A weekly newsletter from the desk of Todd Coopee

JANUARY 15, 2016

Here are a few highlights from the blog this week:

Frustration Ball from Remco (1969)

With advertising that touted its “three-dimensional madness” and innate ability to “drive you up the wall”, Remco’s Frustration Ball is an excellent example of truth in advertising. READ MORE

View-Master Rear-Screen Projector (1970s)

Rather than forcing your friends to endure an impromptu slideshow from your family road trip to the Grand Canyon, you could instead regale them with selections from your library of standard View-Master picture reels. READ MORE

Toy Chest: Paper Warplanes Edition

A new twist on the classic paper airplane and 7 other things I wanted to share this week.

Huntly's Paper Warplanes offers paper-based replicas of classic warplanes that remarkably still glide.
A complete collection of every Marvel comic book published from Fantastic Four #1 in 1961 through the end of 2015 is up for sale at a price of $200K.
Here’s an interview with Michael Gray, the designer behind such iconic board games as Dream Phone and Mall Madness.
This website shows you what David Bowie was doing at your age.
Here's how you can legally watch the first six Star Wars movies online.
This Instagram feed of random illustrated facts is well worth a follow.
This 5-minute 'screen test' from 1967 of a proposed Wonder Woman TV pilot is so bad, it's good.
The Batphone is included in this new 'Classic Batman TV Series Batcave Set' from LEGO.

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