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.)