by shezcrafti | Aug 10, 2025 | Toys & Collectibles |
Me with my Talking Mother Goose, 1987. My working title for this article, which has been collecting dust as an unpublished draft for many years, was something like, “How Toy A led to Interest B,” with a simple two-column chart listing toys on the left side...
by shezcrafti | Feb 4, 2025 | Toys & Collectibles |
If you were one of the lucky kids who had Pocket Rockers in the 80s, you belonged to a very exclusive club of kids who could play their favorite pop music hits wherever they went, much to the annoyance of every adult around them. Pocket Rockers were small, handheld...
by shezcrafti | Jul 22, 2021 | The Time Warp, Toys & Collectibles |
It’s not every day you stop by your parents’ house to drop off the kids and they randomly hand you a rare artifact from your childhood because they just so happened to clean out the attic over the weekend, but that totally happened to me this past week....
by shezcrafti | Feb 10, 2020 | Toys & Collectibles |
Picture it. Baltimore. Christmas morning. 2019. In a world where only one out of four Golden Girls is still alive (in before Betty White passes away), I was delighted– nay overjoyed–to unwrap my favorite sassy seniors in 8″ action figure form. JUST...
by shezcrafti | Feb 23, 2014 | Gaming, Toys & Collectibles |
Sometime last year (in the spring, maybe? honestly, I’ve been out of the blogging loop so long, I don’t remember) friend, fellow blogger & TMNT fan Tommy over at Top Hat Sasquatch posted some photos of mini arcade cabinets that looked to be the perfect...
by shezcrafti | Feb 21, 2014 | Toys & Collectibles, What I'm Listening To |
Few things have been able to drag me out of hibernation status, but one of those things is the Nerd Lunch podcast. Specifically Episode #119, in which we remember all of the awesome board games we had growing up. I joined resident nerds CT, Jeeg, and Pax for a lengthy...
