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Saturday, December 12, 2015

About Time Zombies in your mailbox

FYI This Giveaway is for us residents only, as I currently can not ship out of the country, sorry in advance.

Free Zombies



 








 Ok it is finally time to give these guys away, and here is how to get one. 

Tell me if you can remember what your first horror movie was? It can be any type not just a zombie movie, can't remember? Then write a little about what you miss about your childhood. You do not have to answer both questions you can just write about one if you like. I will be choosing the coolest stories and will post the winners in an upcoming post.

Send your stories to hippi35@hotmail.com

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

"HAPPY BTTF DAY"






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Oh and for those who want the FREE Zombies, watch "Shaun of The Dead" I will have some trivia questions.

Monday, October 12, 2015

"Repairing Halloween"



The other day we were taking out the Halloween decorations we had our first casualty, one of our pumpkins did not survive the year long storage and was found shattered in pieces. Of course my wife’s answer was, oh just throw it away, I said nope! I’ll fix it. So I gathered all the pieces and got to work.





 These were all the decent pieces that I could find, all the rest had turned into dust.






 I also had to recreate one of his eyes as the pieces were to far gone.





Here he is all put back together, I would give all those kings horses and all those kings men a run for their money.




And Here with the first coats of paint, went with a bit more natural color.




Thursday, October 8, 2015

13 Nights of Halloween



The 13 Days of Halloween Lineup for ABCFamily 


Oct. 19
1:30 p.m. — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
5 p.m. — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
9 p.m. — Hocus Pocus
12 a.m. — Corpse Bride


Oct. 20
4 p.m. — Corpse Bride
6 p.m. — Hocus Pocus
9 p.m. — Stitchers 2015 Halloween Special
12 a.m. — Casper


Oct. 21 
5 p.m. — Casper
7 p.m. — The Addams Family
9 p.m. — Addams Family Values
12 a.m. — I Know What You Did Last Summer


Oct. 22 
4 p.m. — The Addams Family
6 p.m. — Addams Family Values
8 p.m. — The Hunger Games
12 a.m. — I Still Know What You Did Last Summer


Oct. 23
5:30 p.m. — The Hunger Games
8:30 p.m. — Sleepy Hollow
12 a.m. — Matilda


Oct. 24
7 a.m. — Matilda
9 a.m. — ParaNorman
11 a.m. — Corpse Bride
1 p.m. — The Nightmare Before Christmas
2:30 p.m. — Casper
4:30 p.m. — The Addams Family
6:30 p.m. — Addams Family Values
8:30 p.m. — Monsters University
11 p.m. — Toy Story OF TERROR!
11:30 p.m. — Hocus Pocus


Oct. 25
7 a.m. — ParaNorman
9 a.m. — Corpse Bride
11 a.m. — The Nightmare Before Christmas
12:30 p.m. — Casper
2:30 p.m. — The Addams Family
4:30 p.m. — Addams Family Values
6:30 p.m. — Toy Story OF TERROR!
7 p.m. — Monsters University
9:45 p.m. — Hocus Pocus


Oct. 26
5:30 p.m. — Sleepy Hollow
9 p.m. — Toy Story OF TERROR!
9:30 p.m. — The Nightmare Before Christmas
12 a.m. — Frankenweenie


Oct. 27
4 p.m. — Frankenweenie
6 p.m. — The Nightmare Before Christmas
7:30 p.m. — Toy Story OF TERROR!
9 p.m. — Hocus Pocus
12 a.m. — ParaNorman


Oct. 28
4 p.m. — ParaNorman
6 p.m. — Hocus Pocus
8:15 p.m. — Dark Shadows
12 a.m. — Casper


Oct. 29 
5 p.m. — Casper
7 p.m. — The Addams Family
9 p.m. — Addams Family Values
12 a.m. — Hocus Pocus


Oct. 30
2:30 p.m. — The Addams Family
4:30 p.m. — Addams Family Values
6:30 p.m. — Hocus Pocus
8:30 p.m. — Poltergeist
12 a.m. — Poltergeist II: The Other Side


Oct. 31
7 a.m. — Batman
10 a.m. — Batman Returns
12:30 p.m. — Poltergeist
3 p.m. — Sleepy Hollow
5:30 p.m. — The Nightmare Before Christmas
7 p.m. — Hocus Pocus
9:15 p.m. — Hocus Pocus
11:30 p.m. — Sleepy Hollow



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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

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Saturday, July 4, 2015

X-Ray Vision for $1


 
Remember seeing those ads in your old comics, the ones that offered cool toys for almost nothing, only to get a NO as soon as you pointed to the ad when asking your parents for money, then wondering what it would've been like to have that awesome toy? Well there is this cool guy that put together a book that will answer that question and more, its called "Mail-Order Mysteries" and I have to say that this book is AWESOME!


This was one of my favorites to read about. I was always curious about what would actually be sent to who ever ordered something like this. I would've had a blast as a kid if I had one of these.


There are also some secrets revealed about some of the items that were offered, like this "100pc Toy Soldier Set". The ad description was a bit flat...sorry, had to.


 Oh and you can't forget the original that everyone can say that they wanted, the amazing "X-Ray Spex". Every young boy that saw these knew that they had to get them for one reason and one reason only...to see what was inside those Birthday or Christmas gifts...you thought it was going to be something else huh.. don't lie you know you thought it.





I had a hard time putting this book down there is so much great stuff in this book I had fun reading this and promise that you will to although I made myself stop reading from time to time because I didn’t want it to end.


Special Thanks to Kirk Demarais for the OK to write this. Want to know more about him and his work head over to SecretFunSpot.com you can find links to his other sites.

Oh and check out his short film "FLIP"




Get The Book Here


Saturday, June 27, 2015

Toysofmypast.com

Hey Everyone that is still here and still reading this blog, we are now www.toysofmypast.com and that is all that has changed so you will still be getting all that fun quirky stuff that is posted here so hang around and see what we get into.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

I'm Still Here Everyone.



I haven't had much interesting stuff happen lately that is worth sharing other than thinking of wither I should renew my web address www.nostalgicmemories.us or change it. Well more because I don’t know if I can afford it and it’s cheaper to pay for another one.

Well that is all that has really been going on, I will try and post more for those of you that follow this blog.
Thanks

Friday, March 6, 2015

Another Fun Video

Well here we have another kit that I found, actually I won this one in an auction a while back together with some other kits. Enjoy


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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Hey all we have started a YouTube channel and will be posting all different kind of stuff, so head over and subscribe.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

"A Place to Remember"




Most of my Ninja Turtles were purchased from this wonderful store, as well as other toys that I had in my early times called childhood. In the rare instance where the parents actually asked us if we wanted to go to the mall....which was very rare.... it was a given that there was going to be a mandatory visit to KB Toys, I mean it was only the best toy store there if not the only one at the time.

I mean just look at the cool stuff they had, I think I would look at one of these ads over and over .....and couldn't wait for our next visit so that I could run in there and buy something that was not even in the ad... Yeah that’s me and I kind of still do that. The worst part about going with the family was that once I made the toy store visit and made my purchase I was done, I was ready to go home my mission was complete but the rest of the family had other plans.  At times I would ask my parents if I could wait on a random bench in the middle of the mall where as soon as you would sit to play, a random stranger would sit next to you.



It was always awesome when I would show up and they were having one of these type of sales, it was like paradise because most of the other times that I would visit the mall I was with my friends and only had $5 in my pocket.




Sadly this wonderful place made its last few and final sales on February 9, 2009 and shut its doors to one of my greatest childhood places, It took me by surprise as I still remember walking into one of the last stores open and didn't realize it. I guess I was distracted with grownup stuff like going to college, getting a job... blah blah blah. One day I figured that I would take a trip the the mall and was shocked to see just an empty space with its prison fence type door rolled down.


Alas I Say Goodbye