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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 months

I don’t think I’m ever going to get over the fact that Robocop was adapted into Saturday morning cartoon series…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

Are you okay hun? You’ve hardly touched your Cheese Skirt Burger…

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Shawn Robare

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7 years

Guys, GUYS, is Dennis Nedry homaging the Goonies in Jurassic Park?!? #stephenspielberg #goonies #jurassicpark #dennisnedry

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Shawn Robare

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7 months

That moment when realizing that Kevin's parents from Home Alone had their first meet cute in Scorsese's After Hours. So glad it worked out...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 months

But do you have a gem mint Cousin Larry Rookie card?

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Shawn Robare

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3 years

That specific moment in 1991 when TMNT & Desert Storm were both at peak merchandising frenzy…

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Shawn Robare

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7 years

Game of Thrones pool party outdoor viewing preperation. This is important...

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Shawn Robare

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3 years

Folks, this is huge. The Ewoks cartoon was just dumped onto Disney+, unedited & with the original opening theme. This is the first time that has been available since the couple of VHS releases in the 80s and never on digital. Never thought it’d happen while Lucas was alive...

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Shawn Robare

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6 years

Remember that time when John Carpenter’s Halloween was given the kid’s elementary school adaptation treatment? Because it happened & I finally have a copy of this stupidly rare book! And yes, the cover picture is from Halloween IV even though the book covers the ‘78 film 🎃💀😋

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Shawn Robare

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5 years

What is the weirdest pop culture collectible you own? I’ll go first. The weirdest is a swatch of screen-used wallpaper from the family living room set of You Can’t Do That on Television gifted by the original set designer.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

5 years

Alright Disney+, when?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Remember that time when Thundarr the Barbarian, Princess Ariel, and Ookla the Mok came onstage to win a Yummy on the NBC 1983 Yummy Awards?!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

The rumors are true, Stranger Things is finally on Blu-Ray/DVD as a Target exclusive release that is packaged like an old school VHS Rental!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

So folks, after hearing some of the grumbling about the new McDonalds Boo Pails being “horribly inaccurate nostalgia scams” (my hyperbole not theirs), and after conferring with @Collectingcandy I realized there was only one thing to. SCIENCE, Mr. Wizard style!!! A thread…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

I hear a lot of folks that consider twitter to be a sewer. So why not just surround yourself with only the folks you dig chatting with and make it your own personal Turtle Lair? Still a sewer, but a totally radical one.

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Shawn Robare

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2 years

The best Garfield spiral notebook ever?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 years

To the kid who basically drew T-Rex Freddy Krueger for today’s Google Doodle, I salute you.

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Shawn Robare

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3 years

Never forget this actually happened…

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Shawn Robare

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5 years

Best new backpack ever? Maybe!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

I'm just gonna put this here...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

TIL that to save money on digital effects shots for Flight of the Navigator, the director hired magician Doug Henning to create in-camera optical illusions that looked like CGI. The big one was the floating steps leading up to the spacecraft…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

More Choose Your Own Horror...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

These paperweights go hard… (These aren’t mine, but maybe one day…)

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

The secret word today is “FUCKCANCER”.

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Shawn Robare

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Some sick looking guy in a labcoat just handed me this Atari cartridge and told me that Jack Flack needs my help...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

Hear me out. A buddy cop show, but it’s Elvira and Dolly Parton. It’s called Sugar & Spice and it’s like Murder She Wrote meets Scooby Doo…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

8 months

Um…

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8 months

First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope

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Shawn Robare

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1 year

Should I puzzle glue this and turn it into a charcuterie board?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

“KRINGLE FLIES TONIGHT!”

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

5 months

Remember that time when the Joker was on Supermarket Sweep and he didn't get 4 of the big canned hams?!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Remember when No-Heart created the "I Don't Care Bears"! Okay, they were the Who-Cares Bears, but I like my name better. Also, be careful, pretty sure Unfair Bear has a switchblade...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

If I had half the swagger of the bootleg Garfield smoking a pipe on a bike puffy sticker I might amount to something in this here life...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Choose Your Own Horror

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

I found four more Choose Your Own Horror books.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 months

Oh man, you can buy Arcade area rugs. Looks at the floor in our shared home office room…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Wesley River Robare, born 9:29 , 10/28/2020. 6lbs 14oz.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

The E.T. husk at Build-a-Bear is frightening…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 years

Is there anything more terrifying than that time the Today Show dressed up like the Peanuts?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 years

Modern TV fallacy: Death, especially ultraviolent, denotes quality in programing. You can take a baseball bat to the head of a character all you want. Slit the throats of the Stark family at a wedding. It'll never have the impact of a pair of broken glasses from the Twilight Zone

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Shawn Robare

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1 year

The perfect lunchbox design has never been made…oh wait…

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Shawn Robare

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4 years

Alright, last one, because I had to...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

8 months

Grail acquired. IYKYK

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

8 months

Happy “I’m in the documentary on the special features of the official US release of The Monster Squad” day for all those who celebrate!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

The second box of 30+ year old brand loyalty tchotchkes has come in!

Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

So, we just inherited a bunch of fun stuff that once belonged to my wife’s grandfather. He worked in the grocery store industry as a buyer and was gifted a million tchotchkes from brands and retailers. Here’s an example. Apparently there are three huge tubs coming our way 😋

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

If you're telling me you've never seen Die Hard, what I'm really hearing is that you've never seen the pilot episode of Family Matters...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

After 33 years of loving 'em, 17 of which spent hunting them down, I finally have the complete 1st series of Crestwood House Monster books!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

Anyone else checked out the new “Toys R Us” at Macys? It’s…something.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

The biggest regret of my entire life? Not buying this Battle Cat hopper…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

My daughter just excitedly ran up to me and declared that she has a shell and that I am to address her as Leonardo now. Then she turned around and showed me her shell…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

9 months

You know what I love about a good vintage paper Halloween decoration? The ones with the weird little nonsensical details. The odd safety pin on a sleeve, the metal plate mending a hip bone, one shoe untied, a random band-aid, or a horseshoe in place of a rib bone.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

The perfect High Five has never been captur….oh wait.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

Weird things I’m obsessed with part 7,391, Frozen Moments food pop art pieces by Geoffrey Rose. I saw one of these for the first time in a model home when my family was house-hunting in the late 80s. I wanted my parents to buy the house thinking I could have the mid-pour Coke…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 years

90s camouflage

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

So, we just inherited a bunch of fun stuff that once belonged to my wife’s grandfather. He worked in the grocery store industry as a buyer and was gifted a million tchotchkes from brands and retailers. Here’s an example. Apparently there are three huge tubs coming our way 😋

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

Branded in the 80s is...done.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

TFW you find out you and your wife are expecting and then the ultrasound tech announces you're having twins...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

Sooooo. I totally got married yesterday to the coolest, hottest, most talented lady I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. #IAdoreMyWife

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

Every dead media US release of The Monster Squad! Laser Disc, Beta, VHS ex-rental, VHS screener only, and sealed mint VHS copy.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

Alright Monster Squad folks, I am so stoked to work with @terror_vision on their release of The Monster Squad score on cassette! I redesigned 10 of my trading cards for this release!

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2 years

Attention TV mailing list folks…check your email (spam included). A fun blast just went out. xo

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Shawn Robare

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3 years

2000% worth it.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

8 months

For anyone that needs to know this, My Pet Monster’s shackles perfectly fit adult wrists…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

So how does one go about getting a box of cereal professionally graded and slabbed. I think this is easily a 9.2 A+

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

7 years

Lunchboxes seen in the wild today. Too expensive to buy, but a ton of fun to stare at... #80s #lunchbox #knightrider #dukesofhazzard

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Now that I have a daughter, holy crap, this thing seems even more important. I have to figure out how to make one I guess...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

Little known fact, the first podcast ever was recorded on one of these cassettes…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Annual reminder that anything is possible. I mean, the Garbage Pail Kids movie even had a freaking billboard in L.A., so get on your dreams and make them real.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

Do you think anyone has ever proposed with a Toybiz Wolverine mask ring?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

Finally snagged my favorite Micro Machine from childhood. Is it cliché that it’s a red Lamborghini Countach? Probably. I don’t care. Love it.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

11 months

Score

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

I think I found my urn…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

This one took some time to research and compile, very image intensive. But I can confidently say that this is one of the most comprehensive Trend scratch ‘n sniff stickers of the 80s pieces (at least for what most folks know them for...)

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

What's something trivial that keeps you awake at night? I'll go first, what did Alexander Knox do with that grant that Bruce Wayne gave him in the first Batman movie?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 years

Things I saw in the Poconos last weekend. A trading card vending machine complete with packs from the 90s. I didn’t weep (though I would have had there been OG Garbage Pail Kids inside)

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

I stan Dial Tone

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

In my best Millhouse voice: “ALF is BACK, in puppet form!”

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

So, let’s try this. Anyone want to...?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Can’t believe I’m actually holding a legit official copy of RAD on blu-ray. I’ve literally waited 20 years for this...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

Remember when you could see the actual Doritos you were about to buy through the clear window in the bag? So you could pick the one that had the most flavor-dusted chips?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

5 years

For those weekday peeps. Worked on a set of trading cards for the Karate Kid that I’m kind of proud of...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 years

My wife @shezcrafti & I just made the cutest goddamn thing!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

Also, we completed the hat trick today. My suggestion? Keep going back to the same store. Ours switched them out each day…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 years

Operation: Turn Basement storage room into a mini Video Rental Store is in full swing!

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Shawn Robare

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3 years

Holy crap! The Halloween gods are shining on us this year, Ghost Dots are BACK!!!!!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

6 months

Kind of resent the fact that the Abrams/Topps line of books dedicated to vintage trading cards and stickers petered out before they made a Dinosaurs Attack or Ugly Stickers volumes. Can you imagine what the Batman ‘89 volume would look like?!

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

What’s your PSA JLA?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Dear 1991 Marvel editors. What. In. The. Hell. Were. You. Thinking?!?

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

Just read this to my daughter last night for the first time and it’s the first time she immediately requested we re-read a book. That was a light I am so proud to see flip on…

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1 year

m. night shyamalan could never never pull off a twist ending this powerful

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Shawn Robare

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3 years

Scoped these new Ben Cooper Star Wars costumes at Target. Had no idea the brand was making a comeback…

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

1 year

Me: Mom, I REALLY want some Star Wars stickers. My Mom: I found these Not Star Wars stickers at Woolworths. Me: Not Star Wars? My Mom: It's basically Star Wars, though legally, not really. Me: Why is R2-D2 so sad? My Mom: Not R2-D2 son, not really.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

@mike_daws My inner monologue walking artist alley: “Don’t make eye contact, don’t make eye contact…” My inner monologue tabling at artist alley: “Make more eye contact, Make more eye contact…”

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

3 years

Yeah, well worth the $8.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

I did it. I bought the silliest piece of Star Wars merch ever. I now own Luke Skywalker soap. I literally heard a nerd achievement unlocking sound when I opened the package. It sounded like my wife’s disappointed sigh.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Soooo, Wal-Mart went from no 2020 MOTU to only stocking Skeletor. Weird...

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

4 years

Confession time. From Aug 1988 to Dec 1989 I asked my folks for $2 school lunch money in lieu of a packed lunch. Every day I bought one pack of Hostess Dunkin’ Stix from the vending machine for 45¢, then pocketed the remaining $1.55 each day & splurged on comics every Saturday.

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Shawn Robare

@ShawnRobare

2 years

3rd and final test: “Hey, them lids ain’t lids!” It’s true, the new pails don’t have a lid. This is kind of irrefutable. But, as intended the pails are for trick or treating. So, how do they pass the accepting candy test?!? Finding: I’ll let the video speak for itself…