Category Archives: Toys

Yikes, Spikes!

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Nathan

I thought it might be worth looking at the Mario enemies known as Spikes, since they seem to be rather prominent nowadays. I’ve even seen them as stuffed animals at the Nintendo store in Manhattan, although I don’t have one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Donkey Kong, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, Toys, Video Games | Tagged clubbas, don bongo, donkey kong country, flails, gabon, giants, glitz pit, grubba, hammer brothers, klubbas, koschei the deathless, lakilester, lakitu, luigi mario, mace penguins, maces, magikoopas, mario mario, morning stars, new super mario bros., nintendo power, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, penguins, ptooies, snow spikes, spikes, stone spikes, super mario 3d world, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, the blubbening, the giant who had no heart in his body, tubba blubba, turtles, weapons, yoshi's island, yoshi's story | Leave a comment

Don’t Toy with Me

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Nathan

The Toys That Made Us – We’d started watching this Netflix series some time ago, back when it only had two seasons, but the third one premiered before we’d finished the other two. Each season has four episodes, so there … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Comics, Corporations, History, Humor, Star Trek, Star Wars, Technology, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television, Toys | Tagged barbie, brian volk-weiss, charles schulz, donald ian black, g.i. joe, he-man, hello kitty, lego, masters of the universe, my little pony, my pretty pony, netflix, peanuts, Power Rangers, sanrio, the toys that made us, transformers, wrestling | Leave a comment

I Regret That I Have But One Stomach to Give for Your Country

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Nathan

This is the fifth in my ongoing series of Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews. Speaking of which, there were some reviews from about twenty years ago that I remember reading but couldn’t find recently, and I found out … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Comics, Fairy Tales, Families, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Toys, Video Games | Tagged albatosses, baby park, block city, bob-ombs, do you princess toadstool take this koopa, dogs, donna douglas, fountain of youth, gary schwartz, herlock solmes, king bowser koopa, kingdom of youth, koopa troopas, lost dog, luigi mario, mario hillbillies, mario kart, mario mario, mario party advance, marty allen, mayor fettuccine, mouser, ostros, pam matteson, pasta, pasta land, patrick dempsey, pizza, plumbers of the year, princess peach toadstool, sherlock holmes, shroomlock, sir arthur conan doyle, spaghetti, super mario adventures, super mario bros., super mario odyssey, super paper mario, super plant, the adventures of sherlock mario, the great mission to rescue princess peach, the pied koopa, three men and a baby, toad, toads, triclyde, two plumbers and a baby | 3 Comments

Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Nathan

I don’t know if I’ll watch any other holiday specials this year, but since this is probably the last time I’ll get the chance to post before Christmas, here are my reviews of three I watched this year and hadn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christianity, Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Music, Religion, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged donald trump, home alone, home alone 2, jesus, jim henson, joe pesci, kermit the frog, rankin-bass, the christmas toy, the little drummer boy, three wise men, tim curry | Leave a comment

Sporks and Hope

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Nathan

Toy Story 4 – Why a fourth one after the third provided a satisfying ending for Andy’s toys? Well, money. But storywise, the last one had left the whereabouts of Bo Peep, a shepherdess figure from a lamp in Andy’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Humor, Revisiting Disney, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged betty white, bo peep, bunny, buzz lightyear, carl reiner, carol burnett, cats, dolls, don rickles, ducky, duke caboom, forky, gabby gabby, giggle mcdimples, jordan peele, keanu reeves, keegan-michael key, mel brooks, mr. potato head, pixar, tony hale, toy story 4, woody | 2 Comments

Holidaytime Television

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Nathan

Here are my thoughts on a few Christmas specials Beth and I watched this month, not counting ones I’ve already written about. Frosty’s Winter Wonderland – I vaguely remember seeing this years ago on a black and white TV, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Television, Toys | Tagged andy griffith, big bad wolf, bob newhart, chuck jones, comet, daws butler, dean martin, dennis the menace, dom deluise, frosty the snowman, frosty's winter wonderland, jack frost, jay north, jimmy durante, june foray, parson brown, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, rankin-bass, reindeer, santa claus, the great santa claus caper, variety shows, winter wonderland | Leave a comment

Toys Are Only Human After All

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Nathan

Toy Story 3 – The most disturbing entry so far in this franchise was originally intended to serve as a finale, but now they’re making a fourth one. Anyway, this starts out years after the last one, when Andy, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Humor, Revisiting Disney, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged barbie, bo peep, buzz lightyear, dogs, dolls, don rickles, jim varney, ken, lots-o-huggin' bear, mr. potato head, mrs. potato head, pixar, r. lee ermey, totoro, toy story, toy story 2, toy story 3, woody | 3 Comments

Category Archives: Toys

Yikes, Spikes!

Don’t Toy with Me

I Regret That I Have But One Stomach to Give for Your Country

Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum

Sporks and Hope

Holidaytime Television

Toys Are Only Human After All

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