Category: Time Warp Toy Box

Decisions, decisions. With space for only one holiday edition of Time Warp Toy Box this year, selecting the toys to showcase becomes quite a challenge since there are so many worthy candidates. Fortunately I have had some requests from friends ...

For our third and final week of Time Warp Toy Box for the 2009 holiday season, I wanted to focus on some of the more bizarre playthings I have encountered in my research. Please note that all of the items ...

As was expertly portrayed in Bob Clark’s modern Christmas classic, A Christmas Story, boys have always had an obsession with firearms. Unlike Ralphie, we may not have all considered a BB gun to be the holy grail of Christmas presents, ...

Welcome to the 2009 holiday season! Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year and my annual excuse to dig around in my electronic toy box. Since all of you Fanboys (and Fangirls) have been so good this ...

Time Warp Toy Box '08: Part 2 Welcome back to our second installment of treasures from Christmas past -- Time Warp Toy Box! This week’s items are all special reader requests that did a lot of memory jogging for me when I was researching them. If ...

Time Warp Toy Box '08: Part 1 Christmas time is here again and so is the childhood treasures appreciation segment of Retrorama that we like to call - Time Warp Toy Box! During the month of December I will be spotlighting some Fanboy favorites from Christmas ...

Welcome back to our final installment of Time Warp Toy Box for this Christmas and the last Retrorama of 2007. Hopefully, Santa brought you everything you wanted this year, but if he didn’t, we have some last-minute suggestions from Christmas past. I would be remiss if I let ...

Welcome back to our third installment of Time Warp Toy Box for Christmas 2007. This week we are showcasing some unusual presents from Christmas past. Every item featured this week came from a Christmas catalog so someone must have thought they would make good Christmas ...

Welcome back to our second installment of Time Warp Toy Box for Christmas 2007. Here are a few more presents from under the Retrorama Christmas tree. The Mobile Action Command rescue squad was a mid-1970’s toy line from Matchbox (Lesney in Europe) that preceded the small ...

It’s hard to believe 2007 has almost flown by already and here we are in the holiday season again. I can’t think of a more retrospective time than Christmas so this seems like the perfect opportunity for a month long ...