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Category Archives: Toys
I Regret That I Have But One Stomach to Give for Your Country
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
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Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum
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
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Sporks and Hope
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
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Holidaytime Television
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
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Y’All Get Hit with the Boom Boom
I’ve been collecting stuffed characters from the Mario series, and for Christmas Beth gave me Pom Pom, whom she said was her equivalent. Neither of us are that familiar with any of the games in which the character appears, though. … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Gender, Mario, Television, Toys, Video Games
Tagged airships, boom-boom, bowser koopa jr., kamek, king bowser koopa, koopa capers, new super mario bros. u, nintendo adventure books, pom pom, super mario 3d land, super mario 3d world, super mario bros. 3, super mario run, wendy o. koopa
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Christmas, Toys, and Oz
I might do a re-read of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus this year, seeing as how I have the new edition with Eric Shanower’s illustrations. I guess it depends on how soon I finish the library books I … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Campbell and Irwin Terry, Characters, Christmas, Eric Shanower, Holidays, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Toys
Tagged bear center, doll island, dolls, dot and tot of merryland, fairies, fuddles, handy mandy in oz, hoopers, jack-in-the-box, john dough and the cherub, jumping jacks, kabumpo in oz, lavender bear, lost islands, merryland, miss cuttenclip, mr. split, peg amy, queen dolly, rockaway island, santa claus, scoodlers, sport, squee gees, squeek, teddy bears, the curious cruise of captain santa, the emerald city of oz, the lavender bear of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the shaggy man of oz, topsies, twiffle, twoffle
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