Wizard knows what Christmas is all about, and reminds you, too, by listing the ten greatest Christmas toys ever:
Castle Greyskull (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe)… Whereas nowadays you can whip out your $400 Sidekick 3 to impress your peers, in 1981 this was the schoolyard status symbol. A trap door! An elevator! A flag! A drawbridge with teeth! And you could fold it up for safe storage! Some schoolyard bad boys opted for Skeletor’s Snake Mountain (which had an echoing microphone!), but the rest of us lusted for Casa de Teela.
Suddenly I’m flashing back to when I was seven years old and Craig Henderson boasted about owning this…
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:45 am
No Death Star? What are they thinking???
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:18 am
Funny how there’s nothing on the list after 1987. I wonder why…
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
BOOOO! You referenced Wizard. Is there nothing else left to look out or talk about?
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:00 pm
I remember talking to my old boss once and he said how the one thing that he wanted more than anything one Christmas was Optimus Prime. He never got it, though. He got Starscream . . . and no one likes Starscream.
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:22 am
“Planet of the Apes Treehouse” is the single greatest toy ever. Besides the house, you had a net to capture people, a pole to carry them on, a jail to keep them in, and a table that hid rifles.