Below are five more ancient TV commercials, plucked from my ginormous pile of dusty tapes. May they make you 10% happier for 2.5 minutes.

Child’s Play 3! (1991)

In terms of horror, the Child’s Play franchise was my first love. I was a late bloomer with a weak stomach, but Chucky always did it for me, even back when I was too scared to sample his peers.

The first movie was an early fave, but I was obsessed with Child’s Play 2. I rented it dozens of times, before finally rigging up two VCRs to make a perfectly legal duplicate. (Complete with crude homemade label, of course.)

When Child’s Play 3 premiered in the summer of ‘91, I knew no appropriate parties to take me to see it. Had to wait until it turned up at Blockbuster. I liked the movie well enough, but coming off the high of Christine Elise and a yardstick death scene, it couldn’t maintain the momentum.

Child’s Play 3 still feels like the “lost chapter” of the series. Aside from due props over its way-cool finale set in an amusement park, I rarely see anyone talking about it. If you skipped over this one, it’s worth your time, if only to see Don Mancini’s final attempt to write anything resembling a “conventional” horror movie before going batshit-in-the-best-way. Read More…

I’m here to tell you about the sexiest Pepsi can ever.

That’s it, right there. It was one of the four Pepsi “Cool Cans” released in the summer of 1990. The soda was the same, but the cans were given various pop art makeovers to make them more attractive to younger demos.

Special edition can designs are nothing by today’s standards, but I was in the fifth grade when this hit, and I can confirm that Cool Cans were a very big deal. Especially this one, which was such a dramatic departure from the norm.

We loved that black can, and we loved it even more after discovering its saucy secret: Read More…

It’s hard to believe, but this month marks the FOURTH anniversary of Dino Drac’s Funpacks. Yes, I’ve been at this for FOUR YEARS. Unreal!

When I started this adventure, the goal was to survive one “last” Halloween Countdown, which I absolutely could not do without generating some form of income. I had no expectation that the Funpacks would last even half a year, let alone four. Again: UNREAL.

The last four years of Dino Drac is thanks to all of you who’ve subscribed. Whether you’re an active, occasional or former subscriber, the site would absolutely not be here if not for you. Thank you x1000 for enabling me!

The July 2018 Funpack will only be available for 2-3 days, and quantities for new subscribers are very limited. If you want in, act fast!

Funpack subscriptions are $25 a month (including shipping), and for as long as you remain subscribed, you’ll get a new package of old, cool junk every single month! You can cancel at any time without penalty, of course!

There are more than a dozen items in this month’s box, including everything from old action figures to killer trading cards to salty chips. Scroll to the bottom for ordering info, or keep reading to learn about EVERYTHING you’ll receive in this month’s Funpack! Read More…