Dino Drac’s March Funpack is here!
Okay, I’m finally ready to show you Dino Drac’s March Funpack! It’s a box of stuff! Old, cool stuff! And new gum!
All subscriber boxes have already been shipped, and many have already been delivered! If you’re on the list and don’t have yours yet, look for it any day now!
While subscriptions are currently closed, I have a small number of spares that I can offer on an individual basis. As always, the price is $25, and that includes shipping to anywhere in the United States. If interested, zip to the bottom to see if there are any left!
Now, let’s dive in and see what y’all are getting…
Leading the charge this month, you’ll each receive ONE of these very vintage Star Wars book-and-record sets!
Both are from 1983. You’ll either get Return of the Jedi *or* Droid World, in unused condition, with the cellophane wrapper still intact. (Do note that the cellophane wrapper may have some tears! I’m showing you both without them, but yours will be untouched.)
Whichever one you end up with, each set comes with a little record album plus a gorgeous picture-filled storybook. The idea was that you could read along while listening to the album. While I cannot 100% guarantee that the records will still play perfectly – warping is sometimes an issue with these old sets – I tested a bunch, and all worked fine!
These sets are over forty years old and take me back to my earliest visits to Toys “R” Us. Thrilled to be sharing these with you!
Next, you’ll each get a beautiful pack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles puffy stickers, from 1989! What a score! These are actually imports from the Netherlands, but I believe we got the same sets in the States back then, too.
I included a different pack of TMNT puffy stickers in one of last year’s Funpacks, but IMO, this one tops it. Aside from a good dose of Ninja Turtle representation, this set also features Shredder, April and Bebop!
All packs are sealed and unused. How well puffy stickers “work” after so many decades… well, I can’t make any guarantees there, but all stickers are firmly on the backing sheets, and as far as I can tell, none have lost their adhesive powers.
For this month’s snack, you’re getting a generous 10-piece pack of Cotton Candy Bubble Yum! This one has flitted in and out of production since its debut in the 1990s, but it’s currently in production, and clocks as a “forever nostalgic” flavor.
And you sure are getting a lot of it, here. Ten pieces! That’s double the size of an ordinary pack, and enough for a week’s worth of sugary bliss. And, knock on wood, the weather is still chilly enough for these to make it to you without getting all sweaty.
My answer wavers depending on my mood, but if pressed, more often than not I’ll call Gremlins 2 my all-time favorite movie. And it certainly never falls out of the Top 3. When I say that I’ve seen it over 200 times, it’s without a drop of hyperbole. Hell, back in the ‘90s after I made a tape-to-tape dub, I probably watched it 200 times in a single year.
With that, you’ll each get one of these custom-packaged Gremlins 2 35mm trailer frames, cut by yours truly from a genuine trailer reel. Whichever frame you end up with, it’ll be something from the classic trailer, which absolutely floored all of us old school Gremlins fans back in 1990.
Do note that while I’m being careful to cut the frames out cleanly, I am not a professional, and these are just for fun. If you want something more refined, go spend $100 on someone who mounts the things to laminated wood and gets COAs signed by Gizmo.
Man, there’s still more? What VALUES I bestow upon you. You’ll ALSO get three packs of these My Little Pony album “stickers,” from the mid ‘80s.
These were produced by Reyauca, I believe in Venezuela, and were never available in the States. While they look like the same little stickers common with Panini-style albums, these actually aren’t adhesive, and were meant to be taped or glued into albums instead. (Which is actually fortuitous, because without adhesive backings, the individual sheets have survived the years without sticking together!)
A wonderful oddity, and I believe this marks the first time My Little Pony has had any representation in a Dino Drac Funpack. How historic.
Okay, let’s wrap this up!
Rounding things out, you’ll also get this month’s Funpack Newsletter, an exclusive essay about how I love driving to horror conventions, a random set of three Mario Quiz Cards from 1995 (which are awesome), a 5×7” cardstock mini-poster featuring RC Cola, and a 2×2” sticker starring some old M.U.S.C.L.E. toys.
Whew. And all of this packed into a sturdy box that you can later reuse if you want a microwave pizza to look like it was delivered from the joint up the block.
So yep, you’re getting all of the above for $25, and that includes shipping!
If you’re already a subscriber and you wanna stay that way… do nothing! You’re all set, and your Funpack has already shipped.
If you’re NOT a current subscriber but still want this box, I have just a few left to offer on an individual basis. Click the button below to order. United States only, please! Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever!
Thanks so much, and I’ll be back with more of the good stuff in April!
