Here's why nobody could find any official E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial toys for months after the movie came out, even though everybody wanted one. “It's better than Star Wars!” proclaimed my cousin. He had just seen E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. No way, I thought. That's blasphemy. He continued, “The movie was so good, I even cried. You … Continue reading E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was the Baby Yoda of its Day
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Toy Stories: Vintage Godzilla
“Up from the depths, 30 stories high…” Remember the theme song to the Godzilla cartoon from 1978? It was hokey and barely seemed connected to the movie Godzilla. (Godzooky didn’t help.) Still, I ate it all up because I just couldn’t get enough of the fire-breathing behemoth. The Godzilla movies from Japan’s Toho studios would … Continue reading Toy Stories: Vintage Godzilla