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When I was a kid, there was a barrage of cartoons that were just gigantic advertisements for toys. You see, early in the 1980s,...
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When I was a kid, there was a barrage of cartoons that were just gigantic advertisements for toys. You see, early in the 1980s,...
Interview conducted by Sharon Knolle If you ever played with LEGO bricks (and who didn’t?) you have to see A LEGO Brickumentary, a loving...
Children have been playing and collecting toy soldiers since… well, a very long time. Modern children, mainly boys, collected little plastic armies since the...
Comic-Con is fast approaching, and Diamond Select Toys has revealed a plethora of new items (coming to stores this fall) that will be on...
So you are totally excited about the end of the world… After watching Mad Max: Fury Road who can blame you? I was ready...
For many children growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, robots were the coolest thing ever. Well, kids loved robots since our parents and...
By Sharon Knolle Disney unveiled “the future of play” today in Los Angeles: Playmation is an interactive way to play that gets kids up...
Recently, I went on an excursion to the Palisades to visit my brother, Wolfgang Fauntleroy Knauf. There he was in his Tap Out shorts,...
“Hey, honey, Smitty’s at a toy show today,” my wife says to me as she lay in bed Sunday morning, while I shake off...
You see dear reader, when I was young I didn’t have access to fancy computers, or video game systems, or cellphones, or whatever it...
San Pedro Sula, Honduras: the most dangerous place on the planet. There’s a murder rate of 169:100,000; averaging to about 3 murders a day. ...
Do you have boxes of old toys, video games and gadgets in your parent’s house? You know all that stuff you didn’t throw away...
Fact: the Forces of Geek editors do not like it when you use their corporate American Express Black card on frivolous purchases. They really...
We may very well be entering the era of the independent action figure. With companies like Bossfight Studios and Marauder defying the odds and...
Who remembers tearing ferociously through every page of a SEARS Wishbook or JC Penny Christmas catalog? All those pictures of toys and action figures...
Anyone who knows me knows that I love me some action figures…Actually anyone that knows me has to endure how much I love action...
Welcome to the thirteenth installment of Flashback to the Present. I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. About five years ago, I was on...
Long before the internet made shopping easy, kids everywhere would anxiously covet toy catalogs. There was always the Sear’s Wish Book which provided a...
In the more innocent days of the Seventies, American daredevil Evel Knievel captured the attention and imagination of children everywhere. Between 1965 and 1980,...
In 1939, just four years after the invention of Kodachrome color film, the View-Master was introduced. A special-format stereoscope that utilized their own system...
Well this is pretty neat. From the makers of the Alien line of retro figures, Super 7 and Funko have announced several new licensed...
Interview conducted by Rick Laprade Todd McFarlane is my hero. Since I was a little kid reading comics, McFarlane was and always has been...
Welcome to the first installment of Flashback to the Present and I’ll be your contributing writer, Charles Knauf. First, a little background: I’m in...
For years I have been obsessed with knock off, unlicensed merchandise—famous brands, or characters, that are designed and sold with a seemingly complete disregard...