get your munchin on

06/10/2011 by alaundre

Categories: materialism, random / life • Tags: 1980's, arcade, classic, nostagia, old school, retro, video games, vintage, vintage toys

Avarians Rex

06/05/2011 by alaundre

– while most kids had Transformers toys back in the 80’s, I had this instead as my first transforming toy (it was a gift): Rex, from the slightly more obscure transforming toyline Converters (Avarians team/squad). By obscure, I mean that I only remember the name Rex, and google search results for transforming toys usually end up in either Transformers or Gobot universes. So chasing this baby down both on the web and on ebay took awhile. I’m guessing the white […]

Categories: materialism, random / life • Tags: action figures, childhood, mecha, nostalgia, robots, toys, transfromers, vintage toys

micronauts biotron

09/09/2010 by alaundre

. I remember back in 1979? my grand dad asked what I wanted as a gift and remember pointing at a robot toy in a newspaper ad. He came back a year later and gave me this toy. At the time, I was disappointed since this wasn’t the robot that was in the ad. The toy got pretty beat up after a few years (around the mid 80’s) and I think it got thrown or given away. This is from […]

Categories: materialism • Tags: 1970's, 1980's, mecha, nostalgia, robots, transformers, vintage robots, vintage toys