COVID-19 has most of the world cooped up in quarantine (if you aren’t, you should be), and going a bit stir-crazy. To help pass the time, I thought I’d offer up this digital version of my sold-out Space Madness Coloring Book as a pay-what-you-want download. Enjoy 20 pages

Shawn Robare of  Branded in the 80s and the Cult Film Club podcast  joins me to discuss a topic inspired by Shawn’s own Awesome 80s Bedrooms series, the inner sanctum of our childhood bedrooms. For some kids, the bedroom is the one place in the house that we have any control ove

A 12″ tall Parker Stevenson action figure lived in my toy box when I was young. To be fair, it was less of an action figure than it was a doll, and felt to me like it might prefer the company of Barbie and Ken over the citizens of Eternia. He came from the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew

Sometimes, as I fade off to sleep, I revisit settings from my childhood. I’m able to conjure up places where I’ve lived with such clarity that it almost feels like I’ve traveled back in time. I walk from room to room with meticulous recall: the wood paneling in the k

In the lean days before home video releases of the Star Wars films, television appearances by the folks from the galaxy far, far away were pure magic for me. Having missed the Star Wars Holiday special during its one and only broadcast, I was sustained by brief guest appearances by St

Aside from the presence of the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi, most of the unrest in the Star Wars universe is generally attributed to the 1997 re-release of the altered versions of the original trilogy, the subsequent revisions made to the original trilogy, and the release of the “prequ

Having just returned from the arcade with his father, Aaron bounded up the flight of stairs that separated our apartments breathless and eager to report on the newest game cabinet on the arcade floor: “You’re this yellow mouth guy in a maze and you have to eat all these pellets and th

It’s remarkable that in an age of seemingly infinite movie viewing options, ranging from individualized viewing on computers or handheld device to Megaplex, 3D, or IMAX environments, that drive-in movies can still draw a crowd. For me, the closest drive-in is nearly an hour and a half

The promotional Star Wars glasses offered by Burger King from 1977 to 1983 have always been a part of my collection in some varying configuration, albeit in an incomplete state. As a child, I collected a number of them as they were released and had since lost them to breakage, wear. T

When not at war, the Rebel Alliance, loyalists of the Galactic Empire, and all the creatures in-between were split up between three Star Wars collector’s cases. The first was a Darth Vader shaped case which held 31 figures (more, if the Stormtrooper, Jawas, and Sand People doubl