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Do you smell that? We’re on the verge of the best time of year — yard sale season! Just a few more weeks and you’ll find me cruising the ‘hoods in the swagger wagon looking for that pop culture gold. During the cold winter months, there are no yard sales, so I have to frequent […]

Eternia gets an Auction House In 1981, toymaker Mattel began designing its next line of action figures. Heavily influenced by the then-current trends of Sword and Sorcery and science fiction prevalent in entertainment culture, they created an all new line of techno-fantasy action figures. Chronicling the adventures of a barbarian-like warrior prince and his friends and their struggle against a […]

I don’t typically go for monster movie posters, but if they are really cheesy, I will make an exception. Shown below are a few Mexican lobby cards I recently added to the collection. For your viewing enjoyment… That is one ugly caveman. That lady is clearly not prepared for a Himalayan hike. It’s the Cat […]

I was making the rounds at local antique shops the other day, and had a pretty good hunt searching for some vintage pop culture items to add to my collection. I found some cool things for the display shelf, but then at the Pink House Antiques shop in Manassas, I found this bad boy that will […]

Going on sale tomorrow at a random time is the latest poster from Mondo, this time the subject is Steven Spielberg’s classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That movie gave me the creeps as a kid, because it seemed so real to my young mind. This poster by Todd Slater is anything but creepy, and […]