusters movie, and then later, its sequel. You might also recall the various spin-offs and merchandise associated with the franchise, nam...
| Crystal White |
At first glance, these masks look like creepy steampunk customs based on classic Star Wars icons, namely Darth Vader and C-3P0. However, the opposite is true. Instead of being inspired by the film series, they have ...
| Crystal White |
Everyone comes form different backgrounds here on Tomopop as it relates to toys, and I so happen to have a history of growing up with slot cars, thanks to my father. But nothing he put together could ever have topped what Jam...
| Brian Szabelski |
As part of the celebration of 40 years for Florida's beloved Walt Disney World, the parks are going retro! The designers are hard at work making the project look like you've stepped right back into the 70's when the Magi...
| Kristina Pino |
Quite a while ago, I wrote an article for Tomopop about a Flickr community called the Vintage Toy Pool. I was quite inspired by it at the time, and I still go there even once in a while to see what's going on a...
| Colette Bennett |