Milk Cap Mania!
If you missed it earlier, Dino Drac’s June Funpack is on sale now!
…and since this month’s Funpack comes with a healthy dose of old school pogs, tonight’s video seemed like a good pick:
Milk Cap Mania was a series of hurried documentaries about the pog craze. This is the second of two direct-to-VHS specials, which by the producer’s own judgment was simply an attempt to cash in.
I was a pretty big pog collector for a while, though I never actually “played” with them, and in fact still have no idea how one actually does that.
To me, they were just fun things to have and to look at. The art pulled inspiration from so many different directions that the word “pog” could double as a descriptor for a certain artistic style.
From spiders to 8-balls to space aliens, I couldn’t get enough of them. Most of the local comic shops were still standing when pogs became the in-thing, and all of them quickly shifted their focus to this strange new fad.
The beauty of pogs was that no matter how hard certain companies tried to make “rare” or “valuable” ones, there were always thousands more that remained dirt cheap. I remember sifting through huge boxes of them at comic shops, and they were rarely more than ten cents each.
(FYI, in tribute to how we rolled as kids, I use “pog” and “milk cap” interchangeably, and do not at actually recognize “Pog” as a trademarked brand name.)
Old School Nintendo Fun!
Here’s a double dose of Nintendo nostalgia…
First, check out this 20/20 report about the Nintendo “fad.” Judging by what’s featured, I’m gonna guess that it’s from 1989:
…and if that put you in the mood for MORE MARIO, here are a bunch of vintage Nintendo commercials:
Enjoy!
Holy Batmania!
Let’s pour one out for Adam West tonight, for obvious sad reasons:
Here’s Holy Batmania, a direct-to-video Batman documentary from 1989.
My impression is that the doc was hastily thrown together to capitalize on the success of Tim Burton’s Batman, though it focuses more on the Batman stuff that came before that film — most specifically Adam West’s legendary turn as the Caped Crusader from the 1960s TV series.
I grew up on a steady diet of that show, but one network (Fox, I think) gave it a majorly renewed push when Burton’s film came out. West was as much “my Batman” as any other actor has been, and if I manage to hang around for as long as he did, that’ll still be true.
TMNT: Krang Gets His Body!
Happy Friday!
Just a quickie for tonight. Here’s one of THE most important episodes of the original TMNT series, called Shredder & Splintered:
What makes it so important? Well, it’s the one where Krang finally gets his classic android body!
