So yeah, if you’ve been looking at any of my other posts that use images, you’ve noticed that I’ve exceeded my bandwidth for Photobucket. I knew this time was coming because the blog keeps growing in views every month. Sucks.
Oh well. Any recommends for image hosting now? I could pay $2.99 per month at Photobucket but I don’t make any money off the site so I’d rather not do that (yes, I’m cheap).
Continuing with the “one-off” theme of random toys that are/were in my collection, here’s Air Raiders. I really don’t remember them at all. Or at least I didn’t until I just happened to come across the name online and clicked the link and had one of those “HEY! I had that toy!” moments. I now remember having the little figures but I only vaguely remember owning the vehicles they came with. I’m sure those little figures stuck around a lot longer in my collection than the vehicles did (sadly, I have neither today).
I’ve said basically said all I have to say about Captain Planet before but I was thinking about “one-off” figures (figures where I didn’t have a lot of the whole series) I owned back in the day and it popped into my mind again. So Tiger (of Tiger Electronics fame) made these figures? Interesting…
Flying Captain Planet
As told previously, I only owned two Captain Planet figures: the flying version of Captain Planet himself (with the “flying” feature basically amounting to a button that triggers his arms to spring up above his head as you hold him by a string) and then one of his arch-enemies Duke Nukem. Captain Planet is one of the worst superheroes ever and I’m not even talking about his goody-two shoe personality that would make even Superman roll his eyes– I’m talking about the mullet. I hated mullets then, I hate mullets now and I don’t like my superheroes with mullets. Which I guess you already logically assumed when I first stated that I hated mullets.
Even the world's greatest superhero couldn't pull it off.
As a young child growing up in the 80s in Lynchburg, Virginia, we didn’t have no stinkin’ Wal-Marts or Targets. No sir, the 80s were still the glory days of K-Mart, shopping malls, outlets and department stores. Corporate monopolies hadn’t fully taken over and WE LIKED IT THAT WAY…
Welcome to Where I Shopped, a truly engaging series of posts where I continue to take a look at those years gone by (the 1980s) and the stores I have fond memories of my family shopping at. In this smashing second installment: Roses!
Waynesboro, Virginia location
I love rice. White rice. Yellow rice. Rice-A-Roni. Rice pudding. It’s all good! Hm, I wonder what Super Mario rice tastes like…
I love this commercial. How can you go wrong with a Super Mario Bros. cartoon and people screaming at you in Japanese? Sadly, I could find no info on this product (though if I squint I believe the copyright says 1985-1986) but it looks like you got a trading card or something in each box.
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