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The 5 Monster Sickness…
Not long after I left the theater when I caught my first screening of The Monster Squad the film began to worm its way into my psyche in some strange ways. One of the most notable is in how I choose...
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Monster Merch!
Though the theatrical release of The Monster Squad was an unfortunate failure (grossing around $3.8M against a estimated $12M budget in its two week big screen run), looking back I’m surprised that...
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Voltron Assembler < Voltron Giant Commander
It was nearly impossible to be a kid growing up in the 80s suffering through the onslaught of product merchandising and not have a moment of pure greed and weakness where you simply just “had to have”...
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Awesome 80s Bedrooms: The Boy Who Could Fly Edition!
It’s been a little while since I took the time to deconstruct an awesome 80s kid’s bedroom and I was recently in the mood to re-watch some Fred Savage movies so I thought it was high time that I take a...
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Awesome 80s Bedrooms: Who’s the Boss Edition
While writing about a bunch of these awesome bedrooms from 80s movies I figured at some point, if I want to keep finding new rooms to deconstruct I’d eventually have to branch out into TV series as...
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Transformers & G.I. Joe, finally the shared universe I always dreamed of…
As an 80s nostalgia nerd it’s kind of hard to pick a favorite brand or property from my childhood. There are just way too many fond memories and of the thousands of things that I love from that decade...
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35 Years later this Big Wheel is still tearing up the streets…
It’s kind of weird when you think about the difference in experiences between “normal” folks and nostalgia addicts when we stumble upon something that makes us flash back on our youth. I think there’s...
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The Official Unofficial Visionaries Collectors Guide & Contest!
**CONTEST UPDATE** And the winner of the Visionaries Collector’s Guide is… Ryan, @no_thriller! Congrats Ryan! For fans of 80s era cartoons and toys it’s hard to argue that we’re truly living in a...
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Awesome 80s Bedrooms: The Making Contact Edition
It’s been a little while since I dove in and deconstructed an awesome 80s era pop culture bedroom. This past week I had my mind blown a couple times when Pee-wee Herman shared the piece I did on his...
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Of Mystery Boxes, Laserpunks, and Kismet…
A few months ago my buddy Ed over at AEIOU & Sometimes Why tipped me off to a mystery box swap that he was planning for this summer. Basically, he filled a box full of miscellaneous fun stuff...
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It was finally time to up my watch game…
It feels really good to be able to finally start catching up with writing articles here at Branded. Over the past few years there’s been a lot of changes in my life behind the scenes, and in...
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Collecting the Art of G.I. JOE
As I get older the way I celebrate and appreciate my nostalgic memories changes. Back in my mid-twenties, broke and living in a two-bedroom apartment I really didn’t have the means to procure or...
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Of new homes and AT-STs…
The more time I spend gliding through this wondrous existence I can’t help but keep coming back to this underlying thread of kismet that has ruled my pop culture collecting. Not trying to toot my own...
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The All New Branded in the 80s podcast, Episode 7!
On this episode of the All New Branded in the 80s podcast I spend some time talking about what it’s like to be a nostalgia addicted guy in the world of pop culture collecting. Though I adore most all...
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Parents just don’t understand…
The Fresh Prince said it best when he declared… “So to you all the kids all across the land Take it from me, parents just don’t understand “ I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love pouring over...
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