PVMan!

Presenting childhood memories and adult obsessions of action figures and related toys from the 60s and 70s. Also delves into the art of customizing action figures to create one-of-a-kind figures the toy makers didn't think of or didn't get around to making.

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Rebuilding a Muscle Body GI Joe - Part Two

Adventure Team meeting in progress! In the previous post, I talked about stumbling onto some muscle body GI Joes in my brother-in-law...

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Rebuilding a Muscle Body GI Joe - Part One

Original body GI Joe compared to "Life Like" Muscle Body GI Joe When I started collecting action figures in the late 90s, my g...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Easter Weekend 40 Years Ago

With Easter approaching, I've become nostalgic over my favorite Easter weekend which occurred 40 years ago. In fact, Easter 1971 is the ...

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Elisabeth Sladen Dies at 63

I was crushed to read the news this morning that Elisabeth Sladen, best known as Sarah Jane Smith from Doctor Who, has died at age 63 . Do...

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

The Space Race that Never Was

The other day, I was watching Gerry Anderson's 1969 movie Journey to the Far Side of the Sun , and I found myself dozing off during the ...

Monday, February 01, 2010

Sci-Fi Drought After Star Wars

Pop culture history implies that the popularity of the first Star Wars movie opened the floodgates for all things science fiction during the...

Thursday, December 17, 2009

A Very MTV Christmas

After seeing some of MTV's newest train wreck Jersey Shore , I couldn't help but lament the sad turn that cable television has taken...

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